Oracle Systems _ Solaris and Oracle Enterprise Linux Oracle’s two OS strategy.pdf
- 1. Solaris and Oracle Enterprise Linux: Oracle’s two OS strategy Nathan Kroenert Frontline Systems Australia and Melbourne Solaris Users Group ‘President’ The most comprehensive Oracle applications & technology content under one roof
- 2. Agenda • The role of the OS in applicaBon delivery • Oracle’s two OS’s • Key advantages of each OS • WHY TWO??? • How should I choose? • Summary The most comprehensive Oracle applications & technology content under one roof
- 3. Unix and Unix Like? The most comprehensive Oracle applications & technology content under one roof
- 4. The role of the OS in applicaBon delivery • What does the OS actually do for us? • Do some do different jobs bePer than others? • NaBve OS features versus bolt-‐on features • The OS is NOT unimportant – even (or especially!) on Hypervisors The most comprehensive Oracle applications & technology content under one roof
- 5. Oracle’s two OS’s: Solaris and OEL • Solaris – Acquired in the purchase of Sun – Best scaling OS – Largest install base of large Oracle installaBons – Leader in performance and scale in many categories – Support for SPARC and X-‐64 systems from many vendors – Comfortably scales beyond 512 threads, TB’s of memory, hundred of I/O adapters The most comprehensive Oracle applications & technology content under one roof
- 6. Oracle’s two OS’s: Solaris and OEL • OEL – refined from the Red Hat source base – Now Includes Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel by default – CAN be fully Redhat compaBble – Supported by Oracle for enterprise DB before any other vendor – Used in original Exadata The most comprehensive Oracle applications & technology content under one roof
- 7. Upgrading or starBng fresh The most comprehensive Oracle applications & technology content under one roof
- 8. Key Advantages of OEL • Is Linux! (Some organizaBons, and ISV’s require it, aPracBve development environment.) • Can leverage the global community in terms of available applicaBons and OS development • Has the mindshare as ‘Linux’, which is separated from UNIX • Support on a variety of hardware; though OEL is only X-‐64. • Support for many devices The most comprehensive Oracle applications & technology content under one roof
- 9. Key Advantages of OEL • Has Bered support pricing (Network, Basic, Premier) • Is more familiar to School/University leavers than UNIX • Has the OVM Hypervisor as an opBon, which can contain OEL, Solaris, Windows, etc. The most comprehensive Oracle applications & technology content under one roof
- 10. Key Advantages of Solaris • Support for SPARC hardware – T-‐series systems • Best performance per waP • Up to 512 threads in 5RU • Consolidate old Solaris systems whilst barely breathing – M-‐series systems • mainframe like reliability • HA with No Single point of failure in large scale systems • Hardware Domainable The most comprehensive Oracle applications & technology content under one roof
- 11. Key Advantages of Solaris • Fastest, highest scaling, most resilient, more widely supported UNIX • KEY OS capabiliBes that include • Dtrace • Resource Management • ZFS • SMF • Containers • FMA • SMF • Full support for LDOMS • Branded Containers • Wholly owned The most comprehensive Oracle applications & technology content under one roof
- 12. Why BOTH? • Opportunity to make the best of all worlds: – Tightly integrated and opBmized for the total Oracle stack – Opportunity to shape the OS as Silicone is developed, and take advantage of it first – Tightest integraBon with Oracle DB – Build largest, most resilient and scalable systems – Many elements CORE to the OS, rather than bolt-‐ on. The most comprehensive Oracle applications & technology content under one roof
- 13. Why BOTH? • OEL – Broad compaBbility with Linux Ecosystem – Pricing opBons – Choice of Kernel; Faster and bePer scaling Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel, or the fully RedHat compaBble Kernel The most comprehensive Oracle applications & technology content under one roof
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- 15. Wonder Twin Powers: AcBvate! • Both OEL and Solaris can be managed by OEM Ops Centre • Using OEM, both can be supported by the one support team from an operaBonal perspecBve • Regular configuraBon to use OEL in smaller web-‐ facing environments, and Solaris on the larger systems in the back-‐end • ‘Red Stack’ – It’s actually not just a markeBng thrust. The most comprehensive Oracle applications & technology content under one roof
- 16. How do I choose? • SOE / Strategic Architecture / Vendor ojen determines rather than choice • Where more business criBcal, higher value transacBons are involved, Solaris is typically a bePer choice – even if only for DTrace, SMF and FMA. • Horizontal, node based scaling typically targeted for OEL. The most comprehensive Oracle applications & technology content under one roof
- 17. The best of both worlds • Whether you want speed, scale, access to the most packages, best tools, greatest diagnosBc capabiliBes, highest resilience, Oracle has you covered in the Linux/Unix space. • OEL 6 has released, now with unbreakable kernel by default • Watch this space for Solaris 11 – There is an Express Version already Available • Wait and see what the next GeneraBon SPARC T-‐ series systems can do! The most comprehensive Oracle applications & technology content under one roof
- 18. Summary: • Typically not as simple as one or the other • If you are leaning towards verBcal scale and high value business transacBons, Solaris • If you need greatest reliability or diagnosability, Solaris • If you are leaning towards lower cost compute, or business transacBons, OEL • If you have a need to get or use more of the ‘linux /opensource’ community sojware, OEL. • Frequently use both! The most comprehensive Oracle applications & technology content under one roof
- 19. QuesBons? The most comprehensive Oracle applications & technology content under one roof