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Oracle Solaris 11 Technology Forum – 2012
Oracle Solaris Strategy Update
Steffen Weiberle
Senior Solutions Consultant
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The following is intended to outline our general
product direction. It is intended for information
purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any
contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any
material, code, or functionality, and should not be
relied upon in making purchasing decisions.
The development, release, and timing of any
features or functionality described for Oracle’s
products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.
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Oracle Solaris Strategy Update
• The OS Matters
• Oracle Solaris: Next-Generation Attributes
• Oracle Solaris: Testing & Quality
• Engineered Systems
• Oracle Solaris 11 Express
• Licensing & Support
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The Operating System Matters Innovation Pays
• 20+ years development
• Leading-edge innovation
• Scalability and stability
• Get the most out of
systems, applications
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The Operating System: Key Territory IT Challenges
• Maximize asset utilization
• Always on, service driven
• System performance
• Manage complexity
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Next-Generation Attributes Faster and Easier to Deploy, Configure, Update and Manage
• Dramatic reduction in planned downtime
• Virtualization everywhere
• Designed for network-served environments
• Security extends to the cloud
• Guaranteed compatibility
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Oracle Solaris: Next-Generation Attributes Dramatic Reduction in Planned Downtime
• Integrated online upgrade
– Safely install software updates without bringing down
production systems
– Built-in fallback checkpointing
• Fast reboot
– Quickly bring updates into service
– Quick fallback if necessary
• Telemetry for proactive and preemptive service
• Predictive self healing
– Defers maintenance to fit your service windows
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Oracle Solaris: Next-Generation Attributes Virtualization Everywhere
• Optimized for Oracle VM for x86 and SPARC
• Network virtualization and resource control
– Model a complete datacenter network topology in a single OS
instance
• Storage virtualization
– Oracle Solaris ZFS, MpxIO, integrated CIFS/Active Directory
• Oracle Solaris Zones
– Built-in, highly efficient workload virtualization
– P2V/V2V from older Oracle Solaris environments
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Oracle Solaris: Next-Generation Attributes Designed for Network-Served Environments
• High-performance network stack
• Fast, efficient cloned deployments
– Leverages ZFS, Zones
• Integrated support for open and Windows-based file
sharing, directory services
• Groundbreaking network virtualization
• Advanced network-based software update model
– Automated dependency resolution
– Custom distribution tools
– Automated distributed installation
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Oracle Solaris: Next-Generation Attributes Datacenter-Grade Security Extends to the Cloud
• Independently validated
– Most comprehensive Target of Evaluation
• Solaris Trusted Extensions
– Multi-level security, fully integrated into Oracle Solaris
• Secure by Default
– “Just Enough OS” + “Just Enough Network”
• Root as a role
– Configurable restricted roles
• File system crypto (ZFS)
– Part of existing comprehensive built-in crypto framework
• Security-labeled network, file systems
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Oracle Solaris: Next-Generation Attributes Guaranteed Compatibility
• Guaranteed application binary compatibility
since 2000
– Covers any application that works on Solaris 2.6 (1997) or
later—which may include applications developed in
the early 1990s
• Guaranteed source code compatibility between
platforms since 2005
– Develop on x86, compile and deploy on SPARC,
or vice versa
• Solaris Legacy Containers: leverage guaranteed
binary compatibility to quickly and easily move entire
environments to latest systems and OS releases
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Oracle And Solaris Accelerating Our Investments
• 50,000+ customers
• Over 2,700 projects, over 400 innovations
• Over 20 million person hours of development
• Over 60 million hours of testing
• Over 56 million tests
• Oracle’s Sun SPARC and x86 systems
• Exadata and Exalogic engineered systems
• Sun ZFS Storage Appliance products and solutions
• Hundreds of 3rd party systems
• Over 11,000 applications
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Oracle Solaris Quality
Fully tested, integrated solutions,
enabling early deployment at lower cost.
•>100,000 sq-ft of lab space
•Continuous testing, 150k machine hours
every week, 10M+ machine hours annually
•280,000+ unique functional test cases
•200,000 metrics generated & tracked annually
•2,000+ test systems
– Representing ALL products in service and under
development; from commodity x86 to enterprise class
SPARC servers, storage, and archival libraries
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Hardware and Software Integrated Stack Testing
• Approach:
– Identify common reference SW and HW
stacks that customers deploy
– Select HW platform architectures that are
technologically unique e.g. coherency fabric,
scalability, ISA, memory, I/O, and Storage
• Execution:
– 7 reference platforms; M-series, T-series,
x86, SAN/NAS ...
– Various applications & environments
(Peoplesoft...WebLogic), R12, OVM
– Under load: inject errors, perform sys-admin
activities HW and SW upgrades/downgrades,
and install and test patches from all layers
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Hardware and Software Integrated Stack Testing
- Several White Papers Available -
• Oracle Integrated Stack –
Complete, Trusted Enterprise Solutions http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-
storage/solaris/documentation/integratedstacktesting-
168417.pdf
• Trust Your Enterprise Deployments To The Oracle
Product Stack http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-
storage/solaris/documentation/stackintegration-167863.pdf
• Oracle Full-Stack Integration: Maximize the Value
of IT Investments from Applications to Disk
• http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/integration-bw-173295.pdf
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Oracle Solaris HW Support & Optimization Hardware and Software Engineered to Work Together
• Key tenants of Solaris platform support:
– Everything FMA Telemetry enabled
• Predictive Self Healing
• Defined and enforced fault boundaries
– Delivered performance at scale
• memory, threads, IO
– Stable, open standard applications interfaces
• Unlocking the potential of emerging technology
– CPU and IO Virtualization
– Low latency communications
– Security
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Solaris 10
Platform Support
Software Integration
Solaris 11
Update
Solaris 11
Software Lifecycle
Scalability
Networking
Security
Solaris 11
Update
Solaris 11
Update
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
T-Series
1-4 Socket
+ 2x Throughput
M-Series
1-64 Socket
+ 20`%
M-Series
8-64 Sockets
+6x Throughput
+1.5x Single Strand
T-Series
1-4 Sockets
+3x Single Strand
M-Series
8-64 Sockets
+2x Throughput T-Series
1-8 Sockets
+3x Throughput
SPARC
1-64 Sockets
+2x Throughput
+1.5x Single Strand
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Power, Reliability, Power Management Optimizations for Latest-Generation Intel Processors
Premier Support Extended Support
Enhancements for: High Availability
System Management Scalability
Virtualization …and more
Solaris 10
Update
Solaris 10
Update
Solaris Outlook Maximizing Integration
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Who is Oracle Solaris 11 Express For?
• Customers ready to test and deploy
next-generation Oracle Solaris features
• Customers using earlier Solaris Express
distributions today
• Software and hardware partners, and
corporate developers
• Customers using other operating systems today
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Oracle Solaris 11 Express is available and supported on hundreds of SPARC and x86 systems, including the latest Oracle engineered systems: Oracle Exadata Database Machine & Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud
Oracle Solaris 11 Express: Production Ready
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Oracle Solaris Licensing Options:
• Oracle Premier Support For Systems http://www.oracle.com/us/support/systems/premier/index.html
• Oracle Premier Support for Operating Systems http://www.oracle.com/us/support/systems/operating-systems/index.html
• Oracle Solaris Premier Subscriptions For
Non-Oracle x86 Systems http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/solaris/non-sun-x86-081976.html
Licensing And Support
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Next Steps & More Info
• Product overview, download and support information
– oracle.com/solaris
• System administrators
– oracle.com/technetwork/systems
• Oracle Technology Network
– oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris
• Solaris Podcast Series
– oracle.com/goto/solaris-podcasts
• Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/oraclesolaris
• Twitter: @ORCL_Solaris
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