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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

SP

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INT

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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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Top 10 Reasons

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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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