2. Oracle on VMware Jesús Fernández VMware Spain Diciembre 2009 (Yes you can)

3. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 2 Oracle on VMware: WHY?!

4. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 3 Reduce HW and SW costs by >50% Consolidate servers by 4X – 20X, consolidate licenses Match Native Performance Even in Consolidation Scenarios 95%+ Oracle instances match native performance on VMware Accelerate Application Delivery Provision On-Demand (production and test/dev) Virtualization-Friendly Licensing Increase utilization of Oracle licenses Performance Increase Application Quality of Service Scale dynamically Built-in High Availability and simple Disaster Recovery App DeliveryApp QoSOracle LicensingConsolidation Why Deploy Oracle Products on VMware?

5. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 4 The Challenge: Database Sprawl and Costs Low utilization of HW and SW 5%-15% range (average ~6%) 1 Intense over-provisioning due to extremely-conservative sizing ORCL Too many small to mid-sized Oracle… ~ 4% of x86 servers Business-Critical DB Enterprise Edition 60K 120K 180K 240K 300K $247K … And very high cost per instance (SW and HW) $124K Departmental DB Enterprise Edition ORCL lic., (EE, Single- Instance, 4 cores) ORCL Maint. Oracle license: Enterprise Edition (EE) Single- Instance, 8 cores 8-core srvr Oracle Maint 1 VMware Capacity Planner, 700K+ servers surveyed through 3/2009 ORCL 2 sockets/ 8 cores 1 socket/ 4 cores 4-core server

6. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 5 Database Operational Challenges DB Production Infrastructure Slow provisioning Weeks or months lead time for new DB Lab AppORCL Inefficient testing Overhead and time to clone from production to lab High Availability not offered for all DBs HA / DR complex and expensive Many unprotected DB instances Difficult to size and scale Re-sizing DB highly disruptive Over-provisioning to compensate for future requirements ORCL

7. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 6 Oracle Support for VMware

8. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 7 Oracle Support for VMware Show of hands in the room: How many of you have actually tried Oracle on VMware, in any capacity? How many of you would agree that Oracle Support is the #1 issue affecting your decision to virtualize Oracle on VMware?

9. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 8 Oracle Support for VMware Yes! Oracle has a support statement for VMware Oracle Metalink (MyOracleSupport) 249212.1 defines Oracle’s VMware support policy most-broadly Support facts: Oracle will accept SRs on VMware for bugs already known to Oracle Oracle may accept SRs on VMware for bugs that are not seen by Oracle as being caused by virtualization Oracle maintains (as do most ISVs) right to require physical reproduction if they suspect VMware is “at fault” Oracle RAC “expressly not supported” – but it is allowed! http://viops.vmware.com/home/docs/DOC-1121 http://viops.vmware.com/home/docs/DOC-1121

10. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 9 Oracle Support for VMware Yes! 100s of VMware customers are deploying Oracle on VMware – do you want to be one of them? Oracle Customers worldwide run Oracle on VMware Databases, Middleware, AND Applications: Oracle Support routinely accepts SRs up the entire Oracle stack So why can’t you take advantage of Oracle on VMware? “Oracle Sales Reps tell me ‘it’s not supported’” Try Oracle Support yourself; start with low-risk Test/Dev & prove it Let VMware show you benefits we bring to Oracle deployments  Start simply with “safe deployments”; build your confidence  Understand that our customers, your colleagues, have gone before you & share their success stories publicly

11. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 10 Oracle Licensing for Virtual Environments

12. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 11 Oracle Licensing: An Interpretation Disclaimer: VMware does not offer official guidance on third-party licensing, but we know rules & know that Oracle allows for benefits here Oracle’s guidelines available publicly online: http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pricing/index.html Oracle licensing should not be a hindrance to any Database or Middleware customer if you know the rules; Apps are easier still Oracle licensing is highly conducive to database consolidation

13. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 12 Oracle Licensing: Interpretation Oracle Licensing: Either by CPU/core, or by User Databases/Middleware: -Licensed by CORE -Must license FULL machine -Virtualization: impacts $ Middleware/Applications: -Licensed by USER -Machine not licensed -Virtualization: no $ impact

14. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 13 Oracle Licensing: CPU-Based SKU Considerations For all of the below situations: License FULL machine Once “fully licensed” you can deploy unlimited VMs! STANDARD EDITION ONE - Licensed by SOCKET -Limited to TWO SOCKETS -Must license FULL machine STANDARD EDITION -Licensed by SOCKET -Limited to FOUR SOCKETS -Must license FULL machine(s) ENTERPRISE EDITION -Licensed by CORE -Apply x86 factor of 0.5 to cores -Must license FULL machine Pricing per Oracle Technology Global Price List, January 29, 2009 $5,800 x 2 = $11,600 $17,500 x 4 = $70,000 $47,500x16 x 0.5 $380,000

15. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 14 Oracle Licensing: Implications for VMotion Example: A DRS Cluster with Oracle Four blades, each w/4 CPU cores; each VM is 2 vCPU (2-core) Solution: Both ORACLE HOSTS must be licensed for all 8 cores on 2 blades  Same physical or virtual: (8 cores) x (0.5 x86 factor) = 4 licenses Free to move that Oracle DB VM back & forth between Host 1 & 2  Oracle permits unlimited VMotion activity Do not let Oracle DB VM migrate to App Host 3 or App Host 4! VMotion Oracle DB

16. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 15 Field Trends

17. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 16 Typical Field Questions How do I determine if my DB is a good candidate? What does the average Oracle DB look like? Will virtualizing Oracle save money? How do I tune for best performance?

18. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 17 Platforms Oracle UNIXLinuxWindows Mainframe OS X86RISC

19. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 18 Platform observations A lot of Sparc/Solaris Windows & Linux a close second Linux gaining over Sparc Not seeing much other

20. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 19 CPUNetworkMemoryDisk Platform resources

21. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 20 Resource Profiling CPU Saturation Idle CPU

22. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 21 Sizing Hardware Resources Saturation  Sustained saturation causes sluggishness  Infrequent saturation is acceptable as long as SLAs are met  50-70% utilization is properly sized Idleness  Prolonged underutilization is inefficient and expensive  A result of sizing for infrequent peaks  Averages below 10% are poorly designed

23. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 22 Typical x86 Oracle Database Its not a Huge I/O consumer Most common Oracle databases have modest I/O profiles Is not a Huge CPU consumer Industry average CPU utilization is low Tuning a DB for virtualization is not unique rocket science Many standard tuning activities benefit virtualized DBs substantially

24. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 23 Prove it!

25. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 24 Capacity Planner

26. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 25 How it works Capacity Planner  Gather Inventory  Sample perf-mon stats  Expose virtualization candidates Physical Servers

27. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 26 Capacity Planner Data Global Data VAST warehouse of system performance data Encompasses over 23,000 customer environments & 139,000 servers Spotlights Industry Averages Oracle DB 2,000 Customers running Oracle 18,000 servers running the Oracle application

28. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 27 Capacity Planner Data - 2007

29. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 28 Capacity Planner Data - 2009

30. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 29 Capacity Planner Findings for Oracle CPU Average CPU capacity is 6GHz Majority of Oracle Servers average less than 6% CPU utilization None of the systems are fully saturated 100% 0%

31. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 30 Capacity Planner Findings for Oracle Memory Average Oracle server has 2G of RAM per core Average RAM Utilization is less than 50% 32GB 2GB

32. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 31 Capacity Planner Findings for Oracle Disk Majority average less than 2000 I/Os ESX supports more than 300,000 I/Os 300,000 2,000

33. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 32 Capacity Planner Findings for Oracle Network Majority average less than 2Mb/s 1 Less than 1% utilization on 1Gbit backbone’s 1Gb/s 2Mb/s

34. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 33 % of Applications Application Capacity Requirements 1. Source: VMware Capacity Planner assessments Application Profile 90% Oracle Servers High Low 100% ESX 3.5 ESX 4.0 4-way 64GB 8-way 256GB 1or2-way

35. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 34 Avg. X86 Oracle Server < 2,000 at peak < 2.4Mbits/s < 4 GB at peak 1 to 2 CPUs 1. Source: VMware Capacity Planner assessments ESX 3.5 100,000 9 Gb/s 64 GB per VM 4 VCPUs ESX 4.0 300,000+ 20 Gb/s + 255 GB per VM 8 VCPUs VM capacity

36. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 35 Customer Example

37. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 36 Customer Oracle Profile Monitored 6 Oracle servers over 3 weeks using Capacity Planner Database proddb02 proddb03 proddb04 Application Server prodapp01 prodapp02 devdb04

38. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 37 Customer Oracle CPU Profile

39. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 38 CPU Profile Average processor utilization per host Aggregate average less than 6%

40. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 39 Memory Profile Average memory utilization per host ESX 4 supports 256GB of RAM 115 GB aggregate physical memory

41. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 40 Customer’s I/O Profile Average I/O utilization per host Average is below 1,000 IO/s

42. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 41 DB requirements (4-CPU Oracle DB) vSphere Capacity Disk IOPS Database Requirements vs. VI Capacity I/O Usage of Oracle DBs 20K 40K 60K 80K 100K 1,200 300,000

43. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 42 Virtualization Scenario for 5 production Sparc servers Only 2 ESX hosts would be required Utilization is still low, lots of head room

44. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 43 Save Money

45. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 44 *Source: IDC and VMware TAM program Infrastructure Cost per App $14,235 $5,694 Before VMwareAfter VMware The VMware Effect: Customer Breakthroughs 60% Reduction in Cost 2–3x Gain in Productivity Workloads per Admin 30–75 Before VMwareAfter VMware 100–250

46. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 45 RISC-UNIX vs X86 Observations UNIX servers very costly to procure and maintain HUGE savings on typical 4-way systems Dev/Test/Stage servers account for majority of systems  3:1 ratios not uncommon  Labs use more space than production  Many man hours to manage system images and state Organizations switching to Linux-x86  More horsepower/$  Easier to horizontally scale  Perfect for Virtualization

47. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 46 RISC-UNIX vs X86 cost per VM x86RISC-UNIX Cost for 16core Server (64 GB RAM) $16,000$86,000 Cost for Virtualization$5,750$0 Subtotal$21,750$86,000 Total VMs15 Price per VM $1,450$5,730

48. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 47 Performance Tips

49. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 48 VMware Resources Whitepapers Case Studies VMware Technical Papers Reference Architectures Storage & Networking Vendor Websites Your local SE or Partner

50. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 49 Performance Resources The performance community  http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/general/performance http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/general/performance Performance web page for white papers  http://www.vmware.com/overview/performance http://www.vmware.com/overview/performance VROOM!—VMware performance blog  http://blogs.vmware.com/performance http://blogs.vmware.com/performance

51. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 50 General VMware Tips  Upgrade to vSphere in 2009  Separate cluster if necessary  For VI3.5 use latest updates  Lower alarm thresholds  Understand Performance charts and how to interpret them  Develop a periodic Capacity Management review of critical apps.

52. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 51 General Best Practices: VM Setup During VM creation select right guest OS type  Determines the monitor type and related optimizations  Determines default optimal devices and their settings  Do not choose ‘other’ Install 64-bit OS if large amounts of memory are needed Choose a OS version with fewer timer interrupts  Windows, Linux 2.4 100/sec per vCPU  Some Linux 2.6 250/sec per vCPU  Some Linux 2.6 1000/sec per vCPU Disable unused devices that use a polling scheme  USB, CDROM  Consume CPU when idle

53. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 52 CPU Tips CPU Nehalem & Barcelona are desirable (Virtaulization Assist) Simultaneous Multi-Threading can help, understand how it works Start minimum CPU(s), add more if necessary Keep CPU Ready Times below 1000ms.

54. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 53 Memory Tips Memory Start with 2GB per vCPU Large Memory Pages provide substantial gains. Guarantee 25% of the RAM

55. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 54 Disk Tips Disk Shared Storage is a must I/Os capacity is a function of spindles. Avoid RDMs, not necessary! Enable Multi Path I/O

56. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 55 Platform Optimization: Storage Over 90% of storage related performance problems stem from misconfigured storage hardware Consult SAN Configuration Guides Ensure disks are correctly distributed Ensure caching is enabled Consider tuning layout of LUNs across RAID sets Spread I/O requests across available paths FC Switch VMware ESX HBA1HBA2HBA3HBA4 Storage array SP2SP1 1234

57. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 56 Networking Tips Network Consider enabling Jumbo Frames for iSCSI & NFS Separate production network form iSCSI, vMotion & Service Console Use teaming for redundancy and throughput

58. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 57 Overcoming Objections

59. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 58 User Priorities (Business Owner) Responsiveness Functionality Availability Reliability

60. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 59 IT Priorities Support Reliability Availability Performance

61. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 60 Tolerancia a fallos del hardware Cobertura de aplicaciones Transformación de los niveles de servicio relacionados con la disponibilidad VMware FT Sin protección Reinicio automático Continua 0%10%100% Con VMware HA

62. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 61 Successful Strategies Use this presentation!  Stress Oracle’s support statement  Articulate the Capacity capabilities of VMware  Assure resource guarantees  Adhere to Best Practices  Ask your local SE or partner to broker a reference call

63. Copyright © 2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. 62