Cisco and Oracle as technology front-runners provide YOU the tools you need to optimize your Oracle environments! John McAbel, Senior Product Manager - Oracle Solutions on UCS at Cisco Systems, explains how NetApp and Cisco are providing a flexible infrastructure that helps prepare organizations for today, and for future business growth and change.

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Oracle Database Consolidation
with FlexPod on Cisco UCS
John McAbel
Senior Product Manager
September 2013

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• Looking to STRETCH your IT Budget
• Recognized Value in Complete Server-storage Solutions
• Implement Best Practices Immediately
• Save Oracle Database Licensing/Support Costs
• Supportability, Scalability, Performance

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> 50% Faster
Many Weeks or Months
Accelerating YOUR Business
Service
Request
Design and
Size
DC
Planning
Procure
Detailed
Design
Deploy Test
Service
Available
Traditional
With FlexPod
 Reference BoM
 Validated design
 Precise deployment
 Standard test plan
DC
Planning
Procure Deploy Test
Preprovisioned FlexPod
 Rapid deployment of applications
 Shared pools meet most requirements
Service
Available
X X
DC
Planning
Procure Deploy Test
Service
Available
Benefits
 Agile service delivery
 Higher productivity
 Faster deployment
 Higher quality
 Simpler planning

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Benefits
 Low-risk standardized shared infrastructure supporting a
wide range of environments
 Highest possible data center efficiency
 IT flexibility, providing business agility: scale out or up, but
manage resource pools
Features
 Complete data center in a single rack
 Performance-matched stack
 Step-by-step deployment guides & solutions guide
 Multiple classes of computing/storage supported in a
FlexPod
 Centralized management: NetApp OnCommand and Cisco®
UCS Manager
Cisco®
UCS B-Series
Blade Servers and
UCS Manager
Cisco Nexus®
Family Switches
NetApp®
FAS
10GE and FCoE
Shared infrastructure for wide range of
environments and applications
FlexPod Configuration
Hypervisor
Choice

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UCS Manager
 Embedded—manages entire UCS Domain
Fabric Interconnect
 10GE unified fabric switch
Chassis IO Module
 Remote line card
Blade Server Chassis
 Flexible bay configurations
Blade and Rack Servers
 x86 industry standard
 Patented extended memory
I/O Adapters
 Choice of multiple adapters
An Integrated System Optimises Data centre Efficiency

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• Embed management
• Remove unnecessary:
Switches
Adapters
Management modules
10GbE unified fabric
• Power and cooling
1/3rd less infrastructure
Lower power
• Built for virtualisation
Processor density
VM/host ratio
I/O improvement
Extended memory
SAN
LAN
MGMT
SAN
LAN
MGMT
Multiple Ethernet
Connections
Multiple
SAN Connections
Separate Remote
Management
per Chassis
Multiple Management
Modules
Additional
LAN and SAN
Connections
Additional
Management
Connections
Additional
Management
Connections
Additional
LAN and SAN
Connections

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• Independent Testing Results
Available:
• http://www.miercom.com/cisco
• Competition cannot handle real
world traffic patterns
• Microbursts cause as much as
60% packet drop with competitor
• Nexus and Cisco UCS –
Microbursts with low latency
Packet Drop During
Microbursts
Packets
Burst Size
No Data Loss, Transactions are SAFE!

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Maintained #2 in Americas (31.1%), #2 in
N. America (32.9%) and #2 in the US
(33.9%)1
UCS x86 Blade servers revenue grew
34% Y/Y in Q2CY131
Worldwide
Americas
Maintained #2 worldwide in x86 Blades
with 21.5%
UCS momentum is fueled by game-
changing innovation; Cisco is quickly
passing established players
UCS #2 in Only Four
Years
X86ServerBladeMarketShare,Q2CY131
UCS #2 with 31.1%
UCS #2 with 21.5%
Source: 1 IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, Q2 2013, August 2013, Revenue Share

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Oracle PeopleSoft
Oracle
JD Edwards
Oracle
Siebel
Oracle
E-Business Suite
Oracle Middleware
Oracle
Database
JDE Enterprise One 9.1
Oracle VM 2.2
2,000 Users
TPC-C
Oracle 11g
C240 M3
TPC-C
Oracle DB 11g & OEL
C250 M2
Oracle E-Business Suite Medium
Model Payroll Batch B200 M2
Oracle E-Business Suite Xtra Large
Model Payroll B200 M3
Oracle E-Business Suite Medium
Model Payroll Batch B200 M2
Oracle E-Business Suite Medium
Model
Order-to-Cash B200 M2
Oracle E-Business Suite Large
Model
Order-to-Cash B200 M3
Oracle E-Business Suite Ex-large
Model Payroll Batch B200 M2
SPECjbb2005
2-socket C260 M2
SPECjbb2005
2-socket B230 M2
SPECjbb2005
4-socket B440 M2
SPECjbb2005
2-socket B230 M2
SPECjbb2005
X86 2-socket B200 M2
SPECjbb2005
X86 4-socket C460 M1
SPECjAppServer2004
2-node B230 M1
SPECjbb2005
X86 2-socket B230 M1
SPECjbb2005
X86 2-socket B230 M1
SPECjAppServer2004
1-node 2-socket C250 M2
PeopleSoft 9.0
North American Payroll
255,319 Payments/Hour
Oracle E-Business Suite
XL Model Payroll B200 M3
Oracle E-Business Suite
XL Model Payroll B200 M3
Cisco UCS Benchmarks that held world record performance records as of date of publication
Oracle E-Business Suite Xtra Large
Model Payroll Batch B230 M2
SPECjbb2005
X86 2-socket C220 M3
NoSQL Big Data
1,244,550 OPTS/Sec
C240 M3
Oracle E-Business Suite Large
Model Order-To-Cash B200 M3
Oracle E-Business Suite Large
Model Order-To-Cash B200 M3
Siebel 8.1.1.4
10,000 Users
PROOF POINT
INDUSTRY
STANDARD
JDE Enterprise One 9.1
MS SQL
15,000 Users
JDE Enterprise One 9.1
Oracle Db 11g
15,000 Users
SPECjbb2005
2-socket B200 M3
SPECjbb2013
2-socket B200 M3
Oracle E-Business Suite Xtra Large
Model Payroll B200 M3
1,017,639
New
Sept 10th

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Increase number of VMs on B200 Blade
Easily Consolidate Five Databases - With Excellent Performance
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns340/ns517/ns224/ns955/ns967/ucs_tr100026_emc_wp.pdf

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Software
Switch
VM-FEX
(Hypervisor Bypass)
Throughput
Application
Performance
Latency
Up to 10% more throughput at 30% lower
CPU utilisation compared to a software
switch
Up to 40% lower end-to-end latency than a
software switch
Up to 15% more performance (database
workload)
High Performance IO for Blade Servers
 Industry’s first 80 Gbps to the blade solution
High Performance IO for Virtual Machines
 Virtualise high performance workloads
High Performance
Virtual Networks
*All performance results shown (throughput, latency, server consolidation) were measured on Cisco UCS B200 M2 Servers using Cisco M81KR VIC and VMware ESXi 5.0. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 database was used for Server consolidation. Results
measured at Cisco labs, Dec 2011.
** VM-FEX is already available for Red Hat and VMware hypervisors, will ship with Windows Server 8 platform for HyperV

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Oracle Enterprise Edition is $47,500/core!
Current Configuration VMware Consolidation License Savings
Five Servers
Four 4-core
16 cores Total
$ 760,000 Oracle License
UCS B440 M2
$ 760,000
+ VMware
$ 3,040,000
Additional Savings
• Oracle Support - $668,800/year
• Server HW Support
• Power
• Management
• Space
$ 3,800,000 Total Oracle License

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Oracle RAC build on FlexPod
Validated with VMware vSphere 5.1
Oracle RAC Consolidation:
5 Blades
2 Socket/4-core blades
$81,500/core Oracle License
Five 2-node RAC Databases
With Oracle Partitioning
Total Savings of:
Licenses = $ 2,608,000
Support/Year = $ 573,760

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―NetApp, VMware, and Cisco have given us a flexible infrastructure that makes
Dominion Enterprises prepared for today—and for future business growth and
change.‖ – Tom Skidmore, Chief Architect, Dominion Enterprises
• Publishing & online services
• 4500 employees
• Based in Norfolk, Virginia
• Provides cloud-based
advertising and
management software and
magazines for multiple
industries
• Offices in 40 states and 5
countries
CUSTOMER STATS
CHALLENGE
• Support rapidly growing and changing operations through
centralized IT services, including enterprise applications from
Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP
• Optimize resources to eliminate overprovisioned and
underutilized resources
WHY CISCO DATA CENTER SOLUTIONS
• Dominion Enterprises chose a unified, consolidated
environment using NetApp, VMware, and Cisco UCS to
consolidate infrastructure and reduce costs
BENEFITS
• Consolidated servers to save $400,000 in power, cooling, and
cabinet costs over two years
• Achieved 60% resource utilization
• Improved scalability to prepare for future growth and change
FLEXPOD
ENVIRONMENT
• Cisco Unified Computing
System
• Cisco UCS B-Series
Blade Servers
• Storage: NetApp
• Virtualization: VMware
• OS: Windows, Linux, Solaris
• Applications: Microsoft Great
Plains, Microsoft CRM,
Oracle JD Edwards
OneWorld Enterprise1,
PeopleSoft CRM, SAP
Business Objects

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DB support is 22% of list license/year.
Customer saves $31,350/year
Oracle VM
1 Socket 1 Socket 2 Sockets
Hard partitioning allocates system
resources. Similar to LPAR for AIX or
Containers in Solaris.
Cisco UCS B440
4 Sockets
Oracle VM Hard Partitioning Paper:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/virtualization/pdf/ovm-hardpart.pdf
Benefits:
 Allows customer to only license the
number of CPU or sockets being
utilized. ($47,500 per core for DB)
 Customer can save support fees by
shifting from older servers to a Oracle
VM partition.
Other App
FlexPod Datacenter for Oracle RAC
With Oracle VM
Publishing October 2013

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See the FlexPod demo
in the NetApp booth!
Visit Cisco Booth
#1021 and speak with
our Oracle Experts!
Request a more detailed
architecture or sizing
discussion today .
Learn why 100’s of
Oracle Database
customers chose FlexPod
For more information, visit
www.cisco.com/go/oracle or
email oraclewithcisco@cisco.com
Review the new Cisco
Validated Designs:
Downloadable at:
www.cisco.com/go/oracle

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• Oracle supports their application and database on VMware
Support Position for Oracle Products Running on VMware Virtualized
Environments [ID 249212.1]
• Oracle does not certify their products on VMware, only on Oracle VM
• An Oracle request to recreate problem on ―bare metal‖ is the same point
in the support esculation process for Oracle VM & VMware, etc.
• VMware offers a service to take first call support for Oracle
https://vmware.com/support/policies/oracle-support.html
Get the facts!
The vast majority of customers consolidating Oracle Database do so on VMware.