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Extreme Performance for Oracle Middleware

Martien Ouwens
Principal Solutions Architect

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product direction. It is intended for information
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material, code, or functionality, and should not be
relied upon in making purchasing decisions.
The development, release, and timing of any
features or functionality described for Oracles
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Agenda
The Hardware Value of
Exalogic
The Oracle Stack:
Benefits Layer by Layer

Servers and Security

Networking
Virtualization
Operating Systems
Management

Putting it all Together:

Example Scenarios

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Exalogic delivers stunning

The Hardware Value of Exalogic

Optimized for Middleware Performance
Better
BetterScaling
Scalingwith
with
Optimized
OptimizedLinux
Linux
or
orSolaris
SolarisPlatform
Platform

Accelerates
Accelerates
Applications
Applications
using
usingSolaris
Solaris
Virtualization
Virtualization

Lower
LowerResponse
Response
Times
Timeswith
withInfiniband
Infiniband
Interconnect
Interconnect

Oracle offers a complete Stack

Hardware and Software. Engineered to Work Together.

Oracle Servers and Storage

Engineered to Work with Oracle Middleware

Latest SPARC and Intel processors for

optimal middleware performance
Hardware Encryption for fast SSL
connections
Storage Servers with Oracle FlashFire
technology to improve middleware I/O
response times, especially when
running many virtualizes apps on one
host
Up to 1TB Main Memory per node to
allow hosting of many virtualized
application instances per node

End-to-End Transaction Security

Used by Software, Accelerated in Hardware

SSL, WS-Security scenarios

Acceleration of Oracle Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)

operations, FIPS 140-2 Level 3 certified secure token store

Hardware Crypto Acceleration

No Need to waste Licensed Processor Cores on Crypto

SPARC T3
16 Crypto Units per Chip
RSA-1024: 79.000 Ops/sec

Crypto Accelerator Card

PCIe Card for SPARC and
x86 Oracle servers
Support for Solaris & Linux
RSA-1024: 13.000 Ops/sec
Secure Token Store for TDE
FIPS 140-2 Level 3 certified

Solaris makes using Crypto Easy

The Solaris Cryptographic Framework
Apache
SSH

Oracle
Fusion

OpenSSL

Java JCE

Oracle
TDE

Consumer Interface PKCS#11

Solaris Crypto Framework
Provider Interface PKCS#11

3rd Party
HW
Prov.

SPARC T3
Crypto
CPUs

SCA6000
Crypto
Card

No change in
Application
Configuration needed
to use Hardware
Accelerated Crypto,

Solaris does that

For You!

Increased WebLogic Security

SPARC T3 Hardware Encryption and Solaris SSL
3x more SSL users
served without the need
to add and license
additional processors!

Solaris SSL

SPARC T3 Hardware
Encryption

For more details, see http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/systems-hardware-architecture/security-weblogic-t-series-168447.pdf

Less than 10% Overhead using Solaris and

Hardware assisted Encryption

Response time [ms]

Based on a Study with WebLogic

Java Default (JCE)
JCE & HW Crypto
KSSL & HW Crypto
No Crypto

Number of CMT Threads (1x UltraSPARC T2)

Why not use external SSL Appliances?

Crypto Acceleration being part of the server is better, because:

More affordable: With each SPARC T3 server,

crypto is free
Less complexity: No additional vendor or
management interface
HA by default: If server setup is HA, so is
Crypto
DR capable: Crypto Cards can be added to an
M-Series server while the database keeps
running
Easy to setup redundant TDE key store with
two Crypto Cards and DR
Tight integration into Solaris Crypto framework

vs.

Middleware needs fast Storage

Example: ZFS Storage 7320 Appliance as built into the Exalogic System

4TB Flash Read Cache allows

ultrafast access to high number of
app files in consolidated environment

(IPoIB)

Storage connected to app server

nodes via Infiniband
(Other protocols also possible)

Oracle Networking
Because application grids need good connections

One of the main performance drivers of

the Oracle Exalogic System is the
Infiniband Node Interconnect
3x more bandwidth, 1/10x the latency
compared to 10-Gigabit Ethernet
The same Infiniband technology can be
used to improve generic Oracle
Weblogic application performance:
To connect Weblogic server nodes
To connect Weblogic servers to
Database servers

The Infiniband Performance Advantage

Always good, even better with Exalogic Optimizations
For every Application:
IP over InfiniBand (IPoIB)
1.5-3x gain over 10GbE

With Exalogic:
Sockets Direct Protocol (SDP) and
more

Native InfiniBand protocol

Low latency
50% better than IPoIB
Reduced IO Buffer Copying,
Zero copies in WebLogic Server
Network packets size of 64k instead
of 4k reduce Network overhead

Oracle Virtualization
Better TCO for Virtualized Database Installations
Speed up and simplify Oracle Weblogic
deployment with Oracle VM Templates
Run database and applications in one
common virtualized environment using
Oracle VM or Oracle Solaris Containers
Lower support complexity by using a fully
supported virtualisation architecture for
Weblogic
Lower middleware TCO
Oracle VM and Oracle Solaris Container
24x7 support included in hardware support
contract
Oracle VM and Oracle Solaris Container
Hard Partitions are recognized by Weblogic
licensing rules

Oracle VM Templates
Rapid Application Deployment

Example: VM Templates for Oracle

WebLogic Server 10g Release 3
For Test and Production Environments
The Oracle VM Templates for Oracle WebLogic Server
provide the necessary software to easily deploy WebLogic
Server applications in an Oracle VM environment.
The templates are available on x86 platforms for both 32-bit
and 64-bit
Each template has the following software components:
Oracle Linux 5.2 (minimal install using the JeOS method),
Oracle JRockit JRE (Oracle JRockit JDK 6.0 R27.6), and
Oracle WebLogic Server (Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3.0.0)

Oracle Operating Systems

Choose Oracle Solaris or Oracle Linux

If it must Work, it runs on Solaris

#1 Oracle deployment platform
Mission-critical reliability and security
Delivers HW accelerated SSL and
IPsec to all applications

Oracle Linux
100% Red Hat Linux compatible
Enterprise Kernel optimized for Oracle
software

Oracle Solaris and Oracle Linux

24x7 Support included in hardware
support contract

Oracle Solaris
The best Operating Environment for Application Consolidation

Same virtualization technology for SPARC,

x86 and Exalogic systems
Resource sharing combined with lowest
overhead and highest performance
Ressource controls accepted as Hard
Partitions with Oracle software licensing

Transparently managed by Enterprise

Manager Ops Center
Integrated in Solaris Instrumentation and
Monitoring toolkit (Dtrace) for both servers
and storage

Oracle Solaris
The best Operating Environment for Application Consolidation

Ultimate Security for Applications

Secure by Default networking

Delegate and control only the privileges

needed

Integrated Audit and Reporting Tool

Cryptographic infrastructure enabled

Hardware accelerated SSL and IPsec
cryptography for every application

Oracle Solaris Trusted Extensions

Common Criteria Certification

Oracle Solaris
The best Operating Environment for Application Consolidation

Oracle Solaris Clustering

High Availability for large portofolio of Oracle

and 3rd party applications
Seamless integration with Solaris virtualization
Single-step upgrades

Predictive Self Healing: Stop Problems

Before They Happen
Takes faulty hardware offline before running
applications can be harmed
Monitors and restarts services automatically

Oracle Management
One integration management solution for software and hardware

Monitor your middleware performance

from application to disk
Find performance bottlenecks more
quickly by drilling down to virtualization
and hardware layer
Lower middleware infrastructure
operation complexity by using one tool
for provisioning, patching and updating

Introducing: Enterprise Manager Ops Center 11g

Hardware Management Solution for Oracle Hardware
Integrated Infrastructure
Management
+
Integrated Application-toDisk Management
+
Integrated Lifecycle
Management
+
Integrated Systems
Management & Support

Elastic Infrastructure
From Applications to Power Supplies

Putting it all Together

Oracle Optimized Solution for WebLogic
SPARC T3-1B Blade
Server Modules
with SSL
Acceleration

Application
Server Tier

Cache Tier

Solaris 10
Oracle ActiveCache

Database
Tier

Solaris 10
Oracle Database 11g

Blade X6270
Server Modules

M5000 Server
Plus Flash
Storage

Putting it all Together

Oracle Optimized Solution for Webcenter

SSL

Users
10 Gb Ethernet or Infiniband

Sun Storage 7420

Sun Blade 6000

Putting it all Together

SPARC Supercluster

Putting it all Together

Example Scenario: Replacing 3-year old virtualized
Weblogic Cluster

Scenario: TCO Comparison

Lower TCO for Oracle Hardware compared to Dell

Scenario: Notes
Servers choosen with fastest processor and memory
available, to maximise Weblogic license ROI
To estimate Weblogic Performance, SPECjbb2005
was used:
Cumulated SPECjbb old systems: 1514418 JOPS/sec (*)
Cumulated SPECjbb new systems: 3249432 JOPS/sec (*)

RHEL subscription and VMware virtualization pricing

taken from Red Hat Virtualization Competitive Pricing
Calculator
http://www.redhat.com/virtualization/rhev/server/cost/
(*) Old System: Dell PowerEdge 2950 (2 chips, 4 cores, 4 threads) 252,403 SPECjbb2005 bops; New System Oracle Sun X4270
M2 (2 chips, 6 cores, 12 thread) 812,358 SPECjbb2005 bops. SPEC and the benchmark name SPECjbb2005 are
trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Competitive benchmark results stated above reflect
results published on http://www.spec.org as of January 20th, 2011. For the latest SPECjbb2005 benchmark results, visit
http://www.spec.org/osg/jbb2005.

Summary: Why upgrade to Oracle Hardware

when running WebLogic Middleware
Top 3 Reasons

Get more performance from your existing

license and support investments
Virtualize without adding cost and
complexity
Single Management for middleware and
hardware

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