Business Case for Migratingfrom UNIX to SUSE Linux

Rishikesh Kumar(Global Alliance Manager)rikumar@novell.com

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Goals and Objectives

1. Define the commercial and technical benefits of

migrating from UNIX(SUN,AIX,UX) to SUSE Linux

2. Review TCS migration approach & methodology

3. Why SUSE Linux the ideal enterprise Linux platform

for Unix to Linux migration?

4. Identify actionable items

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Engineering Excellence

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Leading Indicators of UNIX to Linux Migration IDC predicts ‘Second Wave’ of migration by 2014 driven by technology

refresh and drive to reduce CapEx

OS on X86 best positioned for growth with Linux/Windows

34.5% of new Linux deployments are as a result of migration from UNIX (The Linux Foundation)

63% companies considering UNIX migrations are exploring Cloud (IDC)

Workloads getting migrated onto Linux Middleware, Application, Web Servers

Databases (Oracle, DB2, Sybase)

Business Applications (SAP, Oracle Enterprise Apps)

Line of Business Applications

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Better Price Performance with SUSE Linux

TCO Comparison(5 year cumulative

cost)Sun Solaris on Sun

SPARC T5440SLES on HP

ProLiant DL 785 G6Saving with

SLESSaving % with

SLES

IT Costs        

Server Hardware 124,896 95,328 29,568 23.67%

Server Software 33,000 12,628 20,372 61.73%Systems Management 95,275 68,225 27,050 28.39%

Facilities 49,155 37,495 11,660 23.72%

Change Costs 5,825 89,134 -83,309 -1430.20%HW and SW Support and Maintenance 346,780 27,470 319,310 92.08%

Total IT Costs 654,931 330,280 324,651 49.57%

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Source: ALINEAN Report

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UNIX to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

When it’s business critical, make the smart move…

– 50% to 80% TCO Savings Proven (Study by ALINEAN)

– 99.999% Proven High Availability and Clustering Built-in

https://www.suse.com/success/stories/burton.html

– 60% Performance Improvements – Proven

http://www.novell.com/success/evonik.html

– 100% Scalable - As scalable as you’ll ever need

– 100% Open - Freedom from vendor lock-in

– Endorsed by Microsoft, SAP, IBM, VMWare, Cisco, ….

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Customer Case Studies• Evonik Industries (AIX to SUSE Linux Migration)

Met cost reduction objective and achieved 4-5 times faster application performance SAP NetWeaver

Business warehouse application (http://www.novell.com/success/evonik.html)

• CIR Foods (Unix to SUSE Linux Migration)Achieved 70% savings in migrating to SUSE Linux http

://www.novell.com/docrep/2013/04/cir_food_success_story.pdf

• Business Connexion (Solaris to SUSE Linux)Moved BMC ITSM suite with oracle database from Solaris to SUSE Linux on System Z. Drove significant

cost reduction of Oracle license cost

• Geberit (HP UX to SUSE Linux)Hardware and software cost reduction by 50% and SAP ERP performance improvement by 22%

• Burton Corporation (HP UX to SUSE Linux)Company achieved 99.999% uptime and an 80% cost reduction (https://

www.suse.com/success/stories/burton.html)

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Deutsche Telekom Success StoryRevenue Management System Deutsche Telekom

Deutsche Telekom has migrated their SAP Revenue Management System to Linux

One of the largest SAP Systems worldwide. System Requirements:

• 1,5 Mio payment transactions and 1,5 Mio bills per day

• 9 Mio archived bills and receipts

• 30 Mio customer accounts

• 23,000 SAP User, 1,500 active parallel

• 10,000 Batch Jobs per day, 150 Jobs parallel

• 24 x 7 Operations

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Deutsche Telekom Success StoryRevenue Management System Deutsche TelekomOriginal Server Landscape2 monolithic Sunfire E15000

128 CPUs

256 GB RAM

50,000 SAPS

OS: Solaris 10

DB: Oracle

SAN Storage

New Solution24 node cluster

X86_64 AMD/Intel Server from FSC and IBM

768 GB RAM

166,000 SAPS

OS: SUSE Linux Enterprise

DB: Oracle 10g RAC, 9TB

Network Attached Storage NetApp

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Deutsche Telekom Success StoryRevenue Management System Deutsche Telekom

Results• 30% cost reductions

• Server Response Time decreased by 45%

• Batch Run Time reduced by 40%

• Dialog Response Time reduced by 10%

• Overall observation

• Cost efficient, better performance and higher reliability

Project• Duration 18 Months

• Database Migration (9TB) < 40h

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Enterprises are Migrating from Solaris & AIX to Linux Improved Price Performance

x86/SUSE Linux Enterprise Server compares favorably against the IBM System p570 servers running AIX

5L, v5.3 for the SPECint and SPECfp benchmarks (www.spec.org)

x86/SUSE Linux Enterprise Server platforms are a fraction of the cost of POWER/AIX platform.

AIX 7.1, Enterprise Edition for the POWER 770 is US$2,126 per core or US$136,064 (one time cost) for

a 64 core POWER 770 server

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server subscription for an 80-core Intel-based HP DL980 scale-up server is US $

5,990

Less Risk Uncertainty surrounding Oracle's plans for Solaris and SPARC

Freedom from vendor lock in

POWER/AIX limits your ability to modernize your data center

Oracle Solaris Containers permit one application per virtual server in a container with Oracle Solaris as

the only guest operating system

More Innovation Non interoperable AIX and Solaris virtualization/cloud

Emerging ISV technology innovation around x86`

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SUSE: Positioned for UNIX migration wave

• Solaris features• btrfs: file system with Copy on Write, checksums, snapshotting• LXC: container support based on control groups• LTTng (Linux Trace Toolkit) capabilities

Snapshot / rollback for package and configuration updates• YaST + ZYpp + Snapper + btrfs

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension• Geo-cluster, automated and pre-configuration

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SUSE: Positioned for UNIX migration wave

• Improve existing infrastructure and solutions, e.g. NFSv3

Standards compliance• Leading OS in IPv6 certification• Solid base for SUSE Cloud and Integrated Systems

Scalability• Most scalable Linux OS – YES certified system with 4096 logical CPUs and 16 TiB RAM

• XFS support for 10 years

SAP

• Only OS for SAP HANA

Security

• Common Criteria Certification (CC OSPP (EAL 4+))

• FIPS 140-2 Certification

• UEFI Secure Boot

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Comprehensive Portfolio

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SUSE® Linux Enterprise

UNIX Leadership TodayAvailability on the architecture of your choice

The most scalable and high performing Linux operating system – reliable and secure

Interoperability with UNIX and Windows systems

Reference platform for enterprise applications

Built-in virtualization

Built-in systems management – provides IT with more choices and greater flexibility

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Why migrate from Solaris to SUSE Linux ? High Cost of Hardware and Software

Today, SPARC/Oracle Solaris platforms are aging, and support and maintenance contracts are expensive.

Oracle’s support is diminishing despite increasing support costs.

Sagging ISV enthusiasm for SPARC/Oracle ISVs are dropping support for applications on SPARC/Oracle Solaris.

SPARC/Oracle Solaris used to be the leading development platform, but because its market share is dropping at a fast pace, ISVs port from x86/Linux to SPARC/Oracle Solaris only when absolutely necessary.

Oracle only virtualization solution Solaris for SPARC is limited to virtualization technologies designed only for SPARC/Oracle

Solaris and can’t interoperate with common virtualization technologies such as Xen, KVM, etc.

Oracle VM Server for SPARC runs specifically on SPARC T-Series servers and enables consolidation of software stacks running only on SPARC T-Series servers.

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Oracle cloud limitation Oracle Optimized Solution for Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure is strictly an Oracle-

customer-only cloud platform and is optimized for Oracle software applications.

RAS at an affordable price Enterprises are migrating from SPARC/Oracle Solaris to x86/Linux platforms running

new multi-core, scale-up x86 servers such as the HP DL980 Xeon 7500 series servers and x86 AMD and Intel servers from IBM such as the IBM System x3690

Innovation and interoperability - for flexible system evolution Many of the innovative ideas used to modernize data centers are built around Linux and

x86 servers, and few, if any, of them are associated with SPARC/Solaris.

SUSE partners with a wide range of partners to optimize its performance on their hardware and software products— including in important evolving technical areas such as virtualization, cloud computing, Big Data and high performance computing (HPC).

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server provides you with flexible choice in continually modernizing your data center to meet your business requirements

Why migrate from Solaris to SUSE Linux ?

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High Cost of hardware and software Today, POWER/AIX platforms are very expensive with costly software licensing for AIX. Very

expensive POWER servers and server maintenance

Sagging ISV support for POWER/AIX While IBM is a large ISV with its commercial products running on POWER/AIX, other ISVs are

dropping support for their applications on POWER/AIX unless sufficient demand warrants porting them to it

Lack of technology innovation IBM is generally the only company innovating around AIX and POWER, whereas many

companies, including IBM, are innovating around x86 and Linux. This limits your ability to take advantage of many of the innovations around virtualization, cloud computing and more, that are important for modernizing your data center and keeping it modern.

Lock-in for the platform With the limited availability of much innovative technology and limited ISV support and IBM-only

advancements for the platform, migrating to or staying with POWER/AIX limits your ability to modernize your data center and can even totally lock you in to IBM, leading to continuing high costs and inflexibility in evolving your data center environment.

Why migrate from AIX to SUSE Linux ?

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RAS at an affordable price The price, performance and reliability of industry standard x86 servers have improved over the

years to the point where they can meet and exceed the capabilities of RISC/UNIX systems, including POWER/ AIX.

In other words, the reasons, such as RAS, to buy POWER/ AIX can no longer be used to differentiate POWER/AIX from x86/Linux. As a result, enterprises are migrating from POWER/AIX to x86/Linux platforms running new, more affordable multi-core, scale-up x86 servers such as the HP DL980 Xeon 7500 series servers and x86 AMD and Intel servers from IBM such as the IBM System x3690

Innovation and interoperability—for flexible system evolution Many of the innovative ideas used to modernize data centers are built around Linux and x86

servers, and few, if any, of them are associated with POWER/AIX.

SUSE partners with a wide range of partners to optimize its performance on their hardware and software products— including in important evolving technical areas such as virtualization, cloud computing, Big Data and high performance computing (HPC).

As a result, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server provides you with flexible choice in continually modernizing your data center to meet your business requirements

Why migrate from AIX to SUSE Linux ?