Toru Hayashi: Oracle VM Customer Case Study - Xen Architecture Based Virtual Product

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Oracle VM Customer Case Studies
- Xen architecture based virtualization product -
Toru Hayashi, Senior Director
Linux & Virtualization Business Development
Oracle Corporation Japan

3. Established Oracle Grid Technologies
• Grid-Based Storage
• Oracle Automatic Storage Management
• Grid-Based Server Clusters
• Oracle Database
• Oracle Middleware
• Grid-Based Management
• Oracle Grid Control
Data Sales ERP Custom
Warehouse Application Application Application
Enterprise Manager
Mid-Tier Server Clusters
Real Application Clusters
Automatic Storage Management
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4. Oracle VM
Oracle
Oracle Fusion Non-Oracle
Non-Oracle
Applications
Database Middleware Applications
Applications
Oracle Oracle or Red Hat
Oracle
Oracle Microsoft
Enterprise Linux Enterprise Linux
Enterprise Linux
Enterprise Linux Windows
Oracle VM
• Oracle tested and supported server virtualization technology
• Maximizes consolidation of Linux and Windows servers
• Saves on power, cooling and space
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5. Oracle VM Features
• Runs Linux and Windows guests
• Supports Para virtualized (PV) and hardware
virtualized (HV) guests
• HV on x86 hardware
• 64-bit and 32-bit guests
• Up to 64-way SMP
• Up to 32 virtual processors per guest
• Includes live migration at no additional cost
• Integrated, browser-based management
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6. Technology Enhancements
• Enhanced and optimized Xen technology, addressing
• I/O overhead
• Memory overhead
• Process Scheduling
• Community involvement
• Dedicated Xen development team
• Contribute code and bug fixes to Xen
• Members of Xen community at Oracle e.g. Dan Magenheimer
• Member of XenSummit committee
• Significant testing
• Real-world testing with Oracle On Demand workloads
• Testing with Oracle Validated configuration workloads
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7. Oracle VM Manager
• Browser-based management solution
• Included with Oracle VM
• Full VM lifecycle management:
• Create
• Configure
• Clone
• Share
• Boot
• Migrate
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8. Oracle Product Certification with
Oracle VM
• Oracle Database
• Oracle Database Real Application Cluster New
• Oracle Application Server
• Oracle WebLogic Server New
• Oracle Enterprise Manager
• Oracle Berkeley DB
• Oracle TimesTen
• Oracle E-Business Suite
• Oracle PeopleSoft
• Oracle Siebel
• Oracle Hyperion
• Oracle Retail
• Oracle Financial Services Software
• More information on Metalink Note 464754.1
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9. Oracle VM Templates
• Oracle Database 11g
• Oracle Siebel CRM 8
• Oracle Enterprise Linux
New
• Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g
• Oracle Application Server 10g R3 Webcenter New
New
• Oracle Fusion Middleware SOA on WebLogic Server 9.2
edelivery.oracle.com/linux
Deploy software faster without installing &
configuring from scratch; lower overall costs
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Oracle VM
• Performance Testing Results
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11. 3rd Party Performance Validation:
Kernel Level
• Kernel-level
overhead &
performance
essentially
the same as
bare-metal
• Bare-metal: 2 core, 32bit
hardware, 4GB RAM, 4GB page
file size
• VM: 2vCPUs, 4GB mem, 4GB
page file size
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12. 3rd Party Performance Validation:
Application (Database) Level
• Very good
scalability
when adding
VMs
• Lower perf.
cost to
consolidation
Very low
overhead
under load:
6.4 - 7.5%
* 2 VM server
• 4 core, 32bit
hardware, 8GB
RAM, 8GB page
file size
• VM: 2vCPUs, 4GB
mem, 4GB page
file size
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Oracle VM
• Case Study @ Oracle & Customer
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14. 3.6 million users
$557M revenues, FY08
40% growth, year over year Applications
Middleware
Database
Operating System
Infrastructure
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15. On Demand Grid Shortens Time To Value
Sun
VLAN
Linux
9i Dell
Certified
10gR2 VLAN
Configuration
Win
10g
VLAN
1.Select 2.Architect 3.Assemble
On Demand Customer
Starting Point:
On Premise Customer
A standardized, certified,
Starting Point
and proven Grid
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16. PeopleSoft – Virtualization Deployment
Profile
Nov 2008
Today Nov 2008
Today
Production
Production
Virtualized
Non Production
Non Production
Virtualized
6 Servers per pillar 2 Servers per pillar
1,800 watts 660 watts
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17. 320,000 students trained per year
670 classes per week
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18. Case Study: Oracle University
With Grid:
• 1/6th the hardware
• CPU utilization increased
from 7% to 73%
Data Grids Mid-Tier clusters
• Revenue per server
increased 5X
• Servers to administrator Real Application Clusters
Enterprise
ratio increased 10X Manager
Automatic Storage Management
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19. Customer Reference in Japan
System Technology-i
Adopted Oracle VM for Education System and drastically shortened
system deployment time. Run 60 VMs (max) on 4 x IA servers
Server1
Node2 Node3 Node4
Node1
template
Create from Template
VM01 VM06 VM11
Prepare several templates
Max 15 VMs per node
fit to educational program
VM02 VM07 VM12
Telnet
VM03 VM08 VM13
VM04 VM09 VM14
VNC
VM05 VM10 VM15
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20. Customer Reference in Japan - eMplex
Need of multiple
■Before
Need of multiple Need of multiple
Environment Environment Environment
Needed dedicated Physical server for
MW: eMplex CRM MW: eMplex CRM
MW: eMplex CRM
each environment. Spent a half day
DB: Oracle DB: Other
DB: Oracle
for system development (OS/DB/SW
OS: Linux OS: Linux
OS: Linux
Installation and set up) for each
development system and customer.
•For future dev •Dev Environment for •Test Environment for
Share Template
•Prod Support each customization Each customer
•Customer Support •Testing Environment
eMplex CRM eMplex CRM
MW: eMplex CRM
■After DB: Oracle DB: Oracle DB:Other
Consolidated into one server by OS: Linux OS: Linux OS: Linux
installing multiple OS/DB.
Oracle VM
Shortened installation time by using Physical
template Server
Prod Dev Customization Support and
testing
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21. Resources
• Oracle VM Home Page
oracle.com/virtualization
• Free Download: Oracle VM
edelivery.oracle.com/oraclevm
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