Low-Cost Disaster Recovery

Velocity delivers cost savings and enhanced performance when used in place of Oracle licenses to run a DR back-up application between data centers.

Currently, an Oracle application deployment typically uses Oracle’s own technology to back up databases and send them to alternate locations for DR (Disaster Recovery).

To do this on some policy-based interval, e.g. 24 hours, Oracle will:

  • Quiesce the database
  • Make a copy
  • Use Oracle Data Guard to send the copy to a remote location via WAN.

For this, there must be Oracle licenses at both locations, so that if a restore request needs to be executed and the copy transmitted back to the origin, Data Guard can do so. Data Guard in a standard deployment will invoke the file transfer protocol rsync to send the file to and from the remote location.

Using Velocity improves cost and performance

There are 2 main benefits to using Velocity with Oracle:

  1. Speed, 100% Data Delivery Guarantee, Security
    • Velocity transfers files anywhere from 10-50 times faster than rsync, depending on distance and bandwidth between the two points.
    • Velocity’s embedded MD5 checksum capability guarantees that the data that arrive are 100% the data that are sent. Lastly, two encryption algorithms are available to secure the data in flight.
  2. Cost Savings
    • With Velocity on the source server, there is no longer a need to have an Oracle license on the destination server – Velocity itself can be configured to restore the database files on demand.

Below is an ROI example. We are showing a network of two (2) data centers that support 20 dual-core servers that are running Oracle and sending files to the two data centers for DR. Oracle licenses (per core) and support fees are examples of enterprise pricing, not standard Oracle prices, and are intended for this example only:

It is clear that huge cost savings can be realized over a 3-year period by eliminating the need to purchase Oracle licenses for the destination (data center) servers, with a 10x+ improvement in performance thrown in for good measure!