Oracle Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance

Last updated
Oracle Recovery Appliance
Original author(s) Oracle Corporation
Initial releaseSeptember, 2014
Operating system Oracle Linux
Platform Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance
License Commercial
Website www.oracle.com/zdlra

The Oracle Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance [1] (Recovery Appliance or ZDLRA) is a computing platform that includes Oracle Corporation (Oracle) Engineered Systems hardware and software built for backup and recovery of the Oracle Database. It performs continuous data protection, validates backups, automatically resolves many issues, and provides alerts when backups fail validation. [2] [3] [4]

It is designed for Oracle databases and works only on Oracle databases. It is considered a 3rd party backup and recovery product. [5] [6] [7] [8] It was introduced in 2014 as part of Oracle Corporation's family of "Engineered Systems" [9] and shares components with the Oracle Exadata Database Machine, with an additional layer of software that provides specific features for backup, recovery, replication, monitoring, and management. Like the Oracle Exadata Database Machine, it is periodically refreshed as a new interoperable and expandable “generation” based on newer hardware technology at the time of release. In September 2019, the Recovery Appliance X8M introduced a 100 Gbit/s internal network fabric based on RoCE (RDMA over Converged Ethernet), replacing the InfiniBand fabric used in previous Recovery Appliance generations. [10]

The Recovery Appliance elastic configuration starts with a "Base Rack" that can be increased to a "Full Rack" or larger "multi-rack" configuration. A Base Rack is capable of managing over 207 terabytes of backup data, while a Full Rack can manage over 1.26 petabytes. Multi-Rack configurations of up to 18 racks wide can manage more than 22 petabytes of data. [11] Since Recovery Appliance only needs to store data that has changed, the actual size of databases that are protected can be many times larger than the storage capacity of a Recovery Appliance. [12]

ZDLRA

Generation

Release

Date

Base Rack

Capacity

Full Rack

Capacity

Full Rack Backup

and Restore Rate

X4201437 TB224 TB12 TB/hour
X5201550 TB340 TB12 TB/hour
X6201694 TB580 TB12 TB/hour
X72017119 TB729 TB24 TB/hour
X8 & X8M [10] 2019155 TB949 TB24 TB/hour
X9M [11] 2021207 TB1.26 PB24 TB/hour

Related Research Articles

Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology company headquartered in Austin, Texas. Co-founded in 1977 by Larry Ellison, who remains executive chairman, Oracle was the third-largest software company in the world in 2020 by revenue and market capitalization. The company's 2023 ranking in the Forbes Global 2000 was 80.

Oracle Database is a proprietary multi-model database management system produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation.

Quantum Corporation is a data storage, management, and protection company that provides technology to store, manage, archive, and protect video and unstructured data throughout the data life cycle. Their products are used by enterprises, media and entertainment companies, government agencies, big data companies, and life science organizations. Quantum is headquartered in San Jose, California and has offices around the world, supporting customers globally in addition to working with a network of distributors, VARs, DMRs, OEMs and other suppliers.

In information technology, a backup, or data backup is a copy of computer data taken and stored elsewhere so that it may be used to restore the original after a data loss event. The verb form, referring to the process of doing so, is "back up", whereas the noun and adjective form is "backup". Backups can be used to recover data after its loss from data deletion or corruption, or to recover data from an earlier time.  Backups provide a simple form of IT disaster recovery; however not all backup systems are able to reconstitute a computer system or other complex configuration such as a computer cluster, active directory server, or database server.

IBM Storage Protect is a data protection platform that gives enterprises a single point of control and administration for backup and recovery. It is the flagship product in the IBM Spectrum Protect family.

Veritas Backup Exec is a data protection software product designed for customers with mixed physical and virtual environments, and who are moving to public cloud services. Supported platforms include VMware and Hyper-V virtualization, Windows and Linux operating systems, Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Storage, among others. All management and configuration operations are performed with a single user interface. Backup Exec also provides integrated deduplication, replication, and disaster recovery capabilities and helps to manage multiple backup servers or multi-drive tape loaders.

The software which Oracle Corporation markets as Oracle Data Guard forms an extension to the Oracle relational database management system (RDBMS). It aids in establishing and maintaining secondary standby databases as alternative/supplementary repositories to production primary databases.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Oracle Linux</span> Linux distribution by Oracle

Oracle Linux is a Linux distribution packaged and freely distributed by Oracle, available partially under the GNU General Public License since late 2006. It is compiled from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) source code, replacing Red Hat branding with Oracle's. It is also used by Oracle Cloud and Oracle Engineered Systems such as Oracle Exadata and others.

In computing, the term data warehouse appliance (DWA) was coined by Foster Hinshaw for a computer architecture for data warehouses (DW) specifically marketed for big data analysis and discovery that is simple to use and has a high performance for the workload. A DWA includes an integrated set of servers, storage, operating systems, and databases.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Netezza</span> Provider of Integrated Data Warehouse Hardware and Software

IBM Netezza is a subsidiary of American technology company IBM that designs and markets high-performance data warehouse appliances and advanced analytics applications for the most demanding analytic uses including enterprise data warehousing, business intelligence, predictive analytics and business continuity planning.

Nirvanix is an American-based provider of business phone systems, VoIP services, hosted PBX, SIP Trunks, and cloud storage services headquartered in San Diego, California, United States. The company offers a variety of business phone solutions for small, medium as well as enterprise businesses. It also has a strong presence in public, hybrid and private cloud storage services with usage-based pricing. Based on previous service companies founded in 1998, Nirvanix shut down in October 2013. In July 2021 Nirvanix re-entered the business with $12 million funding.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Oracle Exadata</span> Computing platform specialized to the Oracle Database

Oracle Exadata (Exadata) is a computing system optimized for running Oracle Databases.

Cofio Software, headquartered in San Diego, California, was a privately held software company founded in 2006 which produced a product called AIMstor. After being acquired in 2012 the product became known as the Hitachi Data Instance Director. and later became Hitachi Ops Center Protector

Exalogic is a computer appliance made by Oracle Corporation, commercially available since 2010. It is a cluster of x86-64-servers running Oracle Linux or Solaris preinstalled.

NetVault is a set of data protection software developed and supported by Quest Software. NetVault Backup is a backup and recovery software product. It can be used to protect data and software applications in physical and virtual environments from one central management interface. It supports many servers, application platforms, and protocols such as UNIX, Linux, Microsoft Windows, VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Oracle, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server, NDMP, Oracle ACSLS, IBM DAS/ACI, Microsoft Exchange Server, DB2, and Teradata.

RecoverPoint is a continuous data protection product offered by Dell EMC which supports asynchronous and synchronous data replication of block-based storage. RecoverPoint was originally created by a company called Kashya, which was bought by EMC in 2006.

A very large database, or VLDB, is a database that contains a very large amount of data, so much that it can require specialized architectural, management, processing and maintenance methodologies.

The Oracle data appliance consists of hardware and software from Oracle Corporation sold as a computer appliance. It was announced in 2011,and is used for the consolidating and loading unstructured data into Oracle Database software.

The Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) is a database server appliance made by Oracle Corporation. It was introduced in September 2011 as the mid-market offering in Oracle's family of full-stack, integrated systems the company calls engineered systems. The ODA is a single rack-mounted device providing a highly-available two-node clustered database server.

Dell EMC Data Domain was Dell EMC’s data deduplication storage system. Development began with the founding of Data Domain, and continued since that company’s acquisition by EMC Corporation.

References

  1. ↑ Various authors (2017). "Oracle Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance X7 Technical Data Sheet" (PDF). Oracle Corporation. Retrieved July 30, 2018.
  2. ↑ Moore, Fred (June 1, 2015). "White Paper: Implementing a Modern Backup Architecture: Oracle's Tiered Data Protection Strategy". Horison.com. Retrieved July 30, 2018.
  3. ↑ "CIO Magazine White Paper: Extreme Protection That Eliminates Data Loss for All of Your Oracle Databases" (PDF). Oracle Corporation. Retrieved July 30, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Video: Resume Business Faster With Engineered Database Recovery". Oracle Corporation. Retrieved July 30, 2018.
  5. ↑ Vellante, David (October 22, 2015). "Oracle Backup and Recovery Strategies: Moving to Data-Protection-as-a-Service". Wikibon. Retrieved July 30, 2018.
  6. ↑ Floyer, David (September 2, 2016). "Real-time Recovery Architecture as a Service". Wikibon. Retrieved July 30, 2018.
  7. ↑ Goodwin, Phil (November 1, 2016). "Oracle's Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance: A Transaction DVR for the Enterprise" (PDF). IDC (International Data Corp). Retrieved July 30, 2018.
  8. ↑ "Taneja Group Whitepaper: FULL DATABASE PROTECTION WITHOUT THE FULL BACKUP PAIN" (PDF). Taneja Group. Retrieved July 30, 2018.
  9. ↑ Hollis, Chuck (September 9, 2015). "Chuck's Blog: Grown-up IT for Grown-Up Applications". typepad. Retrieved July 30, 2018.
  10. 1 2 "Oracle Unleashes World's Fastest Database Machine". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  11. 1 2 "Announcing Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance X9M: Database Transaction-level Protection – Now with Greater Capacity at Half the Price".
  12. ↑ Craft, Chris (February 21, 2018). "De-Duplication in ZDLRA". Wordpress. Retrieved July 30, 2018.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.