DCIM-B302 Running Oracle Databases and Application Servers on AzureBrian Benz, Senior Technical Evangelist, Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

Alex Keh, Senior Principal Product Manager, Oracle

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A Time for Partnership

Oracle software on Windows Server Hyper-V and Microsoft Azure Oracle license mobility to Microsoft Azure Microsoft offers pay-as-you-go licenses for select Oracle

software Java fully supported in Microsoft Azure Oracle offers Oracle Linux on Microsoft Azure

Azure is the only fully supported and properly-licensed public cloud environment to deploy the Oracle stack and the only third-party virtualization platform certified by Oracle

Oracle software certified on Windows Server is supported

on Azure!

Note: Refer MOS Note 1563794.1 Certified Software on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Hyper-VSource: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/cloud/faq-1963009.html

Including:• Java 6 and Java 7• Oracle WebLogic Server• Oracle Database• Oracle Linux• Oracle Fusion Middleware

Establishing “disposable” Dev/Test environments. – You can create a Dev/Test environment that you use to truly experiment without putting your internal environments at risk.Using Microsoft’s BI Suite to Analyze Oracle Data – With the Oracle data in Azure it becomes easy to create dashboards and other types of visualizations quickly. Bursts of Scalability – If you need large amounts of RAM or processing power to run a process on your data, you can scale for a short period of time and then reduce the server specs back to its normal operational requirement.

Customer Benefits Using Microsoft Azure

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1. Bring your own license, build your own VM.Start a Windows Server or Oracle Linux virtual machine; install and configure the additional Oracle software yourself.

2. Bring your own license, use a pre-configured VM.Oracle offers pre-configured Oracle Linux images with Oracle Database and/or Oracle WebLogic Server to make it simpler for you to get started.

3. Use a license-included VM image.Microsoft provides pre-configured, Windows Server based VM images that include licenses for Oracle Database and/or Oracle WebLogic Server, and images that include the Java Development Kit.

Options for Licensing Oracle on Azure

What will be the duration of usage? Frequency?Do you already own excess Oracle licenses?

The prices in the chart are US List! Oracle discounts to customers vary widely.Some ‘optional’ features may not be available in licensed-included VMs

Azure support costs are per customer, whereas Oracle support is per license.

Licensing Considerations: Bring Your Own, or License-Included?

Development/Test environmentsBackup and disaster recoveryDeployments that have spiky or sporadic use patternsSmall or remote production deploymentsProof of concept / proof of feasibility study

Good Fits for License Included

Already own excess licensesDeployments with heavy and consistent use patternsMigrate off unsupported hypervisors

Good Fits for BYOL

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Oracle Cloud Computing StrategyComplete Solutions, Complete Choice

Private Cloud Public Cloud

SaaS

PaaS

IaaS

SaaS

PaaS

IaaSHybrid Cloud• Management• Security• Integration

Cloud Application Foundation Complete & Integrated Modern Cloud Infrastructure

On Premise

Microsoft Azure Cloud

Deployment Choices

Cloud Application Foundation

Traffic Director/Web Tier

WebLogic Server Coherence Tuxedo

Virtual Assembly Builder

Microsoft/Oracle Partnership announced June 2013

Embrace cloud/choiceCertifications on Hyper-V and Azure

Choose your infrastructure:On-premise hardware, on-premise hypervisorPublic cloud (Azure)Leverage Virtual Machine Images, choose your guest operating system

BYOL or purchase from MicrosoftDeploy apps of your choice:

Custom Java applications, packaged applications

Same WebLogic no matter where you deploy

WebLogic Server on Azure

Oracle Database 12c

WebLogic Server

Java Applications

Demos (WebLogic on Azure)

Key Considerations: WebLogic Server

• JDKs in Azure Oracle images are 64-bit•Hybrid cloud for Java apps with Oracle DB (app server/web tiers in Azure, DB on prem)•Dynamic clusters (WLS 12c) for easy provisioning/mgmt•Easily grow WebLogic cluster by capturing/deploying from a snapshot of your managed VM •Automate creating/deploying managed VMs for WebLogic clusters with PowerShell/azure-cli & WLST•Virtual Networking/subnets for multi-tier architecture & VPN for on-prem datacenter connectivity• Integration with other Azure services (mobile services, message queues, etc) for net new or re-architected apps

Considerations:

•UDP multicasting not supported, recommend WLS cluster size to be kept static at <=10 managed servers• IPv6 support in WLS not applicable to Azure•Azure cannot load balance multiple instances of WebLogic servers in a single VM

Caution:

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Infrastructure Scenarios: Opportunities1 Convert Physical Servers or Virtual

Machines running Oracle to run on Hyper-V using Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1

2 Move Virtual Instances from Hyper-V to Azure IaaS

Hyper-VAzure IaaS

MoveHyper-V

VMware Hosted

P2V

P2VV2V

Amazon

Migrate

Physical Server 3 Move running Virtual Instances from

Customer to any Hyper-V Implementations

Hyper-VLive Migration

Hyper-V

Customer Host

New Cloud Deployment OptionsPRIVATE CLOUDwith Windows Server Hyper-V

PUBLIC CLOUDwithAzure

Extend Windows Server: Virtualize Oracle app and Database deploymentsMigrate off unsupported hypervisors and standardize on Hyper-VUse System Center for “single pane of glass” management of Oracle workloads on Windows across private, hybrid, and public cloud deployments

Perform dev & test in the cloud for apps and databasesExtend datacenter capacity by scaling out the Oracle WebLogic tier of appsInstantly spin up VMs with Oracle software pre-installedzzzz

IT Admin

Developers

Your Datacenter

VMs in test/dev environment

Develop, test, run your apps

Provision VMs

Use VMs

Limited hardware budgetLimited software licensingResource contention with VMsCompromised developer agilityRealistic scale tests often challenging

Test and development on-premises

Developers

IT Admin

Develop, test, run your apps

Cost effective (pay for what you use)Improved developer agility with platform servicesReady to use gallery of imagesShip tested in realistic scale scenariosUse existing development tools & languagesAccess on-premise resources if necessary

Test and development using Azure Manage environment

Use VMsProvision VMs

Key Considerations: Oracle Database

•Recommended DB size <10GB for data on System Disk•Attach disk(s) for flexibility and improved performance•Standalone Oracle DB, Data Guard, and GoldenGate available•Configure & capture a customized image or deploy your own for rapid provisioning and automation•Consider Virtual Networking to capture an IP & VPN for connectivity to on-premise datacenter •Use special offers for MSDN subscribers for Dev/test on Azure

Considerations:

•Oracle Database clustering (RAC for Oracle DB) is not currently supported•Current disk limit ~500IOps max per disk (non-striped)

Caution:

Demos (Oracle and .NET)

Multiple disk to VM (8)Split them between more than one storage poolThen presented to ASM as two volumes

host cache offconcurrency didn’t helpFar superior over the other considered possibilities

1 storage pool with 8 disks > no storage pools or 1 storage pool Theory: storage pools already manage their own caching and concurrency in a very effective way, so host cache is unnecessary.

Read-Only

Attach multiple diskspresenting those disks to ASM directly.Not using storage pools

Concurrency didn’t make a noticeable difference in either of the above approaches. The host cache was OFF in both.

All Other Scenarios

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Java on Azure

IaaS• Windows or Linux

VMs• Official Oracle JDK

v6 & v7• Pre-configured VMs• Oracle WebLogic,

VM Depot Java Image, or your own JVM

PaaS• 64 bit OpenJDK

build by Azul (Zulu)• Or bring any VM• Eclipse plugin for

deployment, monitoring and management

Services• Azure SDK for Java:

Blob, table, queue, service bus, SQL, etc

• Other Azure SDKs and azure-cli / tools

“This initiative is all about bringing Java to the masses in the cloud. We will be providing a fully open and unconstrained Java environment – with open choice of third-party stacks – for developers and essential applications deployed on Azure.”Scott Sellers, Azul Systems President and CEO

Microsoft + JavaJava / IaaS:

Oracle JDKWebLogicOpen JDK VM Depot

WebLogicOpenJDK / AzulCloud Services (with tomcat) Azure plug-in for Eclipse with Java

HPC middleware (case study)Shorten sales cycle by 70%, increase revenueJava on Linux + PostgresStrategic alignment w/ MSMoved away from AWS / EC2 because of Windows skillsetSQL Azure

A few of our Java on Azure customers

• Call center solution• Scale, management &

efficiency + heterogeneity• Java EE / JBoss• 3-day Azure lab• Looked at Google /

Amazon• SQL Azure

• BI & Analytics extension• Fast time to market,

flexible development & scale

• Java / Tomcat + Jiffy/Solr• Time pressure (3 mo)• Table storage & Cloud

Services / PaaS

ScaleSpeed Skills

How Does Support Work?Scenario Support Policy Customer Experience

Bring Your Own License (BYOL)Includes pre-configured Oracle-Linux virtual machines or any Windows customer created VMs

Supported directly by Oracle

Customers should contact Oracle support directly

License Included

Oracle DB, WebLogic, Java on Windows Server VM

Supported by Microsoft Customers will contact Microsoft to get support for Oracle software and Azure

IFS Applications use Oracle Database 12c, Java and Oracle WebLogic, with a Windows-based client on modest infrastructure.IFS wanted to relieve customers of the need to worry about it at all. “They want to focus their time and money on what they do best, not setting up and running storage arrays and server farms,” says Dan Matthews.

Challenges• Eliminate infrastructure

worries • Give customers faster

time-to-value • Help customers and

partners set up temporary environments

• Expand business around the world

Benefits

“For our customers, there is very little work involved in running IFS Applications in Microsoft Azure and basically no difference from deploying our software on-premises.”

– Dan Matthews, Chief Technology Officer, IFS

http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?CaseStudyID=710000004170

To meet the needs of utility customers, Redknee needed to offer its Oracle-based Redknee Utility Suite using a cloud deployment model, to provide lower costs and easier scalability.“The utilities industry is in the midst of deep transformation, and our product needed to be able to accommodate this uncertainty and flexibility,” says Jens Voigt, Chief Technology Officer, EMEA.

Challenges• Faster, less

expensive, lower-risk deployments for customers

• Improved data scalability

• Better ability to expand business

Benefits

“Because we’ve moved our Oracle-based application to Microsoft Azure, our customers can deploy it much faster than they could by deploying an on-premises infrastructure, which requires a significant investment.”

– Daniel Franz, Senior Solutions Manager for Vertical Markets

http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?CaseStudyID=710000004196

Oracle Tech investigations DL - orcltechPublic News for Oracle software on Azure at http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/campaigns/oracle/

Oracle Self Service Kit http://aka.ms/orclsskHow to use Oracle images on Azure http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=321002&clcid=0x409

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