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BASLE BERN BRUGG DÜSSELDORF FRANKFURT A.M. FREIBURG I.BR. GENEVA
HAMBURG COPENHAGEN LAUSANNE MUNICH STUTTGART VIENNA ZURICH
Manage of OVM server Sparc with the VM manager, OpsCenter or VDCF
SOUG DAY 02.MÄRZ 2016
Roman Gächter
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Our company.
Trivadis is a market leader in IT consulting, system integration, solution engineering
and the provision of IT services focusing on and technologies
in Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Denmark. We offer our services in the following
strategic business fields:
Trivadis Services takes over the interacting operation of your IT systems.
O P E R A T I O N
COPENHAGEN
MUNICH
LAUSANNE
BERN
ZURICH
BRUGG
GENEVA
HAMBURG
DÜSSELDORF
FRANKFURT
STUTTGART
FREIBURG
BASEL
VIENNA
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With over 600 specialists and IT experts in your region.
• 14 Trivadis branches and more than
600 employees
• 200 Service Level Agreements
• Over 4,000 training participants
• Research and development budget:
CHF 5.0 million
• Financially self-supporting and
sustainably profitable
• Experience from more than 1,900
projects per year at over 800
customers
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Starting position
Starting position
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New HW for test- and development-environment
Starting position
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Criterias for rating I
• Support of our architecture
□ With current versions from Solaris and VM-servers
□ Support from current VM manager in combination with VM-Server X86
• Painless takeover from our consisting configuration
• HW monitoring from the SPARC T4 systems
• Configurationmanagement of the SPARC Hypervisors
• Configurationsmanagement from Solaris zones
• Optimal support of networkstacks in the hypervisor and in Solaris
Starting position
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Criteria for evaluation II
• Provisioning from Solaris and Solaris Zones
• Solaris updates / patching
• Support from our operational concepts
□ Migration from Zones / LDoms of a HW to the other
• Monitoring LDoms, zones and Solaris
• Simple Setup and operability of the tools
• The installation and the setup are not allowed to take too much time
Trivadis technology center
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Test scenario
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Oracle VM manager
VM manager
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VM manager
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First impression
• Start with factory default LDOM configuration
• OVM server cluster
□ Repository and server pools only on NFS Share
□ OCFS2 only of Oracle Linux
VM Manager
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Setup
• Controller domain
□ OVM server SPARC is a component of Solaris 11
□ Agent for VM manager necessary
□ Start with ,,factory default,, LDom configuration
□ Start with ,,DefaultFixed network configuration profile,,
• VM manager
□ Installation on Oracle Linux 6.6
VM Manager
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Configuration
• Configuration sequence
VM manager
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Configuration
• Example link
□ Aggregation
□ Trunk
□ Datalink multipathing
VM Manager
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Configuration
• Network on hypervisor
VM manager
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Configuration
• Aggregate of «primary» and Vnic of «guest» LDOM
VM manager
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Tested
• Repository and sercer pool on NFS Share
□ live migration is working
• Add disks (vdisk, local)
• Network
□ Bond ports
□ link aggregation
• Install Guest LDom with template
• Clone from LDoms
VM manager
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Remarks
• Solaris zones
□ He doesn’t know
• SAN LUN’s for cluster
□ Not supported
• Clone
□ Guest domain must be shut down
VM manager
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Remarks
• Vnics over Vnet for zones
□ Like with the VM manager?
VM manager
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Remarks
• No alternative mac`s about VM manager?
□ Attention, don’t do it with ldm by hand!!!
(ldm set-vnet alt-mac-addrs=auto,auto,auto,auto,auto vnet0 bern)
VM manager
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Remarks
• No manual changes to the LDoms configuration
VM manager
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Results VM manager
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Oracle Enterprise Manager
OpsCenter
OpsCenter
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Overview
OpsCenter
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Architecture
OpsCenter
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First impression
• Current version?
□ OpsCenter 12c Release 3
□ OVM 3.3 not supported
□ Oracle VM Server SPARC 3.2
□ Oracle Virtual Machine X86 v3.0.x, 3.1.x and 3.2.x
OpsCenter
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Setup
• Installations
□ Script for check the requirements
□ Script for installation
• Setup
□ «discovery» about existing VM manager
□ Additional agents
• Error Messages
□ Difficult to understand
OpsCenter
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What went wrong?
OpsCenter
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Awarded to few rights
OpsCenter
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HW monitoring
OpsCenter
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HW monitoring
OpsCenter
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HW monitoring
OpsCenter
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Monitoring
• A lot policies available
OpsCenter
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Provisioning
• Solaris zones
□ Cryptic names
• LDoms
□ Not performed due to incompatibility with the latest OVM Manager 3.3 Agent
OpsCenter
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Migration zones
• Server pool with shared storage
OpsCenter
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Update
• Nice GUI
• Problems after it
OpsCenter
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Collaboration with VM manager
• Can be used in combination
• Configuration is going to be applied
• Locking mechanism results
OpsCenter
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Results
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VDCF
VDCF
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Overview
VDCF
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First impression
• commercial product
• Free version
□ Number nodes limited to 5
• No GUI but top command line interface
• Simple archtiecture
□ Management server
□ Client SW, SSH interfaces
□ Proxy server in need
VDCF
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Installation
• Simple
□ Install SW components as Solaris packages
• Central configuration file
• User with SSH keys as RBAC configuration
• Command line interface
□ Each command have a good help function
VDCF
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Takeover of our environment
• «discover» the current environment
• Exclude SAN LUNS’s
VDCF
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Deployment
• Setup from AI and repositories with ipsadm
VDCF
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Deployment
• LDoms
VDCF
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Deployment
• Zones
VDCF
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Migration from LDoms and zones
• Ldoms
• Zones
VDCF
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Monitoring
• HW
• Osmon
VDCF
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Monitoring
• Osmon
VDCF
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Monitoring
• Ressources
VDCF
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Results
Solaris bordmedium
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Building own tools
• Solaris bordmedium
«Idm commands»
«zonecfg commands»
«zoneadm commands»
ZFS administration
Own scripts
• Puppet ressource
Zones
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Conclusion
Conclusion
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Comparison of tools
• VM manager
□ Not yet matured
□ Limitations
• OpsCenter
□ Top for monitoring
□ Complicated setup for virtualization and Solaris components
□ Plan on Oracle support
□ Didn’t support the current version from VM manager in summer 2015
Conclusion
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Comparison of tools
• VDCF
□ Commercial Tool
□ Free version with limited nodes
□ Very easy setup
□ No GUI
□ Top command line interface
□ Meets all our needs
Roman Gächter
Principal Consultant
Roman.gaechter@trivadis .com
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