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Bruno Messina

Marketing Manager, Cisco Systems

WHY CISCO UCS SERVERS FOR ORACLE WORKLOADS

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FIRST LET’S TEST YOUR IT KNOWLEDGE

1.) According to IDC 2013, which system vendor is 2nd in x86 blades market share in worldwide and here in America?

2.) Which vendor uses over 6,000 blades to run 1000’s of Oracle Databases and the 2nd largest Oracle E-Business Suite deployment?

Cisco

Cisco

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FIRST LET’S TEST YOUR IT KNOWLEDGE

3.) Which system allows you to add an Oracle RAC node in minutes, not hours, days or even weeks?

4.) Which vendor this week has achieved 28 world record Oracle-based benchmarks since 2009?

Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS)

Cisco

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DBA’S HAVE MANY CHALLENGES

Responsive to Executive data demands

More work, but flat to declining budget

Policy enforcement

Set up new databases – normally takes hours/days

Availability of applications – effect of HW failures

Testing and upgrading applications

Determine performance limitations But…cannot take data offsite

Meeting spikes in workload requirements Example: Christmas shopping season!

“Data Center revenue grew 10% with order growth rates in the mid-30s. Revenue this quarter in data center had some impact from lower backlog coming into the quarter and the timing of shipments. The pipeline continues to look very strong and UCS continues to take market share.”

John Chambers February 2014

FY14 Q2 Earnings Announcement

Cisco’s Data Center Momentum

UNIFIED COMPUTING SYSTEMORACLE UNDERSTOOD THE UCS VALUE – TAKES ADVANTAGE OF IT!

Unified Computing Solution

Server = Resource

Efficient Agile Transformative

Legacy Solutions

Server = Application

Inefficient Complex High Cost Fragile

Management and Control

Primary Network

Secondary Network

SAN A

SAN B

Oracle Endorsing Cisco UCS

• Hosts Oracle sales training 1000’s of VM’s on Oracle VM

• Oracle VM Test/Development

• Fusion QA Environment

• Hosting Customer Demos at Briefing Centers

• Initial xxclusive NoSQL Big Data certification on Cisco UCS

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XML APISTANDARD

API’S

Cisco UCS 6296 XPFabric Extenders

(I/O modules)

IndustryStandard APIs

CISCO UCS – A FRESH ARCHITECTURE

Blade Form Factor

Rack Form Factor

FABRIC INTERCONNECTS

UCS Manager

COMPUTE

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CISCO UCS = REDUCED COMPLEXITY INCREASED FLEXIBILITY

• Embed management

• Remove unnecessary:

Switches

Adapters

Management modules

10GbE unified fabric

• Power and cooling

1/3rd less infrastructure

Lower power

• Built for virtualisation

Processor density

VM/host ratio

I/O improvement

Extended memory

SAN

LAN

MGMT

SAN

LAN

MGMT

Multiple Ethernet Connections

Multiple SAN Connections

Separate Remote Management per Chassis

Multiple Management Modules

Additional LAN and SAN Connections

Additional Management Connections

Additional Management Connections

Additional LAN and SAN Connections

LEADING & PREDICTABLE NETWORK PERFORMANCEORACLE RAC – SECURE DATA MOVEMENT

Independent Testing Results:

• http://www.miercom.com/cisco•Microbursts cause as much as 60% packet drop with competitor•Nexus 5000 and Cisco UCS – better able to handle Microbursts with predictable low latency

Packet Drop During Microbursts

Pac

kets

Burst Size

Near Zero Data Loss, Transactions are SAFE!

UNIFIED MANAGEMENTUNIFIED MANAGEMENT

UNIFIED MANAGEMENT

GLOBAL STATELESS COMPUTING For Workload Mobility

Domain 1 Domain 2Data Center 1 Data Center 2

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IPHONE APP TO ACCESS & RUN YOUR CISCO UCS

SiMU – Simple iPhone Management of UCS

Technical notes from App developer Tige Phillips are available here.

Download the SiMU App by clicking this link, or search iTunes with “cisco ucs”

Access UCS from almost anywhere!• View Errors/Faults

• Blades• PSUs• Service Profiles

• Service Profiles• Assign Blades• Change descriptions• Change resource assignment

• Power on/off, reset blades/chassis

The flexibility of our XML API enabled development of this app!

INSTALLING SERVERS TODAY

LAN

SAN

•RAID settings•Disk scrub actions

•Number of vHBAs•HBA WWN assignments•FC Boot Parameters•HBA firmware

•FC Fabric assignments for HBAs

•QoS settings•Border port assignment per vNIC•NIC Transmit/Receive Rate Limiting

•VLAN assignments for NICs•VLAN tagging config for NICs

•Number of vNICs•PXE settings\•NIC firmware•Advanced feature settings

•Remote KVM IP settings•Call Home behavior•Remote KVM firmware

•Server UUID•Serial over LAN settings•Boot order•IPMI settings•BIOS scrub actions•BIOS firmware•BIOS Settings

SIMPLIFY THE DATA CENTER: UCS SERVICE PROFILES

LAN

SAN

Cisco UCSService Profile

NIC MACs HBA WWNs Server UUID VLAN Assignments VLAN Tagging FC Fabrics Assignments FC Boot Parameters Number of vNICs Boot order PXE settings IPMI Settings Number of vHBAs QoS Call Home Template Association Org & Sub Org Assoc. Server Pool Association Statistic Thresholds BIOS scrub actions Disk scrub actions BIOS firmware Adapter firmware BMC firmware RAID settings Advanced NIC settings Serial over LAN settingsBIOS Settings

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SERVICE PROFILES HARDWARE STATE ABSTRACTION – ORACLE EXAMPLES

RAC node 2

HTTP Server ERP

RAC node 1 RAC node 4RAC node 3

ERP

Benefits For Oracle Users

• Enables consistent setup, reduces service calls and downtime

• Add new instance in minutes, not hours or days

• Immediately test if workload is CPU or memory constrained

• Automatically load profile when new server added to system

• No LAN, SAN Zoning or any reconfiguration

Rack-Wide VM Mobility

DC

POD POD

VLANVLANVLANVLAN

BROADEN MOBILITY DOMAIN WITH NETWORK INTELLIGENCEAchieve Unprecedented Infrastructure Efficiency

DC-Wide VM Mobility

DC

POD POD

• Network protocols enable broader VM Mobility• Implementable on Virtual and Physical• Examples: FabricPath/TRILL, VXLAN

UCS MARKET SHARE GROWTHX86 SERVER BLADE MARKET SHARE Q4CY13

Maintained #2 in Americas (30.2%), #2 in N. America (31.8%) and #2 in the US (32.1%)1

UCS x86 Blade servers revenue grew 37% Y/Y in Q4CY131

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• Maintained #2 worldwide in x86 Blades with 22.6%

UCS momentum is fueled by industry leading innovation

UCS #2 with 32.1%

Source: 1 IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, Q4 2013, February 2014, Vendor Revenue Share

UCS #2 with 22.6%

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CISCO UCS LEADING SERVER GROWTH

HP IBM Dell Oracle Cisco Fujitsu Market

-30%

-20%

-10%

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

-6%

-19%

3%

-12%

39%

-15%

-4%

Y/Y Server Growth

Source: IDC Server Tracker, February 2014, WW vendor revenue, All Servers. Revenue is cumulative 4 quarters (Q1CY13 – Q4CY13)

$13.2B $12.7B $8.3B $2.2B $1.8B $49.7B$2.3B

WHO IS RUNNING ORACLE ON UCS, OVER 5,000 CUSTOMERS! EMC

U̶ Improved application response and batchrun-times by 20 times

U̶ EMC’s Channel Express, “Save and Array configuration” transactions improved 800%

U̶ Saved over $7 million in capital and operational expenses

Secure-24U̶ Extended life of data centers by 35 percentU̶ Lowered amount of network cabling by 70 percentU̶ Increased number of virtual machines per blade by 30 percent

IndoffU̶ Reduced power consumption by 20 percentU̶ Cut cooling costs by more than 50 percentU̶ Saved US$80,000 in deployment of Oracle ERP suite due to reduced hardware demands

U̶ Cut software maintenance costs by as much as 35 percent, saving estimated $50,000

ORACLE PERFORMANCE RECORDSA HISTORY OF 28 WORLD RECORD INDUSTRY STANDARD BENCHMARKS & 6 PROOF POINTS

Oracle PeopleSoft

OracleJD Edwards

Oracle Siebel

Oracle E-Business Suite

Oracle Middleware

OracleDatabase

JDE Enterprise One 9.1Oracle VM 2.22,000 Users

TPC-COracle 11g C240 M3

TPC-COracle DB 11g & OEL

C250 M2

Oracle E-Business Suite Medium Model Payroll Batch B200 M2

Oracle E-Business Suite Xtra Large Model Payroll B200 M3

Oracle E-Business Suite Medium Model Payroll Batch B200 M2

Oracle E-Business Suite Medium Model

Order-to-Cash B200 M2

Oracle E-Business Suite Large Model

Order-to-Cash B200 M3

Oracle E-Business Suite Ex-large Model Payroll Batch B200 M2

SPECjbb20052-socket C260 M2

SPECjbb20052-socket B230 M2

SPECjbb20054-socket B440 M2

SPECjbb20052-socket B230 M2

SPECjbb2005X86 2-socket B200 M2

SPECjbb2005X86 4-socket C460 M1

SPECjAppServer2004 2-node B230 M1

SPECjbb2005X86 2-socket B230 M1

SPECjbb2005X86 2-socket B230 M1

SPECjAppServer20041-node 2-socket C250 M2

PeopleSoft 9.0North American Payroll

255,319 Payments/Hour

Oracle E-Business Suite XL Model Payroll B200 M3

Oracle E-Business Suite XL Model Payroll B200 M3

Cisco UCS Benchmarks that held world record performance records as of date of publication

Oracle E-Business Suite Xtra Large Model Payroll Batch B230 M2

SPECjbb2005X86 2-socket C220 M3

NoSQL Big Data1,244,550 OPTS/Sec

C240 M3

Oracle E-Business Suite Large Model Order-To-Cash B200 M3

Oracle E-Business Suite Large Model Order-To-Cash B200 M3

Siebel 8.1.1.410,000 Users

PROOF POINT

INDUSTRY STANDARD

JDE Enterprise One 9.1MS SQL

15,000 Users

JDE Enterprise One 9.1Oracle Db 11g15,000 Users

Oracle E-Business Suite Xtra Large Model Payroll B200 M3

SPECjbb20052-socket B200 M3

SPECjbb20132-socket B200 M3

SPECjbb20132-socket B260 M4

Series10

100000

200000

300000

400000

500000

600000

700000

800000

900000

Oracle E-Business Suite Payroll BenchmarkA History of Cisco UCS Leadership

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E-Business Suite 12.0.4Medium Model PayrollResults Comparison

257,143

IBMPower 750

229,885

HP DL380

G6

401,499

HP DL380

G6

364,786

IBMx3550

422,535

CiscoB200 M2

64% faster

84% faster

581,846

CiscoB200 M2

45% faster

60% faster

E-Business Suite 12.0.4Extra-Large Model Payroll

Results Comparison

E-Business Suite 12.1.2Extra-Large Model Payroll

Results Comparison

702,576

IBMPower

730

835,189

CiscoB200 M3

19% faster

E-Business Suite 12.1.3Extra-Large Model Payroll

Results Comparison

789,515

SunX3-2L

839,865

CiscoB200 M3

6% faster

1,017,639

Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server configured with two 2.70-GHz Intel Xeon processors E5-2697 v2 (24 cores total) and 128 GB of memory; running Oracle Linux 5.7 (64-bit), Oracle E-Business Suite R12 (12.1.3), and Oracle 11g Database (11.2.0.1.0; 64-bit) delivers the best overall performance of any server on the Oracle E-Business Suite Applications R12 (12.1.3) 2-Tier Extra-Large Payroll (Batch) Benchmark as of 9/10/2013 with a score of 1,017,639 Employees per Hour. For details, please see http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/benchmark/ebs-r12-1-3-ora-l-cisco-ucs-b200-m3-2008199.pdf

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DBA’S HAVE MANY CHALLENGESSOLVED WITH CISCO UCS & SERVICE PROFILES

Responsive to Executive data demands

More work, but flat to declining budget

Policy enforcement

Set up new databases – normally takes hours/days

Availability of applications – effect of HW failures

Testing and upgrading applications

Determine performance limitations But…cannot take data offsite

Meeting spikes in workload requirements Example: Christmas shopping season!

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