How to Use Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c to Monitor Cisco UCS? John McAbel Cisco Senior Product Manager

April 2014

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First Let’s Test Your IT Knowledge

1.) According to IDC 2013, which system vendor is 2nd in x86 blades market share in worldwide and here in America?

2.) Which vendor uses over 6,000 blades to run 1000’s of Oracle Databases and the 2nd largest Oracle E-Business Suite deployment?

Cisco

Cisco

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First Let’s Test Your IT Knowledge

3.) Which system allows you to add an Oracle RAC node in minutes, not hours, days or even weeks?

4.) Which vendor this week has achieved 28 world record Oracle-based benchmarks since 2009?

Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS)

Cisco

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You Selected Cisco UCS

  World Record Scalability

  Unified Fabric

  Hypervisor By-Pass

  Oracle Expertise

  Service Profiles (UCS Manager)

Now The Question is: How do you monitor/manage Cisco UCS?

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XML API STANDARD API’S

Cisco UCS 6296 XP Fabric Extenders

(I/O modules)

Industry Standard APIs

Cisco UCS – A Fresh Architecture

Blade Form Factor Rack Form Factor

FABRIC INTERCONNECTS

UCS Manager

COMPUTE

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Service Profiles Hardware State Abstraction – Oracle Examples

RAC node 2

HTTP Server ERP

RAC node 1 RAC node 4 RAC node 3

ERP

Benefits For Oracle Users •  Enables consistent setup, reduces service calls and downtime •  Add new instance in minutes, not hours or days •  Immediately test if workload is CPU or memory constrained •  Automatically load profile when new server added to system •  No LAN, SAN Zoning or any reconfiguration

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Global Stateless Computing For Workload Mobility

Data Center 1 Data Center 2

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•  20+ year relationship in networking, now systems

•  Cisco runs on Oracle except phone and video

•  Oracle has standardized on Cisco networking equipment

•  Oracle Exadata appliance for Oracle Database has two Cisco switches in base configuration

•  Joint engineering engagement at many levels   Oracle infrastructure platform – Oracle VM & Oracle Linux tested/validated on UCS

  Oracle VM/Linux sales team partners with Cisco UCS team globally

  Oracle NoSQL Big Data initial certification limited to Cisco UCS

•  UCS has 28 #1 Oracle benchmarks

•  TPC-C Two Socket running Oracle 11g R2 Database

•  UCS in Oracle customer briefing centers

Cisco and Oracle: Working Together Yet Compete in the Server Market

Joint partnership is more beneficial to both parties than the limited view from the server market.

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General Availability – Summer 2014

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Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Plug-in for UCS Manager Product Specifics

What is monitored? Why Use This Plug-in?

Technical Details

•  Continue to use OEM 12c to now manage Cisco UCS

•  Incoming data formatted for 12c •  Utilize the capabilities of UCS

manager such as service profiles •  Manage all Oracle and Cisco UCS

environment from one screen

Product Details •  Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c R2 •  UCS Manger 2.1+ •  Operating System Supported:

•  Oracle Linux/RHEL Priority 1 •  Windows Priority 2 •  Solaris 10/11 Priority 3

•  All UCS blades/chassis supported •  All Rack Optimized (C-Series) supported

•  Product FCS – Summer 2014 (July) •  Price $0 •  Support – Cisco TAC •  Downloadable from Cisco.com •  Available world wide •  Free upgrade to version 2 in CY Q4’14

•  All system components •  Blade details, CPU, memory, etc •  Performance metrics •  Health status/Environmental •  Current, voltage, thermal, fan •  Network – data transfer, pause, loss, error •  Config details, firmware, identifier pools •  Exposing native Cisco events - incidents

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Did anyone bring popcorn?

Demo Time

Provision Test

Change & Patch

Monitor

Lifecycle Management

Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c

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Who is Running Oracle on UCS, over 5,000 Customers!

EMC ̶  Improved application response and batch

run-times by 20 times ̶  EMC’s Channel Express, “Save and Array

configuration” transactions improved 800% ̶  Saved over $7 million in capital and operational

expenses

Secure-24 ̶  Extended life of data centers by 35 percent ̶  Lowered amount of network cabling by 70 percent ̶  Increased number of virtual machines per blade by 30

percent

Indoff ̶  Reduced power consumption by 20 percent ̶  Cut cooling costs by more than 50 percent ̶  Saved US$80,000 in deployment of Oracle ERP suite due

to reduced hardware demands ̶  Cut software maintenance costs by as much as 35 percent,

saving estimated $50,000

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UCS Market Share Growth X86 Server Blade Market Share Q4CY13

  Maintained #2 in Americas (30.2%), #2 in N. America (31.8%) and #2 in the US (32.1%)1

  UCS x86 Blade servers revenue grew 37% Y/Y in Q4CY131

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•  Maintained #2 worldwide in x86 Blades with 22.6%

  UCS momentum is fueled by industry leading innovation

UCS #2 with 32.1%

Source: 1 IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, Q4 2013, February 2014, Vendor Revenue Share

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Thank you.

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Cisco UCS = Reduced Complexity Increased Flexibility

•  Embed management •  Remove unnecessary:

Switches Adapters

Management modules 10GbE unified fabric

•  Power and cooling 1/3rd less infrastructure Lower power

•  Built for virtualisation Processor density VM/host ratio

I/O improvement

Extended memory

SAN

LAN

MGMT SAN

LAN

MGMT

Multiple Ethernet Connections

Multiple SAN Connections

Separate Remote Management per Chassis

Multiple Management Modules

Additional LAN and SAN Connections

Additional Management Connections

Additional Management Connections

Additional LAN and SAN Connections