IBM System x and BladeCenter with Oracle VM for Oracle solutionsDelivering a dynamic infrastructure for your Oracle solution deployments
Virtualized Oracle solution environments
affordably deployed on IBM System x
and BladeCenter servers
Easily managed, flexible, and efficient
virtualization delivered by Oracle VM
Oracle VM Templates offering
pre-configured software images
streamlining the installation process
IBM System x and BladeCenter for a dynamic infrastructureTo adapt and succeed in today’s dynamic business environment, you need a
dynamic IT infrastructure. To be dynamic means to be continually focused on:
•infrastructureefficiencyandreducingcosts
•responsivenesstothebusinessandimprovingservice
•effectivelymanagingrisktoensuresecurity,scalabilityandavailability
Adynamicinfrastructureissmart—ittakesadvantageoftheintelligencegained
acrossthenetworkandthroughoutyourbusinesstohelpyoucompeteandexcel.
Reduce costsIntoday’sfinancialclimate,reducingcostsisthetoppriorityforchiefintelligence
officers(CIOs)–notjustdrivingdowncostsoverall,butusingITresourcesmore
efficiently.Thisimperativerequiresnotjustincrementalimprovementsinsavingsor
costreductions,butdramaticimprovementsintotalcostofownership–leveraging:
•standardization
•alternativeservicedeliverymodels
•energyefficiency
•virtualization
•consolidation
Systemx®andBladeCenter®serversandtoolsaredesignedwithimproved
efficiencyandcoolingtolowercostsbyreducingenergyusageinyour
datacenter.SystemxandBladeCenterserverscanhelpcutcostswith
technologiesthatnotonlyincreaseperformanceperwatt,butalsohelp
planandcontroltheirpowerusage.Andbyconsolidatingandvirtualizing
onIBMSystemxandBladeCenterservers,youcanincreasetheutilization
ofhardwareanddecreasethenumberofphysicalassetsinyourdatacenter,
potentiallysavingyoumoney.
Improve serviceYourbusinessfacesincreasinglysavvycustomersandaproliferationof
agilecompetitors.Tobuildasmarterplanetandwinintoday’sfast-paced
business landscape, you need to transform your service delivery models
toachievesuperior,differentiateddeliveryofgoodsandservices.Smarter
servicedeliveryrequires:
•comprehensivevisibilityintothefullbreadthofbusinessandITassets
thatsupportservices
•effectivecontroloverthoseassetsaswellasthebusinessprocesses
theyenable
•extensiveautomationoftheseprocessessothatservicescanbe
delivered more reliably and economically
Combiningopen,industrystandardswithdeepbusinessexperienceand
renownedresearchcapabilities,theIBMX-Architecture®blueprintequips
SystemxandBladeCenterserverswithinnovativetechnology,suchasIBM
SystemsDirector6.1,makingITsimplerandmorereliable.Thesecapabilities
canhelpsupportgrowth–bothofyourbusinessandyourdatacenter.
Manage riskGlobalexpansion,emergingtechnologiesandtherisingvolumeand
sophisticationofnewthreatshaveincreasedthedemandforimproved
securityandresiliencymeasuresforbusinessesofallsizes.Byenhancing
security and resiliency, IT becomes more responsive and better prepared
tomeettheneedsofthebusiness.Criticalriskreductionissuesinclude:
•infrastructuresecurityandresiliency
•informationanddataprotection
•regulatorycompliance
Proactive,secure,integratedtoolsprovidedbySystemxandBladeCenter—for
trackinganddeployingassets,optimizingperformanceandevenenabling
remotemaintenance—provideasingle,secure,consistentinterfacetomanage
yourIT.Anintelligentsystemdesignthatincludesmultiplelayersofredundancy,
memoryprotectionandadvancedavailabilitytoolsprovidesthecriticalresiliency
you need.
IBMSystemxenterpriseserversaretheidealplatformforhighlyconsolidated,
virtualserverenvironmentsrunningtoday’sbusiness-criticalapplications—
likedatabaseprocessing,customerrelationshipmanagementandenterprise
resourceplanning.Withmultipleworkloadsrunningonthesameserver,
performance remains important but reliability and availability become
morecriticalthanever.IBMSystemxenterpriseserversarebuiltwitheX4
technology,whichincludeauniquechipsetandotheradvancedcapabilities
thatgiveyouhigherthroughputandexceptionalreliability.
ThephilosophyregardingIBMSystemxrackandtower-basedserversis
“innovationcomesstandard.”Someservervendorsviewuni-andtwo-socket
serversascommodities,usingoff-the-shelfcomponentstoproducecookie-
cutterserverswithnoaddedvalue.Instead,IBMX-Architecturesystemdesign
beginswithstandardpartsandaddsinnovationtocreatesomethingmore
practical:outstandingdual-andquad-coreperformance,highavailability,
scalability,powerefficiencyandproactivemanageability.
Byintegratingservers,storageandnetworking,IBMBladeCenterishelping
companiesineveryindustrysweepcomplexityaside.Thebladescontainall
thenecessitiestorunanapplication—processors,memory,I/Oandstorage.
Thechassiscontainssharedredundantpower,sharedhot-swapcooling,
DVD,integratedEthernet,storage,switchingandconsolidatedpowerful
management.Itsinnovative,opendesignoffersatruealternativetotoday’s
sprawlingracksandoverheatedserverrooms.Sotossyourcables.Youhave
nothingtolosebutcomplexity.
The growth of virtualization Virtualizationisatermthatisbeingcastaboutbymanyvendorstoday,but
whereisvirtualizationtechnologyadoptionoccurring?AccordingtoIDC1the
geographywherethisgrowthisthestrongestisintheAmericas.Clearly,the
needtotightentheITbudgetisleadingcustomerstolookathowtoleverage
newerIntel®processorsandmemorycapacitytoconsolidateworkloads–
especiallytheirOracleworkloads.
Oracle VMOracleVMisservervirtualizationsoftwarethatfullysupportsbothOracleand
non-Oracleapplications,anddeliversmoreefficientperformance.Backedby
Oracle’sworld-classsupportorganization,customersnowhaveasinglepoint
ofenterprise-classsupportfortheirentirevirtualizationenvironments,including
OracleDatabase,OracleFusionMiddleware,OracleApplications,andLinux®,
which,aswellasallOracleproducts,arecertifiedwithOracleVM.
The virtualization platform for your enterprise server workloadsYouarefacingthechallengesofarapidlyexpandingdatacenter—increased
operatingcosts,inefficientresourceutilizationandanappetiteforreal
estate.Butanysolutionalsohastoincreaseyourflexibility,meetyourprice/
performanceneeds,andmakeapplicationseasiertodeploy,manage,and
support.
“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?”
– Dan Olds
Principal, Gabriel Consulting Group
Oracle Gets Virtual - Sept 2008
OracleVMdelivers:
•Leading performance–Low-overheadarchitecturewiththeXenhypervisor
providesscalableperformanceunderincreasingworkloadstomeetthemost
aggressiveperformancerequirements.
•Latest hardware support–LeveragethenewhardwarefeaturesfromIntelXeon®
andAMDOpteron™processorsforhigherperformanceandmoreefficient
powermanagement.
•Faster software deployment with Oracle VM Templates–Downloadandimport
pre-configuredvirtualmachinescontainingpre-installedOracleenterprise
applicationsorothersoftwaretogetupandrunninginhoursnotweeks.
•Rapid virtual machine (VM) provisioning and cloning–Sparsefilesupportin
OCFS2enablessignificantlyfastervirtualmachineprovisioningandcloning;
allowusersmorecontroloverdataallocation,improvingperformanceand
storageefficiency.
•Secure Live VM Migration–Completelyeliminateserviceoutagesassociated
withplannedmaintenanceorscaleupyourresourcesquicklybymigrating
runningVMstootherserversoverSecureSocketsLayer(SSL)linkswithout
interruption.
•High availability–ReliablyandautomaticallyrestartfailedVMsonother
serversintheserverpoolafterunexpectedserver-orindividualVMoutage.
Anew,serverpoolmasterauto-failoverfeatureeliminatesanysinglepointof
failureforvirtualizationmanagement.
•Automatic or manual server pool load balancing–GuestVMsareautomatically
placedontheserverwiththemostresourcesavailableinthepoolatstart-up,
orcanbestartedwithinauser-designatedsubsetofservers.
•Virtual CPU scheduling priorities and caps per VM–ControlaccesstoCPU
betweenmultipleVMstoalignwithyourITandbusinesspriorities.
•Virtual Machine I/O resource management–Setbandwidthcapforeach
virtualnetworkinterfaceandprioritizethevirtualdisks.
•Linux and Microsoft® Windows® support–LinuxandWindowsguestoperating
systems are supported.
•Official certification based on real-world testing–Certificationissupported
forusewiththemostsophisticatedenterpriseworkloadsunderreal-world
conditions.
• Virtualization and management: zero license costs, zero license keys–This
includesOracleVMManagerforcentralized,browser-basedmanagement
of your resource pools.
•Sub-capacity pricing–Thisfeatureofferstheabilitytodefinehardpartitions
onaserverandthenonlylicensetheprocessorsocketsassignedtothat
partitionhelpsreducelicensefees.
•Affordable, full-stack enterprise-class support–Oracleoffersworldwide
supportfortheentirevirtualizationenvironmentandworkloadstogether.
Integrated server virtualization and management ConsistingofOracleVMServer,opensourceserversoftware,andanintegrated
Webbrowser-basedmanagementconsole,OracleVMManager,OracleVM
providesaneasy-to-use,feature-richgraphicalinterfaceforcreatingand
managingvirtualserverpools,runningonx86andx86-64processor-based
systemsthroughouttheenterprise.
UserscancreateandmanageVMsthatexistonthesamephysicalserver
butthatcanbehaveindependently,witheachVMhavingitsownvirtualCPUs,
networkinterfaces,storage,andoperatingsystem.
OracleVMsupportsthefollowingguestoperatingsystems(both32-bitand
64-bit):
•Both paravirtualized (PV, or virtualization aware) and hardware-virtualized
kernels
- RedHatEnterpriseLinux4and5
- OracleEnterpriseLinux4and5
•Hardware-virtualized kernels only (virtualization support in hardware –
Intel VT or AMD-V required)
- RedHatEnterpriseLinux3(32-bitPVdriversalsoavailable)
-Windows2008SP1,WindowsVista,Windows2003,WindowsXPPro
(32-bitand64-bitPVdriversavailable)
-Windows2000
CustomersshouldfeelconfidentrunningOracleVMbasedsolutionswithall
IBMSystemxandBladeCenterproducts.IBMcontinuestoworkcloselywith
Oracletoprovideuniqueandsignificantproofpointsthatdemonstratethe
uniquevaluethesesolutionsbringtocustomers.
Oracle VM TemplatesOracleVMTemplatesprovideaninnovativeapproachtodeployingafully
configuredsoftwarestackbyofferingpre-installedandpre-configured
softwareimages.UseofOracleVMTemplateseliminatestheinstallationand
configurationcosts,andreducestheongoingmaintenancecostshelping
organizationsachievefastertimetomarketandlowercostofoperations.
OracleVMTemplatesformanykeyOracleproductsandthirdpartyapplications
areavailablefordownload,includingOracleApplications,OracleFusion
Middleware,andOracleDatabase,belowisapartiallist(acompletelistis
available at: oracle.com/technology/products/vm/templates):
•OracleSiebel(CRM)SIA8.1.1and8.0
•OraclePeopleSoftHCM9.1andPeopleTools8.50.02
•Oracle’sJDEdwardsEnterpriseOne9.0Update1andJDEdwards
EnterpriseOneTools8.98Update2
•OracleE-BusinessSuite12.1.1
•OracleWebLogicServer10gRelease3
•OracleBusinessIntelligenceEnterpriseEdition10.1.3.4
•OracleApplicationServer10gRelease3WebCenter
•OracleIdentityManagement10gRelease2
•OracleFusionMiddlewareServiceOrientedArchitecture(SOA)10.1.3.4
and10.1.3.3
•OracleDatabase11gandOracleDatabase10gRelease2
•OracleRealApplicationClusters(RAC)11gRelease1
IBM System x, Oracle VM and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne benchmark testTheIBMOracleInternationalCompetencyCenter(ICC)wasthefirsttoexecute
acertifiedJDEdwardsEnterpriseOnebenchmarkrunningonthenewIntel
Xeon5500seriesprocessors.ThisbenchmarkconfigurationincludedtheIBM
Systemx3650M2whichwaspartitionedusingOracleVM.Theenvironment
wasinstalledusingtheOracleVMTemplatesforJDEdwardsEnterpriseOneto
facilitatearapidinstallation.Oracle’srobust“DayintheLife”(DIL)testkitwas
usedtogeneratethesimulateduserworkloads.
ThetestswererunwithJDEdwardsEnterpriseOne9.0inavirtualmachine
withOracleVM64-bithypervisorand64-bitparavirtualizedLinuxguest
operatingsystem.ThewebservervirtualmachineusedOracleApplication
Server10gRelease3andthedatabaseserverranOracleDatabase11g.
Oracle’sDILkitisasuiteof17testscriptsthatexercisesrepresentative
transactionsofthemostpopularJDEdwardsEnterpriseOneapplications
includingSupplyChainManagement,SupplierRelationshipManagement,
HumanCapitalManagement,CustomerRelationshipManagement,and
FinancialManagement.Thiscomplexmixtureofapplicationsalsoincludes
AdvancedPricing,Verity,Vertexandbatchworkloadstomorecloselyreflect
customer environments.
Figure1showstheCPUutilizationforeachofthethreeOraclevirtualmachines
forthefourteststhatwererun.TheOraclevirtualizeddatabasewasallocated
twocores,theJDEdwardsEnterpriseOnevirtualmachine(theJDEdwards
EnterpriseOnelogicserver)wasallocatedtwocores,andthewebservervirtual
machinewithOASwasallocatedthreecores.TheCPUutilizationforthethree
virtualmachinesscaledalmostlinearlyasthenumberofusersincreasedfrom
100to1000.Theweightedaverageuserresponsetimeforthesetestsranged
from0.21secondsforthe100usertestto0.29secondsfor1000usertest,
wellbelowthebenchmarkguidelineof1.0secondresponsetime.
Figure 1 – JD Edwards EnterpriseOne CPU % utilization with Oracle VM and Linux on the x3650 M2
Sizing Oracle VM systemsIBMandOracleworkingtogetherhavedevelopedacapacity-estimation
capabilitytoaidindesigninganoptimalconfigurationforeachspecificOracle
VMenvironment.Adetailedsizingestimatecustomizedforyourenvironment
shouldbeobtainedfromtheIBMTechlineSolutionSizingTeam,accessible
throughyourIBMorIBMBusinessPartnerrepresentative.Youcandownload
aquestionnairetostartthesizingprocessfrom:
ibm.com/erp/sizing
The IBM and Oracle alliance Since1986,IBMandOraclehavepartneredtocreatesmart,seriousinnovation
that’shelpingshifttheworld.Morethan100000jointcustomersbenefitfrom
thestrengthandstabilityoftheOracleandIBMalliance,whichofferstechnology,
applications,services,andhardwaresolutionsthatmitigaterisk,boostefficiency,
andlowertotalcostofownership.
IBM’sserviceorganization,IBMGlobalBusinessServices,isanOracle
CertifiedAdvantagePartnerandhasaproventrackrecordwithmorethan
5000experiencedprofessionalswhohavecompletedmorethan7500Oracle
projects.IBMandOraclecontinuallyenhancethealliancetoensuretheyare
helpingcompaniesrespondquicklytoconstantlyshiftingmarketconditionsand
clientdemands.Thisisaccomplishedthroughthedeliveryofindustry-specific
hardwareandsoftwaresolutions,optimizedtotheclient’senvironment.
For more informationTofindoutmoreaboutjointsolutionsfromIBMandOracle,pleasecontact
anIBMsalesrepresentativeat1-866-426-9989,orvisitusat:
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