Oracle Database High Availability delivered through Veritas Infoscale on AWS Cloud

Our client is the empowering network for individuals and companies seeking skills and solutions for growth. Since 2008, our client has assisted more than 700,000 individuals through our career guidance, professional development, and job matching services. With an extensive network of partners, it offers hiring, training and productivity solutions to businesses. To enable end users, our client decided to embark with the onboarding of a new grant management system. The system was deployed on AWS. The system runs on an Oracle Database. Keeping true to the compliance guidelines set by the entity, BCDR through HA was a key requirement.

Hosting  their grant management system on AWS IaaS proved to be the optimal solution for our clientto enable their end users. The system uses multiple Databases while the core application runs on Oracle Database. As the application was packaged with the database achieving the BCDR goals proved to be a challenge for our client. To address this pain point AspireNXT designed a solution that would leverage the cloud native storage to enable the BCDR strategy through HA.

AspireNXT worked alongside the application team to understand the various database intricacies. Taking into consideration the RTO and RPO guidelines, AspireNXT addressed the challenge by:

• • Leveraging Veritas Infoscale, a Software defined High Availability Solution that caters to Enterprises that require HA on their Workloads.
  • AWS EBS, the primary storage for the database was used in both primary and secondary locations as EBS provides the required Availability, IOPS and Bandwidth required to enable Infoscale to carry out its functionalities
  • Veritas Infoscale works by monitoring the various services that govern the workload(Oracle db services) and the various network services and health checks.
  • Veritas Infoscale was configured to replicate the EBS Volumes that host the database from the primary instance to the secondary instance.
  • A RPO of 5 ms and RTO of 5 minutes were defined as per organizational policies.
  • The subsecond RPO was made possible by leveraging AWS’ Internal network, AWS EBS IOPS and the real time Sync provided by veritas Infoscale
  • A RPO of 5 ms and RTO of 5 minutes were defined as per organizational policies
  • The subsecond RPO was made possible by leveraging AWS’ Internal network, AWS EBS IOPS and the real time Sync provided by veritas Infoscale.
  • The data is encrypted in transit as well as at rest by leveraging the veritas proprietary encryption engine for data on the fly and AWS KMS for data at rest

 

By leveraging Veritas Infoscale, our client has enabled HA on their Oracle Database. This strategy in-turn supports the BC/DR strategy put in place as per organization and government standards. The outcomes from the solution:

• Predictability—Meeting all Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs), hence reducing the risk associated to a system downtime.A RPO of ~5ms was defined and met with Realtime Sync between the Source and Target Infrastructure and an RTO of 5 minutes defined as part of the solution health checks and Failover time.
• Compliance—Was compliant with business continuity mandates with audit reports and non-disruptive recovery rehearsals. This helps our client maintain SLAs as well as timelines for various projects and internal programs
• Automation—Recovery run books that automate failover and recovery orchestration for multi-tier applications, thus reducing manual interventions and making failover actions deterministic
• Automation drove the low RTO defined by the organization and the specified RTO was met(5 minutes)
• Cost Optimized- Leveraged AWS EBS as the secondary data store for block replication. With AWS PAYG pricing for EBS, the organization was able to see a 57% lower cost per GB on AWS compared to the required on premise pricing

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