why cisco ucs for oracle solutions ?
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Why Cisco Unified Computing for Oracle Solutions?John McAbelSenior Product Manager – Oracle UCS Solutions
October 2012
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First Let’s Test Your IT Knowledge
1.) According to IDC 2012, which system vendor is 2nd in x86 blades market share in North America?
2.) Which vendor uses over 6,000 blades to run 100’s of Oracle Databases and the 2nd largest Oracle E-Business Suite deployment in the world?
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 is announcing five new world record Oracle-based benchmarks – for a total of 23 records since 2009?
Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS)
Cisco
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Economics: Where the Money GoesWorldwide Server-Related IT Spend
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013$0
$50
$100
$150
$200
$250
Server Spending Mgmt. & Administration—Standalone Servers Mgmt. & Administration—Virtual Servers Power & Cooling Expense
Source: IDC, “New Economic Model for the Datacenter,” 2011
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Unified Computing SystemOracle Understood the UCS Value – Takes Advantage of it!
Unified Computing Solution
Server = Resource
Efficient Agile Transformative
Legacy Solutions
Server = Application
Inefficient Complex High Cost Fragile
Management and Control
Primary Network
Secondary Network
SAN A
SAN B
Oracle Endorsing Cisco UCS
• Hosts Oracle sales training 1000’s of VM’s on Oracle VM
• Oracle VM Test/Development
• Fusion QA Environment
• Hosting Customer Demos at Briefing Centers in USA/Japan
• Exclusive NoSQL Big Data certification on Cisco UCS
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XML APISTANDARD
API’S
Cisco UCS 6296 XP
Fabric Extenders(I/O modules)
IndustryStandard APIs
Cisco UCS – A Fresh Architecture
Blade Form Factor
Rack Form Factor
FABRIC INTERCONNECTS
UCS Manager
COMPUTE
Oracle Enterprise Manager
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UNIFIED MANAGEMENTUNIFIED MANAGEMENT
UNIFIED MANAGEMENT
Global Stateless Computing For Workload Mobility
Domain 1 Domain 2Data Center 1 Data Center 2
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iPhone App to Access & Run Your Cisco UCS
SiMU – Simple iPhone Management of UCS
Technical notes from App developer Tige Phillips are available here.
Download the SiMU App by clicking this link, or search iTunes with “cisco ucs”
Access UCS from almost anywhere!• View Errors/Faults
• Blades• PSUs• Service Profiles
• Service Profiles• Assign Blades• Change descriptions• Change resource assignment
• Power on/off, reset blades/chassis
The flexibility of our XML API enabled development of this app!
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One NetworkOne Layer
Fabric Extender Architecture
UnifiedFabric
Complexity in Traditional Environments
Un
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Man
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VirtualSwitch
BladeSwitch
RackSwitch
Unified Fabric in UCSAgile, Simplified Network Access for Blades and VMs
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Leading & Predictable Network PerformanceOracle RAC – Secure Data Movement
Independent Testing Results:
• http://www.miercom.com/cisco
• Microbursts cause as much as 60% packet drop with competitor
• Nexus 5000 and Cisco UCS – better able to handle Microbursts with predictable low latency
Packet Drop During Microbursts
Pa
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ts
Burst Size
Near Zero Data Loss, Transactions are SAFE!
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Rack-Wide VM Mobility
DC
POD POD
VLANVLANVLANVLAN
Broaden Mobility Domain with Network IntelligenceAchieve Unprecedented Infrastructure Efficiency
DC-Wide VM Mobility
DC
POD POD
• Network protocols enable broader VM Mobility• Implementable on Virtual and Physical• Examples: FabricPath/TRILL, VXLAN
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Installing Servers Today
LAN
SAN
•RAID settings•Disk scrub actions
•Number of vHBAs•HBA WWN assignments•FC Boot Parameters•HBA firmware
•FC Fabric assignments for HBAs
•QoS settings•Border port assignment per vNIC•NIC Transmit/Receive Rate Limiting
•VLAN assignments for NICs•VLAN tagging config for NICs
•Number of vNICs•PXE settings\•NIC firmware•Advanced feature settings
•Remote KVM IP settings•Call Home behavior•Remote KVM firmware
•Server UUID•Serial over LAN settings•Boot order•IPMI settings•BIOS scrub actions•BIOS firmware•BIOS Settings
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Simplify the Data Center: UCS Service Profiles
LAN
SAN
Cisco UCSService Profile
NIC MACs HBA WWNs Server UUID VLAN Assignments VLAN Tagging FC Fabrics Assignments FC Boot Parameters Number of vNICs Boot order PXE settings IPMI Settings Number of vHBAs QoS Call Home Template Association Org & Sub Org Assoc. Server Pool Association Statistic Thresholds BIOS scrub actions Disk scrub actions BIOS firmware Adapter firmware BMC firmware RAID settings Advanced NIC settings Serial over LAN settingsBIOS Settings
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Service Profiles Hardware State Abstraction – Oracle Examples
RAC node 2
HTTP Server ERP
RAC node 1 RAC node 4RAC 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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Customers Have Spoken
Maintained #2 in N. America (21.9%) and #2 in the US (22.2%)1
x86 Blade servers are growing over twice as fast as the overall x86 computing market2
Source: 1 IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, Q2 2012, August, 2012, Revenue Share 2 IDC Q1 CY12 Server Forecaster, Based on x86 Blade Revenue
Worldwide
North America
Maintained #3 worldwide in x86 Blades with 15.2%, just behind IBM’s 15.4%1
UCS momentum is fueled by game-changing innovation; Cisco is quickly passing established players1
UCS After Only Three Years
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Hitachi Ltd
Oracle
Fujitsu
NEC
Dell
Cisco
IBM
HP
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UCS #3 with 15.2%
Oracle
Dell
IBM
Cisco
HP
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%
UCS #2 with 21.9%
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Who is Running Oracle on UCS?EMC
U̶ Improved application response and batchrun-times by 20 times
U̶ EMC’s Channel Express, “Save and Array configuration” transactions improved 800%
U̶ Saved over $7 million in capital and operational expenses
Secure-24U̶ Extended life of data centers by 35 percentU̶ Lowered amount of network cabling by 70 percentU̶ Increased number of virtual machines per blade by 30 percent
IndoffU̶ Reduced power consumption by 20 percentU̶ Cut cooling costs by more than 50 percentU̶ Saved US$80,000 in deployment of Oracle ERP suite due to reduced hardware demands
U̶ Cut software maintenance costs by as much as 35 percent, saving estimated $50,000
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23 World Record Oracle-based Benchmarks!
UCS Achieves Top Performance across the Entire Stack
EnterpriseApplications
MiddleWare
Database
OperatingSystem
Virtualization
Oracle E-BusinessSuite, PeopleSoft,
Siebel, JD Edwards,Oracle Fusion
Oracle WebLogic,Oracle SOA Suite,
OracleAS
Oracle Database,Oracle TimesTen
Oracle Linux
Oracle VM
Business User
BU
SIN
ES
S S
ER
VIC
ES
Oracle Application Standard Benchmark 12.1.3
Payroll Batch – Extra Large ModelOrder to Cash Batch – Large Model
B200 M3
Siebel 8.1.1.410,000 Users
World Record Benchmarks Performance Proof Points
Announcing at OpenWorld!
Oracle Application Standard Benchmark 12.1.2
Payroll Batch – Extra Large ModelOrder to Cash Batch – Large Model
B200 M3
Cisco Performance Leadership – Top to Bottom
JD Edwards 9.1 Oracle VM
2,000 Users
PeopleSoft 9.0North American Payroll255,319 Payments/Hour
Oracle NoSQL 1,244,550 Mix Operations/Sec.
TPC-C Two Socket1,609,186.39 tpmC, $0.47/tpmC
C240 M3
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Cisco/Oracle Executive Speaking Session:Cisco Innovation: Business Solutions Delivered in Proven Secured Clouds.
Paul PerezVP & CTO, Data Center Group, Cisco
Wim CoekaertsSVP, Virtualization & Linux, Oracle
Wednesday, October 3, 11:45 – 12:45Lam Research TheaterYerba Buena Center for the Arts
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Benefits of Cisco UCS for Oracle Solutions
APPLICATIONS
ORACLE DATABASE
HYPERVISOR CHOICE
OPERATING SYSTEM CHOICE
STORAGE CHOICE
Implement the tiered architecture you want, easily align system resources to march workload requirements.
Scale-up/scale-out with Unified Fabric, meeting performance objectives while saving infrastructure, licensing and support costs.
VMware or Oracle VM – Leverage best extensive memory capacity, architecture designed for virtualized workloads
Select Oracle Linux, Solaris, Redhat, Novell, Windows
Select EMC (Vblock), NetApp (FlexPod), HDS, Oracle, IBMThe choice is YOURS!
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