Oracle Universal Content Management and Storage Systems

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Oracle Universal Content Management and Storage
Systems

• Vijay Ramanathan
• Principal Product Manager

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product direction. It is intended for information
purposes only, and may not be incorporated into
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any material, code, or functionality, and should
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of Oracle.
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UCM and Storage SystemsAgenda

• Business Case for File Store Provider
• File Store Provider Functionality Overview
• File System Store
• Database Store
• Content Lifecycle Management
• Multiple File System-based stores with File Store
  Provider
• Leverage Oracle 11g DB ILM capabilities
• Creating custom file stores with File Store
  Provider

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File Store Provider Business Case
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File Store Provider
Goals

• Allow customers to better manage files storage on
  disk (vault/weblayout)
• Enable customers to leverage their investment in
  storage with UCM infrastructure
• Enable customers to better coordinate their file
  store management with database management

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File Store Provider
Solution

• Provider-based system will allow content to be
  distributed across devices based on business
  rules
• File System Provider (built-in)
• Control vault and web paths
• Vault-only storage option
• Distribute files across partitions
• Oracle DB Provider (built-in)
• Manage vault files in DB
• Manage web files in DB
• Webless storage option (w/ file system cache)
• Custom Integrations with other Storage Management
  Systems

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File Store Provider
Benefits

• File System Provider
• Improved disk management
• Improved application support
• Oracle DB Provider
• Single point of storage
• Backup and Restore
• Data compression encryption
• Storage management systems

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File Store Provider Functionality Overview
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File Store ProviderFlexible Rule-based Storage
Model
UCM
Round-robin distribution
FS
FS
FS
UCM
Multiple Storage Locations
FS
FS
FS
UCM
Different Storage Types
FS
DB
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File Store ProviderFlexible Rule-based Storage
Model
Metadata driven storage
UCM
UCM
Document
Record
Document
Record
Items can be moved between stores by simply
updating metadata!
Update metadata to make this Document a Record
FS
DB
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File Store ProviderDatabase Storage

• Supports Oracle and other databases
• Files stored as BLOBs in system database
• Supports storage of all renditions
• Vault, Web-viewable
• Thumbnails and additional renditions

DB
Oracle DB 11g

• Supports normal BLOB storage
• Supports new SecureFiles technology
• Better performance than standard BLOBs

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File Store Provider Content Lifecycle Management
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File Store ProviderContent Lifecycle Management
Options with File Store Provider
Multiple File System-based Stores Leverage
Oracle 11g DB ILM Capabilities Creating Custom
File Stores
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File Store ProviderContent Lifecycle Management
Multiple File System-based Stores
UCM

• Many low cost storage options can be
  mapped/mounted as FS locations
• Fujitsu
• NetApp
• EMC
• Use retention rules to move items from active
  store to inactive store

FS
FS
Normal FS for active items
Cheaper/slower disks for inactive items
Remember, items can be moved between stores by
simply updating metadata!
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File Store ProviderContent Lifecycle Management
Leverage Oracle 11g DB ILM Capabilities
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File Store ProviderContent Lifecycle Management
Leverage Oracle 11g DB ILM Capabilities
UCM
Step 1

• Define storage classes for different DB
  partitions
• By Age
• By ID
• Etc.

DB
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File Store ProviderContent Lifecycle Management
Leverage Oracle 11g DB ILM Capabilities
UCM
Step 2

• Define Storage Tiers

DB

• High Performance Tier
• Smaller Disks
• Storage Arrays
• Fibre Channel Disks
• High concurrent usage

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File Store ProviderContent Lifecycle Management
Leverage Oracle 11g DB ILM Capabilities
UCM
Step 2

• Define Storage Tiers

DB

• Low Cost Disk
• Large capacity disks
• Modular Arrays
• ATA disks

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File Store ProviderContent Lifecycle Management
Leverage Oracle 11g DB ILM Capabilities
UCM
Step 2

• Define Storage Tiers

DB

• Historical Tier
• Very large read-only/read-mostly
• Consider
• Compression
• RAID-5

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File Store ProviderContent Lifecycle Management
Leverage Oracle 11g DB ILM Capabilities
UCM
Step 2

• Define Storage Tiers
• Assign partitions to storage tiers

DB
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File Store ProviderContent Lifecycle Management
Leverage Oracle 11g DB ILM Capabilities
UCM
Step 3

• Define data migration policies
• Migrate data between tiers
• Can also define user access policies for
  different tiers

DB
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File Store ProviderContent Lifecycle Management
Leverage Oracle 11g DB ILM Capabilities
UCM
Step 4

• Archive to tape if requried

DB
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File Store ProviderContent Lifecycle Management
Leverage Oracle 11g DB ILM Capabilities
UCM

• Another Option
• Create multiple DB stores with UCM
• Assign different tables to different tiers
• Move content between stores using retention rules

DB
DB
DB
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File Store ProviderContent Lifecycle Management
Creating Custom File Stores
UCM
DB
FS
CAS
DVD
Other

• Create custom interfaces to other storage systems
• Custom provider for Content Addressable Storage
  systems
• Custom provider for DVD or tape writers
• Third-party apps or devices

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File Store Provider

• Empowers customers to efficiently manage the
  content store using business rules
• Enables use of tiered storage to reduce storage
  costs
• Supports use of Oracle 11g ILM capabilities
• Flexible enough to integrate with 3rd party
  storage systems

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