Oracle: Next Generation of Engineered Systems

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Oracle's Next Generation Engineered Systems

Abstract:

Larry Ellison: Executive Chairman of the Board and CTO introduces Oracle's 5th Generation of Oracle Engineered Systems. Provide the Highest Performance systems and Lowest Service Price at the core. Oracle effectively targets Cisco UCS, HP, EMC.

Summary of Major Announcements

Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance X5

Converged compute and srorage; Runs all datacenter applications. High Performance and Lowest Purchase Price... Combines compute servers, networking, and storage servers in the same box... highly available and fully redundant Compute Infrastructure: Scalable from 2-25 nodes; Linux, Solaris, and Windows; Network Infrastructure: High speed, low latency, fully configured fabric, integrates to existing Ethernet & Storage Networks Management Infrastructure: Redundant management servers; virtual assembly builder with templates included Half Price Oracle List to Cisco Discount; almost a third price

Oracle Storage Appliance X5

Twice as fast, half as much

1. Extreme Flash Storage Server
2. High Capacity Storage Server

12.8 TB PCIe Flash or 6.4 TB PCIe Flash with 48 TB SAS Disks

Oracle Database Appliance X5

2x Servers: 2x18 cores; 8x32 GB (256GB DIMM); 2x Infninband; 4x 10 Gbit Ethernet Storage: 4x 200 GB Flash for Redo Logs; 4x 400 GB Flash for ODA Accelerators; 16x 4TB Hard Drive (Data + Temp Tables + Archive Logs)

Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance

Fully automated, point in time recovery, no data loss, thousands of databases Backup and log to another rack, another data center, or to Oracle Public Cloud

Big Data Appliance

Oracle Big Data SQL joins: Hadoop, NoSQL, and Oracle RDBMS

Exalogic Elastic Cloud X5-2

Private Cloud for Applications & Middleware Portability to Oracle Cloud Compute: 2x 18 cores, 256 GB RAM/node, 800 GB Flash/node Network: 40 Gbit InfiniBand internal; 10Gb or 1Gb Ethernet external Storage: 80 TB Disk; 256GB Storgage DRAM

Exadata Database Machine X5

Workloads: Warehousing, OLTP, Database as a Service, In-Memory Database Flash Disks replaced High-Performance Disks because Flash Capacity Increase and Price drop! Elastic Configurations: 2x DB and 3x Storage Servers... Full Rack... Multi-Rack Optimize for: In-Memory Max DRAM; OLTP Equal DB & Flash; Warehouse High Capacity Storage and Compute

Oracle SuperCluster

Two SPARC Options:

1. SuperCluster T5-8
2. SuperCluster M6-32

Same Storage Server and Software as Exadata X5

Data Center of the Future with Public Cloud

Options Include: - Logging Backups to the Cloud - Cloud as Backup Datacenter - Test and Development in Cloud with Production Local - Production in Cloud with Test and Development Local

The Deep Dive Sessions

The following Deep Dive sessions are for both newly announced hardware as well as for some existing software noted at the bottom of this section. Written summaries provided can assist in helping select which videos to watch.

Oracle SuperCluster
Oracle Largest, Most Advanced, and Most Secure Appliance Exadata Storage Grid Firmware based Hypervisor (vs re-purposed Linux OS as Hypervisor) Cloud Tenant Self Service Portal Rule Based Access Control Metering and Limiting by Account for customer's self service  IO Domain Recipes (i.e. Small, Medium, Large selections)  Templates on top of Recipe (Pre-configured Recipe with OS Patches and Application) Extreme Tenant Isolation through Zone, Network Paths, and Disks Automated Compliance Validation of isolation
Oracle Exadata X5-2
Exadata X5-2: Extreme Flash and Elastic Configurations
Oracle Exalogic X5
Oracle Exalogic X5-2 and Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software 12c Engineered system designed to run the mid-tier components Oracle Applications  Java Applications  Fusion Middleware  Exabus Technology, shared with Exadata, which reduced latency between servers. Platform as a Service (Software made available in a cloud) and Infrastructure as a Service deployed on the customer premise.
Virtual Compute Appliance
Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance: Simplify IT and Save Money Goals: Simplify Deployment Reduce Cost Pre-built system which is ready to use in a Data Center with a minimal number of steps Compute Capability: 2 - 25 nodes Software defined network with Dual Redundant InfiniBand Ethernet and FibreChannel external connectivity Active-Passive Management Server ZFS Storage Appliance with Redundant Controllers Self-Service Provisioning of VM's, Storage, and Network Policy Driven Metering and Chargeback RESTful Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) interface Oracle Enterprise Manager drives IaaS Fault Detection Incident Management Lifecycle Managment Change Managment Search & Compare of VM's Apply Patches Gold Templates Compliance reporting All software is bundled (Linux, Solaris, OEM 12c, Oracle VM, Orchestration, Oracle Virtual Networking, Oracle Trusted Partitioning)
Oracle Database Appliance
Oracle Database Appliance X5-2 Provides everything to deploy a high availability database & application Wizards for simplified deployment Patch Automation (Firmware, OS, Database, Storage, etc.) Oracle High Availability Software Stack (Real Application Cluster or RAC) Affordable with Capacity on Demand Oracle Multitenant Option bundled License In-Memory Database Option bundled License OS and Virtualization Licenses Refreshed hardware, higher consolidation density Oracle Enterprise Manager Plug-In for Monitoring and Management with Analytics across Appliances Same software stack as Exadata for affordable Test and Development
Oracle FS1 Flash Storage System
Oracle FS1 Flash Storage System  Summary of Features 2 - 16 Highly Available Nodes Petabytes of Flash 2M 50/50 Read/Write IOPS 80 GB/sec or 5 TB/minute Data Movement Designed to leverage Flash, not existing Hard Disk solutions. Supports both Flash and Disk, Designed for Flash with Economies of Disk
Oracle Big Data Appliance X5-2
Big Data Appliance Solves problems surrounding: Performance Optimized Hardware Time 30% Quicker to Deploy Cost 21% Less Expensive to Purchase Integration Data Transparently into the Infrastructure Oracle Big Data SQL for simple insertion Oracle Enterprise Manager Compatibility
Oracle for Enterprise Big Data
The Move to Big Data
Oracle Linux
Oracle: A Complete, Independent Linux Vendor Nothing significantly new, basic key points: Oracle Linux Premier Support included with Oracle Hardware Stand-Alone Oracle Linux Premier Support offered for other servers  MyOracleSupport Integrated  Oracle KSplice Bundled (on-line patches, immediately active) Oracle Enterprise Manager included for Patching and Management  Oracle Clusterware Bundled  Oracle Backport Lifetime Sustaining Support (no bug fixes, new hardware support)  Oracle OpenStack bundled  Red Hat Binary Compatibility Delivery on DVD with pure Red Hat or Oracle Unbreakable Linux Kernel. OS Features Oracle Unbreakable Kernel option for newer Oracle Engineered Systems. DTrace Integration from Solaris for Oracle Linux Isolation features: Linux Containers (LXC) similar to Solaris Zones; Docker (for Application) Free to download, use, distribute, update; Pay for production system Oracle VM Templates Differentiation: DTrace and KSplice