® © 2009 IBM Corporation Virtualization with Informix Dynamic Server Kent Klaas and Yunming Wang

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© 2009 IBM Corporation

Virtualization with Informix Dynamic Server

Kent Klaas and Yunming Wang

Agenda

Introduction to Virtualization

IDS and Virtualization

Introduction to the IDS Virtual Appliance

Demonstration of the IDS Virtual Appliance

Obtaining and Using the IDS Virtual Appliance

Assistance and Additional Resources

Questions and Answers

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Introduction to VirtualizationDefinition and Benefits

Virtualization– Technology enabling the ability to run multiple operating

systems and applications on the same hardware at the same time.

Benefits of Virtualization– Optimize IT Center Assets

• Enhance utilization while consolidating servers

– Reduce IT Center Costs• Lower utility and maintenance costs with fewer servers

– Increase availability and continuity• Enhance archive, recovery and migration activities

– Improve flexibility and agility• Enhance server allocation and provisioning

– Improve desktop management and security• Enhance desktop allocation and provisioning

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Introduction to VirtualizationVirtual Machine and Virtual Appliance

Virtual Machine– An isolated software container created by

virtualization containing all the hardware resources (cpu, memory, network and storage) which requires the installation of an operating system and required software stack.

Virtual Appliance– A unified offering of just enough operating system

and an application stack pre-installed, integrated and tested for a specific purpose or intent

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Introduction to VirtualizationDeployment Options

Desktop

– Deploy your virtual machines and virtual appliances to desktop environments to enhance desktop optimization and versatility using desktop virtualization products;

Enterprise

– Deploy your virtual machines and virtual appliances to consolidated server environments in your business to enhance IT center optimization, versatility and manageability using virtual infrastructure products;

Cloud

– Deploy your virtual machines and virtual appliances to emerging cloud computing environments to extend your IT center reach and simplify deployment and manageability;

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IDS and VirtualizationStatus and Deliverables

Status

– Extending Informix products and services to include virtualization support, leadership and partnerships

– Extending deployment to include desktop, in-house and cloud virtualization options

– Extending information and assistance to partners and customers considering or implementing virtualization

Deliverables

– Several editions and versions of the IDS Virtual Appliance developed, tested and available for VMware leveraging Novell’s SUSE 10 SP2

– Deployment availability across desktop, in-house virtualization environment supported for VMware Player, Workstation, Fusion and VI3

– Deployment for Cloud computing platforms

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Introduction to IDS VA

Purpose and Definition

Software Stack and Configuration

IDS Virtual Appliance Editions

Deployment Options

7IBM Confidential October 2008

The IDS Virtual AppliancePurpose and Definition

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VMware ® Infrastructureand Virtualization Tools

VM Configuration and ResourcesCPU – Memory – Network - Storage

Informix Dynamic Server Variety of Software Product and Utilities

SUSE ® Linux ® Enterprise Server 10 SP2SLES 10 SP2

The Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) Virtual Appliance combines a robust database server, application stack, operating system and hardware resources– Develop and deploy new applications– Create IDS demonstrations and presentations– Develop and test applications

The IDS Virtual ApplianceApplication Layer

Informix Dynamic Server 11.50.xC3– Pre-Installed– Pre-Configured Instance and MACH11 Cluster– Pre-Tested– Ready to Run

Additional Informix and IBM Products– IBM Informix Client SDK 3.50.xC3

– IBM Informix JDBC Driver 3.50.xC3

– IBM Informix Spatial DataBlade 8.21.UC2

– IBM Informix Web DataBlade 4.13.UC3

– IBM Data Server Driver for JDBC/SQLJ

– IBM Data Server Driver for ODBC/CLI

– IBM OpenAdmin Tool for IDS 2.22

– IBM Data Studio 1.1.2

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Informix Dynamic Server Variety of Software Product and Utilities

The IDS Virtual ApplianceOperating System Layer

Base Operating System– Pre-Installed SUSE® Enterprise Server 10 SP2– Pre-Configured Devices and X Window Manager– Pre-Tested– Ready to Run

Additional Tools and Utilities– C and C++ Compilers (gcc 4.1.2)

– GNU gdb 6.6

– IBM JDK 1.5

– Firefox 2.0

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SUSE ® Linux ® Enterprise Server 10 SP2SLES 10 SP2

The IDS Virtual ApplianceVirtualization Layer

VMware® Infrastructure and Utilties– Embedded Software to Support Virtualization

VMware Tools package– Improves the graphical performance for different guest operating

systems.

– Enables integration between the guest and host.

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VMware® Infrastructureand Virtualization Tools

The IDS Virtual ApplianceVirtual Machine Resources

CPU– CPU time is not configurable for IDS va when running as a

desktop application

Memory– IDS va uses 768MB memory by default, but it can be configured

to use different amount of memory depending on the total size of physical RAM available on the system

Network– Two network adapters are configured:

• Host-only with a static IP address 192.168.179.100

• NAT for sharing the host’s IP address.

Storage

– 12 GB (maximum size) pre-configured and compressed virtual disk mounted as /.

– 40 GB compressed virtual disk mounted as /data.

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VM Configuration and ResourcesCPU – Memory – Network - Storage

IDS Virtual Appliance Editions

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IDS Virtual Appliance Environments

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Demonstration of the IDS VA

Windows Desktop Demonstration of the IDS VA

– Downloading

– Installing

– Launching and Configuring

– Desktop Overview

• Welcome page of the IDS VA

• First Steps

• SQL Editor

• Data Studio

• Open Admin Tool

• Terminal

Amazon Compute Cloud Demonstration of the IDS VA


– Configuring and instance with SSH

– Utilizing Open Admin Tool


Downloading the IDS va installation image

The IDS va installation images are available at https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/reg/download.do?source=swg-informixfpd&S_PKG=dl

You will see the following IDS va installation images after you login with your IBM ID:


Installing the IDS virtual appliance (Windows)

Double clicking the executable file of the IDS virtual appliance to install the compressed VMware image into your working directory:

Enter your preferred directory name, for example, C:\VMware\IDS-appliances and click Install.

The VMware image will be installed under a subdirectory named “Base-IDS-Developer-Edition-vx.x.x”, where x.x.x is the version number, when the installation process is finished.


Launching the IDS virtual appliance

1. Double clicking the .vmx file from Windows Explorer or clicking the button from VMware Player or the button from VMware Workstation.

2. Powering it on from VMware Player or Workstation:


Configuring the IDS virtual appliance

Login as userid “root” with password “root”:


After you read and accept all the license agreements, you will see the SLES desktop login screen. You can login as developer/developer or informix/informix from there.

Demonstration of the IDS VA

Windows Desktop Demonstration of the IDS VA

– Downloading

– Installing


– Desktop Overview

• Welcome page of the IDS VA

• First Steps

• SQL Editor

• Data Studio

• Open Admin Tool

• Terminal

Amazon Compute Cloud Demonstration of the IDS VA


– Configuring and instance with SSH

– Utilizing Open Admin Tool


Obtaining and using IDS VA

FREE Download Location– https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/reg/download.do?source=swg-

informixfpd&S_PKG=dl– Requires IBM Internet ID and Password

Using the IDS Virtual Appliance– Start now with development and testing– Build Virtualization skills and experience– Leverage for demos, presentations and education– Enable your sales teams


Assistance and Additional Resources

Presenters

– Kent Klaas [email protected]

– Yunming Wang [email protected]

Web Sites

– www.vmware.com

– www.developerworks.com

– www.ibm.com

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Questions and Answers

Q & A

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Supporting Slides

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Installing the IDS virtual appliance (Windows)

Double clicking the executable file of the IDS virtual appliance to install the compressed VMware image into your working directory:

Enter your preferred directory name, for example, C:\VMware\IDS-appliances and click Install.

The VMware image will be installed under a subdirectory named “Base-IDS-Developer-Edition-vx.x.x”, where x.x.x is the version number.


Launching the IDS virtual appliance

Launching the IDS virtual appliance by double clicking the .vmx file from Windows Explorer or clicking the button from VMware Player:

Login as userid “root” with password “root”

After you read and accept all the license agreements, you will see the SLES desktop login screen. You can login as developer/developer or informix/informix from there.


Desktop of IDS VA


Welcome page of IDS virtual appliance

IDS 11.50 First steps

Informix home page

IDS 11.50 Information Center

DBACCESS SQL Editor

Data Studio

Open Admin Tool for IDS

Terminal with IDS environment

The Welcome page of IDS va

The welcome page of the virtual appliance is displayed at startup and is a good starting point for new IDS virtual appliance users. You can find detailed information about the IDS virtual appliance and useful links to other information sources:


First Steps


In order to get started quickly with IDS 11.50 software development, a special folder (/opt/IBM/informix/FirstSteps) is provided that contains topic-specific subfolders:– IDS Detective Game – contains the game

that can be played to practice using SQL in IDS

– Java – contains a sample java program and tutorial about how to use Java with IDS

– PHP – contains a sample PHP program and tutorial about how to use PHP with IDS

– Data Studio – contains one lab that guides you through basic functionalities of Data Studio.

DBACCESS SQL Editor

The dbaccess SQL Editor is a handy link to the IDS 11.50 dbaccess user interface for entering, executing, and debugging SQL statements and SPL routines:


IBM Data Studio

IBM Data Studio is an integrated data management and development environment for designing, developing, deploying, and managing data-driven applications. You can use either IBM Java Common Client or Informix JDBC driver with IDS 11.50.


Open Admin Tool

Open Admin Tool (OAT) is an open-source web-based administration tool for the IBM Informix Database Server V11 and above. It allows the administration and monitoring of local and remote IDS instances from a single administration console.


Terminal with IDS Environment setup

The IDS virtual appliance is pre-configured with the demo_on instance, which includes two demo databases:– stores demo database

– Idsgame database for IDS Detective Game (found in First Steps)

The demo_on instance is started or stopped automatically when the virtual appliance is started or stopped.


You can manage the demo_on instance by running the following scripts as user “informix”:– . createDemo - re-creates the demo instance from scratch

– . removeDemo - deletes all database files associated with the demo instance.

– . startDemo - starts the demo instance.

– . stopDemo - stops the demo instance.

– . setDemo - sets the environment variables for the demo instanceNote, the above scripts don’t run in a C-shell.

Demo of Using IDS va in Amazon EC2

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) presents a virtual computing environment. This demo will show you how the IDS va works as an Amazon EC2 AMI:– Launching an IDS va AMI instance– Configuring the IDS va AMI instance– Using OpenAdmin Tool on the IDS va AMI instance



Launching an IDS va AMI instance

This demo will launch an IDS va AMI instance based one of the existing IDS va AMIs in Amazon EC2 previously created for this demo. You can find out more information about how to create an AMI image at Amazon EC2 wetsite.

There are two ways you can launch an IDS va AMI instance:

– Amazon AWS Management Console athttps://console.aws.amazon.com/

– Amazon Command Line Tools

This demo will use the Console for simplicity reason.


Configuring the IDS va AMI instance

Once the instance is running, it needs to be configured.

This demo will use putty.exe from a Windows machine to connect to the instance and configure the AMI instance.


Using OpenAdmin Tool on the AMI instance

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