IBM Oracle ICC. IBM s Live Partition Mobility (LPM): Oracle s Database Support

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1 IBM s Live Partition Mobility (LPM): Oracle s Database Support Wayne T. Martin - IBM STG Solutions Relationship Mgr. Moshe F. Reder - IBM Oracle International Competency Center July IBM Corporation

2 Agenda Description of IBM s Live Partition Mobility (LPM) Oracle s certification for IBM s LPM A few additional Q&A (Questions & Answers) IBM Corporation July 13, 2009

3 PowerVM Live Partition Mobility IBM Corporation July 13, 2009

4 Partition Mobility Live Partition Movement Question 1: What is Live Partition Mobility? HMC Live Partition Mobility allows the movement of a running LPAR from one physical machine to another without disrupting the operation of the OS and applications running in that LPAR. Applications keep on running. LPAR LAN SAN Boot Paging Application Data IBM Corporation July 13, 2009

5 Partition Mobility Live Partition Movement Live Partition Mobility allows the movement of a running LPAR from one physical machine to another without disrupting the operation of the OS and applications running in that LPAR. Applications keep on running. Business Value Workload consolidation (e.g. many to one) Workload balancing (e.g. move to larger system) Workload migration to newer systems. Planned hardware outages for maintenance/upgrades Impending hardware outages (e.g. hardware warning received) HMC LAN SAN Boot Paging Application Data LPAR IBM Corporation July 13, 2009

6 LPM Requirements & Planning Question 2: What are the requirements to run LPM? HMC Source and destination must support LPM Enhanced hardware virtualization capabilities. Identical or compatible processors. Compatible firmware levels. LAN Source and destination must be LAN connected same subnet. LPAR All resources (CPU, Memory, IO adapters) must be virtualized prior to migration. OS is migration enabled/aware. The source and destination servers must be POWER6 The mobile partition must be AIX 5.3 Technology Level 7 or later, AIX 6 or later (1) Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 5 (RHEL5) Update 1 or later (2) SUSE Linux Enterprise Services 10 (SLES 10) Service Pack 1 or later. (2) SAN Boot Paging Application Data (1) Oracle support requires a higher TL level (2) LPM is available on Linux on Power however not supported by Oracle Database, at this time IBM Corporation July 13, 2009

7 Oracle s Support for Live Partition Mobility IBM Corporation July 13, 2009

8 Oracle s June 2009 announcement for LPM Question 3: What did Oracle announce on June 2009? Oracle announced via its Metalink website that LPM is now certified with Oracle Database. This means that LPM has successfully completed the requirements of a rigorous test plan developed by Oracle with IBM collaboration. IBM partnered with Oracle to execute these tests on a specific product combination. Oracle approved the results and now commits support of their products for production use with LPM. Oracle DB 10gR2 ( ) is certified to be used with LPM on AIX 5.3 and AIX 6.1 Minimum of service levels ( and up) for AIX 5.3 : TL8 SP4 (Technology Level 8, Service Package 4) for AIX 6.1 : TL2 SP3 (Technology Level 2, Service Package 3) Operating System Database AIX 5.3 with TL8 SP4 and up 10gR2 at AIX 6.1 with TL2 SP3 and up 10gR2 at IBM Corporation July 13, 2009

9 IBM PowerVM Live Partition Mobility and Oracle Move a running partition from one POWER6 processor-based server to another with no application downtime Movement to a different server with no loss of service DB 10gR2 now certified Virtualized SAN SAN and and Network Infrastructure Reduce planned downtime by moving workloads to another server during system maintenance Rebalance processing power across servers when and where you need it IBM Corporation July 13, 2009 IBM Power Systems is the first server line in the industry to be certified by Oracle for Partition Mobility

10 Q & A IBM Corporation July 13, 2009

11 Q & A about this announcement Question 4: Why is this announcement important? LPM is a key PowerVM feature. IBM and Oracle partnered to develop and run a set of tests that stressed the Oracle DB during migrations of a running partition. IBM demonstrated that Oracle maintains data integrity and active connections were retained during the migrations. For customers running Oracle Database in a single instance, there is now the option of using IBM s Live Partition Mobility feature. LPM is a key technology for customers contemplating Cloud Computing. This announcement gives a very strong incentive for customers planning to deploy Oracle DB as part of their Cloud. Question 5: What kind of opportunity does this announcement open? PowerVM in general and LPM in particular are major advantages for IBM Power Systems. Many customers have been ready to use LPM. With this announcement, customers have one more incentive to upgrade to Power6 technology. In addition, for Oracle customers running on IBM competitive hardware, the support for LPM means that there is yet another compelling reason to re-host the Oracle DB environment to a Power System IBM Corporation July 13, 2009

12 Q & A about this announcement (continuation) Question 6: What is the call to action, now that we know about this exciting new capability supported by Oracle? IBM Power Systems sellers should make sure that their customers are aware of this exciting announcement. At this point, IBM Power Systems offers the most complete set of virtualization features certified by Oracle, including VIOS, Dynamic Partitions as well as Partition Mobility. In addition, the support made available now is a yet another strong reason for customers to adopt IBM s Cloud Computing model. IBM sellers working on hardware competitive situations can leverage this strong IBM advantage. Question 7: Is there support for LPM in an Oracle RAC environment and for Oracle DB 11g? Support for LPM under Oracle RAC is planned to be available in the future. The unique features of RAC require additional tests that focus on maintaining cluster integrity in addition to the data integrity demonstrated for the database. Support for LPM with Oracle Database 11g is also planned to be available in the future. A large segment of Oracle customers are running their production systems on Oracle DB 10g and it was felt that the immediate priority was to make LPM available on this version IBM Corporation July 13, 2009

13 Q & A about this announcement (continuation) Question 8: Where can we get more information and help? Please refer to the following urls: IBM Flash with announcement content: PowerVM website: Oracle s Metalink certification website: IBM Oracle website: IBM Oracle website (IBM internal): IBM Oracle website (for Business Partners): Oracle IBM website: IBM Cloud Computing: If you still have questions, contact the at ibmoracl@us.ibm.com IBM Corporation July 13, 2009

14 End of Presentation IBM Corporation July 13, 2009