More and more of Blue Medora’s customers are choosing to run
their Oracle workloads on VMware. This choice comes with spectacular benefits
such as server consolidation and licensing savings, as well as new challenges.
One of the biggest challenges is effectively monitoring the Oracle workloads in
context of the underlying VMware layers. Blue Medora has created solutions to
address this specific pain point of virtualization, which helps you keep your
Oracle environments running smoothly.
Virtualization challenges
and solutions
One of the challenges with virtualization is the inaccuracy
of the OS level performance metrics. If you try using Oracle Enterprise
Manager’s Host target to monitor your servers after virtualization, you’re
looking at inaccurate data. In fact, if you’re relying on any monitoring tool
that collects performance information from the operating system (typically with
an agent), you are using inaccurate data. You need to get performance metrics
from VMware for accuracy.
Another challenge customers face with virtualization is
increased Mean Time To Resolution (MTTR) when troubleshooting issues. With the
additional virtualization layers, multiple tools and teams are now needed to
troubleshoot issues effectively.
When you are experiencing issues or an outage with a
production Oracle Database or workload, accuracy of data and quick MTTR are
vital to recovery. Blue Medora has helped their customers solve these issues
with unified “Oracle on VMware” monitoring solutions.
VMware vRealize
Operations for Oracle Enterprise Manager
This solution provides a unified view of Oracle running on
VMware by collecting data from Oracle Enterprise Manager and pulling it into
VMware vRealize Operations. The platform itself collects all the VMware metrics
automatically as well as provides advanced customization abilities that are
utilized by the Blue Medora Management Pack. Examples include automatic
relationships and custom views, reports, dashboards, and capacity planning.
This solution excels at giving our customers complete
control over how they want to view their Oracle on VMware environment. While
over a dozen dashboards are provided out of the box (see an example above and
below), customers can also create their own dashboards for specific
environments or use cases.
Customization in a unified platform is a huge advantage over
multiple monitoring tools because it allows customers to meet once with their
vAdmins and Oracle Admins to determine the important use cases and metrics,
then create custom dashboards, reports, or views so they are always available.
Do the work once and reuse the customizations!
If you would like more information or a free trial of the
Management Pack for Oracle EM, please visit the product page.
Oracle EM12c Plugin
for VMware
This solution is geared toward Oracle admins already using
EM12c in their everyday routines. The plugin collects data from the VMware
vSphere API and pulls it into Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c, automatically
creating relationships from the VMware environment to the Oracle targets. With
this plugin, our customers take advantage of the deep integration with alerts
and new VMware target types to simplify their workflow.
The deep integration with incidents (alerts) in EM12c means
that Oracle Admins can create custom monitoring templates and threshold levels
on VMware targets without modifying the vSphere environment. For example, one
customer had VMware Admins that had a specific list of metrics and threshold
values that they cared about for VMware targets. The Oracle Admins, however,
wanted to receive alerts at a lower threshold for the Virtual Machines running
their production Oracle Databases because they were responsible for uptime and
performance SLAs. With the Plugin for VMware installed, the Oracle Admins could
setup and receive their VMware-related alerts just like their Oracle ones
within EM12c. These VMware incidents even appeared in their Oracle Database
dashboards! See below for an example.
A unified view of the Oracle Database > VMware Virtual
Machine > VMware Hypervisor relationship has also been a great help to our
customers. KPIs are shown for each layer along with links to customized views
of each layer. Below is an example of what this looks like.
If you would like more information or a free trial of the
Oracle EM12c Plugin for VMware, please visit the product page.
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