IBM LPM and Oracle DB Support 071309 Version 4

© 2009 IBM Corporation IBM Oracle ICC

IBM’s Live Partition Mobility (LPM): Oracle’s Database Support

Wayne T. Martin - IBM STG – Solutions Relationship Mgr.Moshe F. Reder - IBM Oracle International Competency Center

July 2009

IBM Oracle ICC2 © 2009 IBM Corporation July 13, 2009

Agenda

Description of IBM’s Live Partition Mobility (LPM)

Oracle’s certification for IBM’s LPM

A few additional Q&A (Questions & Answers)


PowerVMLivePartitionMobility


Partition Mobility – Live Partition MovementQuestion 1: What is Live Partition Mobility?

► Live Partition Mobility allows the movement of a running LPAR from one physical machine to another without disrupting the operation of the OS and applications running in that LPAR. Applications keep on running.

SAN

LAN

HMC

BootPaging

Application Data

LPAR


Partition Mobility – Live Partition Movement

SAN

LAN

HMC

BootPaging

Application Data

Live Partition Mobility allows the movement of a running LPAR from one physical machine to another without disrupting the operation of the OS and applications running in that LPAR. Applications keep on running.

Business Value► Workload consolidation (e.g. many to

one)► Workload balancing (e.g. move to larger

system)► Workload migration to newer systems.► Planned hardware outages for

maintenance/upgrades► Impending hardware outages (e.g.

hardware warning received)

LPAR


LPM Requirements & PlanningQuestion 2: What are the requirements to run LPM?

Source and destination must support LPM► Enhanced hardware virtualization capabilities.► Identical or compatible processors.► Compatible firmware levels.

Source and destination must be LAN connected –same subnet.

All resources (CPU, Memory, IO adapters) must be virtualized prior to migration.OS is migration enabled/aware.► The source and destination servers must be POWER6 ► The mobile partition must be

AIX 5.3 Technology Level 7 or later, AIX 6 or later (1)Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 5 (RHEL5) Update 1 or later (2)SUSE Linux Enterprise Services 10 (SLES 10) Service Pack 1 or later. (2)

SAN

LAN

BootPaging

Application Data

LPAR

HMC

(1) Oracle support requires a higher TL level(2) LPM is available on Linux on Power however not supported by Oracle Database, at this time


Oracle’s Support forLivePartitionMobility


Oracle’s June 2009 announcement for LPM● Question 3: What did Oracle announce on June 2009?

● Oracle announced via its Metalink website that LPM is now certified with Oracle Database. This means that LPM has successfully completed the requirements of a rigorous test plan developed by Oracle with IBM collaboration. IBM partnered with Oracle to execute these tests on a specific product combination. Oracle approved the results and now commits support of their products for production use with LPM.

● Oracle DB 10gR2 (10.2.0.4) is certified to be used with LPM on AIX 5.3 and AIX 6.1

● Minimum of service levels ( and up)– for AIX 5.3 : TL8 SP4 (Technology Level 8, Service Package 4) – for AIX 6.1 : TL2 SP3 (Technology Level 2, Service Package 3)

Operating System Database

AIX 5.3 with TL8 SP4 and up 10gR2 at 10.2.0.4

AIX 6.1 with TL2 SP3 and up 10gR2 at 10.2.0.4


Rebalance processing power across servers when and where

you need it

Reduce planned downtime by moving workloads to another server during system

maintenance

Movement to adifferent server with no loss of

service

Virtualized SAN and Network InfrastructureVirtualized SAN and Network Infrastructure

Move a running partition from one POWER6 processor-based server to another with no application downtime

IBM PowerVM Live Partition Mobility and Oracle

DB 10gR2 now

certified

IBM Power Systems is the first server line in the industry to be certified by Oracle for Partition Mobility


Q & A


Q & A about this announcement

Question 4: Why is this announcement important?► LPM is a key PowerVM feature. IBM and Oracle partnered to develop and run a

set of tests that stressed the Oracle DB during migrations of a running partition. IBM demonstrated that Oracle maintains data integrity and active connections were retained during the migrations. For customers running Oracle Database in a single instance, there is now the option of using IBM’s Live Partition Mobility feature. LPM is a key technology for customers contemplating Cloud Computing. This announcement gives a very strong incentive for customers planning to deploy Oracle DB as part of their Cloud.

Question 5: What kind of opportunity does this announcement open?► PowerVM in general and LPM in particular are major advantages for IBM Power

Systems. Many customers have been ready to use LPM. With this announcement, customers have one more incentive to upgrade to Power6 technology. In addition, for Oracle customers running on IBM competitive hardware, the support for LPM means that there is yet another compelling reason to re-host the Oracle DB environment to a Power System.


Q & A about this announcement (continuation)

Question 6: What is the call to action, now that we know about this exciting new capability supported by Oracle?► IBM Power Systems sellers should make sure that their customers are aware of

this exciting announcement. At this point, IBM Power Systems offers the most complete set of virtualization features certified by Oracle, including VIOS, Dynamic Partitions as well as Partition Mobility. In addition, the support made available now is a yet another strong reason for customers to adopt IBM’s Cloud Computing model. IBM sellers working on hardware competitive situations can leverage this strong IBM advantage.

Question 7: Is there support for LPM in an Oracle RAC environment and for Oracle DB 11g? ► Support for LPM under Oracle RAC is planned to be available in the future. The

unique features of RAC require additional tests that focus on maintaining cluster integrity in addition to the data integrity demonstrated for the database. Support for LPM with Oracle Database 11g is also planned to be available in the future. A large segment of Oracle customers are running their production systems on Oracle DB 10g and it was felt that the immediate priority was to make LPM available on this version.


Q & A about this announcement (continuation)

Question 8: Where can we get more information and help? ► Please refer to the following urls:

● IBM Flash with announcement content:• http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/FLASH10686

● PowerVM website: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/virtualization/

● Oracle’s Metalink certification website: http://www.oracle.com/technology/support/metalink/index.html

● IBM Oracle website: http://www-03.ibm.com/solutions/oracle/us/index.html

● IBM Oracle website (IBM internal):• https://w3-03.sso.ibm.com/sales/support/information/oracle/index.html

● IBM Oracle website (for Business Partners):• http://www-200.ibm.com/partnerworld/pwhome.nsf/weblook/index_us.html

● Oracle IBM website: http://www.oracle.com/partnerships/hw/ibm/index.html

● IBM Cloud Computing: http://www.ibm.com/grid/

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