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John McAbelWW Solutions Manager – [email protected]

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Annual Worldwide Servers by CPU Type

IDC: WWAll Servers 2003 2006 2007 4 yr YTY 2003 2006 2007 4 yr YTY

x86 $19,117 $25,963 $28,664 50% 10% 41% 49% 53% 11.2Pts 3.2Pts

Itanium $479 $3,203 $4,191 775% 31% 1% 6% 8% 6.7Pts 1.6Pts

CISC $6,952 $6,694 $5,848 -16% -13% 15% 13% 11% -4.3Pts -2.0Pts

RISC $19,601 $16,665 $15,718 -20% -6% 42% 32% 29% -13.6Pts -2.8Pts

Total Market $46,149 $52,525 $54,421 18% 4% 100% 100% 100% 0.0Pts 0.0Pts

Revenue US$M Revenue Growth Market Share Share Gains

35% 36% 39% 41% 45% 48% 49% 53%

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The overall worldwide server market grew 4% to $54B for full year 2007x86 servers grew to 53% of total market capturing 4 pts. of share yty

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x86 Server Virtualization Trends

Percent of Organizations using Virtualization for Production Workloads

Percent of Installed Servers using Virtualization

Source: Merrill Lynch, IT Hardware CIO Survey, May 2007

8%

18%

58%

Sept 2006

May 2007

2009 (projected)

37%

51%

71%

Sept 2006

May 2007

2008 (projected)

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Is it a Real or Virtual Computer?

REAL

You can not see it VIRTUAL

You can see it You can not use it DEFECT

You can not see it STOLEN

You can see it

You can not use it

You can use it

You can use it

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Oracle / IBM Virtualization : Oracle VM on IBM System x

Strong Isolation between Virtual MachinesDynamic resizing & MigrationRapid VM Instantiation & CloningWorkload Management

How Virtualization works ?

Benefits :

• Simplified solutions • Reduced down-time• A highly available and serviceable architecture. • Decrease

• the power and cooling cost• saves datacenter space• the networking and SAN interconnectivity• the cost of physical server maintenance

• Specific operating system : Solaris, Windows, Red Hat

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Oracle VMSystem Partitioning: Oracle VM enables system resources to be divided into separate partitions to host applications and databases and it runs on Oracle Enterprise Linux 4 or 5. Oracle VM rests above the operating system layer.

Live Migration Capability: Move a workload to another server and VM partition for system maintenance or high availability.OS Supported:

Oracle Enterprise Linux 4 update 5 & release 5RHEL 3, 4*, 5*Window Server 2003*, XP*, Windows 2008 Server SP1

* Does not support Para-virtual drivers as yet.Applications Supported:• Oracle Database 10g & 11g in single instance TODAY• Oracle RAC • Oracle Applications/Middleware metalink: 464754.1

License Pricing: Free ($0) DownloadSupport Pricing:• $599/socket/year for 1-2 Socket Server• $1199/socket/year unlimited sockets

http://www.oracle.com/technologies/virtualization/index.html

http://www.oracle.com/technologies/virtualization/index.html

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Sample Applications Certified on Oracle VMOracle Database 10gR2 10.2.0.3+ & 11gR1Oracle Real Application Clusters 10.2.0.4Enterprise Manager Grid Control 10.2.0.4Application Server 10gR2+Hyperion 9.3.1+JD Edwards Enterprise One Tools 8.97.2 and Applications 8.12Oracle E-Business Suite 11.5.10 CU2 & 12.0.2 RUP2Siebel 8.0+PeopleSoft Tools 8.49.07 Applications 8.4 & 9.0Oracle Retail 10gR2 based +Oracle Financial Services Software – FLEXCUBE V.UM 10.0

For details see metalink note: 464754.1Revision Date: 24-OCT-2008

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Oracle VM Server Consolidation Solution

Oracle VM

Benefits:

Better server utilization

Help lower support costs

Reallocate existing servers

Partitioning capability

• Limitless partitions

• Potential 1,000’s of apps

• Partition at OS level

Less time to manage you IT environment, more time for other IT activities

Any System x Server/Blade

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Oracle VM

Oracle VM Availability Using Live Migration

Benefits: Helps ensure application availability should a server failure occur

Schedule server maintenance without losing access to key applications or database

Move application to a server with more resources to meet seasonal business needs

IBM x3850 M2

Oracle VM

IBM x3650

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Oracle VM1 Socket 1 Socket 2 Sockets

Oracle VM – Enables Sub-Capacity Pricing

Hard partitioning allocates system resources. Similar to LPAR for AIX or Containers in Solaris.

Any System x Server/Blade

4 CPU

Oracle VM Hard Partitioning Paper:http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/virtualization/pdf/ovm-hardpart.pdf

Benefits:

Allows customer to only license the number of CPU or sockets being utilized

Customer can save support fees by shifting from older servers to a Oracle VM partition.

Other App

http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/virtualization/pdf/ovm-hardpart.pdf

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Proof Points with Oracle VM on System xIBM-Oracle International Competency Center

• First non-Oracle Technical Solution Organization to test Oracle VM• Oracle VM on IBM System x, 2007 Install & Configuration Guide• Testing with various Oracle workloads & operating systems

K.K. Ashisuto

University of Pretoria, South Africa• Installed Oracle VM on x3850 M2 & x3650 servers• PeopleSoft ECM, BI and Fusion SOA running is separate partitions• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.3 & Windows 2003 R2

K.K. Ashisuto – IBM Business Partner based in Japan• 10-July-08 with IBM & Oracle announced 1st WW Collaboration effort• Completed a series of technical proof points on System x • Developed service offerings to assist customers with Oracle VM

IBM-Oracle Joint Solution Center• Developed hand-on expertise with Oracle VM across System x• Documenting a series of user cases• Conducting a series of education sessions to partners & customers

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OracleVM – Alliance AnnouncementK.K. Ashisuto & IBM Japan, Ltd. & Oracle Corporation Japan cooperated

in “Oracle VM“ as the first WW collaboration work on “Oracle VM”

IBM Japan, K.K. Ashisuto, and Oracle Corporation Japan announces that they agreed to strengthen partnership on virtualization and IT infrastructure businesses using OracleVM on July 10

1) Promote virtualization businesses on all IBM Server platforms

2) Technical verification with “OracleVM” and

other Oracle products on "IBM System x“

3) Enhance selling and support collaboration

4) Provide support and services for installing

virtualization technologies

5) Establish “OracleVM Consortium”

On Oct 17, 3 company and endorsing members

kicked off “OracleVM Consortium”

Mr. Morotomi / Director, System X, STG, Mr. Ohtsuka / Director, K.K. Ashisuto, Mr. Misawa / Managing Director, Oracle Japan

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Test 1: Oracle VM Overhead Impact on PerformanceContent

In the same hardware environment, the same load is applied to the physical and virtual environments (1 virtual machine)

Tested on Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL)Confirmation points

Oracle VM overhead (difference from the physical environment)

Paravirtualization (PVM)Hardware virtualization (HVM) （without PV driver)

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Test 1 Results: Physical vs. PVM Are EqualPara Virtual Machine has the same Transactions/Second as in the physical environment

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Test 2：Scalability of Oracle VM for Oracle DatabaseSenario : Replacement of Oracle database system

Replace Oracle database system that has been in operation for 3 or 4 years with a virtual infrastructure configured on an IBM x3850 M2.

Tested on Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL)Confirmation Points

Can the virtualization overhead sustain DB system operation?

How many virtual servers can be added? (Scalability)Paravirtualization

Sy stem x 3 8 5 0 M2

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Current systemAssume CPU utilization rate (usr) at 30-40% level of application processing and normal I/O load.

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Virtual Environment

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P hys ica l 1VM 2VM 3VM 4VM 5VM 6VM 7VM0

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81.93 80.53 80.76 81.59 80.62 79.68 79.67 79.06

80.18 80.77 81.03 79.08 79.68 78.85

80.13 80.18 80.12 79.15 78.39

79.93 79.2 79.15 76.8

80.79 79.6 79.48

78.39 76.22

75.43

Throughput

VM7VM6VM5VM4VM3VM2VM1P hys ical

Test 2: Excellent Scalability is AchievedAs the number of virtual machines increases, higher throughput is achieved.

1.0 0.98

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2.96

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Gabriel Consulting Group - A Positive Opinion

Dan OldsPrincipal, Gabriel Consulting GroupOracle Gets Virtual - Sept 2008

“The combination of Oracle VM and IBM’s scalable x86-based servers might be a virtualization game changer. Both of these vendors are long-time trusted data center players – which is a significant advantage over their competitors.”

“For the enterprise data center, IBM and Oracle cooperating on virtualization is a very compelling value proposition. IBM brings sophisticated high-end hardware, Oracle brings virtualization and mission critical software, and they work together on integration and other services. For a data center manager who’s interested in risk reduction and smooth implementation, what’s not to like?”

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Thank You

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External Disk Requirements and Guidelines for Oracle VMExternal General Storage RequirementsStore image files on external storage to enable Live Migration. Disk technology can be SAN, NAS, iSCSI

DS3200 – SAS Storage SubsystemSwitch does not allow LUNs to be shared between servers. Therefore Live Migration is not possible.

DS3300 – iSCSI Storage SubsystemRDAC multi-path I/O driver not supported with Oracle VM. Therefore, only single patch configuration.

DS3400 – Fiber Channel Storage SubsystemLUNs can be shared between servers so Live Migration is possible. RDAC multi-path I/O driver not supported with Oracle VM. Therefore, only single patch configuration.

DS4000 – All are Fiber Channel Storage SubsystemsRecommended either SAS or FC drives for best performance. SATA drives ok is I/O performance not critical.

DS6000 & DS8000 – Enterprise Storage OfferingsDevice Mapper multi-pathing method from the Linux kernel is supported with SuSE and RHEL. It is not supported with Oracle VM. Therefore, a single patch configuration is required.

N Series family – NAS offeringConnect made over the network between servers so Live Migration is possible. Network interface bonding may be used with Shared N Series storage to provide multi-path patch support with Oracle VM.

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Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) - Simplified

Does IBM support OEL?Yes, System x provides server & storage

device support for OEL customers

Oracle provides the support for OEL

IBM & Oracle can easily transfer supports calls to each other’s support team

IBM continues to support Red Hat and Novell SLES, and provides an additional level of certification and support due to their large shares of the Linux marketIBM System x continues to work closely with Oracle and evaluate additional support options as the market evolves

Oracle Enterprise Linux 4 - Oracle distribution of Red Hat RHEL4Does not run on System p, i, z – Supports System x x86/x64 processors only

Unbreakable Linux - Oracle support program for OELOracle provides OEL patches, updates, full support

http://www.ibm.com/systems/x/solutions/os/linux/oracle.html

http://www.ibm.com/systems/x/solutions/os/linux/oracle.html

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