Successful Deployments with SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server for System zTT7781

Steffen ThossSystem z Virtualization and Linux PDT lead, IBMSteffen.thoss@de.ibm.com

Marcus KraftSenior Product ManagerSUSEmkraft@suse.com

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Agenda

• Linux on System z

• Oracle Database consolidation

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All of these “tools” can very quickly move a person from one place to another.But, which one is the right tool to move one person?

Fifty people? Five hundred people?

Fit for Purpose

Platform selection is all about using the right tool for the right job… and building the right infrastructure around it

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Large-scale IT Optimization with Linux on zEnterprise

• Economics of Linux (IFL) Specialty Engines• TCO versus Total Cost of Acquisition• High Availability requirements• Disaster Recovery requirements• Open standards and Linux• Customer data on System z• Increased Performance requirements• ’Green’ value from System z• Virtualize everything with up to

100% utilization rates• Highest security rating or classification for

any commercial server• zEnterprise is the only Heterogeneous

platform in the industry

Client feedback: Reasons to run workloads on Linux on System z

Percentage of survey respondents.Source: Oct2011 IBM Market Intelligence

24%

26%

32%

37%

45%

50%

53%

Access co-resident data

Serverconsolidation

ratio

z/VMvirtualizationcapabilities

Highavailability

solution

Security

Cost Savings

Performance

5 * Based on YE 2003 to YE 2013 **Top 100 is based on total installed MIPS

• 58% of new FIE/FIC System z Accounts run Linux (FY10-2Q14)

Installed Capacity Over Time

YE04 YE05 YE06 YE07 YE08 YE09 YE10 YE11 YE12 YE13 3Q14In

stal

led

IFL

Cap

acity

Linux on IBM System z in 3Q2014Installed Linux MIPS at 49% CAGR*

• 26.7% of Total installed MIPS run Linux as of 3Q14

• Installed IFL MIPS increased 12% from 3Q13 to 3Q14

• 39% of System z Customers have IFL’s installed as of 3Q14

• 80 of the top 100 System z Customers are running Linux on the mainframe as of 3Q14 **

• 35% of all System z servers have IFLs

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Latest IBM Customer Survey: Workloads Run on Linux System z

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System z – Extreme VirtualizationBuild-in and Shared Everything Architecture

System zProvisioning of virtual servers in seconds

High granularity of resource sharing (<1%)

Upgrade of physical resources without taking the system down

Scalability of up to 1000’s of virtual servers

More with less: more virtual servers per core, sharing of physical resources

Extensive life-cycle management

HW-supported isolation, highly secure (EAL5 or EAL4+ certified)

Distributed platformsLimited virtual server scalability per core

Scaling requires additional physical servers

Operational complexity increases with growth of virtual server images

VMware, Xen, Hyper-V focus on x86, no HW management across multiple platforms

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Priority Workload on System z Does Not Degrade When Low Priority Donor Workload is Added

Priority Workload MetricsTotal Throughput: 9.13MAvg Response Time: 140ms

Capacity Used High Priority – 74.2% CPU Minutes Low Priority – 23.9% CPU MinutesWasted – 1.9% CPU Minutes

What System z can do that Intel can't

Time (mins.)

% C

PU U

sage

Run High Priority and Low Priority Workloads Together

NO throughput leakage

NO response time

increase

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Priority Workload on Common Hypervisor Degrades Severely When Low Priority Workload is Added

% C

PU U

sage

Time (mins.)

Capacity Used High Priority – 42.3% CPU MinutesLow Priority – 35.8% CPU MinutesWasted – 21.9% CPU Minutes

Priority Workload MetricsTotal Throughput: 4.48MAvg Response Time: 220ms

What System z can do that Intel can't

30.7%throughput leakage

45.1%response time increase

21.9%wasted CPU minutes

Run High Priority and Low Priority Workloads Together

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System z Virtualization Enables Mixing of High and Low Priority Workloads Without Penalty

Perfect workload management Consolidate workloads of different

priorities on the same platform Full use of available processing

resource (high utilization)

Imperfect workload management Forces workloads to be segregated

on different servers More servers are required (low

utilization)

What System z can do that Intel can't

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Energy and Floor Space Calculation Example

Annual cost calculationEnergy cost calculated with a rate of $0.12 per KilowattFloor space cost calculated with a rate of $29 per square foot per month

Prices are in USD. Prices may vary in other countries.Data is based on real client opportunity and on internal standardized costing tools and methodologies.Client results will vary by types of workloads, technology level of consolidated servers, utilization factor, and other implementation requirements. Savings will vary by client.

The Case for Oracle / Database Consolidation

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Why System z for Oracle

• High Availability Requirements• Open Standards and Linux• Disaster Recovery Requirements• Customer Data on Mainframe• Increased Performance Requirements• Economics of Linux (IFL) Specialty Engines• TCO versus Total Cost of Acquisition• ‘Green’ Value from Mainframe• zEnterprise servers can virtualize everything with up to 100% utilization

rates• zEnterprise is the only Heterogeneous platform in the industry• System z has the highest security rating or classification for any

commercial server

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Linux on System z and Oracle Licensing

• An IFL is a specialty engine or Processor on a System z machine

• Oracle uses the term core for purposes of pricing• From an Oracle licensing perspective an IFL = one core

• The zEnterprise has 4 or 6 core processors but an IFL represents one core

• The consolidation factor is a huge saving in licensing

Sizing is a very important action for consolidation!

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Reducing SW Cost Through ConsolidationExample: Oracle Database

• License and annual Software Update License & Support is based on processor cores

• A “processor core factor” is applied to adjust for different technologies

Software Update Licenses & Support (annually) is typically 22% of Processor License (one time charge)

http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/technology-price-list-070617.pdf

Oracle Technology Global Price ListSeptember 26, 2012

Software Investment Guide

http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/contracts/processor-core-factor-table-070634.pdf

Vendor and Processor Core Processor Licensing Factor

Intel Xeon Series 56XX, Series 65XX, Series 75XX, Series E7-28XX, Series E7-48XX, Series E7-88XX, Series E5-24XX, Series E5-26XX, Series E5-46XX, Series E5-16XX, Series E3-12XX or earlier Multicore chips

0.5

Intel Itanium Series 93XX (For servers purchased on or after Dec 1st, 2010) 1.0

IBM POWER6 1.0

IBM POWER7 1.0

IBM System z (z10 and earlier) 1.0

All Other Multicore chips 1.0

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When Consolidating Oracle Database Servers• Understand your requirements (and cost implications)

‒ High Availability (how much money is at stake if your system is down x minutes/hours?)

‒ Disaster Recovery (what is your RTO by application/database?)

Select architecture choices according to requirements• Low utilization servers and mix of different peak times are best candidates

‒ Selected databases with sustained high CPU utilization may not be good candidates

• Databases with high I/O stress will benefit from System z architecture• Tune migrated database servers to the virtualized environment

‒ Right size servers (memory, number of vCPUs, direct I/O)‒ System z may behave differently compared to x86

• Monitor your system behavior‒ Typically performance behavior is not static‒ Test before and after changes are applied

• Consider Capacity on Demand (CoD) for peak load times

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When Is An Oracle Consolidation Paying Out?

• Real customer situation• For an Installation of Oracle (RAC) starting with 2 servers

‒ Server with 6 Cores - 2 X 6 = 12 Cores‒ Oracle Enterprise Licenses‒ RAC Feature

• Replacement with z114 - much cheaper and effective‒ Workload could be handled with 2 IFLs

- starting with 2 Server (RAC) installation

Price saving over 3 years: Almost one million Euro savings

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Cost Comparison

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z/VM Perfect for Linux Guest Workloads

TCA includes hardware, software, maintenance, support and subscription.Workload Equivalence derived from a proof-of-concept study conducted at a large Cooperative Bank.

Half the cost

What System z can do that Intel can't

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Core Proliferation for Oracle WorkloadsTCO study for a Media and Entertainment Industry customer

Hardware $2.9M

Software $24.2M

Labor $7.9M

Space, Power and cooling $1.2M

Disaster Recovery $6.5M

Total (5 yr. TCO) $42.7M

Hardware $4.9M

Software $8.5M

Labor $1.8M

Space, Power and cooling $0.5M

Disaster recovery $4.8M

Total (5 yr. TCO) $20.5M

1,440 cores total48 IFLs1 PS7011 HX5

zEC12107 HP servers

30x more cores!

Intel: Oracle DB + App costs = $13.1M (LIC + maint over 5 yrs.).IBM: Oracle DB + App costs = $1.92M (LIC + maint over 5 yrs.)

or

What System z can do that Intel can't

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Client Case Studies Linux on System z with Oracle

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Dundee City Council Delivers Value through New Technologies

Business need:Like all UK local authorities, Dundee City Council needs to handle increasing demand for IT and eGovernment services, while also reducing costs in line with central government targets. When the lease on its server and storage hardware needed to be renewed, the Council saw an opportunity to enhance its capabilities and increase value for money.

Solution:Dundee worked with IBM to upgrade its mainframe environment with two powerful IBM System z10® servers, and introduced the IBM XIV® Storage System to replace a mixed storage environment. The new infrastructure runs a range of Linux applications and Oracle databases – supporting key systems such as social services 24x7.

"Running Linux on the System z platform is a cost-efficient approach, especially for software like Oracle, which is licensed on a per-processor basis. We can run 60 virtual machines on just four System z processors – whereas an equivalent x86-based architecture might require several processors for each server! So the savings can be considerable ."

- Tim Simpson, IT Support Manager, Dundee City

Council

Benefits:• Improves performance by more than 50 percent, providing capacity for growth without

increasing IT costs. • Enables very rapid provisioning of virtualised server and storage resources, enabling the

IT team to respond more quickly to end users’ needs. • Provides excellent availability and disaster recovery capabilities: in the event of a

disaster at the main site, all systems can be restored at another location within 20 minutes.

• Reduces Oracle licensing costs, as numerous virtual Linux servers can run on each IFL processor.

Creating a cost-effective IT architecture with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on IBM System z and IBM XIV Storage System technologies

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Sparda Datenverarbeitung eG chooses IBM zEnterprise with SLES® for System z

Watch and listen to• Bernd Bohne, Sparda-Datenverarbeitung e.G., Manager, Central Systems• Marie Wieck, IBM, General Manager, Application Integration Middleware• Steve Mills, IBM, Senior Vice President & Group Executive, Software & Systems

“Over the years, the mainframe transformed from traditional workloads, quite simple, to a universal platform for new workloads as well. And we see a lot of new applications that are coming to this platform.

Especially for Linux, it's perfect.The zEnterprise platform is perfect for consolidating Linux workloads because of the high I/O bandwidth, business continuity with capacity backup features.”

“Oracle has been consolidated on this platform we are using right now only Oracle on the z196 platform,”

Bernd Bohne, Sparda-Datenverarbeitung e.G., Manager, Central Systems

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7Z19IB5AmE

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Sparda Datenverarbeitung eGSDV runs a number of very large databases within the virtualized Linux environments … The company also relies on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server to support online banking services for the Sparda Banking Group's 4.2 million customers.

Working with IBM, SDV deployed an IBM z196 at each of its two data centers, activating six Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL) engines on each box.

“Our online banking services process approximately 1,200 online transactions per second, so we simply cannot afford them to fail. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, which is involved in a significant part of this workload, makes us confident that this will not happen.Since deploying SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on the IBM z196 we have experienced over 99 percent availability. This proves that Linux's reputation for stability and reliability is well and truly deserved. We imagine the solution will play an integral role in SDV's infrastructure for some time to come.”

- Bernd Bohne, Department Head, Central Systems Technology, Sparda-Datenverarbeitung eG

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Business ConnexionThe company was running BMC Remedy IT Service Management Suite on Solaris, and determined that the cost of licensing the underlying Oracle database across numerous processors would make it difficult to offer solutions to clients at a competitive price.

Business Connexion deployed SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for System z* to run a new monitoring solution for clients. The ability to run multiple virtual servers side-by-side on a single mainframe processor ensures low software costs for the solution, enabling Business Connexion to offer a powerful solution at a highly competitive price.

Business Connexion currently has approximately 50 virtual machines across the two mainframes—a mixture of database servers, application servers and proxy servers for several different hosted clients.

Results:– Created a flexible environment for hosted services– Delivered high performance for Oracle databases– Enabled competitive pricing for client services

“With SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for System z, we get excellent performance and bullet-proof reliability—plus it’s easy and cost-effective to manage.”

- Frans Labuschagne, Senior Manager for Open Systems Support Services, Business Connexion

But Oracle is Not the Only Use Case !

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““We selected SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as our strategic operating system because it is widely available across platforms and it is a certified system that helps us comply with the strict regulations in the financial services industry.”

ULRICH BUCHCTO

EFiS EDI Finance Service AG

“Thanks to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server running on IBM System z, we have simplified our IT environment, drastically reduced the number of servers, saved energy and improved the services we deliver to our customers. This is definitely the most efficient cloud solution we know.”

Armin GerhardtCEO

EFiS EDI Finance Service AG

EFiS Financial SolutionsResolves Data Center Pain Points and Optimizes IT Infrastructure

https://www.suse.com/success/stories/efis-edi-finance-service-ag.html

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University of BariService oriented cloud architecture

"The IBM System z Solution Edition for Cloud Computing eliminates the trouble and expense of buying and managing new infrastructure, making the development of small-scale solutions much more viable. Moreover, as demand for a solution increases, the cloud can simply allocate more resources, so there is no problem with scalability."

— Professor Visaggio,Professor of

Software Engineeringthe University of Bari

https://www.suse.com/success/stories/university-of-bari.html

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Baldor ElectricSAP on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for IBM System z

“We believe SUSE has the best Linux distribution with the best support. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for System z has provided a robust implementation for SAP, with unsurpassed reliability. We have taken our total cost of computing from more than two percent of sales to less than one percent.”

ERIC BREUERManager, Large Systems,

Baldor Electric

https://www.suse.com/success/stories/baldor-electric-more.html

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Baldor ElectricIT Challenges

• Rising cost, complexity and the lack of high availability on System p service required Baldor to change to Linux for System z in order to meet the demands of the business

• Application we moved to Linux for System z first was SAP application servers

‒ These were running on System p connected to the mainframe via fiber GB to the OSA on System z

• Response time was ok but we were looking for something faster

• Upgrade of storage/memory, etc. was expensive and time consuming on these machines

• We were already seeing the need to have the system up in a 24/7 world

• Floor space, Power and Cooling needed to be addressed

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Baldor ElectricCurrent Environment

6 CP 16 IFL 3 zIIP 2 ICF

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Baldor ElectricCurrent Environment (cont`d)

• Three native LPARs running‒ SAP ECC Production central instance‒ SAP ECC Production batch server‒ NFS file server‒ We can continue to run ECC Production batch

on the weekends and do z/VM maintenance if needed

• Two z/VM LPARs‒ Production z/VM: runs 30 guests‒ Most Production ECC guests are 16-20GB of storage‒ Test z/VM: runs all Test, Development, Sandbox servers, ~45 guests

• Connected via Hipersockets if in one frame

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Baldor ElectricWhy SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server for System z

• Administration staff already had experience with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server‒ Wanted to leverage the knowledge

• Baldor has a huge SAP implementation on System z with Linux‒ SUSE Linux Enterprise Server has provided a robust

implementation for SAP, has an unsurpassed reliability, and a great partnership with SAP

• SAP and IBM also highly recommend SUSE• Baldor believes that SUSE has the best distribution of Linux with the best support

• In the past no good experience with competition

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Baldor ElectricMeasurable Results

• Baldor has taken our total cost of computing from more than 2% of sales down to less than 1%

• It has paid for them to

‒ Stay competitive

‒ Take care of our users

• And in consequence, this allows us to take care of our customersin this 24/7 world

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Colacem S.p.A. SAP on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for IBM System z

“Choosing the ideal operating system has a huge impact on guaranteeing that the overall solution will work properly: that’s why we chose SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for System z. A key factor was the close relationship between IBM, SAP and SUSE, which translates into product optimization and excellent, integrated support.” .

● —MASSIMO VISPI Application and Mainframe

Manager, Colacem

https://www.suse.com/success/stories/colacem.html

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AutoData NorgeFlexible platform for creating new web-based applications

“The mainframe has relatively high acquisition costs. However— thanks in part to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for System z— it is highly cost-effective in terms of the long-term TCO, because it enables us to serve a large and varied customer base with just a small internal team.”

. Stein Sandvold

Chief Operating Officer, AutoData Norge

https://www.suse.com/success/stories/autodata-norge-as.html

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"We did not have any SUSE Linux Enterprise Server-related problems when we launched the full SOA platform,” said “The transition was stable and the OS ran smoothly the entire time, allowing us to focus on developing our business services instead.”

Tetsuya tagami, Manager, Systems Infrastructure

Department No. 1, Systems Division, BTMU.

The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJSOA platform for a fast and flexible business system

https://www.suse.com/success/stories/bank-of-tokyo-mitsubishi.html

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„Since 2007 Sicoob has more than doubled in size. Kitayama says they are saving around $3 million in energy costs annually, and the upgrade from SUSE 10 to 11 was worth a cool million in increased performance.”

SICOOBPorted their software to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for IBM System z

https://innerweb.novell.com/docrep/2014/01/brazilian_credit_union_saves_millions.pdf

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Average infrastructure monthly cost: US$ 50,349.60

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Average infrastructure monthly cost: US$ 234,000.00

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SICOOB IT Infrastructure - Operating System Upgrade

Checking Clearance Case

upgrade

Previous Environment 13 serversCPU usage: 100%Memory usage: 100%Processing: 1 million image checks per day

Actual Environment 9 serversCPU usage: 50%Memory usage: 50%Processing: 2 million image checks per day

Saving: US$ 1,013,462.00

25% of performance gain

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for System z 10

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for System z 11 SP2

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IBM Mainframe Virtualization Architecture

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Oracle and Linux on System z IBM & Oracle working together

• Oracle Real Application Clusters on Linux on IBM System z: Set up and network performance tuning

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Oracle Database Consolidation Example

Renewal: ProLiant BL280c G6 Xeon X5672 Quad Core 3.2GHz (1ch/4co)Sizing information based on IBM internal RACEv tool and US prices. Actual results may vary.