Server Consolidation with SPARC Enterprise M-series High-End Servers


Server Consolidation with SPARC Enterprise M-Series High-End ServersTom AtwoodSenior Principal Product Director

Gary CombsPrincipal Product Manager


Agenda

Benefits of Consolidation and Virtualization

Consolidation and Virtualization Strategies

Oracle SPARC Virtualization Solutions

SPARC Consolidation Examples

Summary


Today’s Server Infrastructure Challenges Growing Costs and Complexity

Spiraling Operating and Administration Costs

Accelerating Demands for Performance and Capacity

Growing Complexity and Risk Driven by Server Proliferation

Need to Protect Investments in existing Applications and Skill Sets


Benefits of Consolidation and Virtualization

Increased server utilization– Lower acquisition costs– Reduced service costs– Reduced power and cooling costs

Improved capacity and response time– Newer and faster processors, interconnects, and I/O

Smaller foot print– Reduced data center infrastructure costs

Increased flexibility– Faster time to deployment of new applications


Consolidating & Sharing Headroom

Many Smaller Servers

Consolidated and shared headroom

70%

Single Larger Server

OverloadOverload

Overload

Overload

15%

40%

10%

5%

5%

5%

Distributed headroom

• One app per server leads to overload or extra headroom

• Consolidate many apps to share and reduce headroom


Server ConsolidationChange Deployment Topology

• Keep different workloads separate• Mix like workloads

Data-centric

Application-centric

Web-centric

App 1 App 2 App 3

Database

Applications

Edge/Web

App 1

Database

Applications

Edge/Web

App 3

Database

Applications

Edge/Web

App 2


High End M-Series ServersOver 20 Years Of Mission Critical Computing

M9000/32M8000 M9000/64

• 16 CPUs• 1TB RAM• 16 SAS disks• 32 I/O slots/**112 I/O slots• 16 dynamic domains

• 32 SPARC64 VII+ CPUs• 2TB RAM• 32 SAS disks• 64 I/O slots/**224 I/O slots• 24 dynamic domains

• 64 SPARC64 VII+ CPUs• 4TB RAM• 64 SAS disks• 128 I/O slots/**288 I/O slots• 24 dynamic domains


Meeting Mission-critical Requirements

Mission-critical Workloads:– Database deployments– High capacity and demanding applications– Enterprise application consolidation

SPARC M8000/M9000 Deliver:– Linear scalability from 16 to 64 quad-core processors– Upgradeability and future capacity– Highest Availability– Highly efficient “no-cost virtualization”– Security


Benefits of SMP

Single, shared memory image Easier application deployment

– Data partitioning not needed

– Least complex software environment

– Least complex storage and networking environment

Extreme system bandwidth Extreme I/O bandwidth Can be partitioned using virtualization tools Easy to dynamically re-assigned resources No limitations on workloads

“Shared Memory Processing”


Meeting High Availability Requirements

Reliability– System-level ECC– Memory Extended ECC– Instruction-level retry– Memory Mirroring– Component Redundancy

Software– Robust Oracle Solaris OS– Oracle Solaris Cluster– Oracle RAC– Oracle Solaris Zones

Serviceability- Fault-isolation (dynamic domains) - Dynamic reconfiguration- Hot-swap of fans and power- Hot-plug of CPU’s and RAM- Hot-plug of I/O

Monitor & Manage- Fault-management architecture- Predictive-self healing- OEM Ops Center- M-Series XSCF


Dynamic Domains Solaris Zones

Oracle M-Series VirtualizationAll are “Hard Partitions” for Oracle Software Licensing Purposes

Single OSMultiple OSes

All SPARC SystemsOS Virtualization

DynamicHundreds Per OS Instance

Software IsolationSeparate File Systems

Upgrade OS and Upgrade All Zones

M-SeriesHardware partitions

DynamicNo overhead

Single-socket GranularityResource IsolationSecurity Isolation

Fault and Service Isolation

Included at No Cost! Included at No Cost!


Solaris and M-Series VirtualizationDynamic Domains

M-series

Oracle Solaris Zones

Oracle Solaris

App App

DW DB

Domain A

Domain B

OLTP DB

OLTP DB

Web DB App Web


SPARC Dynamic Domains

14

• Complete isolation• Resource, security, service, fault

• Single-CPU granularity

• Dynamic

• No overhead

• Separate OS per domain

• No cost to end user

• M-Series SPARC servers

Domain 1Domain 1 Domain 2Domain 2 Domain xDomain x

CPU

CPU

CPU CPU CPU CPU CPU

CPU CPU

Mem Mem Mem Mem Mem

Solaris Solaris Solaris


Oracle Solaris Zones• One OS instance for all zones

• Separate file system

• Complete software isolation

• Sub-thread granularity

• Dynamic and mobile

• Low overhead

• No cost to end user

• All Solaris instancesSolarisSolaris

Zone 1Zone 1 Zone 2Zone 2 Zone xZone x

CPU

CPU

CPU CPU CPU CPU CPU

CPU CPU

Mem Mem Mem Mem Mem


Solaris 11 ZonesCombine Privileges, Roles, Immutable Zones


Solaris Zones Security Benefits

Restricted In-Zone Operations– Individual operating system hardening, RBAC, auditing, etc.

– Prohibited from directly accessing kernel (modules), raw memory

External Enforcement of Zone Configuration– Configurable privileges, immutability, devices, file systems, resource

controls, virtual network security controls, etc.

Observability with Integrity– Protected audit trails, file integrity verification, global zone has complete

introspection capabilities


Solaris 11 Network Virtualization

Network Virtualization

Virtual NICs, Virtual Switching, Network in a Box

Bandwidth Partitioning

Built-in QOS: bandwidth limits for data links and on a per-flows basis

Resource Control

Constraint traffic processing to CPUs or CPU pools dedicated to zones

ObservabilityReal-time usage and history for VNICs, hardware resources, and traffic flow

ScalabilityParallel traffic from hardware to applications, Dynamic Polling, NUMA I/O


Data Architecture Strategies


Managing Consolidate SPARC ServersOracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center

Manage physical & virtual resources Infrastructure Management Application-to-Disk Management Lifecycle Management Systems Management & Support Free with premier support


The management solution for all Oracle virtualizationEnterprise Manager Ops Center

• Centralized interface for VM lifecycle management

• Manage M-Series hard-partitions, OVM, and Solaris Zones from one place

• Complete management of Virtual Storage and Networks


Software Management

• New Support for Image Packaging System

• Enhanced Interaction with Alternate Boot Environments

• New Support for Automated Installer

• Improved Software Profiler

• Better Dependency Handling

• Increased Vendor Provider Patch Bundles


Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c

Facilitates moving existing applications to the Cloud

Based on resource distribution and utilization analysis

Intelligence placement policies, technical and business constraints

Capacity and Consolidation Planning


Take Control of VirtualizationOps Center Spends Deployment and Lifecycle

Perf Analysis and Recycle

Replication and Re-use

1 week

Resource Assignment Elasticity

Lifetime

Daily Compliance Checking Fault Response/Replace

Lifetime

Discovery and SOE deploy

2-6 weeks

Power+Cooling Space Analysis. Rack and Cable

1-2 weeks 2-6 weeks

Ops Center PDU & Server Energy Analysis

Ops Center Server Knowledge and Complex Prov Plans

Down to Days Down to Hours Automate Orchestrate Down to hours Down to Days

Ops Center Intelligent Software Change Controland ASR

Ops Center Server Pool Policy

Ops Center V12N Cloneand Cataloging

Ops Center OS Analytics, V12N, and Bare Metal Provisioning


BEFORE AFTER

• 4 x SPARC E25K Servers• Solaris 9

• 3 x Oracle SPARC M9000 Servers• Oracle Solaris 10

• DR – VxVM, Sun Cluster, Oracle Data Guard, Dynamic Domains, and Dynamic Reconfiguration

• DR - Oracle Solaris Volume Manager, Oracle Solaris Cluster, Oracle Data Guard, Dynamic Domains, and Dynamic Reconfiguration

2X Performance Gain

95% Reduction in Disaster Recovery time

75% Lower Storage Growth

50% Lower Licensing Costs

50% Lower utility and floor space cost

$400K Saved on 3rd Party Licenses

Two months from concept to production

Oracle Global Single Instance ERP System Database Infrastructure Modernization Project


Summary

Server Consolidation enables the Efficient Datacenter Consolidation Customer Benefits:

– Increased system utilization– Lower TCO– Increased compute capacity– Faster time to deployment

Oracle M-Series servers are ideal consolidation platforms– High RAS– High capacity– Virtualization


Oracle Solaris 10 System Virtualization Essentials

• ISBN: 013708188X

• ISBN-13: 9780137081882

• Chapter 2 covers Dynamic Domains on M-Series


Server Virtualization for Dummies: Oracle Edition

http://www.oracle.com/go/?&Src=7618691&Act=126&pcode=WWMK12044691MPP012


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