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Virtualizing With Oracle VM

Virtualizing With Oracle VM. Oracle user group May 10, 2012. Agenda. Company Background Overview of Oracle VM The Good, the Bad and the Challenges Future. Bissell company overview. Founded in 1876 Headquartered in Grand Rapids

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Virtualizing With Oracle VM

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  1. Virtualizing With Oracle VM Oracle user group May 10, 2012 Confidential

  2. Agenda Company Background Overview of Oracle VM The Good, the Bad and the Challenges Future Confidential

  3. Bissell company overview • Founded in 1876 • Headquartered in Grand Rapids • Largest manufacturer of floor care products in North America (vacuums, carpet deep cleaners, cleaning formulas) • Offices in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia • Pro Cycling • Pets Confidential

  4. Bissell company overview And we are moving to Oracle e-Business Suite Confidential

  5. Oracle Application technology • E-Business Suite 12.1.3 (10/12) • SOA suite 11.1.6 (10/12) • OBIEE 11.1.1.6 (10/12) • Hyperion (2013) • Demantra (2013) • Oracle Transportation Management (2013) • Manufacturing (2014) • Oracle Database 11g Release 2 • Single global production instance Confidential

  6. Oracle Infrastructure technology • Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.6 • Oracle Server Virtualization and Management 3.0.3 • Dell Blade servers, EMC VNX storage Confidential

  7. Oracle Infrastructure Technology Confidential

  8. What is Oracle VM • Oracle VM is an enterprise-class server virtualization solution • Easier to deploy and manage applications • Four times more scalable than VMware • Lower cost • Suitable for all data center workloads • 90+ Oracle VM Templates available for enterprise software • All Oracle software is certified Confidential

  9. Why would we choose to look at Oracle VM? Confidential

  10. Why • Oracle software is licensed per CPU core or named user • OVM is the only officially supported x86 virtualization platform • OVM is the only x86 virtualization platform that Oracle recognizes Core/CPU partitioning • Saving us thousands of dollars in licensing and hardware cost

  11. The good, the bad and the challenges • What do we like about OVM • What improvements could be made • What challenges have we faced Confidential

  12. The good stuff • Free to download and install (support is not free) • Thin cloning • Basic virtualization features • Initial installation was easy to set up • Live migration between physical servers • Auto migration when in maintenance mode • Performance is good • Dynamic resource allocation Confidential

  13. Where they need to improve • GUI is clunky and clumsy • Limited monitoring • Have to manually create MAC addresses for each VM guest • Only one admin session to a VM at a time • Network resiliency Confidential

  14. The Challenges • Oracle Support • Understaffed • Duration for resolving cases • Escalate everything • Their motto: “send me logs” • Encourage them to use WebEx • Inefficient communications with Support • Product feels young, immature, not as polished as other products on the market • Had to reinstall OV manager multiple times Confidential

  15. VMware comparison • Adding disks is more complicated • Can’t make network changes without shutting down guest • No live migration of VMs across storage arrays • Importing templates, assemblies, ISO etc. has to come from a FTP or webserver • Booting to ISO is more complicated • No snapshots Confidential

  16. Other comments • Most of our issues center around Oracle Cluster File System • Need solid networking foundation • Oracle tells us they are committed to the platform • Getting Oracle partner involved Confidential

  17. Our future Do we plan on using OVM for production? Maybe Confidential

  18. Questions Confidential

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