Linux In the Enterprise Data Center Dr. Bernd Kosch Malaga, February, 2006
Business Demands on Enterprise IT CEO and Board Demands: make IT more agile "Responsiveness to market opportunities" CFO demands: "Better cost controls, fast ROI" make IT more efficient User demands: IT that always works make IT more reliable Increase IT responsiveness to business needs 2
Linux in the Enterprise: Historical Review 3 SCO (Santa Cruz Operation) was the leader in UNIX on IA when Linus Torvalds releases the first Linux in 1991. Starting from a position as an OS for freaks, Linux rapidly eroded the SCO position Linux has become the most important enabling technology for embedded systems / appliances: thin clients, firewall appliances, web front end,, and many other systems with an invisible OS Linux has had an evolution in mission critical applications and in the enterprise datacenter Trendy discussion/doubt topic in the late 90s: about enterprise readiness, scalability, RAS and support models, Serious investments in marketing hype by some vendors (Linux on proprietary platforms) to attack specific well established UNICES Some technical commitments with real customer value, like ORACLE s unbreakable Linux approach Enterprise Grid Computing is now the rule breaking paradigm shift, reducing the OS to an enabling technology for server provisioning and turning Linux into an attractive OS technology for the entire datacenter.
Enterprise Grid Computing: The Transition to the Dynamic Data Center Web Web image Application App_1 App_2 App_2 App_2 App_2 App_3 App_3 4 Database Storage DB_1 Appl. image DB image SLA and policy management Resource management/provisioning DB_1 Std pool BCC pool DB_2 Logical environment remains but is virtualized Service layer for private utilities and managed services Physical environment is a shared pool Dedicated resource silos Pooled infrastructure Pre configured and pre allocated Adapts to variable requirements Low average resource utilization Optimized investments Labour intensive management Policy based provisioning
Dynamic Data Center (DDC) Concept The Case for Consolidation: Relative cost of administrative manpower, network bandwidth and IT infrastructure imply TCO gain from (re ) centralization Co located infrastructure can add TCO gains from further reduction of administration effort and increase of utilization rates by migrating to a single system concept. This can be real (large SMP) or virtual (Grid). The DDC integrates standard and advanced (SMP) building blocks into a virtualized and automated Grid environment increasing server utilization by resource sharing between applications, configured to datacenter peak load reducing administrative manpower, immediately and sustainably implementing unlimited scalability at minimum cost of scalability and enabling highly efficient scaled High Avalability concepts 5 (n+1) availability in stateless application server instances 5 nine concept in the server pool for mission critical functionality (e.g. DB service)
Dynamic Data Center (DDC) Benefit Leading TCO in the consolidated IT environment, from minimized administrative overhead (immediate and sustainable) optimized infrastructure configuration (capacity and feature set (RAS)) Long term technical flexibility and conceptual stability No (real) limits to scalability, leading cost for scalability No lock in to one specific system architecture, can be a continuous migration environment (between: CPU / system versions, CPU architectures, OS versions, application releases) Results in increased planning flexibility and investment protection Standards on utility accounting will turn the DDC into a very flexible and cost effective approach for outsourcing 6
Dynamic Data Center Implementation Custom designed Grid Architecture for consolidated IT can be applicable for specific (vertical) application scenarios relies on enabling middleware (for EAI, virtualization, automation) benefits from advanced datacenter virtualization technology: PRIMERGY BladeFrame, PAN Manager Productized Infrastructure Solutions for the leading horizontal application environments for consolidation on SAP based on the SAP Netweaver platform and ORACLE DBMS technology for consolidation on J2EE applications based on the ORACLE AS platform and DBMS technology strong convergence to these scenarios due to heavy consolidation of the EAI market, only best of bread scenarios (like SAP/Siebel/I2 combinations) are significant areas outside the scope 7
Productized DDC Infrastructure Solutions FlexFrame for mysap Business Suite FlexFrame for ORACLE 8 DDC infrastructure for SAP consolidated environments Linux on IA (32 and 64), Solaris on SPARC64, mixed mode operation 100+ installations all over EMEA from 100 to 7.000 concurrent SAP users first installations in Japan, Singapore, Australia new DDC infrastructure solution, announced in November, 2005 Linux on IA (32 and 64), mixed mode operation addresses the entire market of applications that (can) run on the 10g AS first pilot completed, 50+ projects in the pipeline comprehensive joint GTMs and demand generation activity with ORACLE and other partners
DDC: Market / Analyst Perception Source: Gartner, June 2005 Complete DDC Solutions is a strength of Fujitsu Siemens Ahead of the competition for 2 years 9
DDC Building Blocks: PRIMEQUEST PRIMEQUEST 440 / PRIMEQUEST 480 16 / 32 CPU Itanium2 (Madison) 256 / 512 GB RAM 4 / 8 Partitions 51.2 / 102.4 GB/s crossbar throughput Highest end RAS, fault immunity lockstep CPU mode system mirror flex I/O Open standards 10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.4 Novell Suse SLES 9 Positioned for continuous availability (99.999) requirements, e.g. in DBMS servers
Summary Enterprise Grid Computing changes the role of Linux Perceived weaknesses become irrelevant as key OS functions move to a new layer of middleware controlling the pooled infrastructure components No other OS can enable the scope of Grid components (servers) of Linux, from cost efficient IA 2/4 way to advanced RAS Itanium2 systems Major applications and middleware are now on Linux and can be deployed in a DDC framework, with massive TCO advantage, creating competitive pressure (in the horizontal ISV market) (Some) vendors are now positioned for the paradigm shift Offering DDC infrastructure solutions for the most relevant scenarios Offering highest end server technology to run Linux in the datacenter, as part of DDC infrastructure solutions or as part of generic DDC 11 Users will distinguish real and sustainable value from hype and FUD marketing thus accelerating the paradigm shift
Thank You for Your Attention Dr. Bernd Kosch Malaga, February, 2006