EA3481

Virtualization of Analytic Databases

Vertica is a new breed of analytic database management system that takes advantage of VMware's vSphere 4 to deliver agile analytics for business critical applications. Vertica incorporates technologies such as massively parallel processing with built in high availability on standard hardware as well as push button provisioning and columnar storage to deliver efficient, high performance data marts and warehouses without the need for specialized hardware or complex management resources. Working with VMware, Vertica is able to deliver a comprehensive solution for highly available, on-demand analytics.
Database systems are at the core of enterprise applications yet they are the last bastion of the old big iron infrastructure. With most database systems originally designed over thirty years ago, it is no surprise that they remain tied to proprietary I/O subsystems and require dedicated resources. These technologies are burdened by the infrastructure for which they were designed and unable to take advantage of the new innovations in industry standard hardware such as virtualization.
We present a set of use cases and best practices based on a range of tests conducted in conjunction with VMware. We also measured impact of mission critical technologies such as VMotion and DRS against a representative workload. Measuring and monitoring these tests provided a baseline for running mission critical BI workloads on a virtualized Vertica platform.

Enterprise Applications

Breakout Session

Analytic Databases, vSphere 4, mission critical, VMotion, DRS, workload

1 Hour

Aditya Vasudevan, Member of Technical Staff, VMware, Inc.
Bob Goldsand, Sr. Technical Alliance Manager, VMware
Omer Trajman, Director - Cloud and virtualization, Vertica Systems Inc