IBM System x and BladeCenter with Oracle VM for Oracle solutionsDelivering a dynamic infrastructure for your Oracle solution deployments

Virtualized Oracle solution environments

affordably deployed on IBM System x

and BladeCenter servers

Easily managed, flexible, and efficient

virtualization delivered by Oracle VM

Oracle VM Templates offering

pre-configured software images

streamlining the installation process

IBM System x and BladeCenter for a dynamic infrastructureTo adapt and succeed in today’s dynamic business environment, you need a

dynamic IT infrastructure. To be dynamic means to be continually focused on:

•infrastructureefficiencyandreducingcosts

•responsivenesstothebusinessandimprovingservice

•effectivelymanagingrisktoensuresecurity,scalabilityandavailability

Adynamicinfrastructureissmart—ittakesadvantageoftheintelligencegained

acrossthenetworkandthroughoutyourbusinesstohelpyoucompeteandexcel.

Reduce costsIntoday’sfinancialclimate,reducingcostsisthetoppriorityforchiefintelligence

officers(CIOs)–notjustdrivingdowncostsoverall,butusingITresourcesmore

efficiently.Thisimperativerequiresnotjustincrementalimprovementsinsavingsor

costreductions,butdramaticimprovementsintotalcostofownership–leveraging:

•standardization

•alternativeservicedeliverymodels

•energyefficiency

•virtualization

•consolidation

Systemx®andBladeCenter®serversandtoolsaredesignedwithimproved

efficiencyandcoolingtolowercostsbyreducingenergyusageinyour

datacenter.SystemxandBladeCenterserverscanhelpcutcostswith

technologiesthatnotonlyincreaseperformanceperwatt,butalsohelp

planandcontroltheirpowerusage.Andbyconsolidatingandvirtualizing

onIBMSystemxandBladeCenterservers,youcanincreasetheutilization

ofhardwareanddecreasethenumberofphysicalassetsinyourdatacenter,

potentiallysavingyoumoney.

Improve serviceYourbusinessfacesincreasinglysavvycustomersandaproliferationof

agilecompetitors.Tobuildasmarterplanetandwinintoday’sfast-paced

business landscape, you need to transform your service delivery models

toachievesuperior,differentiateddeliveryofgoodsandservices.Smarter

servicedeliveryrequires:

•comprehensivevisibilityintothefullbreadthofbusinessandITassets

thatsupportservices

•effectivecontroloverthoseassetsaswellasthebusinessprocesses

theyenable

•extensiveautomationoftheseprocessessothatservicescanbe

delivered more reliably and economically

Combiningopen,industrystandardswithdeepbusinessexperienceand

renownedresearchcapabilities,theIBMX-Architecture®blueprintequips

SystemxandBladeCenterserverswithinnovativetechnology,suchasIBM

SystemsDirector6.1,makingITsimplerandmorereliable.Thesecapabilities

canhelpsupportgrowth–bothofyourbusinessandyourdatacenter.

Manage riskGlobalexpansion,emergingtechnologiesandtherisingvolumeand

sophisticationofnewthreatshaveincreasedthedemandforimproved

securityandresiliencymeasuresforbusinessesofallsizes.Byenhancing

security and resiliency, IT becomes more responsive and better prepared

tomeettheneedsofthebusiness.Criticalriskreductionissuesinclude:

•infrastructuresecurityandresiliency

•informationanddataprotection

•regulatorycompliance

Proactive,secure,integratedtoolsprovidedbySystemxandBladeCenter—for

trackinganddeployingassets,optimizingperformanceandevenenabling

remotemaintenance—provideasingle,secure,consistentinterfacetomanage

yourIT.Anintelligentsystemdesignthatincludesmultiplelayersofredundancy,

memoryprotectionandadvancedavailabilitytoolsprovidesthecriticalresiliency

you need.

IBMSystemxenterpriseserversaretheidealplatformforhighlyconsolidated,

virtualserverenvironmentsrunningtoday’sbusiness-criticalapplications—

likedatabaseprocessing,customerrelationshipmanagementandenterprise

resourceplanning.Withmultipleworkloadsrunningonthesameserver,

performance remains important but reliability and availability become

morecriticalthanever.IBMSystemxenterpriseserversarebuiltwitheX4

technology,whichincludeauniquechipsetandotheradvancedcapabilities

thatgiveyouhigherthroughputandexceptionalreliability.

ThephilosophyregardingIBMSystemxrackandtower-basedserversis

“innovationcomesstandard.”Someservervendorsviewuni-andtwo-socket

serversascommodities,usingoff-the-shelfcomponentstoproducecookie-

cutterserverswithnoaddedvalue.Instead,IBMX-Architecturesystemdesign

beginswithstandardpartsandaddsinnovationtocreatesomethingmore

practical:outstandingdual-andquad-coreperformance,highavailability,

scalability,powerefficiencyandproactivemanageability.

Byintegratingservers,storageandnetworking,IBMBladeCenterishelping

companiesineveryindustrysweepcomplexityaside.Thebladescontainall

thenecessitiestorunanapplication—processors,memory,I/Oandstorage.

Thechassiscontainssharedredundantpower,sharedhot-swapcooling,

DVD,integratedEthernet,storage,switchingandconsolidatedpowerful

management.Itsinnovative,opendesignoffersatruealternativetotoday’s

sprawlingracksandoverheatedserverrooms.Sotossyourcables.Youhave

nothingtolosebutcomplexity.

The growth of virtualization Virtualizationisatermthatisbeingcastaboutbymanyvendorstoday,but

whereisvirtualizationtechnologyadoptionoccurring?AccordingtoIDC1the

geographywherethisgrowthisthestrongestisintheAmericas.Clearly,the

needtotightentheITbudgetisleadingcustomerstolookathowtoleverage

newerIntel®processorsandmemorycapacitytoconsolidateworkloads–

especiallytheirOracleworkloads.

Oracle VMOracleVMisservervirtualizationsoftwarethatfullysupportsbothOracleand

non-Oracleapplications,anddeliversmoreefficientperformance.Backedby

Oracle’sworld-classsupportorganization,customersnowhaveasinglepoint

ofenterprise-classsupportfortheirentirevirtualizationenvironments,including

OracleDatabase,OracleFusionMiddleware,OracleApplications,andLinux®,

which,aswellasallOracleproducts,arecertifiedwithOracleVM.

The virtualization platform for your enterprise server workloadsYouarefacingthechallengesofarapidlyexpandingdatacenter—increased

operatingcosts,inefficientresourceutilizationandanappetiteforreal

estate.Butanysolutionalsohastoincreaseyourflexibility,meetyourprice/

performanceneeds,andmakeapplicationseasiertodeploy,manage,and

support.

“For the enterprise data center, IBM and Oracle cooperating on virtualization is a very compelling value proposition. IBM brings sophisticated high-end hardware, Oracle brings virtualization and mission critical software, and they work together on integration and other services. For a data center manager who’s interested in risk reduction and smooth implementation, what’s not to like?”

– Dan Olds

Principal, Gabriel Consulting Group

Oracle Gets Virtual - Sept 2008

OracleVMdelivers:

•Leading performance–Low-overheadarchitecturewiththeXenhypervisor

providesscalableperformanceunderincreasingworkloadstomeetthemost

aggressiveperformancerequirements.

•Latest hardware support–LeveragethenewhardwarefeaturesfromIntelXeon®

andAMDOpteron™processorsforhigherperformanceandmoreefficient

powermanagement.

•Faster software deployment with Oracle VM Templates–Downloadandimport

pre-configuredvirtualmachinescontainingpre-installedOracleenterprise

applicationsorothersoftwaretogetupandrunninginhoursnotweeks.

•Rapid virtual machine (VM) provisioning and cloning–Sparsefilesupportin

OCFS2enablessignificantlyfastervirtualmachineprovisioningandcloning;

allowusersmorecontroloverdataallocation,improvingperformanceand

storageefficiency.

•Secure Live VM Migration–Completelyeliminateserviceoutagesassociated

withplannedmaintenanceorscaleupyourresourcesquicklybymigrating

runningVMstootherserversoverSecureSocketsLayer(SSL)linkswithout

interruption.

•High availability–ReliablyandautomaticallyrestartfailedVMsonother

serversintheserverpoolafterunexpectedserver-orindividualVMoutage.

Anew,serverpoolmasterauto-failoverfeatureeliminatesanysinglepointof

failureforvirtualizationmanagement.

•Automatic or manual server pool load balancing–GuestVMsareautomatically

placedontheserverwiththemostresourcesavailableinthepoolatstart-up,

orcanbestartedwithinauser-designatedsubsetofservers.

•Virtual CPU scheduling priorities and caps per VM–ControlaccesstoCPU

betweenmultipleVMstoalignwithyourITandbusinesspriorities.

•Virtual Machine I/O resource management–Setbandwidthcapforeach

virtualnetworkinterfaceandprioritizethevirtualdisks.

•Linux and Microsoft® Windows® support–LinuxandWindowsguestoperating

systems are supported.

•Official certification based on real-world testing–Certificationissupported

forusewiththemostsophisticatedenterpriseworkloadsunderreal-world

conditions.

• Virtualization and management: zero license costs, zero license keys–This

includesOracleVMManagerforcentralized,browser-basedmanagement

of your resource pools.

•Sub-capacity pricing–Thisfeatureofferstheabilitytodefinehardpartitions

onaserverandthenonlylicensetheprocessorsocketsassignedtothat

partitionhelpsreducelicensefees.

•Affordable, full-stack enterprise-class support–Oracleoffersworldwide

supportfortheentirevirtualizationenvironmentandworkloadstogether.

Integrated server virtualization and management ConsistingofOracleVMServer,opensourceserversoftware,andanintegrated

Webbrowser-basedmanagementconsole,OracleVMManager,OracleVM

providesaneasy-to-use,feature-richgraphicalinterfaceforcreatingand

managingvirtualserverpools,runningonx86andx86-64processor-based

systemsthroughouttheenterprise.

UserscancreateandmanageVMsthatexistonthesamephysicalserver

butthatcanbehaveindependently,witheachVMhavingitsownvirtualCPUs,

networkinterfaces,storage,andoperatingsystem.

OracleVMsupportsthefollowingguestoperatingsystems(both32-bitand

64-bit):

•Both paravirtualized (PV, or virtualization aware) and hardware-virtualized

kernels

- RedHatEnterpriseLinux4and5

- OracleEnterpriseLinux4and5

•Hardware-virtualized kernels only (virtualization support in hardware –

Intel VT or AMD-V required)

- RedHatEnterpriseLinux3(32-bitPVdriversalsoavailable)

-Windows2008SP1,WindowsVista,Windows2003,WindowsXPPro

(32-bitand64-bitPVdriversavailable)

-Windows2000

CustomersshouldfeelconfidentrunningOracleVMbasedsolutionswithall

IBMSystemxandBladeCenterproducts.IBMcontinuestoworkcloselywith

Oracletoprovideuniqueandsignificantproofpointsthatdemonstratethe

uniquevaluethesesolutionsbringtocustomers.

Oracle VM TemplatesOracleVMTemplatesprovideaninnovativeapproachtodeployingafully

configuredsoftwarestackbyofferingpre-installedandpre-configured

softwareimages.UseofOracleVMTemplateseliminatestheinstallationand

configurationcosts,andreducestheongoingmaintenancecostshelping

organizationsachievefastertimetomarketandlowercostofoperations.

OracleVMTemplatesformanykeyOracleproductsandthirdpartyapplications

areavailablefordownload,includingOracleApplications,OracleFusion

Middleware,andOracleDatabase,belowisapartiallist(acompletelistis

available at: oracle.com/technology/products/vm/templates):

•OracleSiebel(CRM)SIA8.1.1and8.0

•OraclePeopleSoftHCM9.1andPeopleTools8.50.02

•Oracle’sJDEdwardsEnterpriseOne9.0Update1andJDEdwards

EnterpriseOneTools8.98Update2

•OracleE-BusinessSuite12.1.1

•OracleWebLogicServer10gRelease3

•OracleBusinessIntelligenceEnterpriseEdition10.1.3.4

•OracleApplicationServer10gRelease3WebCenter

•OracleIdentityManagement10gRelease2

•OracleFusionMiddlewareServiceOrientedArchitecture(SOA)10.1.3.4

and10.1.3.3

•OracleDatabase11gandOracleDatabase10gRelease2

•OracleRealApplicationClusters(RAC)11gRelease1

IBM System x, Oracle VM and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne benchmark testTheIBMOracleInternationalCompetencyCenter(ICC)wasthefirsttoexecute

acertifiedJDEdwardsEnterpriseOnebenchmarkrunningonthenewIntel

Xeon5500seriesprocessors.ThisbenchmarkconfigurationincludedtheIBM

Systemx3650M2whichwaspartitionedusingOracleVM.Theenvironment

wasinstalledusingtheOracleVMTemplatesforJDEdwardsEnterpriseOneto

facilitatearapidinstallation.Oracle’srobust“DayintheLife”(DIL)testkitwas

usedtogeneratethesimulateduserworkloads.

ThetestswererunwithJDEdwardsEnterpriseOne9.0inavirtualmachine

withOracleVM64-bithypervisorand64-bitparavirtualizedLinuxguest

operatingsystem.ThewebservervirtualmachineusedOracleApplication

Server10gRelease3andthedatabaseserverranOracleDatabase11g.

Oracle’sDILkitisasuiteof17testscriptsthatexercisesrepresentative

transactionsofthemostpopularJDEdwardsEnterpriseOneapplications

includingSupplyChainManagement,SupplierRelationshipManagement,

HumanCapitalManagement,CustomerRelationshipManagement,and

FinancialManagement.Thiscomplexmixtureofapplicationsalsoincludes

AdvancedPricing,Verity,Vertexandbatchworkloadstomorecloselyreflect

customer environments.

Figure1showstheCPUutilizationforeachofthethreeOraclevirtualmachines

forthefourteststhatwererun.TheOraclevirtualizeddatabasewasallocated

twocores,theJDEdwardsEnterpriseOnevirtualmachine(theJDEdwards

EnterpriseOnelogicserver)wasallocatedtwocores,andthewebservervirtual

machinewithOASwasallocatedthreecores.TheCPUutilizationforthethree

virtualmachinesscaledalmostlinearlyasthenumberofusersincreasedfrom

100to1000.Theweightedaverageuserresponsetimeforthesetestsranged

from0.21secondsforthe100usertestto0.29secondsfor1000usertest,

wellbelowthebenchmarkguidelineof1.0secondresponsetime.

Figure 1 – JD Edwards EnterpriseOne CPU % utilization with Oracle VM and Linux on the x3650 M2

Sizing Oracle VM systemsIBMandOracleworkingtogetherhavedevelopedacapacity-estimation

capabilitytoaidindesigninganoptimalconfigurationforeachspecificOracle

VMenvironment.Adetailedsizingestimatecustomizedforyourenvironment

shouldbeobtainedfromtheIBMTechlineSolutionSizingTeam,accessible

throughyourIBMorIBMBusinessPartnerrepresentative.Youcandownload

aquestionnairetostartthesizingprocessfrom:

ibm.com/erp/sizing

The IBM and Oracle alliance Since1986,IBMandOraclehavepartneredtocreatesmart,seriousinnovation

that’shelpingshifttheworld.Morethan100000jointcustomersbenefitfrom

thestrengthandstabilityoftheOracleandIBMalliance,whichofferstechnology,

applications,services,andhardwaresolutionsthatmitigaterisk,boostefficiency,

andlowertotalcostofownership.

IBM’sserviceorganization,IBMGlobalBusinessServices,isanOracle

CertifiedAdvantagePartnerandhasaproventrackrecordwithmorethan

5000experiencedprofessionalswhohavecompletedmorethan7500Oracle

projects.IBMandOraclecontinuallyenhancethealliancetoensuretheyare

helpingcompaniesrespondquicklytoconstantlyshiftingmarketconditionsand

clientdemands.Thisisaccomplishedthroughthedeliveryofindustry-specific

hardwareandsoftwaresolutions,optimizedtotheclient’senvironment.

For more informationTofindoutmoreaboutjointsolutionsfromIBMandOracle,pleasecontact

anIBMsalesrepresentativeat1-866-426-9989,orvisitusat:

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ibm.com/systems/bladecenter

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www.oracle.com/us/technologies/virtualization

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