Oracle on VMware Licensing Plugin for Oracle EM12c Beta Overview

1. Oracle Enterprise Manager Plugin
for Oracle on VMware Licensing (OVL)
The leader in extending Oracle Enterprise Manager

2. Plugin for
File and
Directories
In depth file
system
monitoring
and alerting
Plugin for
VMware
Extend EM12c
to VMware
Plugin for
Ping Probe
ICMP based
host
availability
monitoring
Plugin for
SSL
Certificates
SSL
certificate
expiration
monitoring
Plugin for
Time Drift
Time server
drift and
availability
monitoring
Plugin for
SAP
Extend
EM12c to
SAP
Plugin for
Hyper-V
Extend
EM12c to
Hyper-V
Monitor
Oracle on
VMware
license
violations
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Plugin for
Oracle on
VMware
Licensing

3. Plugin for
VMware
Extend
EM12c to
VMware
Plugin for
Oracle on
VMware
Licensing
Monitor
Oracle on
VMware
license
violations
NOW YOU CAN…
Monitor Oracle on VMware
Manage the virtual layer
Monitor Oracle on VMware Licenses
ENTIRELY FROM EM12C

4. • “Plug-in” that extends Oracle Enterprise Manager and
provides ‘Oracle on VMware’ license monitoring and
alerting from within the preferred Oracle management
tool
• Interrogates both the Oracle and VMware infrastructures
to identify current ‘Oracle on VMware’ license violations
or the potential for violations
• Generates historical reports on historical compliance
OVLPLUG-IN:WHAT IS IT?

5. OVLPLUGIN:ANORACLE EMBASED SOLUTION

6. • Oracle on VMware adoption has been slowed due to
Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD) re: Oracle licensing
concerns around virtual machine mobility
• Customers who <have> adopted Oracle on VMware have
have typically silo’d off their Oracle workloads due to
licensing concerns – forcing admins to manage Oracle
differently than the rest of their workloads
• The fear of an Oracle audit has forced many IT execs to
decide running on VMware is too risky
OVLPLUG-IN:WHAT’S THE CONCERN?

7. OVLPLUGIN:YOUR GOAL –NO EXPOSURE
No Oracle VMs are on
unlicensed ESX hosts
AND
All the Oracle VMs are
locked down to
prevent moving to
unlicensed ESX hosts

8. 1. Oracle EM-based Alerts when violations have
occurred
1. Oracle EM-based Warnings when violations have
the possibility of occurring due to
misconfiguration
1. “Look back” reporting capability to tell you
when violations occurred last week, month,
quarter, etc
OVLPLUGIN:HOW DOES OVLPROTECT YOU?

9. REAL TIME ORACLE EMALERTING OF LICENSE VIOLATIONS
Be alerted immediately when a
monitored VM with an Oracle
workload moves to a non-licensed
ESX server, an Oracle EM critical
“Incident” fires and emails, texts,
SNMP traps, etc sent

10. • Oracle on VMware IS supported
• Oracle software is typically licensed by processor
• VMware is always considered Soft Partitioning
• Improperly configured VMware environments introduce
Oracle licensing exposure
ORACLE ON VMWARE:WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

11. Improper configuration could cost
you millions of dollars
in Oracle software audits

12. LICENSING ORACLE ON VMWARE:THE RISKS
“One large enterprise virtualized
Oracle using VMware products
but didn’t put much thought into
how they were doing it,”
“Oracle was going to conduct an
audit at this company and its
own audits beforehand showed
that there was a $14.8m licensing
compliance issue.”

13. • By design VMware environments are constantly changing
• Oracle workloads running on unlicensed ESX hosts expose
your organization to increased Oracle licensing costs
• Every change represents additional risk
• At audit time, Oracle will challenge you to proof your
Oracle workloads have not migrated to non-licensed ESX
hosts
LICENSING ORACLE ON VMWARE:THE RISKS

14. THE SOLUTION:OVLPLUGIN
Oracle
Enterprise
Manager 12c
Oracle
VMware
The Plugin for Oracle on VMware licensing connects directly
to your Oracle and VMware estates and provide automated
alerting and reporting of licensing violations and risks

15. Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c
Management Server (OMS)
VMware (vCenter)
Oracle on VMware Licensing Plug-in
Oracle
Management
Agent (OMA)
Connects to VMware -
remote agentless connection
to VMware environment via
vSphere API
Connects to Oracle EM -
Since it is Oracle EM plug-in,
the plug-in can interrogate
the Oracle Management
Repository (OMR) for details
on the Oracle managed
environment
No agents required on
VMware ESX servers or VMs
Oracle
Management
Repository
THE SOLUTION:OVLPLUGIN

16. Key Components
Monitor Report

17. PARTI:MONITOR

18. PARTI:MONITOR
Virtual Machine Metrics Hypervisor Metrics
Name
UUID
Workloads
Is Compliant
Violations
State
Config Locked
VMotion Enabled
Host Affinity Set
IP Address
Hypervisor
Cluster
Name
UUID
Licensed
Workloads
CPU Count
Total Core Count
Hardware Model
Hardware Vendor
CPU Model
VMotion Enabled
State
Cluster

19. ORACLE ON VMWARE LICENSE STATUS DASHBOARD
How many VMs with Oracle
workloads are on unlicensed
ESX servers?
How many VMs with Oracle
workloads are on licensed
ESX servers, however, based
on the vMotion or DRS host
affinity configuration, are in
danger of moving an
unlicensed host?

20. ARE MY VMS ON LICENSED ESXSERVERS –YES OR NO?
‘Is Compliant?’ indicates
whether the VM containing an
Oracle workload currently on a
licensed ESX host

21. CAN THE ORACLE VMMOVE TO A UNLICENSED HOST?
‘Config Locked?’ indicates whether the VM containing an Oracle
workload is configured in a manner that could allow the VM to
move to an unlicensed ESX server. The plug-in calculates this by
analyzing and evaluating all of the Host, VM, and Cluster DRS
Affinity and vMotion rules and settings

22. HAVE DRSAFFINITY RULES BEEN APPLIED?
‘Host Affinity Set?’ indicates whether
the VM containing an Oracle workload
is governed by host affinity rules which
dictate which ESX servers the VM can
move to

23. IS VMOTION ENABLED ON THE ESXSERVER
‘vMotion Enabled?’ indicates whether
the VM containing an Oracle workload
is on a ESX server that has vMotion
enabled

24. WHERE IN THE VMWARE INFRASTRUCTURE IS THE VM?
‘ESX Host’ indicates which ESX server
the VM is currently residing on

25. REAL TIME ORACLE EMALERTING OF LICENSE VIOLATIONS
Be alerted immediately when a
monitored VM with an Oracle
workload moves to a non-licensed
ESX server, an Oracle EM critical
“Incident” fires and emails, texts,
SNMP traps, etc sent

26. • Know when Oracle on
VMware license violations
occurred
• Easily consumable and
interactive
• Weekly/quarterly/yearly
audit reports
PARTII:REPORT

27. • Full report of Oracle on
VMware VM travel
history activity
• Understand where
every ESX host an
Oracle VM has been on
along with when and
how long
PARTII:REPORT

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