Oracle x86 Systems The Best x86 Systems for Oracle Solaris

1. Steve Stratton • Technical Manager| Intel • Pierre Lessard • Principal Product Manager | Oracle • SubbanRaghunathan • Director, x86 Product Mgmt. | Oracle • September 2013 Oracle x86 SystemsThe Best x86 Systems for Oracle Solaris

2. Powered by Oracle’s x86 System Strategy and Focus • Engineered Systems • Exadata, Exalogic, Exalytics, Big Data Appliance, ZFS Storage Appliance • Oracle Cloud • Hosted Cloud (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS) • On-Premise Cloud (Recently announced IaaS) • Enterprise-Class Stand-Alone Servers • Fully tested and best for running Oracle software • Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux, Oracle VM • Highest RAS, Performance, Efficiency and Density • Integrated set-up tools and remote system management • Full certification for Red Hat, SuSE, Windows and VMware

3. Powered by Oracle’s Complete x86 Systems PortfolioEngineered for Oracle Software / Best of Breed for Mixed Environments Business Ready Systems(with x86 Building Blocks) • Oracle Cloud • (with x86 Building Blocks) Storage Systems(with x86 Building Blocks) Oracle x86 Systems - Oracle On Demand - On-Premise Cloud 4-Socket Rack 8-Socket Rack 2-Socket Rack Exadata Exalogic Oracle Virtual Cloud Appliance Big Data Appliance ZFS Storage Appliances Oracle Exalytics in-Memory Database Machine Oracle Database Appliance 2-Socket Blade

4. Oracle and Intel: An Engineering Partnership

5. Oracle and Intel: Integration at every level • Shared vision of engineered integration of components to provide value beyond the sum of the parts • Intel is innovating by designing a single chip combining CPU cores, memory controllers, and I/O hubs • Oracle combines servers, operating systems, database, and middleware to deliver engineered systems, running the Oracle Red Stack • Net result: Extreme performance, scalability, manageability, and reliability engineered together

6. Oracle-Intel Collaboration Model ARCHITECTURE and INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEM DESIGN COMPILERS and TOOLS OPERATING ENVIRONMENTS ENABLEMENT MIDDLEWARE and APPS OPTIMIZATION DATABASE OPTIMIZATION

7. Results: Collaboration on Solaris • Intel and Oracle engineers working together on Solaris since 2007 • Solaris optimizations for Intel Architecture • Intelligent Performance: New Instructions, Digital Random Number Generator • Enhanced Security: Supervisory Mode Execution Protection, Enhanced Crypto performance (SHA1, RC4) • Energy Efficiency: Deeper C-state support • RAS: Fault Management Architecture support, Memory Predictive Failure Analysis • Solaris 11.1 (current) has full support for Xeon enterprise servers

8. From Processors to Systems

9. 1. Source: Intel internal measurements: [idle power, Intel® Xeon ® processor E5- 26xx v2 (12C, 2.5GHz, 95W), 28 March 2013]. Results have been simulated and are provided for informational purposes only. Results were derived using simulations run on an architecture simulator or model. Any difference in system hardware or software design or configuration may affect actual performance. Intel product plans in this presentation do not constitute Intel plan of record product roadmaps. Please contact your Intel representative to obtain Intel’s current plan of record product roadmaps. For more information go to http://www.intel.com/performance * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others Real Enhancements Where it CountsIntel® Xeon® Processor E5-2600 v2 Product Family IMPROVED Faster Memory Integrated IO (PCIe3.0) NEW Virtualization features Security features 50% MORE Cores/ Threads Last-level cache 23% LESS Idle power Software and workloads used in performance tests may have been optimized for performance only on Intel microprocessors.  Performance tests, such as SYSmark and MobileMark, are measured using specific computer systems, components, software, operations and functions.  Any change to any of those factors may cause the results to vary.  You should consult other information and performance tests to assist you in fully evaluating your contemplated purchases, including the performance of that product when combined with other products. 

10. Intel ® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v2 Features Core Core Core Core Core Core Core Core Core Core Core Core Up to 30MB Shared Cache Up to 30MB Shared Cache Memory Controllers QPI controllers QPI controllers Core Core Core Core Core Core Core Core DDR3 DDR3 QPI Core Core Core Core DDR3 DDR3 Memory Controllers PCIe* & DMI PCIe* & DMI QPI DDR3 DDR3 DDR3 DDR3 PCIe* 3.0 x8 PCIe* 3.0 x8 PCIe* 3.0 x8 PCIe* 3.0 x8 PCIe* 3.0 x8 PCIe* 3.0 x8 PCIe* 3.0 x8 PCIe* 3.0 x8 PCIe* 3.0 x8 PCIe* 3.0 x8 PCIe* 2.0 x4 DMI2

11. Reduce Bottleneckswith Intel® Integrated I/O Unleash the full I/O capabilities of Xeon® E5 with Intel® Ethernet X540 Server10GbE Better Together Increase I/O Performance HPC TRADING 3Xmore I/O bandwidth vs. prior gen.1 Networking Appliances Storage 1. Source: Intel internal measurements of average time for an I/O device read to local system memory under idle conditions comparing Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 product family (230 ns) vs. Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series (340 ns). See notes in backup for configuration details .2. Source: 8 GT/s and 128b/130b encoding in PCIe* 3.0 specification enables double the interconnect bandwidth over the PCIe* 2.0 specification (www.pcisig.com/news_room/November_18_2010_Press_Release/). * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others Reduce I/O Latency Software and workloads used in performance tests may have been optimized for performance only on Intel microprocessors.  Performance tests, such as SYSmark and MobileMark, are measured using specific computer systems, components, software, operations and functions.  Any change to any of those factors may cause the results to vary.  You should consult other information and performance tests to assist you in fully evaluating your contemplated purchases, including the performance of that product when combined with other products. 

12. 1 Source for savings claims: IT@Intel Whitepaper “Solving Intel IT’s Data Storage Challenges”. December 2011 2.Intel Xeon is the storage industry’s processor of choice--Xeon MSS is 80% (2011); Source: : IDC Quarterly Storage Tracker Q4’11.3 Intel enterprise SSDs. Intel® 710 series SSD—SATA; Intel® 910 series SSD—PCIe4 SSD TCO generated from SNIA* (Storage Networking Industry Association). TCO model for Solid-State Storage. Calculations based on 4K random, 65/35 read writes. 3.5” SAS 15K HDDn be found at: www.snia.org. *Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Scale-out Storage Simplifies & SavesIntel® Xeon® powers today’s compute-intensive storage strategies2 Better Together Reduce storage footprint by >50% with storage refresh Reduce storage device capacity growth by 25% via thin provisioning Improve storage efficiency by up to 25% with data de-duplication Increased performance Data center endurance New safetyfeatures Up to 2X TCO savings4 Large Scale Analytics Data Deduplication Encryption Available Storage Data Data Thin provisioning Storage tiering Storage virtualization Software and workloads used in performance tests may have been optimized for performance only on Intel microprocessors.  Performance tests, such as SYSmark and MobileMark, are measured using specific computer systems, components, software, operations and functions.  Any change to any of those factors may cause the results to vary.  You should consult other information and performance tests to assist you in fully evaluating your contemplated purchases, including the performance of that product when combined with other products.  Allocated & Unused Flash/SSDs FC Drives SATADrives

13. Oracle Sun x86 Systems RoadmapLockstep with Intel Tick/Tock Development Model • Sun Blade X4-2B • 2S -EP (E5-26xx v2) • Sun Server X4-2 • 2S -EP (E5-26xx v2) • Sun Server X4-2L • 2S -EP (E5-26xx v2) • Sun Server X2-4 • 4S -EX (E7-48xx) • Sun Server X2-8 • 8S -EX (E7-88xx)

14. Oracle’s 2-Socket x86 Products • Sun Server X4-2 Ideal for clustered computing • Sun Server X4-2L Ideal as a storage server

15. Oracle’s 4- and 8-Socket x86 Products • Sun Server X2-4 Best mission critical virtualization server • Sun Server X2-8 Ideal for scale-up applications

16. Oracle Solaris on Oracle x86

17. Unique features of Oracle Solaris 11Designed for mission critical enterprise deployments • Integrated server, storage and network virtualization • Zero virtualization overhead with Oracle SolarisZones • Next generation data management • Full data integrity with ZFS • Simplified software lifecycle • Fail-safe system updates with Image Packaging System • Predictive self healing against software and hardware failures • Extreme fault tolerance withFault Management Architecture

18. Oracle Solaris FMA with Intel Xeon ProcessorsBuilt out of Oracle’s partnership with Intel • Oracle Solaris FMA was instrumented with • Diagnosis for DIMM correctable memory errors • Diagnosis for CPU correctable errors (CEs) • Fault detection for PCIe errors • Oracle Solaris has the capacity to • Offline individual processor strands • Retire individual pages of memory (4 KB granularity) • Cease using problematic I/O devices

19. Oracle Solaris Fault Management On x86 My Oracle Support Oracle Solaris Oracle ILOM Sharing of Fault Data Automatic Service Requests Oracle x86 Oracle ILOM Fault Manager Oracle Solaris Fault Manager CPU, Memory, and PCIe Faults DIMM, Power, Cooling, and Chassis Faults oracle.com Service Processor Oracle Solaris Hardware Support Portal Non- Oracle x86 Oracle Solaris Fault Manager CPU, Memory, and PCIe Faults

20. Oracle Solaris Fault ManagementAdditional Capabilities Only On Oracle x86 Servers • Oracle Solaris-aware Service Processor • Self-healing features • Total problem visibility • Easier component replacement

21. Auto Service Request (ASR) Faster Problem Notification to My Oracle Support Portal • Only available on Oracle hardware • Upon fault detection, ASR will automatically create a service request • With automatic parts delivery, parts are automatically dispatched to customer • Oracle x86, Oracle Solaris, and My Oracle Support all engineered to work together to get problems resolved quickly

22. Oracle Solaris Fault Management Comparison

23. Oracle Solaris InstallationSimplified On Oracle x86 Servers • Disk drives easily indentified at install time • Solaris deployed using Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center • Oracle Solaris is pre-installed on Oracle x86 servers

24. Special Enhancements in Oracle SolarisDesigned for Oracle Database Deployments • Oracle Solaris Virtual Memory Prediction • Increase system utilization by matching memory to Oracle Database • Optimized Shared Memory for Oracle Database • Fastest database startup and shutdown • Oracle Database Smart Cache Flash • Extreme I/O performance • Audit Vault integration with Oracle Solaris • Centralized audit results for compliance reporting

25. Oracle Solaris Runs Best on Oracle x86Key Benefits of Running Oracle Solaris on Oracle x86 Systems • Better reliability and availability • Improved serviceability through advanced fault diagnosis • Better integration with system management • Meaningful reduction in total cost of ownership

26. Q & A

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