Oracle Engineered Systems

E-BOOK
Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance
Accelerate Cloud Deployments with a Complete,
Converged Infrastructure
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CONTENTS
02 Converged Infrastructure
Powering a New Generation
of Enterprise IT
03 Faster Deployments and Greater
Flexibility Introducing Oracle
Virtual Compute Appliance
05 Simplify your Journey to
Cloud Computing
06 A Solution Built on Proven
Technologies and Best Practices
07 Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance:
Driving Customer Success
09 Conclusion
11 Resources
INTRODUCTION
CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE
POWERING A NEW GENERATION
OF ENTERPRISE IT
With the pace of change in todays business
environment accelerating so rapidly, data center
agility and exibility have become business-
critical. To succeed, modern businesses must
be able to deploy innovative new applications
and react to changes in market conditions at a
moments notice. Because of this, an increasing
number of companies are realizing the value
of shifting to a Converged IT Infrastructure.
Converged Infrastructures deliver high levels
of performance, increase automation, and
simplify support in a fully optimized system that
is engineered to reduce costs and turn a culture
of IT maintenance into one of IT innovation.
IDC describes Converged Infrastructures
as Converged Systems and Integrated
Infrastructure Systems that consist of multiple
pre-integrated subsystems such as server,
networking, and storage sold as a single
product. However, a general-purpose design
means they must support a wide range of
workloads with different performance proles.
Gartners denition refers to Integrated
Systems and Integrated Infrastructure
Systems as a class of data center systems
that deliver a combination of servers, storage,
and network devices in a pre-integrated and
pre-optimized stack.
Oracle Engineered Systems are a super set of
both Gartner and IDCs denitions of converged
infrastructure. They consist of pre-engineered
and pre-assembled hardware and software
bundles to simplify data center operations,
drive down costs, and accelerate business
innovation. Oracle has been at the forefront
of the converged infrastructure market with
Engineered Systems since 2008, and with
its latest offering, Oracle Virtual Compute
Appliance is expanding the role of Engineered
Systems to virtually any customer workload.
Our ability to scale managed
services has signicantly
increased by going to a converged
structurestaff time, the agility of
managing it, thats where really the
benets are. Youre moving onto a
single platform that makes it easier
to manageweve had a huge
savings on how we manage and
the cost of our internal system.
Exec VP Marketing,
Cloud Service Provider
Source: IDCs Converged and Integrated Systems: State of the Market and Future Outlook,
Executive Interview Summary Report, August 2013
CHAPTER ONE
FASTER DEPLOYMENTS AND GREATER
FLEXIBILITY INTRODUCING ORACLE
VIRTUAL COMPUTE APPLIANCE
The Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance is an
integrated system designed for rapid application
and cloud deployment. In addition to providing
a single point of contact for support of the
complete full stack, integrated solution, Oracle
Virtual Compute Appliance offers the exibility
of a general-purpose machine, the elasticity of
cloud computing, and the ease of deployment
and use of an integrated system.
The Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance also
accelerates application stack deployment
through support for Oracle VM Templates
and Assembliespre-congured applications,
middleware, and databases packaged as
ready-to-run VMs that can be dynamically
congured as they are deployed.
The result is an unparalleled ability to go from
a bare metal infrastructure to logging-in to
a newly-deployed, running application within
hours, instead of weeks or months.
Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance delivers:
A complete stack solution integrating
Oracle or third-party operating systems,
Oracle VM, Oracle x86 servers, Oracle
ZFS Storage Appliance, Oracle Virtual
Networking, and Oracle Enterprise
Manager Ops Center 12c
Converged Infrastructure control for
rapid conguration, management, and
provisioning of all server, network, and
storage resources
A unied, software-dened network
fabric allowing new networks to be
dynamically added and existing networks to
be modied without the need to manually
modify cabling
Support for a wide variety of guest
operating systems including Linux,
Oracle Solaris, and Windows
Support for customer provided storage
from Oracle or existing storage from
other vendors
Unied, secure management with
browser-based, at-a-glance visibility of
all hardware components and secure,
encrypted remote access
With Oracle Virtual Compute
Appliance, customers can:
Cut capital expenditure by up to 50%
Deploy key applications up to 7x faster
Reduce infrastructure complexity by
up to 70%
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CHAPTER TWO
SIMPLIFY YOUR JOURNEY TO
CLOUD COMPUTING
Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance is engineered
to provide the ideal platform for building,
managing, and deploying clouds, with Oracle
Enterprise Manager 12c and Oracle VM to make
cloud deployments faster and simpler to manage.
Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c provides
complete control of the entire cloud lifecycle
from planning, building, and deployment, to
management, monitoring, and optimization.
When paired with the advanced virtualization
capabilities of Oracle VM, this delivers a holistic
cloud deployment and management solution
across the entire enterprise.
Self-service provisioning and management of
VMs, storage, and network resources makes
Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance perfect for
delivering Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). With
policy-driven scaling, metering and chargeback,
guided cloud setup, and advanced monitoring and
management tools, you and your users have the
highest level of control over IaaS deployments.
Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance is fully
equipped for IaaS straight out of the box,
delivering:
Performance and availability monitoring
Fault detection and management
Conguration and change management
Gold-image based provisioning
Policies for regulatory compliance
and monitoring
Many of these features also lend themselves
perfectly to Database as a Service (DBaaS)
deployments. By utilizing the power of
Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance for DBaaS,
cloud architects and database managers
can consolidate deployments in the way
that best suits them. Out of the box, Oracle
Virtual Compute Appliance provides database
managers with:
A consolidated platform for database
provisioning
Intelligent self-service provisioning
Facilities to scale up, scale down, scale out,
scale back or relocate database services
Metrics for usage measurement
CHAPTER THREE
A SOLUTION BUILT ON PROVEN
TECHNOLOGIES AND BEST PRACTICES
Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance is built from
innovative Oracle products that are proven and
tested for enterprise deployments through
multiple product generations, making it easy
to use and implement in your environment.
These proven solutions come together to
form the building blocks of Oracle Virtual
Compute Appliance:
Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance
Controller software enables rapid
infrastructure provisioning.
Oracle Virtual Networking including
Oracle Fabric Interconnect hardware and
Oracle SDN software simplies complex
data center deployments with a wire-once
solution and simple software-dened
network congurations, resulting in:
Reduced infrastructure complexity
by up to 70%
Extremely low latency (typically 10X
faster speeds than Ethernet), 40 Gb/sec
throughput
Provisioning new services and
reconguring resources in minutes,
not days
Oracle VM the virtualization technology
that powers more than 100,000 VMs for
Oracle internal development and serves
thousands of customers across a wide range
of Oracle Cloud services.
Oracle VM enables rapid enterprise
application deployment and simplies lifecycle
management, helping you:
Deploy Oracle RAC and Oracle enterprise
applications 7x-10x faster than other solutions
Accelerate enterprise application
deployment with 100+ Oracle VM Templates
Cut the costs of licensing and support
Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance Oracles
application engineered storage system delivers
extreme efciency and performance for critical
applications. It contains key applications such
as le sharing, testing and development
reporting, data protection, and streaming
workloads to help you:
Accelerate performance for all workloads
Reduce database storage requirements
Run more queries and data services
concurrently
Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance also includes
full use of Oracle Solaris and Oracle Linux
operating systems. The compute nodes and
management nodes in Oracle Virtual Compute
Appliance are based on Oracle x86 systems,
which are also used in other Engineered
Systems. Using this proven framework
means Oracle is able to make the most of
its engineering knowledge and expertise to
deliver a complete solution with components
that work together seamlessly.
CHAPTER FOUR
ORACLE VIRTUAL COMPUTE APPLIANCE:
DRIVING CUSTOMER SUCCESS
Lets look at a customer case study to see how
Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance helped this
customer deploy its Cloud services.
A Financial Services rm in Asia Pacic has
three core businesses: Investment, Private
Wealth Management and Corporate Trust.
The combination of different businesses
results in a complex and difcult to manage
technology environment. As part of its growth
strategy, the Financial Services rm wants
to refocus on areas where the rm has a
competitive advantage and leverage existing
core businesses for new growth. The CEO
wants a simpler, leaner and more
efcient business.
To achieve the business and operational
objectives, the CIO looks for a converged
infrastructure solution that would satisfy
these requirements:
Reduced costs and complexity of rapidly
deploying applications
Providing the hosting and management
of Oracle Database and third-party
business applications
Consolidating Windows, Linux and Oracle
Solaris applications onto one platform
Single point of support for the solution,
including hardware and software
After exploring several converged infrastructure
solutions from different vendors, they chose
Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, a fully
virtualized converged infrastructure system with
built-in software dened networking, exibility,
and the lowest TCO. The rm capitalized on the
opportunity to move its business applications
into the cloud with a turnkey solution for a
exible private cloud platform.
CUSTOMER BENEFITS
Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance
provided the following benets to
this Financial Services rm:
Agile response to the rms business needs
Easy to install and deploy quickly: from
power-on to production in a few hours,
not days or weeks
Centralized, efcient and easy management
Seamless growth with incremental
compute nodes as needed
Unlimited use of Oracle software within
Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance: Controller
software, Oracle SDN, Oracle VM, Oracle
Solaris*, Oracle Linux*, Oracle Enterprise
Manager 12c*
* Must be downloaded, right to use included with
Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance
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CONCLUSION
Managing and maintaining a data center that
meets the ever-changing requirements of
your business can be extremely challenging.
Using powerful and innovative solutions is no
longer enoughthese solutions must also be
co-engineered and fully integrated to deliver
the highest possible levels of performance,
efciency, speed, and reliability.
Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance is
specically designed with this in mind. It
delivers a complete Converged Infrastructure
solution from a single vendor, comprised of
proven hardware and software technologies
that can help your organization move applications
into the cloud, and your business into the future.
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