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


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


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


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


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


UNIFIED MANAGEMENTUNIFIED MANAGEMENT

UNIFIED MANAGEMENT

Global Stateless Computing For Workload Mobility

Domain 1 Domain 2Data Center 1 Data Center 2


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!

http://ucs-simu.blogspot.com/


One NetworkOne Layer

Fabric Extender Architecture

UnifiedFabric

Complexity in Traditional Environments

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Unified Fabric in UCSAgile, Simplified Network Access for Blades and VMs


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

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Burst Size

Near Zero Data Loss, Transactions are SAFE!


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


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


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


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


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

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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%


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

http://www.indoff.com/


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

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VIC

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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


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


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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