TaylorMade, a golf equipment company, wanted to reduce costs by moving its disaster recovery solution to AWS. It worked with Datapipe, an AWS partner, to deploy Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) on AWS to meet its requirements of a 4-hour RPO and RTO, handling 1TB of daily data changes, and regular testing and restore capabilities. Key challenges included deployment options for Oracle on AWS, configuring ASM, allocating disks within AWS limits, and securing the infrastructure in the cloud. The solution deployed Oracle on EC2 instances for full control, using Oracle Data Guard for replication between sites within AWS regions to enable disaster recovery for TaylorMade's systems.

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Increasing Disaster Recovery
Efficiencies:
Deploying Oracle ASM on AWS

2. On Stage
• John Landy – Datapipe
Chief Technology Officer
• Jason Pavao – Datapipe
Solution Architect

3. Who is
• The largest golf equipment and
apparel company in the world
• Owned by Adidas since 1999
• More PGA Pros use TaylorMade
drivers than most other brands
combined
• Innovated the metal driver in 1979
• Revolutionized the sport
– Advanced aerodynamics
– Weighted drivers
Who is
• Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for
Cloud-Enabled Managed Hosting (July 2014)
• Leader in Forrester Hosted Private Cloud
Solutions (Q4 2014)
• Multi-Platform Hybrid IT solutions for the
Enterprise
• Datapipe Managed Cloud for AWS
(Launched in 2010)
• AWS Premier Consulting Partner
• AWS Managed Service Partner
• Experienced Managed Service Provider

4. Disaster Recovery Solution Scope and Overview
As a sports company we are
very competitive, we like to WIN
adidas asked us to cut costs…
…and we did by deploying DR on AWS
Goals
• Move existing DR out of server room at
Adidas
• Reduce CAPEX on hardware
• Find a trusted partner to guide through
setting up Oracle in AWS
Requirements:
• RPO: 4 Hours, RTO: 4 Hours (Max)
• Handle ~1TB of data changes daily
• Test and restore on a regular basis with
low overhead
• Minimal maintenance
– (replication, OS/app patching at DR site)
• 2TB Storage (10% annual growth)
• Existing DR (non-EBS) not in scope,
but should fit in later
• 1000mi site (not 100mi site)

5. Technology Challenges
Required:
Needed a solution for our EBS so we could test the Cloud and
plan for future growth
Challenges:
• Deployment options for Oracle
• Configuring ASM on AWS
• Disk Allocation
• How to secure the infrastructure with cloud security

6. Technology Challenges – Oracle Database
Deployment Option One:
Deploy on AWS via RDS with an option for BYOL
Cons
• No root access to the OS and
Database to fine tune settings
• No option to be the target of a Data
Guard Replication stream for DR
purposes
• Limited Instance Types
Pros
• Fully managed service from AWS
• No need for full time DBA
• Backups, Snapshots, Patching, HA all
easily configurable via AWS Console
• Multi Availability Zones in a single
region

7. Technology Challenges – Oracle Database
Deployment Option Two:
Deploy on AWS via EC2
Cons
• You take on the management tasks
that RDS handles for you
• You have to supply your own
Oracle DB licenses
Pros
• Oracle Support Compliance
(OVM/Hard Partitioning/Processor
Licensing Model)
• Full control of the underlying
Operating System and Database
configuration
• Have the ability to become the
target for a Data Guard Replication
Stream for DR purposes
• Customizable Instance Types

8. Chosen Path : Option Two
Deploy on AWS via EC2
• Fine grained access and control
• Exacting control over Database versions
• Traditional Loading/Migration and Backup/Recovery methodologies
• Access to the OS
• Access to the underlying file system
• Performance tuning
• Verbose logging access
• SYSDBA privileges
• Data Guard

9. Oracle Data Guard Deployment
Deployment Diagram

10. Technology Challenges – Configuring ASM on AWS
Challenge : Choose an appropriate OS for the Scenario
AWS default Linux does not allow the installation of the Auto
Restart Environment (including ASM)
• Why?
– OS unsupported by Oracle
– Oracle licensing only support on approved OEL AMI’s
– Settings not compatible with Oracle installer
• Resolution
– Use Oracle Linux instances instead of Amazon Linux

11. Technology Challenges – Configuring ASM on AWS
Challenge : Disk Allocation in AWS
In Big Iron SAN storage environments hundreds of LUNs can
be requested at once – AWS has a limit of 20 per instance
• We had to adjust our methodology to make this
environment work efficiently
– 1 disk per ASM disk group
– No partitioning the disk for multiple disk groups

12. Technology Challenges – Security
Challenge : Security

13. What does this look like as an entire
solution?

14. Deployed Disaster Recovery Solution
Managed Cloud for AWS

15. Benefits
• TaylorMade’s EBS system is the life blood of the
company. Having an offsite backup and the
ability to recover within the RTO give a sense of
security.
• Gained a trusted partner in Datapipe
– Cloud was the next step
– Latest technology offerings
– Effectively an Extension of the TaylorMade team

16. Questions

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