with Oracle VM and Bjorn Naessens
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About me Certifications OVM 2.x/3.x Implementation Specialist 5.x Certified Administrator Twitter @BjornNaessens Blog http://bjornnaessens.wordpress.com 3
Agenda Oracle s Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Data Center Fabric 4
Oracle s 5
Oracle s Server to Desktop Portfolio 6
Benefits of Virtualization Virtualization offers cost savings benefits Server consolidation Lower energy, facility and labor costs Lower Licensing Cost Virtualization offers additional benefits Standardization Isolate Applications Optimize Resources 7
Oracle s Virtualization that makes software easier to deploy, easier to manage, and easier to support. Not Virtualization for Virtualization s sake. 8
for x86 9
Positioning for both Oracle and non-oracle applications The only x86 server virtualization software supported and certified for all Oracle software Almost no hypervisor overhead Used in Oracle s Engineered Systems (ODA, exadata, exalogic and exalytics) Can be used to limit your license cost of Oracle Products 10
Positioning Continued Oracle is in the Challengers quadrant. This is a significant jump above the x-axis The move into the Challengers quadrant was possible for 3 primary reasons 1) Strength of Oracle VM 3.0 2) Integrated management 3) Solid customer momentum Gartner even specifically states that Oracle VM use is growing amongst VMware customers 11
Oracle VM for x86 Architecture Solaris Linux Ms.Win 12
OVM Features Assemblies & Templates (Secure) Live Migration Storage Connect Plugins Dynamic Resource Scheduling ( DRS ) Dynamic Power Management ( DPM ) Anti-Affinity High Availability 13
OVM Features Assemblies & Templates Unique to OVM Pre-Built,Pre-configured and Production ready VM s 100+ Templates available Easy and fast to deploy 14
OVM Features Assemblies & Templates Continued 15
OVM Features Assemblies & Templates Continued 16
OVM Features (Secure) Live Migration Better known as Omotion/Vmotion SSL encryption at a button press Allows you to have Planned Downtime at ANY time 17
OVM Features Storage Connect Plugins Makes it possible to perform storage tasks from within the OVM manager 18
OVM Features DRS Optimizes virtual machine CPU/Network resource utilization in a server pool. 19
OVM Features DPM Used to increase the consolidation ratio of VMs into least amount of OVM Servers required. 20
OVM Features Anti-Affinity ensures that specific virtual machines don t run on the same OVM server. Usefull for Oracle RAC Load balancing Applications Relying on built-in redundancy of Applications 21
OVM Features High Availability Auto Restart on OVM Level Clusterware on OS Level RAC on Database level Requires Rac licenses 22
Wait, What? Oracle RAC on OVM? Really? It Works! Fully certified and supported by Oracle Oracle does it! ( ODA, Exadata) But why do it? Consolidate your RAC Servers Create Virtual Clusters for demo/test/dev Deploys fast Use Hard-Partitioning 23
Licensing of Oracle Products on OVM Soft-Partitioning ( default ) License largest server in the pool f.e. 10 servers in pool running 3 vm s with Oracle Enterprise Edition software => need to license 3 largest servers. Hard-Partitioning Only on OVM accepted as a way to limit licenses Works by pinning CPU s to specific VM s Loose the ability to Live Migrate, use DRS or DPM 24
OVM Roadmap What s new? Open Public Beta for OVM 3.2.1 Support for Oracle VM Server for SPARC Health Monitoring & Statistics from within Manager Enhanced OVM Manager CLI and Web Services API MySQL Database Support Updated Dom0 Kernel in Oracle VM Server for x86 Lots of other improvements 25
OVM Summary Pricing Free License, Pay for support Oracle Enterprise Manager included in support Strengths Application-Driven Virtualization all oracle products are certified and supported Templates Templates Templates Soft/Hard Partitioning to limit Oracle Licenses 26
How to continue from here Read the user manual Read the release notes Avoid Common pitfalls Check your hardware compatibility Check Bios Settings Choose PVM ( for now ) Plan your setup Start with Tier 2 ( dev/test ) Don t expect miracles Feel free to Contact us 27
More Information Home Page http://oracle.com/virtualization Blog http://blogs.oracle.com/virtualization Download http://edelivery.oracle.com/oraclevm 28
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Positioning Compatible with Redhat Enterprise Linux Free to download, use and distribute Free source code, patching and binaries Oracle s base development platform Used in Oracle s Engineered Systems Dedicated Teams for QA/DEV and Support Oracle now recommends only the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel for all Oracle software on Linux 30
Features Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Preinstall RPM s Data Integrity Ksplice Cgroups 31
Features UEK Closely tracks the mainline kernel Tested with Oracle workloads and engineered systems to ensure stability and performance. Tested by dedicated teams and in automated farms 32
Features UEK Continued Faster implementations of Oracle and Community Linux Enhancements All kernel enhancements are open source and made available to the linux community Benchmarked 75% faster than the RHEL kernel Supports large systems ( 4096 cores, 4TB memory ) The best linux kernel for every server workload 33
Features Preinstall RPM s Former Oracle-Validated Installs software packages Modifies kernel parameters in /etc/sysctl.conf Creates users and sets hard and soft shell limits At this time only available for database. In the future look for packages for : Enterprise manager Ebusiness Suite Weblogic 34
Features Data Integrity Logical block checksum checking not enough to prevent data corruption Detected at READ time, when it s already too late End-to-end data protection prevents bad data from being written 35
Features Ksplice Lets you install important kernel updates with No downtime No disruption No rebooting Simple command-line tool for installing updates Rollback updates can be reversed rebootlessly 36
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Features Ksplice Continued How it works : One Step, Zero Downtime 38
Features - Cgroups Isolation Resource Management 39
Roadmap What s new? Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel R3 More Preinstall RPM s for Oracle Products SELinux profiles for Oracle Products Virtualization enhancements End-to-end data Integrity Extensions for OVM Memory hotplug Transcendent memory Many more performance and stability improvements. 40
Summary Pricing Free licence, Pay for support Oracle Enterprise Manager included in support Strengths Fast and stable UEK zero-downtime patching End-to-end Data Integrity Optimized for oracle 41
Migrating from RHEL/Centos to Typical RHEL Customer Production Acceptance Test Dev RHEL Support Centos Free Centos Free Centos Free 42
Migrating from RHEL/Centos to Continued No reinstallation Switch to in just minutes 43
Migrating from RHEL/Centos to Continued Typical Customer Production Acceptance Test Dev OL Support OL Free OL Free OL Free 44
More Information Home Page http://oracle.com/linux Blog https://blogs.oracle.com/linux Download http://edelivery.oracle.com/linux 45
Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c 46
Integration with OVM 47
Enhancements for OVM/OL Assembly/Template Provisioning Policy based capacity on demand Metering and Chargeback Performance monitoring Incident Management Patch Provisioning 48
Enhancements for OVM/OL Continued Availability & Fault Monitoring Centralized Admin for OL/OVM System Start/Stop Remote execution Back-up, recovery etc. Reporting 49
Data Center Fabric 50
Network needs to be virtualized 51
virtualizes your network Pool of network bandwidth Virtualized network creation Decouple from the underlying network hardware 52
High performance, low latency connectivity Over 100Gbps connectivity to each server Scalable with up to 15 I/O modules per chassis Server-to-server traffic upto 56 Gbps 1 management interface. 53
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