1. Why Now? Oracle on Red Hat on Intel

2. Introduction ● PRINCE2 Project Managers are addicted to love business cases ● MYRA loves UNIX ● I was assigned to MYRA's UNIX business value review following the Oracle purchase of Sun Microsystems ● Oracle Enterprise RDBMS is our customers' most valuable UNIX function

3. Why Now?

4. Why?

5. $

6. Who Cares About $? ● More Oracle? Processor vs Named User, Data Guard, RAC, etc ● Upgrade your storage! ● Get some App Dev done ● Employee Innovation Program ● Buy bonus yacht ● Promotion ● Pat on the head

7. Now? ● Now was since “Nehalem” (2009), but I wasn't paying enough attention ● Annual savings make sooner better than later

8. Oracle Core Factors ● Slow Ts: 0.25 ● POWER, Itanium: 1.0 ● SPARC64VII: 0.75 ● Mostly: 0.5

9. What's a “Nehalem”? ● Core Factor licensing means we want big, fast cores ● Better performance = fewer cores = less $$$ ● POWER7 and Itanium2 get dinged at 1.0. Ow! ● Best chips? Intel Xeon E5s – 0.5 Core Factor – 2, 4, 6 and 8 core models – Increases clockspeed if single-threaded

10. MYRA Oracle Benchmarks? ● Anecdotal / limited number ● “You may not: – - disclose results of any program benchmark tests without our prior consent.” ● But! Saved more money than projected... ● On, to industry-standard SPEC benchmarks! ● “an ounce of honest data was worth more than a pound of marketing hype” ● 6,642 systems tested CINTRate2006

11. Designing for $

14. What Happened? ● Xeon was catching up ● Nehalem overtook ● Now Xeon's lapped 'em

15. What Happened?

16. Xeon Complacency? ● Latest 4-core build beats: – 132 different 6-core builds ($20k pa) – 1205 different 8-core builds ($40k pa) – 10 different 12-core builds ($80k pa) – 122 different 16-core builds ($120k pa) – 1 18-core build ($140k pa)

17. Database = SPEC? ● Orace Core Factor Table means all we care about ($!!) is CPU ● RAM, IO, Network are 'free' ● SAP database benchmarks line up with SPEC benchmarks, where available (445 vs 6,642) ● T2+ only exception – but still gets sand kicked in its face ● [breakout – SAP vs SPEC?]

18. Real $? ● M5000 fully loaded 224GB RAM, plus named-user M4000 Dev/Test and cold M4000 DR ● Private datacentre ● 3-year refresh/amortization ● Full end-to-end enterprise support contracts ● Perpetual licensing (software support only) ● Actual customer discounts applied (not 'list')

19. $ ● $496 000 per year savings – $232k Oracle RDBMS software support – $196k Hardware purchase/support – $46k Power/Datacentre – $22k Operating System ● Prod HP DL380 Dual X5687s, 192GB RAM ● Dev/Test DL380 Single X5687, processor licensing ● DR DL380 Dual X5687s, cold ● RHEL6, Oracle 11.2.0.3

20. Why That? ● HP was customer's preferred x86 vendor – all HP datacentre ● X5687s were previous-generation equal of M5000 (E5-2643 better now, or maybe E5-1660 if Tier 1 server build) ● RHEL6 fully-certified with both Oracle and HP

21. Other Options? ● Oracle Linux closely related to RHEL, but third- party certification thin (e.g. HP, Cerner) ● Solaris x86 and Windows poor operational experiences for Oracle ● SuSE less popular in NA, recent takeover ● E5-1660 not yet available at time-of-build, and no Tier-1 server builds, still ● AIX/POWER7 candidate, but Core Factor 1.0

22. Why Now? ● ~$10k a week, $41k a month, $496k a year – who can wait? ● Having a Yacht/Storage/AppDev is better now than later ● I need another Business Case, it's been weeks!

23. Why Me? ● Now you know how much you'll save, my hourly rates actually seem reasonable ● MYRA is partnered with Red Hat, Intel, HP, Fujitsu (demo gear, anyone?) ● Current certifications in PRINCE2 (and PMP, if you like that sort of thing), Red Hat, Oracle and Solaris ● Huge operational experience with Oracle on several platforms