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Athens, Greece
November 2013
Oracle on Power
Power advantages and license
optimization
November 2013
Agenda
Advantages of Power Systems
Virtualization on Power Systems
Description of Power processor terms
Oracle Editions
Standard Edition
RAC
Sub-capacity pricing
Licensing examples
Summary of Power Advantages
Availability
Scalability
Virtualization
Efficency
IBM
GreenIT
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VMware
4.1 update
1 Virtualization
Performance,
Edison Group, September 2011.
7Source: A Comparison of PowerVM
Audi and
Oracle
RACvSphere
Infrastruktur
| M.Springer,
A.Hartmann
| 29.09.2011
http://public.dhe.ibm.com/common/ssi/ecm/en/pol03090usen/POL03090USEN.PDF
Workload Consolidation
Consolidation allows you to size your system for the average usage plus
overhead for peaks of some LPARs (but not all as long as peaks do not
happen at the same time)
Sharing CPU ressources lowers the number of required licenses
Workload Consolidation
Consolidation allows you to save:
Licenses (share CPU ressources)
Memory (Compression, Sharing), Physical Adapters (Sharing)
Followup-Costs (How expensive is one managed LAN/SAN port?)
Rack / Floor Space
Power / Cooling
High-performance Power7
server enable a very efficent
server environment
180
150
160
125
140
min/year
120
100
80
38
35
15
40
54
60
20
0
AIX on Power
Solaris on
SPARC
HP-UX
SuSE Linux
RHEL
Windows
Server 2008
Plattform
10
10
* compare ITIC study, ITIC 2009 Global Server Hardware and Server OS Reliability Survey, July 2009
Audi Oracle RAC Infrastruktur | M.Springer, A.Hartmann | 29.09.2011
Windows
Server 2003
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Oracle Editions
Enterprise Edition
Flagship Oracle database
Many options (with cost) available (RAC, Partitioning, Advanced
Compression, OLAP, etc)
Licensed by core or named user
Standard Edition
Four- socket version, including full clustering support (RAC support)
Licensed by socket or named user
Standard Edition One
Two-socket version of Standard Edition (w/o RAC support)
Licensed by socket or named user
Personal Edition
Full-featured (except RAC) version for a single user
Express Edition
Free of charge, limited (1 Core, 4GB of data), online forum support
Oracle Database Mobile Server (formerly: Oracle Database Lite)
Complete database software for the mobile database applications
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Core Pricing
Socket Pricing
Power Systems
Model
Maximum
Cores
Oracle Enterprise
Edition
Oracle
Standard
Edition
Oracle
Standard
Edition One
8 (8)
1 (1)
Yes
Yes
Yes
8 (8)
1 (1)
Yes
Yes
Yes
16 (16)
2 (2)
Yes
Yes
Yes
16 (16)
2 (2)
Yes
Yes
Yes
32 (32)
4 (8 due to DCM)
Yes
Yes/No
No
Power 760+
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8 due to DCM
Yes
No
No
64 (64)
16
Yes
No
No
128 (128)
16
Yes
No
No
Power 795
256
32
Yes
No
No
For Standard Edition licensing eligibility with RAC the total number of sockets in the
cluster is considered, not just the number of sockets in an individual system.
Some Power7+ are Dual Chip Modules (DCM, 2 chips on each socket). Oracle counts those
as 2 sockets each.
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Socket Pricing
Power Systems
Model
Maximum Cores
Maximum Oracle
Socket Count
Oracle Enterprise
Edition
Oracle
Standard
Edition
Oracle
Standard
Edition One
PS 700
Yes
Yes
Yes
PS 701
Yes
Yes
Yes
PS 702
16
Yes
Yes
Yes
PS 703
16
Yes
Yes
Yes
PS 704
32
Yes
Yes
No
p260
16
Yes
Yes
Yes
p270
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4 due to DCM
Yes
Yes
No
p460
32
Yes
Yes
No
p24L (*)
16
Yes
Yes
Yes
7R1 (*)
Yes
Yes
Yes
7R2 (*)
16
Yes
Yes
Yes
7R4 (*)
32
Yes
Yes
No
For Standard Edition licensing eligibility with RAC the total number of sockets in the
cluster is considered, not just the number of sockets in an individual system.
(*) Running PowerLinux, only Oracle 10g available
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0.25
0.5
0.5
0.75
0.75
Power6/7/7+, System z
Itanium after Dec. 2010
1.0
1.0
Even though Oracle charges more for Power Systems you can still save
license costs on Power as you can better consolidate your instances due to a
much more efficient virtualization compared to e.g. VMWare
Always check the official list on the Oracle website as it is regularly updated.
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Capacity on Demand
Oracle charges for the maximum number of processors the product can
run on at a specific time.
The customer need not license the CoD (Capacity on Demand) until it is
turned on, and then only if the capacity is available to Oracle
If the intent of turning on the CoD is not for Oracle database usage,
there are many ways to limit the active Oracle partition(s) so they can't
use the capacity.
When CoD is on, and depending on the mix of partitions, customer can
also set the processor values to be consistent with the Oracle licensed
values.
When CoD is on, for an Oracle LPAR, the customer may have to
purchase additional Oracle licenses if they dont currently own enough
to cover the additional cores.
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AIX
V5.3
Oracle11g
Oracle10g
Oracle 9i
Linux
Oracle 11g
Oracle 10g
Linux
Oracle Part.ing
WebSphere
WebSphere
WebSphere
WebSphere
WebSphere
Oracle Part.ing
Server
Pool 1
Partition
Int Virt
Linux
Manager
Storage
Sharing
Ethernet
Sharing
2 1Cores
Cores
Virtual
I/O
3
3
15 Cores
Cores
Cores
3
7 Cores
Cores
Oracle 10g
6 Cores
Oracle Part.ing
21Cores
Cores
Virtual
I/O
Server
Partition
Int Virt
Linux
Manager
Storage
Sharing
Ethernet
Sharing
Virtual LAN
POWER Hypervisor
SAN
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Thank you
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