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Oracle VM 3.0
Performance and Scalability

Adam Hawley, Senior Director Product Management

Oracle Desktop & Server Virtualization

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Performance & Scalability

Its Important
Fast:
Need to virtualize with the lowest penalty possible
Price:Performance: Doing the most with the least hardware
Be completely transparent to the business and users

Scalable:
Need to achieve high consolidation ratios
Maintain high performance even with many VMs per server

Reliable, consistent, predictable:

Consistent performance over time
Architectural isolation to prevent impact from neighbor VMs
Capacity plan accurately

Scalable management too: Scale your people easily

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Oracle VM 3.0
Foundation for Application-Driven Virtualization
Virtualization engineered for application-centric architectures

Designed to virtualize all of your data center applications

Designed from the ground up for better scalability, manageability, and
ease-of-use
Completely new management stack allowing central management of the
entire platform

Introduces new capabilities for full stack management

Making applications easier to deploy, manage, and support

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Oracle VM 3.0 Deployment Architecture

Fully Centralized Virtualization Management
Networks
Oracle VM
Manager 3.0

Separate
Guest
HA
Live Migration
Storage
Management

Oracle VM Servers
Up to 160 CPU
Up to 2TB Memory

Server
Pool 2

Server pools
HA groups
Resource groups
Live Migration groups

Shared Storage Repositories

NFS, FCP/SAN, iSCSI

Volumes, files, LUNs
Support heterogeneous configurations
Share storage between multiple pools and clusters.
Ability to share raw device between VMs

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Virtual Machines

Server
Pool 1

Oracle Linux
Solaris for x86
Microsoft Windows
Storage Repository

Oracle Storage

Partner Storage

Server Scalability
Xen-based server architecture
Modern, low-overhead x86 virtualization
Support for paravirtualized operating systems and timer architecture
Results in low-overhead, high-performance and scalability

The latest hypervisor: Xen 4.0

Allows 128 vcpus and 1 TB of RAM per guest
Support for latest hardware features from Intel and AMD

Support for the latest hardware based on the Linux 2.6.32 kernel
Ability to manage resource priorities and caps between VMs

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Network Scalability
Optionally separate and dedicate networks
Guest IP network:
Isolate from high storage I/O
HA heartbeat:
Reliable scalability under heavy load
Live Migration:
Ad hoc migrations wont affect other guests
Storage:
Heavy I/O wont compete with guest IP traffic
Management:
Maximum performance, scalability, reliability

Excellent isolation to support high scalability and predictable performance

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Storage Scalability
Storage

Oracle Cluster Filesystem 2 (OCFS) v1.8

Included with Oracle VM 3.0: no additional license
Enhanced performance

Instant thin-provisioned cloning with OCFS2

Ready-to-start clones in about 1 second
Copy-on-write clones for any OCFS2 LUN
Clones immediately independent and can execute simultaneously on
the same- or different server vs. original copy
Or remove a clone anywhere in the chain at any time without having to
collapse the chain of copies
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Guest OS Scalability
Support for bigger VMs:
128 vCPUs with CPU overcommit support
Up to 1 TB of RAM per guest with ability to hot-add memory

Ability to manage resource priorities and caps between VMs:

CPU and memory caps per VM
Support paravirtualized and hardware virtualized guests
(with- or without PV drivers)
Paravirtualization means virtualization-aware operating systems for lower
overhead and higher scalability

Rapid VM creation options:

Support for Hot Clone clone a running VM
Create VMs from pre-built Templates: ready-to-run applications

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Pool Scalability
Dynamic loadbalancing

Server
Pool 1

On start-up
Automatically identifies the best server for hosting VM(s)
Dynamically at run-time
Dynamic Resource Scheduling (DRS)
Admin policy-based trigger
Algorithms determine best destination host server

High availability clustering up to 32 physical nodes

Auto-restart failed VMs after server or VM failure

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Management Scalability & Ease-of-Use

Enterprise scalability for Oracle VM Manager
Weblogic Server and Oracle Database (incl.) stack
Rich dynamic UI made available by Oracle ADF
Security, availability and control features - available
from Weblogic

Admin scalability: centralized everything

Server discovery
Network & storage configuration and provisioning

Storage Connect:
Create, configure, and operate storage from the
Manager UI

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Management Automation
Policy-automation (DRS, DPM, HA)
Take actions to loadbalance and scale based on administrator
defined policies

Centralized automated update management

Comprehensive activity log organized by time and date

SOA_PROD_1
VM
VM

WebLogic
Server

VM

VM Creation: Templates and Assemblies

Automates and orchestrates deployment of complex applications
packaged as VMs
Support for Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder to package and
deploy enterprise applications

VM

VM
VM

DB

Deployment Policies
Configuration Metadata

Assemblies

Policy Automation

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Budget Scalability:
Oracle VM 3.0 vs Vmware vSphere5
Oracle

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VMware vSphere5

Virtualization:

Oracle VM (2-socket system, Premier

Support, unlimited VMs, unlimited vRAM)
License - $0
Support - $599 / server / yr

VMware vSphere5 Enterprise Plus

Edition (per socket, 96GB vRAM)
License - $3495 x 2 sockets = $6990
Support (Production) - $874 x 2 =
$1748/yr

Management

Oracle VM Manager
License - $0
Support - $0

VMware vCenter Server Standard

License - $4995
Support - $1249 (1yr Production SnS /
instance)

Total Cost
(Annual)

License: $0
Oracle VM (annual): $59,900

VMware Lic (perpetual): $703,995

VMware Support (annual): $176,049

Total Cost
(3 Years)

$179,700

$1,232,142 (6.9X Oracle)

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Source: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere_pricing.pdf

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