oracle vm for sparc overview

Roman IvanovISV Engineer

Oracle VM Server for SPARC

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Common IT ChallengesColliding pressures

Reduce IT CostsReduce ComplexityReduce Risk

Increase Rate of ChangeManage More Information Comply

With New Regulations

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IT Operational Budgets Being SlashedAlmost 90% of CIOs Expect Cuts in Their Operations Budgets

Source: Gartner March 2009 Poll

Percentage of Respondents

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Application Servers

Database Servers

Storage

A Strategic Approach to Infrastructure Standardized, Shared Server & Storage Pools

• Better utilization – Save money on hardware– Eliminate silos– Standardize operations

• But need to assure…– Reliability– Performance– Management– High-quality support

• Can require complex integration and support

Virtualization is the SOLUTIONAnd Virtualization Budgets Are Increasing…

Increase54%

No Change31%

Don’t Know10%

Decrease5%

…But point solutions don’t make integrating and managing enterprise software easier

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• Open and standards-based

• Optimized, integrated and extensible

• Better performance, reliability, security

• Shorter deployment times

• Easier to manage and upgrade

• Lower cost of ownership

• Reduced change-management risk

• Integrated support

Oracle + Sun:Complete, Open, Integrated Systems

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Oracle Virtualization StrategyDesktop to Data Center Virtualization

• Virtualization offers key cost-saving benefits – Server consolidation – Lower energy, facility and labor costs

• Oracle’s virtualization strategy offers much more– Most comprehensive desktop to data center product portfolio – Integrated management of the full hardware and software

stack from applications to disk– Integrated support

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Only From Oracle: The Most Complete Virtualization Portfolio

STORAGEVIRTUALIZATION

DESKTOPVIRTUALIZATION

SERVERVIRTUALIZATION

• Oracle VM Server for SPARC

• Oracle VM Server for x86

• Solaris Containers• Dynamic Domains

• Virtual DesktopInfrastructure

• Sun Ray • Secure Global

Desktop• VirtualBox

• Exadata• ASM• Storage Connect• Open Storage

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• Evolution of Sun Logical Domains• Integration with Oracle VM family• Highly efficient built-in hypervisor

for Sun T-Series servers• Multiple, independent Solaris

instances

SPARC T-Series Hardware

Solaris


• High performance hypervisor for x86/x64 architecture

• Supported guests:Linux, Windows, Solaris

x86/x64 Hardware

Solaris

Oracle VM Server for x86

Linux Windows

Oracle VM Server VirtualizationPlatform Choice & Flexibility

• Roadmap: Uniform, integrated virtualization management across Oracle VM Server for x86 and SPARC through Oracle VM Manager

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Introduction

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CompleteBest TCO

Investment Protection

Solaris / SPARC Server VirtualizationDriving Operational Efficiency

Integrated andOptimized

Best TCO

Investment Protection

• End-to-end virtualization solutions that are designed in, not bolted on

• Choose from hard partitions, Oracle VM Server for SPARC, and Oracle Solaris Containers to best meet business needs

• Built in virtualization at no extra cost – save big vs. competitive solutions

• Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center drives greater operational efficiency and lower cost

• Oracle Solaris binary compatibility guarantee

• Run Oracle Solaris 8, 9 or 10 applications as-is in Oracle Solaris containers

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Hard Partitions SPARC Hypervisors Oracle Solaris Containers

The Power of SPARC Virtualization

Single OSMultiple OSesAll Sun Systems

Oracle Solaris Containers(Zones + SRM)

Oracle Solaris Trusted ExtensionsOracle Solaris 8 and 9 Containers

T-SeriesOracle VM Server for SPARC

(previously called Sun Logical Domains)

M-SeriesDynamicDomains

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Oracle Solaris AddressesIT Challenges

• Scalability

• Performance

• Unique innovation

• Business advantages

– Guaranteed compatibility

– Business-oriented lifecycle

– Oracle application / infrastructure integration

– 3rd party application portfolio

– Support integration

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Optimized for SPARC / Oracle Solaris

The Virtualization Platform combining the best of Oracle Solaris and SPARC for Your Enterprise Server Workloads

Isolated OS and applications in each logical (or virtual) domain

Firmware-based hypervisor

Each logical domain runs in dedicated CPU thread(s)

SPARC Hypervisor

T-SeriesServer

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Oracle VM Server for SPARC Components

System Firmware

Docs, Training & Support

• Logical Domains Manager

> Interface to control and configure logical domains

• Oracle Solaris OS> Domains and virtual

drivers

• System Firmware> The hypervisor

• Docs, Training and Support

> Resource, information and best practices

Oracle Solaris OS

Logical Domains Manager

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Oracle VM Server for SPARC Features

• Create independent logical domains quickly and easily using the built-in hypervisor• Leverage advanced Oracle Solaris technologies, such

as ZFS cloning and snapshots, to speed deployment and dramatically reduce disk capacity requirements• Utilize redundant virtual networks and disks to create

more highly available domains• Dynamically re-configure computing resources to meet

business demands• Perform domain migration from system to system

quickly with very little latency

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Supported Systems

• Sun UltraSPARC T2 Plus Systems– Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 Server– Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 Server– Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 Server– Sun Netra T5440 Server– Sun Blade T6340 Server Module– Sun Netra T6340 Server Module

• Sun UltraSPARC T2 Systems– Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 Server– Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 Server– Sun Netra T5220 Server– Sun Blade T6320 Server Module– Sun Netra CP3260 ATCA Blade Server

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Integrated Support

• Sun SPARC Enterprise T-Series systems come with the right to use (RTU) for Oracle VM Server for SPARC, and the software is pre-installed. • For systems under warranty or with support, you can

download the software, system firmware, and updates.• Oracle Premier Support for Systems provides fully-

integrated support for Sun server hardware, firmware, OS and Oracle VM software.

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Oracle VM Server for SPARC Delivering Value and

Customer Benefits

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Oracle VM Server for SPARC Benefits

• Greatly increased utilization• Flexibility in provisioning and services deployments• More uniform management interfaces• Higher level of service• Lower total cost of ownership (TCO)

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Delivering Real Savings

Virtualization Issue

IBM AIXWPAR &

PowerVM

Oracle SolarisContainers &


Virtualization acquisition cost per system $10,000* $0

CPU overhead < 10 virtual environments 10%-40% <1%

Application availability Limited Broad ISV support

Installation and configuration Days - Week Hours

Reboot virtual environment Minutes - Hours Seconds - Minutes

Built-in virtual machine snapshot and cloning No Yes

P2V tool to migrate from older OS environments to virtualization on new systems

No Yes

* Actual cost varies by the configuration22

Efficient System Management Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center

New Customer Deployment IBM Tivoli Ops Center

Management software installation time Weeks Hours

Personnel needed to implement 8-12 1-3

Personnel needed for ongoing maintenance 4-7 1-2

Cost of software licensing $$$$ $

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Maximize Compute DensityAdvanced Virtualization

Physical Servers3X

Reduce Up To

HP BL870CBlade

• Increase relative performance• 3.9x better performance improvement in same

footprint

• Reduce system administration overhead• 3x fewer servers to manage

• Highest scalability and flexibility• 6x better scalability compared to HP nPARs

Sun BladeT6340

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ECO Consolidation6:1 Consolidation*

Before

6 V880s withOracle Solaris 8

T5240 with Oracle Solaris 10

Total Savings

After Total

$ $ $

• 48 CPUs

• 204 Rack Units

• 13,200 Watts

• 43,308 BTUs

• OS support cost: Over $32,400

• 2 CPUs

• 2 Rack Units

• 1,100 Watts

• 3,608 BTUs

• OS support costs: $3,780 for Oracle Solaris 10 with Oracle Solaris 8 Containers

• 99% space savings

• 92% less power

• 92% less BTUs

• 88% lower annual cost

25* 6:1 ratio is based on internal M-value

Consolidation Example: Oracle CRM in a Box

Server

OS

ApplicationDBServer

WebServer

GuestDomain

GuestDomain

IO Domain

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Control Domain

AppServer

24 vcpus

184 vcpus

40 vcpus

8 vcpus

Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 4 UltraSPARC T2 Plus CPUs 256 hardware threads (vcpus) Configured 128 GB memory (Max

512GB) 4 RU form factor

Oracle Siebel CRM 8 software

Support up to 14,000 Oracle Siebel CRM users in a 4RU server!

Leadership in Virtualization

The Solaris 10 Operating System and Logical Domains provides

DigiTar with rock-solid fault isolation and stronger partitioning of

server resources. These two qualities power the stability we need to ensure our customers

receive business-critical communications 24 hours a day,

365 days a year and at a competitive price.

Jason Williams

COO and CTO

DigiTar

Our recent test of Integra on UltraSPARC T2 and UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor-based systems showed excellent performance and

scalability. Customers can reap significant benefits from using LDoms on these CoolThreads

servers, resulting in huge savings by reducing number of additional systems, low power consumption

and less space.

Sean MacNeil

VP and General Manager

Service Management and Global Services

Openwave

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Case Study: Primus CanadaSolution

• Server consolidation Proof-of-conceptthrough Sun’s Try and Buy Program

• Deployed proven LDoms layout using Solaris 10 partitioning and virtualization capabilities

• Products Include: Sun Fire T2000 Server, Solaris 10 Operating System, Oracle VM Server for SPARC (LDoms), Sun Try and Buy Program

Results

• Increased performance and efficiency of servers

• Reduced physical space requirements with virtualization and consolidation

• Lowered energy consumption

• Gained a highly stable environment

“When we failed over from the old system to the Sun Fire T2000, the application went from 50 percent CPU utilization, down to 15 percent. We were just dumbfounded to learn that it was only using 15 percent of one core of this eight-core CPU.”

— Paul Monaghan, Manager, Service Platform Engineering Team, Primus Canada

Overview

• Founded 1997

• Subsidiary of Virginia-based Primus Telecommunications Group

• 850 employees and serves more than

one million customers with offices across Canada

Challenge

• Achieve maximum uptime for servers

• Build redundancy into network

• Give IT staff freedom and flexibility to do their jobs better

• Consolidate four VoIP platforms onto virtual machines

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Consolidation: Bottom Line Results

US Air Force DigiTar PlanetOut

• Reduce rack space to achieve a 13:1 consolidation ratio

• Decreased server deployment time by more than 90% with Oracle VM Server for SPARC

• Cut datacenter power consumption by more than 25% and reclaimed nearly 50% of datacenter floor space with eco-responsible servers

• Provided customers better service levels at a lower cost

• 8 HP consolidated to 2 Sun servers

• 4.5x better performance

• 2x processing capacity of MySQL database servers

• 10% better price/performance

• 75% reduction in operating costs for MySQL

• 83% reduction in power and heat dissipation

• Power consumption decreased by 5%

• 400:70 consolidation ratio

• Reduced server footprint by 50%

• Moved to a smaller datacenter

• Realized higher customer satisfaction due to virtually no service interruptions

• Achieved payback in 1.5 years

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Oracle VM Server for SPARC Feature Details

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Oracle VM Server for SPARC Overview

OS

Server

Control/ServiceDomain

ServiceDomain

Apps

Each Logical Domain :•Appears as a fully independent server•Has a unique OS installed and configured•Configurable CPU, disk, memory and I/O resources

•SPARC / CMT based technology (T-Series servers)

•Up to 128 domains•Dynamic resource allocation• Isolation via hardware / firmware

•Thin hypervisor delivered with the system

•Stable interface with the HW

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Newly Added Features in 1.3

Dynamic Crypto Control

Dynamic addition/removal of Crypto processing to and from active domains

Leverages separate threads for memory compression and network transfer

Track and report physical network link status

Policy-based CPU dynamic resource management (DRM) across virtual machines

Link-based IPMP

Support

CPU DRM

Enhanced Domain

Migrations

Further improve resource utilization, decrease migration time

Faster migration for load balancing, power saving or planned maintenance

Faster network failover with link-based IP multipathing (IPMP) support

Maximize CPU utilization within a system; distribute resources automatically

New Features Description Benefits

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Consolidate with Oracle VM Server for SPARC

• Consolidate many applications• Isolation allows each domain to have its own patch level• Maximize the use of the Chip Multithread (CMT) architecture• Larger and larger systems are making virtualization an essential tool

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Dynamic Reconfiguration and Virtual Resources

AM/Day/Week

PM/Night/Weekend

• Adjust your systems to your business requirements on demand> Dynamically: CPU & Virtual IO> Delayed Reconfig: Memory

• Improve utilization by balancing resources between domains

• Virtual network/switch support together with dedicated hardware mapping

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Domain Mobility

AM/Day/Week

PM/Night/Weekend

• Migrate workloads between logical domains without shutting down the application

• Keep services running in preparation for planned maintenance• Save and reduce energy costs doing “mini-consolidations” in quiet

periods• Be proactive and be able to react to any service degradation

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Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) Conversion

• Move applications easily to Oracle VM Server for SPARC> Source: Oracle Solaris 8, 9 or 10> Target: Guest domain running Oracle Solaris 10

• Three easy steps with ldmp2v

P2V Tool

• ldmp2v upgrades your environment to be an Oracle Solaris 10 guest on Oracle VM Server for SPARC

> Step 1: Collect

– Creates archive of source system

– Collects config info for disk, files and network– Non destructive

> Step 2: Prepare

– Sets up target guest domain based on source config

– Creates and assigns virtual disk, virtual network created and assigned

– Restores archives into virtual disks

> Step 3: Convert

– Boots from Oracle Solaris ISO file or Jumpstart profiles, and then upgrades

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CPU Power Management

• Save even more power by automatically powering off unused cores

• Two modes:– Performance

– All cores turned on at all time (what you have now)

– Elastic– Cores are dynamically powered on/off as required by the system

• Behavior must be set via the ILOM but can be monitored from LDoms

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Configuration Assistant – Ease of Deployment

• Help you easily create logical domains. – After gathering the

configuration data, the Configuration Assistant determines the best way to create a deployment to suit your requirements.

• The Configuration Assistant is available as both a graphical user interface (GUI) and terminal-based tool.

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Higher Availability with Oracle Solaris Cluster

Server

OS

ApplicationFileServer

WebServer

WebServer

FileServer

Solaris Cluster

Solaris Cluster

GuestDomain

GuestDomain

Solaris Cluster

Solaris Cluster

GuestDomain

GuestDomain

IO Domain

IO Domain

•Failover applications within a logical domain•Failover a full logical domain

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ControlDomain

Control

Domain

MailServer

AppServer

Oracle VM Server for SPARC Options with Solaris Cluster

• Logical Domains as Oracle Solaris Cluster node• Guest domains as well as I/O and control domains• A logical domain is managed as Oracle Solaris

Cluster node: cluster software is installed • Integration of Solaris Cluster heartbeats with

LDoms virtual network infrastructure

• Logical Domains as resource/application• HA agent for a guest logical domain• “blackbox” behavior

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• Complete life-cycle management for physical & virtual systems• Control virtual server proliferation

• Gain visibility across the enterprise

• Correlate across virtual & physical systems

• Efficiently manage resources across systems

• Optimized for Sun System Management• SPARC & x86

• Oracle Solaris OS

• Oracle VM Server for SPARC & Oracle Solaris Containers

Virtual Machines(Solaris Zones & Logical Domains)

Underlying hardware(x86 and SPARC-based servers)

Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center

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Management with Ops Center

Create, Delete, Configure, Boot, Shutdown, etc.

Lifecycle Mgmt Monitoring Resource Pools Migration

CPU, Memory, File Systems, Aggregate

Utilization

Policies, Auto Restart

Domain Mobility


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Summary

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Oracle’s Full Grid InfrastructureVirtualization, Clustering and Dynamic Provisioning

• Shared pools of resources for high efficiency/utilization

• Dynamic resource provisioning

• Rapid deployment using ready-to-run Oracle VM Templates

• Superior high availability

• Automated, full-stack monitoring & management

• Low cost platform:• Virtualization • Operating system • Clustering• File systems

Applicat

ion G

rid

Datab

ase

Grid

Stora

ge Grid

Virtualization and clusteringthroughout the stack

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Comprehensive Full-Stack ManagementApplications To Disk

Provision

VirtualizeTest

Deploy

Change & Patch

Configure

Monitor

Oracle Enterprise Manager

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Summary

• Re-branded (Oracle VM Server for SPARC) – emphasis on seamless integration and an interoperable portfolio of virtualization products

• Integrate with key Oracle VM technology components (Management tools, Storage Connect, etc.)

• Continue to develop advanced virtualization features for SPARC/Oracle Solaris systems

• FULL STEAM AHEAD! Increased investment and total commitment to Oracle VM Server for SPARC as the virtualization platform for Sun SPARC Enterprise T-Series systems

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For More Information AboutOracle VM Server for SPARC

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