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Oracle Linux and OracleVM

2. • Challenges Solution Provider
• Overview of Oracle Linux and
OracleVM
• Customer Perspective
• Oracle Support
Agenda

3. Challenges of a Solution Provider
Control Costs, Maximize Value, Simplify
How can you:
•Win more projects?
•Maximize project from each project?
•Differentiate from competitors?
•Simplify engagement with customer?

4. Oracle Oracle Linux and OracleVM
Why are we investing in both?
• Nobody owns Linux – not Oracle, not Red Hat, not SUSE
• Linux receives contributions from a variety of sources
representing hardware and software vendors, as well as
community supporters for a variety of solutions
• OracleVM build from Xen Hypervisor Technology and
Minimized Linux Kernel
• Build for Enterprise Solution

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Oracle Linux - History
• Launched at Oracle Open World in 2006
• Compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Freely available source and binaries
• Freely distributable binaries
• Oracle offers Linux support for RHEL and Oracle Linux
• Oracle’s base Linux development platform
• Oracle does not use or test on RHEL
• Customers can switch in minutes – no reinstall needed
• Applications run unchanged
• No Red Hat compatibility bug has ever been reported to
Oracle
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6. Oracle Confidential Internal Use Only
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Traditional Unix Vendor vs. Linux Vendor
Traditional Unix Vendor Linux Vendor
•Develops and tests hardware and OS together •Develops OS only
•Oracle knowledge in development, QA, and
support
•No Oracle expertise, staff
•Tests entire Oracle stack (hardware, OS, and
Oracle Database)
•Limited testing of OS only
•Provides fixes for OS version customer runs
•Customer encouraged to upgrade to latest
release plus fix
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7. Oracle Linux and Sun Hardware
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8. Linux Leadership
Oracle Linux Program
•Pre-installedPre-installed
on Sun x86on Sun x86
blade serversblade servers
Oracle Linux
•GlobalGlobal
Support in 145Support in 145
CountriesCountries
•#1 Linux#1 Linux
DatabaseDatabase
•OracleOracle
ValidatedValidated
ConfigurationsConfigurations
•OracleOracle
ProductProduct
DevelopmentDevelopment
on Linuxon Linux
•All Linux codeAll Linux code
goes to Linusgoes to Linus’’
treetree
•Oracle LinuxOracle Linux
•DevelopmentDevelopment
and Supportand Support
•teamteam

9. Oracle Confidential Internal Use Only
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Oracle VM continues ascend in Magic Quadrant

10. Storage Pool
Server Pool
VM ServerVM Server
Policy-Based Resource Automation
• Distributed resource scheduling (DRS) for
capacity management
• Real-time monitoring of server utilization
• Policy-based automation to rebalance
Server Pool
• Migrate load away from heavily loaded
servers
• Automatically powering up capacity as
needed
• Distributed Power Management (DPM) to
optimize server pool for minimal power
consumption
• Benefits:
• Lower operating costs per server
• Increase admin:server ratios
dramatically
• Improve SLAs via “instant” problem
detection and remediation
• Higher resource utilization
Dynamic Resource Management
Resources Resources

11. Oracle VM Storage Connect Framework
Integrated Server and Storage Management
Forward looking information is subject to change without notice at Oracle's sole discretion.
• Integrated virtualization and
storage management for Sun
and 3rd party storage via a
common interface
• Storage provisioning and
discovery API for Oracle VM 3.0
• Leverage all the resources and
functionality of existing storage
systems in the Oracle VM
environment.
• Reduce cost and complexity in
virtual and cloud environments.
Control
Data
Oracle VM
Manager
Storage Connect
Oracle VM
NAS / SAN
More choice for users, an open ecosystem for partners

12. Oracle VM Templates
Rapid Application Deployment
VM
NAS, SAN, iSCSI
Oracle VM Servers
Oracle VM Server Pool
VM VM
E-Delivery
Download from
Oracle
• Pre-built, pre-configured VM
• Complete app, middleware, DB
installation
• Complete Siebel CRM, Database
11g, Enterprise Manager…
VM
Customize & Save
as Golden Images
VM
Save days or weeks in installation and
configuration time
Start-Up in
Oracle VM Pool
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13. Forward looking information is subject to change without notice at Oracle's sole decretion.
Oracle VM Templates Save Time
• Implementation time for using Oracle VM Templates
 Required only 1/6 of the usual time required for set up a major
reduction in man hours.
Time(m)
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Using Oracle Enterprise Manager Templates
confirm operation
initial setup
apply
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Using normal physical environment
confirm operation
initial setup
apply patch
install software
confirm environ.
install OS
Templates enable the set up of applications within Oracle VM partitions by using scripts that pre-set
many of the necessary settings to run within a virtualized environment.

14. Oracle VM Server Virtualization
• High performance 86 and SPARC (CMT) virtualization
• Virtualization solution for both Oracle and non-Oracle
applications
• The only server virtualization software supported and
certified for all Oracle software across both platforms

15. Oracle: Application Aware Virtualization
Full Stack Data Center Virtualization
Taking you beyond consolidation…
Oracle provides the most COMPLETE solution
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Most comprehensive
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Fully tested with applications
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Designed for full stack deployments
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Integrated, full stack management
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Integrated support

16. The Limits of Strict Red Hat Compatibility
• Red Hat does not validate releases with Oracle
products
• Oracle spends considerable effort to find and repair regressions
introduced by Red Hat
• Red Hat adopts community enhancements slowly
• The current production Red Hat kernel is based on a four year old
community (mainline) version
• Oracle’s ability to make Linux better is constrained
• Much of our work is mainline (OCFS2, BTRFS, RDS, T10-dif, etc.)
• Delivering these enhancements to users requires either waiting on
Red Hat (see above) or back porting them into Red Hat’s old
kernel

17. OL OVM: Freedom to Choose
Selecting What REALLY Matters
Offering Choice, Not Lock-In
•Free to download
•Free to distribute
•Free to use
•Choose your support level individually per server
•Only buy support for the servers you need
•Free updates (errata) - use the same errata across all
systems (production, QA, development)
•Open development – all changes recorded and accessible
in the public git repository

18. Oracle VM Support
Full-Stack Knowledge
• Compute platform issues a complex interaction
of OS, virtualization, and drivers
• Can be challenging to isolate between these
layers, particularly in a multi-vendor
environment
• Resolution may require involvement from each
vendor
• Multiple “round-trips” for information to every vendor
to resolve
• Oracle VM and Oracle Solaris/Linux: One
company to call for full-stack support
• Vs. one for virtualization, one for OS, one for app…
• Minimized resolution time, maximum uptime
Oracle
Solaris / Linux
Oracle VM

19. Oracle Linux Overview
A Customer’s Perspective
Description Price
Subscription Model:
•Effective moving from Capex to Opex model
•Pay what’s matter and of value
2 Types of Kernels:
•Risk-Free adoption from RHEL and CentOS
•High Performance OS for Oracle Workloads
Oracle Linux
Network Support
(USD119)

20. Oracle Linux Overview
A Customer’s Perspective
Description Price
Enterprise Manager 12c and Spacewalk
2.0
•Reduce cost of Linux Administration
•Alternative to Red Hat Satellite and better
Oracle Clustering: Linux High Availability
•Essential component of DB/Apps Clustering
•Alternative to RHCS and GFS
•Ensuring Business continuity
Oracle Support: Enterprise Linux Support
•Only 24x7 support; One Number to Call
Included free
with:
Oracle Linux
Basic Support
(USD 1,199)
Oracle Linux
Basic Ltd
(USD 499)

21. Oracle Linux Overview
A Customer’s Perspective
Description Price
Ksplice
•Improving Application Up-time
•Security compliances within Ops Protocol
Premier Back-Porting Services
•No force OS upgrade for Legacy or
Bespoke Apps
Included free
with:
Oracle Linux
Premier Support
(USD 2,299)
Oracle Linux
Premier Ltd
(USD 1,399)

22. Oracle VM Overview
A Customer’s Perspective
Description Price
VM Templates & Assembly Builder:
•Having better utilization of my manpower Hard-
Partitioning
•Effective lowering of Oracle licenses on VM
Unique Support for Oracle Workload
•Better performance
•Within vendor’s compliances
•Effective resolution for Oracle products
Included free with:
Oracle VM Premier
Support
(USD 1,199)
Oracle VM Premier
Ltd
(USD 599)

23. Enterprise-class support for the Linux operating system
with premier backports, comprehensive management,
indemnification, testing and more – all at significantly
lower cost.
Oracle Linux Support
•24x7 global coverage, 145 countries, 27 local languages
•Dedicated engineering and delivery team
•Backed by world’s largest support team
•Enterprise-quality, Lower cost
•Service Excellence in Integrated Services (TSIA)
•2008 Service Excellence in Mission Critical Support Award
(SSPA)
•2006 J.D. Powers and Associates Global Certification for
Outstanding Customer Support

24. What is Premier Backporting?
• Traditional Backporting = A specific bug fix produced for the latest version of a
package may be retroactively created and introduced as part of an earlier
release or update level (e.g. a bug fix released in RHEL5 or Oracle Linux 5 is
also released as part of RHEL4 or Oracle Linux 4)
• Only Oracle offers Premier Backporting, which goes far beyond traditional
backporting. For example:
• Customer runs RHEL5 or Oracle Linux 5 Update 3 release and encounters a
bug;
• Although EL5 Update 4 is already released, the customer prefers not to
upgrade;
• With Premier Backporting, Oracle will provide a specific bug fix for the version
the customer is running without forcing an upgrade;
• In sharp contrast, a Red Hat support customer must wait to upgrade to the entire
Update release to get just the one bug fix they need.
• Modeled after the way we support traditional Oracle products
No pressure to upgrade to the latest Update release

25. Focus on Linux Testing
•Real-world regression and stress testing
•Customer-centric testing:
• Test Linux features that matter to Oracle customers
• Oracle and non-Oracle workloads (e.g. backup)
running concurrently
• Adverse conditions (low memory, low disk space, etc.)
• Long, continuously running stress tests (detect
memory leaks)
• Check for performance regression and degradation

26. Testing: Oracle Validated Configurations
• Pre-tested, validated, and supported
Linux architectures, including
• Software, hardware, storage, drivers,
networking components
• Best practices for Linux deployment
• Real-world testing of complete stack
• More than 120 configurations
published, freely available for download
oracle.com/linux
Oracle Validated Configurations offer faster Linux
deployments while lowering infrastructure costs
Storage
Server
Oracle Linux
Oracle VM
Oracle Database
Fusion Middleware

27. More Than 5,500 Customers Use Oracle Linux

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