A day in the life of a database admin made easy with Dell Acceleration Appliances for Databases
A typical database owner always feels that there is too much to do and not enough time to do it. Each day is Groundhog Day with many meetings, on-call escalations and struggles to meet ever-shrinking SLAs. If we break down the daily tasks in the life of a database administrator (DBA), it can be slotted into four major buckets – maintenance, management, availability and performance tuning. A closer look will show that the first three are something that a DBA can control and handle. But the fourth one, performance tuning, is the most challenging, and a task that never goes away.
Performance tuning requires agility to react to any problems in a production environment. This is about troubleshooting and diagnosing application response time issues in a complex business environment—an issue the DBA often gets stuck with. Performance tuning can be slotted into two buckets: application tuning and hardware tuning. But tuning auto-generated business queries is next to impossible. Often the standard hardware, especially the storage, is not able to cope up with the increasing demand placed upon it. 
In most organizations, the storage team is layered way beyond a typical database team’s reach. A typical request to troubleshoot storage problems always gets the same answer – everything on the storage side is okay! But is everything really okay? Then why are the application and business teams unhappy? DBAs often dream of having fast performing storage that they can implement and manage without having to sift through organizational complexities.
Dear DBA, the wait is over. Meet Dell Acceleration Appliances for Databases, an easy to deploy, pre-integrated solution that enables you to quickly and cost-effectively boost database performance. The Dell Acceleration Appliances for Databasescombines Dell PowerEdge servers with innovative flash storage technology from Fusion IO to significantly improve database performance, latency and throughput, independent of installed database infrastructure including server, storage and network devices. This storage appliance can be managed through the already familiar Oracle Enterprise Manager.
Key Features
- Over 1Million raw IOPs
- About 500 micro second latency
- Up to 12TB fast PCIe usable storage decoupled from traditional SAN
- About 27 times faster than traditional storage with rotary disks
- Agnostic to OS and database infrastructure
- Stand alone and high availability options
- Oracle hardware certification list (HCL) certified ION software,
- Choice of fiber channel, iSCSI and Infiniband (coming soon) networking
- Front line Dell support makes it even easier to integrate into any corporate IT data centers.
The Dell Acceleration Appliances for Databases gives you raw performance without the typical complexity and organizational layers, allowing you to quickly, reliably and cost-effectively respond to business needs, putting the four challenges of maintenance, management, availability and performance tuning back under your control.