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Monday Sessions, Sep 29
SPARC Server Strategy and Roadmap: Masood Heydari
The cardinal sin of the computing industry is the creation of complexity
- Oracle is optimising their systems and processors to run Oracle best, with the Engineered Systems being the pinnacle of this work.
- Engineered systems have double digit growth and the SuperCluster had triple digit growth.
- Oracle is continuing to drive the Software on Silicon roadmap.
- Since Oracle bought Sun there have been 5 processors in 4 years. This is unprecedented in the industry.
The M7 chip
- Incorporates the ability to scale up and scale out removing the need for a separate T series chip.
- The T Series server still exists but utilises the M7 chip.
- 30% single thread performance uplift plus better scaling
- The memory management/security features in M7 is cited as being as significant as the introduction of cache and swap 50 years ago.
- The new chips are showing a 2 - 3 times performance increase over the M6 and that is before the affect of software on silicone is taken into account
- SQL queries are made up of
- Filter - Search - Sort - Join - Aggregate - xxxxxx
- Compression is used within the systems to increase the amount of available memory and typical figures are 3 x compression. But this leads to a performance hit when it is read where it has to be decompressed. One of the software on silicone enhancements is to perform this decompression on die,
- Large memory footprints significantly increase risk whereby poorly written or malicious code can access memory that is not intended or in the case of malicious code, other memory that can be attacked to gain insights. The security feature prevents a process from accessing memory address that have not been assigned to it thus protecting from both poorly written or malicious code.
Oracle Solaris 11.2
- Efficient: No overhead virtualisation, faster deployment and roll-back.
- Simple : Easier life-cycle management, 1,000's of VMs per FTE
- Open: Completely integrated with Open Stack.
- Affordable: six times savings in total cost of ownership.
- 12c Features on SPARC
- Dynamic SGA resizing without the need for reboot
- Bring Oracle instances up 20x faster
- 30%-40% lower latency and 20% higher throughput in Oracle RAC
- X86 Costs 50% More than SPARC per VM based on 3 year TCO including
- network
- OS
- storage
- This comparison is done with real street value discounted prices.
- $1,000 per VM on SPARC
- $1,500 per VM on X86
- Oracle has maintained the promise of backwards binary compatibility, so old applications just run on the new platform although an upgrade may be required to take advantage of some of the new features
Oracle Virtualisation Strategy and Roadmap: Wim Coekaerts
- OVCA has a lot of integration capabilities with EM including self service
- The EM integration with OVCA is fully certified with the entire Microsoft stack.
- Oracle Secure Global Desktop, allows the app server to co-locate with the database and only display the screen pixels which dramatically reduces the network traffic.
- OSGD now integrates with single sign on and the tokens are passed between client sessions.
- Virtual box VMs can now be ported into OVCA and Oracle is working to allow transportation in the other direction.
- 26,700,000 hours of product testing per week on OVM
- Oracle runs over 15,000 VMs running customer workloads
- OpenStack support is included in the existing support contract.
- Corenta virtual gateway configuration, need to look into this.
- Looking to extend the virtual networks to the storage tier so that the NFS mounts can be included within the virtual framework.