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Customized solutions targeting availability, performance, and manageability

HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite:

Ensures always-on availability
Optimizes database performance
Simplifies storage & application manageability

Business benefits

Obtain greater control of online storage management
Strengthen data integrity
Achieve service level objectives by reducing downtime
Improve server resource utilization
Realize a better return on IT investment
Reduce storage costs

Technology advantages

Decrease administration time and effort by up to 75%¹
Simplify cluster management
Reduce human error
Map mission critical data to the highest performance storage using policy-based tiered storage automatically
Support larger file systems and volumes
Expand file systems up to 32 TB

How it works

HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite (SG SMS) delivers improved availability, performance, and manageability for Oracle Database and Oracle RAC environments on HP-UX 11i. It achieves these enhancements by integrating HP Serviceguard—a tested and proven UNIX® high-availability product—with Veritas Storage Foundation technologies by Symantec. This suite of products also includes features that can speed data recovery from hours to minutes, improve manageability, and reduce storage cost.

With SG SMS, you can enhance your existing environment while reducing the chance of human error. Additionally, it offers full integration with HP Insight Dynamics – VSE to boost your resource utilization further. SG SMS is ideal if you require the highest levels of availability and outstanding Oracle Database performance—or if you have an application that would benefit from the improved manageability and scalability offered through a clustered file system.

Benefits for Oracle database environments

HP Serviceguard Storage Management for Oracle® Premium combines high availability, mirroring, file system, Oracle database accelerator, and additional value-added utilities for managing data. It is designed to preserve data integrity, protect mission-critical environments, and reach service-level objectives with more application uptime.

Enhance database performance: Improved performance of up to 10x—near “raw-volume” performance—is possible while achieving the manageability of a filesystem. Plus large or growing databases can scale dynamically up to 32 TB.
Reduce storage costs: Serviceguard SM for Oracle Premium can transparently relocate data to different classes of storage based on the data’s importance and how often it is accessed.
Gain more control of online storage management: Serviceguard SM for Oracle Premium can group physical disks into logical volumes, improve storage utilization, and reduce storage-related downtime.
Increase use of resources: As an integral part of HP-UX virtualization, SG SMS enables multiple servers, partitions, or virtual machines to be grouped into clusters, providing highly available application services.
Shrink planned maintenance time: Serviceguard maintains uptime during planned maintenance because applications can be moved among servers, keeping the applications available during software and hardware updates.
Recover quickly from human error and other surprises: Serviceguard SM for Oracle Premium can reduce data backup recovery from hours down to minutes through the use of storage check-pointing capabilities.

Benefits for Oracle RAC environments

HP Serviceguard Cluster File System for RAC combines high availability, mirroring, file system, Oracle database accelerator, cluster file system, and value-added utilities for managing data.

Taken together, that means you gain:

All the value of the Serviceguard Storage Management for Oracle Premium plus improved Oracle RAC manageability. The cluster file system allows sharing files among applications on multiple servers as if they were running on a single system
Easy, ongoing maintenance that gets your business up and running faster. A cluster file system allows faster deployment and configuration of high-availability environments
The easiest way to protect and manage Oracle database in the HP-UX environment in a single storage stack
Simplified administration with a single solution for managing all Oracle and other third-party application files

Case studies

Pharmaceutical distributor and healthcare services provider McKesson Corporation used HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite to reduce downtime 75% while cutting Oracle licensing costs 50%.