Oracle runs Great

on Power 8

Rebecca Ballough
ATS Oracle Solutions

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 Agenda

IBM/Oracle Certification
Power8 specifics
Benchmarks/Performance Data
Power8/Oracle licensing
Oracle 12C

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IBM and Oracle Have a Long-Standing Relationship

Sustaining relationship of 160K + clients

Oracle 25 years, PeopleSoft 23 years, JD
Coopetition is Edwards 35 years, Siebel 13 years
alive and well
More than 160K joint technology clients
IBM has been And more than 20,000 joint application clients
named an Oracle
Diamond level
partner, the highest Vibrant technology relationship
Sustained investment in skills and resources
ranking available,
including dedicated international competency
in the Oracle centres
PartnerNetwork Market-leading services practice
IBM GBS is Oracle’s #1 SI partner (7,500 joint
projects) with 5,000 people dedicated to Oracle

Unrivalled client support process

Dedicated on-site resources and significant
program investments

Oracle Databases (along with most other Oracle products) are fully certified on IBM Power Systems, including
the use of PowerVM virtualisation, Micropartitioning, PowerHA and Live Partition Mobility
http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/PRS3369

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Enablement: Joint Process

A Collaborative Continuous Process between Oracle and IBM to ensure the

Oracle Certification of IBM SWG and STG products at its most Current
Releases with Oracle Product Releases *
– Applications Unlimited (PSFT, JDE, Siebel CRM, E-Business Suite)
– Fusion Applications
– Business Intelligence and EPM (BI Apps, OBI EE, Hyperion EPM)
– Retail GBU (Retek, 360Commerce, ProfitLogic)
– Communications GBU (Portal Software (BRM) , MetaSolv)
– Insurance GBU (AdminServer, Skywire)
– Edge Applications: G-Log OTM, Agile PLM, Demantra
– Oracle Technology (DB and RAC, Fusion Middleware, Enterprise Mgr)
Focus on Currency and Parity
IBM Cross-Brand Technology Focus (IBM STG and SWG Products):
extended technical advocates from Dev Labs

* Continuous evaluation as new companies are acquired © 2012 IBM Corporation

Joint Development - The IBM Technology team
Developing
– On-site people dedicated to joint Oracle & IBM product development
– Oracle Technology and Application Offerings
• Generic and IBM-specific Oracle Product improvements
• New Platforms: Linux on z, Introduction of Power7, Testing with x5 and MAX5
– On-site team helps in tough debugging and critical customer situations
– Testing and certification of Operating Systems, Technology Offerings, Virtualization

Optimizing
– Technical assistance and platform-specific training to Oracle
• Compiler Exploitation (e.g. IBM XLC Compiler used on AIX)
• Advanced POWER Virtualization, z/VM
– Performance Testing and benchmarking to validate Oracle product optimization on Power and
System z

Delivering
– Document best practices, performance tuning, and other lessons learned
– Joint development and use of latest sizing tools for Techline
– Enablement (technical skills) of field force, FTSS, ATS, Business Partners

IBM Investment
80+ People dedicated full time to Oracle & IBM product development & sizing
Over >170 professionals world wide for sales & technical support
Over 1000+ IBM IT assets (Power servers, System z servers, Storage and networking) on Loan to Oracle
valued at $120,000,000

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 Oracle’s Suite of Products is Certified on all IBM Systems

Power System x and System z PureFlex Storage and IBM

Systems BladeCenter Systems Networking Software
And jointly supported across Operating Systems and Hypervisors

Preserving customer choice: Software, systems, virtualization technologies, and levels of support
Strong roadmaps for Oracle Database and Applications across all IBM server brands
Support for open source, industry standards, and application compatibility

Oracle Application Certifications on IBM Systems IBM Systems Positioning and Selection
Guide Oracle Database Certifications on IBM Systems
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Power Processor Technology Roadmap

POWER9
Extreme Analytics
Optimization
POWER8 Extreme Big Data
More Cores Optimization
SMT+++ On-chip accelerators
POWER7/7+ Reliability ++
FPGA Support
45/32 nm Transactional Memory
POWER6/6+ Eight Cores
PCIe Acceleration
On-Chip eDRAM
65/65 nm Power-Optimized Cores
POWER5/5+ Memory Subsystem ++ 200+ systems in test
130/90 nm Dual Core SMT++
High Frequencies Reliability +
Dual Core Virtualization + VSM & VSX
Enhanced Scaling Memory Subsystem + Protection Keys+
SMT Altivec
Distributed Switch + Instruction Retry
Core Parallelism + Dynamic Energy Mgmt
FP Performance + SMT +
Memory Bandwidth + Protection Keys
Virtualization

2004 2007 2010 2014

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POWER8 – Continued Leadership
(what you expected)

Industry Industry
Best Practice Leading

Industry Industry
Leading Leading

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POWER8 Multi-threading Options
4
SMT1: Largest unit of execution work
SMT2: Smaller unit of work, but provides 3.5
greater amount of execution work per cycle
SMT4: Smaller unit of work, but provides 3
greater amount of execution work per cycle
SMT8: Smallest unit of work, but provides the 2.5
maximum amount of execution work per cycle
Can dynamical shift between modes as 2
required: SMT1 / SMT2 / SMT4 / SMT8
1.5
Mixed SMT modes supported within same
LPAR
– Requires use of “Resource Groups” 1

0.5

0
SMT2 is available with POWER6 P7 P8 P8 P8 P8
SMT1 SMT1 SMT2 SMT4 SMT8
SMT4 is available with POWER7

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SMT 8 recognized with Oracle 11gR2, 12C

Startup
DB Name DB Id Instance Inst num Release RAC
Time
TPCEDB 255218632 tpcedb 1 01-May-14 11.2.0.3.0 NO
5 19:05

Host
Platform CPUs Cores Sockets Memory (GB)
Name
p840c- AIX-Based 192 24 487.75
aix71 Systems (64-bit)

Startup
DB Name DB Id Instance Inst num Release RAC
Time
TPCEDB 2551215656 tpcedb 1 21-Apr-14 12.1.0.1.0 NO
23:04

Platform
CPUs Cores Sockets Memory (GB)
p840c-aix71 AIX-Based 192 24 487.75
Systems (64-bit)

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 Some pointers …

• Recommended AIX Release for POWER8 is 7.1 TL03 SP3+APAR

IV56367 & VIOS release 2.2.3.3

• AIX 6.1 TL9 SP3 + APAR IV56366 may also be used, but doesn’t
support SMT8

• As always, AIX 7 on POWER8 leverages full binary compatibility with

applications built on AIX 6 and AIX 5.
.

• Recommended tunables for Oracle on POWER7 provide excellent out of

the box performance when applied to POWER8

• Watch out for Default Parallel Degree, which is based on logical CPU #

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Recommended vmo Parameters for Oracle on Power 8

Parameter Recommend Value AIX 7.1 AIX 6.1 AIX 6.1/7.1

Default Default Restricted
esid_allocator 1 1 0 Yes
vmm_klock_mode 2 2 1 No
minperm% 3 3 3 No
maxperm% 90 90 90 Yes
maxclient% 90 90 90 Yes
strict_maxclient 1 1 1 Yes
strict_maxperm 0 0 0 Yes

lru_file_repage 0 0 0 Yes
lru_poll_interval 10 10 10 Yes
minfree 960+ 960 960 No
maxfree 1088+ 1088 1088 No

page_steal_method 1 1 1 Yes
memory_affinity 1 1 1 Yes
v_pinshm 0 0 0 No
lgpg_regions 0 0 0 No

lgpg_size 0 0 0 No
maxpin% 80 80 80 No

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17 Oracle 11gR2 on Power Systems 6/6/2014
POWER6 / POWER7 / POWER8 Partition Mobility

AIX 7.1
AIX 7.1 AIX 7.1 AIX 7.1 AIX 7.1 AIX 7.1
AIX 6.1
AIX 6.1 AIX 6.1 AIX 6.1 AIX 6.1 AIX 6.1
AIX 5.3
AIX 5.3 AIX 5.3 IBM i 7.2 IBM i 7.2
Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux
POWER6/6+ POWER7 POWER8

Leverage POWER6 / POWER7 Compatibility Modes

LPAR Migrate between POWER6 / POWER7 / POWER8 Servers
Can not move POWER8 Mode partitions to POWER6 or POWER7 systems.
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Compatible Mode Architecture
POWER6 MODE POWER7 MODE
POWER8 MODE
(and POWER6+ Mode)* (No POWER7+ Mode)

2-Thread SMT 4-Thread SMT, IntelliThreads 8-Thread SMT

8 Protection Keys *(16 in P6+ 32 Protection Keys 32 Protection Keys

Mode) User Writeable AMR User Writeable AMR
VMX (Vector Multimedia VSX2,
VSX (Vector Scalar Extension)
Extension / AltiVec) In-Core Encryption Acceleration

CPU/Memory Affinity Enhancements

HW Memory Affinity Tracking Assists,
ON by Default, HomeNode,
Affinity OFF by Default MicroPartition Prefetch,
3-tier Memory,
Concurrent LPARs per Core
MicroPartition Affinity

> 1024-thread Scaling

Hybrid Threads
64-core / 256-thread Scaling
64-core/128-thread Scaling Transactional Memory
256-core / 1024-thread Scaling
Active System Optimization HW
Assists

HW Accelerated/Assisted Active
N/A Active Memory Expansion
Memory Expansion

P7+ : AME compression acceleration and Coherent Accelerator /

N/A
Encryption acceleration FPGA Attach

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 IBM Power System S824 delivers New High-water
Siebel CRM Release 8.1.1.4 performance

Over 3 times the DB performance per-core than previous results

Highest overall users supported on fewer cores!

New #1 3.3 X

IBM Power Oracle Cisco IBM Power Oracle Cisco

S824 SPARC T4-2 UCS B200 M3 S824 SPARC T4-2 UCS B200 M3
6-core 16-core 16-core 6-core 16-core 16-core

(1) All results use Siebel 8.1.1.4 PSPP Kit and are current as of 3/24/2014. For more information go to http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/benchmark/white-papers/siebel-167484.html

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 IBM Power System S824 delivers Best of Breed
eBS 12.1.3 Payroll performance

Over 2 times more performance per-core than Cisco result

with higher overall through-put on few cores

2X !

IBM Power Cisco UCS Oracle IBM Power Cisco UCS Oracle
S824 C240 M3 BL460c S824 C240 M3 BL460c
12-core 24-core 16-core 12-core 24-core 16-core

(1) All results use Oracle eBS 12.1.3 Payroll Batch Extra Large Kit and are current as of 3/24/2014.
For more information go to http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/benchmark/apps-benchmark/results-166922.html

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 SAP Sales & Distribution 2-Tier ERP 6 Benchmarks
IBM Power System S824 using DB2 10.5 vs. Competition

Over 2 times better 24 core performance than nearest Intel competitive

results
Up to 2 times greater performance than previous Power generation

2X
more users

IBM Power Fujitsu Cisco UCS HP ProLiant IBM Power IBM IBM
S824 RX300 S8 C240 M3 BL460c S824 p270 p260

(1.0) IBM Power System S824 on the two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark running SAP enhancement package 5 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application; 4 processors / 24 cores / 192 threads, POWER8;
3.52GHz, 512 GB memory, 21,212 SD benchmark users, running AIX® 7.1 and DB2® 10.5, dialog response: 0.98 seconds, line items/hour: 2,317,330, dialog steps/hour: 6.952,000 SAPS: 115,870 database
response time (dialog/update): 0.011 sec / 0.019sec, CPU utilization: 99%, Certification #: 2014016 Results valid as of 3/24/14. Source: http://www.sap.com/benchmark.
(1.1) Fujitsu RX300 S8 on the two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark running SAP enhancement package 5 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application; 2 processors / 24 cores / 48 threads. Intel Xeon E5-2697
processor 2.70 GHz, 256 GB memory, 10.240 SD benchmark users, running Windows Server 2012 SE and SQL Server 2012, Certification #: 2013024
(1.2) Cisco UCS c240 M3 on the two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark running SAP enhancement package 5 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application; 2 processors / 24c ores / 48 threads. Intel Xeon E5-2697
processor 2.70 GHz, 256 GB memory, 10.045 SD benchmark users, running Windows Server 2012 DE and SQL Server 2012, Certification #: 2013038
(1.3) HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8 on the two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark running SAP enhancement package 5 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application; 2 processors / 24 cores / 48 threads. Intel Xeon E5-
2697 processor 2.70 GHz, 256 GB memory, 10.025 SD benchmark users, running Windows Server 2012 DE and SQL Server 2012, Certification #: 2013025
(2.1 IBM Flex System p270 Compute Node on the two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark running SAP enhancement package 5 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application; 4 processors / 24 cores / 96 threads,
POWER7+; 3.4GHz, 256 GB memory, 12.528 SD benchmark users, running AIX® 7.1 and DB2® 10 .5 Certification #: 3012019 Source: http://www.sap.com/benchmark.
(1.1)IBM Flex System p260 on the two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark running SAP enhancement package 5 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application; 2 processors / 16 cores / 64 threads, POWER7+; 4.1GHz,
256 GB memory, 10,000 SD benchmark users, running AIX® 7.1 and DB2® 10, Certification #: 2012035
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 IBM POWER7/8 versus Intel x86 “Ivy Bridge” and E7-8870
X4-2 X3-8
processor processor

IBM Power Intel x86 POWER8 POWER8 POWER7+

IBM Power 7 S824 Intel X86
(3.5GHz) “Ivy Bridge” vs “Ivy Bridge” vs E7-8870 vs E7-8870

Published Industry
Standard POWER7+ POWER8 Xeon E5-2697 Per core Ratio Xeon E7- Per core Ratio Per core Ratio
Benchmarks v2 8870

16 cores 24 cores 24 cores

80 cores
2 sockets 2 sockets 2 sockets

SAP SD 2-Tier 1 10,0003 21,212 10,2401 2.10x 23,2502 3.04x 2.15x

SPECint_rate2006 2 8843 1,750 1,020 1.70x 1,9901 2.93x 2.22x

SPECfp_rate2006 2 6024 1,370 734 1.90x 1,1902 3.84x 2.53x

SPECjEnterprise20103 13,1612 22,543 11,260 2.00x 27,1501 2.77x 2.42x

1) IBM Power System S824 on the two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark running SAP enhancement package 5 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application; 4 processors / 24 cores / 96 threads,
POWER8; 3.52GHz, 512 GB memory, 21,212 SD benchmark users, running AIX® 7.1 and DB2® 10.5, dialog response: 0.98 seconds, line items/hour: 2,317,330, dialog steps/hour: 6.952,000 SAPS:
115,870 database response time (dialog/update): 0.011 sec / 0.019sec, CPU utilization: 99%, Certification #: * Results valid as of 3/24/14. * Certification # not available at press time. Source:
http://www.sap.com/benchmark.
(1.1) Fujitsu RX300 S8 on the two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark running SAP enhancement package 5 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application; 2 processors / 24 cores / 48 threads. Intel Xeon E5-
2697 processor 2.70 GHz, 256 GB memory, 10.240 SD benchmark users, running Windows Server 2012 SE and SQL Server 2012, Certification #: 2013024
(1.2) Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX900 S2 on the two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark running SAP enhancement package 5 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application; 8 processors / 80 cores / 160 threads.
Intel Xeon Processor E7-8870 2.4GHz, 1TB memory, 23,250 SD benchmark users, running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 and Sybase ASE 15.7, Certification #: 2013012
(1.3) IBM Flex System p260 on the two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark running SAP enhancement package 5 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application; 2 processors / 16 cores / 64 threads,
POWER7+, 4.1GHZ, 256GB memory, 10,000 SD benchmark users, running AIX® 7.1 and DB2® 10, dialog response: 0.97 seconds, line items/hour: 1,094,000, dialog steps/hour: 3,282,000, Certification #:
2012035

2) IBM Power S824 results submitted to SPEC, waiting for approval. Supermicro SuperServer 6027AX-TRF (X9DAX-iF, Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2, 2.70 GHz). Source: http://www.spec.org
2.1) SPECint_rate2006 for Oracle Sun Server X2-8 (Intel Xeon E7-8870, 2.4GHz ) Source: http://www.spec.org
2.2) SPECfp_rate2006 for Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX900 S2 (Intel Xeon E7-8870, 2.40 GHz) http://www.spec.org
2.3) SPECint_rate2006 results for IBM Power 740 (Power7+, 4.22GHz) http://www.spec.org
2.4) SPECfp_rate2006 results for IBM Power 740 (Power 7+, 4.2GHz) http://www.spec.org

3)IBM WebSphere Application Server V8.5.5.2 and DB2 10.5 on IBM Power S824 result of 22,543.34 published on Apr 22, 2014. Oracle Weblogic Server Standard Edition Release 12.1.2 and Oracle
Database 12c on Oracle Sun Server X4-2 result of 11,259.88 published on Sep 23, 2013. Source:http://www.spec.org
3.1) Oracle Weblogic Server Standard Edition Release 12.1.1 on Sun Server X2-8 (E7-8870, 80cores) result of 27,150.05 published July 11, 2012. Source:http://www.spec.org
3.2) WebSphere Application Server V8.5 and DB2 10.1 on IBM Power 730 Linux (P7+, 4.2GHz) result of 12,066.73 published on Mar 6, 2013. Source:http://www.spec.org

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FlashSystem 840

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Power 8 Sockets/Chips/Cores/Threads

Each Power8 socket = 1 POWER8

dual chip
module (DCM)

Local SMP Links

Accelerators PCI Gen 3 Links
Each Power8 DCM = 6,8, 10, or 12 cores
Core Core Core
(6 core example) L2
MemCt

Remote SMP Links

rl

Core L2 Core
L2 Core L2

Each Power8 Core = 8 HW SMT Threads

8 SMT Threads * 6 cores * 1 socket = 48 logical CPUs for a 6 core socket

One Power8 core = 1 core factor for licensing purposes.

http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/contracts/processor-core-factor-table-070634.pdf

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Oracle Database editions available

Enterprise Edition - Flagship Oracle database version for OLTP, decision support
and content management

Standard Edition - Four- socket version, including full clustering support (RAC
support)

Standard Edition One - Two-socket version of Standard Edition (w/o RAC support)

Express Edition - Full-featured version for individual users, free of charge, no

support

Please note:
1) Not all Oracle Database versions are available with the same licensing terms in all
geographies. Please check in your particular country the currently available Oracle offerings.
2) Please consult Oracle’s Database website (http://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/index.html)
for an updated list of database editions offerings by Oracle
3) A list of costs for each edition can be found at
http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/price-lists

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 Oracle Core & Socket-based Database Edition Applicability*
for Power8 processor-based Systems
Oracle Database Edition

Power Systems Product Descriptions Core pricing Socket Pricing

Power Systems Maximum Cores Maximum Oracle Oracle Enterprise Oracle Standard Oracle Standard
Model (Processors) Socket Count Edition Edition One Edition

Power S814 8 1 Yes Yes Yes

Power S822 20 2 Yes Yes Yes

Power S824 24 2 Yes Yes Yes

For Standard Edition licensing eligibility with RAC the total number of sockets in the cluster
is considered, not just the number of sockets in an individual system.

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 PowerVM with Oracle Licensing implications

A list of approved partitioning techologies can be found online at

http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/specialty-topics/index.html

Approved hard partitioning technologies by Oracle include: LPAR (adds

DLPAR with AIX 5.2), Micro-Partitions (capped partitions only)

AIX LPM does not qualify for Hard Partitioning.

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Virtual Shared Processor Pools – Licensing Benefits
Server with 16 processor cores
POWER6/7/8 Multiple shared pools: n5 n6 n7 n8 n9
Uncapped Uncapped Uncapped Uncapped Uncapped
• Can reduce the number of AIX AIX AIX AIX AIX

software licenses by putting a OAS OAS OAS

Oracle Oracle App 1 App2 QA
limit on the amount of processors VP = 5 VP = 4 VP = 4 VP = 6 VP = 3
an uncapped partition can use Ent. = 2.5 Ent. = 1.70 Ent. = 2.00 Ent. = 2.00 Ent. = 1.00

• Up to 64 shared pools

CUoD n1 n2 n3 n4
Virtual Shared pool #1 Virtual Shared pool #2
VIOS VIOS AIX Linux
Oracle Max Cap: 5 processors Max Cap:
Physical Shared Pool (9 processor cores)6 processors

4 0.5 0.5 1 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Oracle DB cores to license:

• 1 from dedicated partition n3 Oracle DB core – license factors:
• 5 from shared CPU pool 1
POWER6: 1.0
=6
POWER7/7+: 1.0
OAS cores to license: POWER8: 1.0
• 6 from shared CPU pool 2
=6
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Oracle 12C brings some interesting changes…..

Multi-Tenant Container Databases (CDB)

– a new EE option ($17,500 per core)
– Allows multiple pluggable databases (PDB) per CDB
– Processes, binaries, spfile, redo, undo, rman, dataguard all at CDB level
FlexASM
– 1-1 relationship between server and ASM nodes no longer necessary
Flex Cluster
– HUB and LEAF design where HUBs run database instances and LEAF nodes run
applications
Automatic Data Optimization/Heat Map
– set compression or tiering policies at the row or segment level
– requires licensing Oracle Advanced Compression

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New in Oracle 12C – Multi-Tenant Container Database Consolidation

• A root database shell is called a “Container Database”, or CDB

• Each database within the CDB is called a “Pluggable Database”, or PDB
• Processes, binaries, character set, spfile, SGA, PGA, redo, undo are common to all
PDBs
• A limited # of parameters can be changed at the PDB level
• Security is separate; access between databases in a PDB is through dblink
• Applications connect to a listener-defined service; CDB is not visible to apps
• Management tools like rman, dataguard are at the CDB level
• Databases can be unplugged from one container and plugged into another as an
upgrade methodology

When is it implemented?
• In 12C, Databases can be created as CDB or non-CDB
• databases upgraded to 12C will use a non-CDB model by default
• Databases created CDB with only 1 PDB per CDB will not be charged extra

PDBA PDBB PDBC PDBA PDBB PDBC

Dataguard
CDB CDB
RMAN

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Consolidation Levels – Multi-Tenant

Multi-Tenant Container Database Consolidation

Multiple databases are consolidated as schemas under one physical database

Pros:
• Efficient resource usage – fewer processes running, shared SGA
• Fewer databases to administer, back up, patch
• No application changes needed
• No direct connection between pluggable databases (better security than schema
consolidation)
Cons:
• Separate license fee required - $17,500 per core
• Requires same character set, software versions, and mostly the same parameters to be
used by all pluggable databases
• Bugs from one pluggable database environment may impact others
• No memory resource prioritization
• All application environments must share the same maintenance window, backup and
recovery solution
• Some features such as Streams, ADO, and pre-12C databases are not compatible with
CDBs
• Application vendors may not permit use of a shared container database
• Some performance issues may be exacerbated (such as combining multiple LGWR-
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constrained workloads)
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Consolidation Levels - Schema

Schema Consolidation
Multiple databases are consolidated as schemas under one physical
database

Pros:
• Efficient resource usage – fewer processes and fewer databases to
administer
Cons:
• Not supported by most application vendors
• Requires same parameters, character sets, and software versions to
be used by all schemas
• May have issues with physical object name overlap preventing
consolidation or requiring application rewrites CRM
• No isolation of bugs - database outages caused by one application schema
affect all schemas HR
• No memory resource prioritization schema
• All application environments must share the same maintenance
window, backup and recovery solution Database
• Potential security concerns

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Consolidation Levels
Server Consolidation
Databases are isolated into separate VMs or partitions (or WPARs)
LPAR 1
Pros:
CRM DB
• Provides the maximum level of resource isolation and SLA
guarantees LPAR 2
• Isolates and restricts Oracle licenses to the cores on which it runs HR DB
Cons:
• Still requires maintenance of each partition and database Server

Database Consolidation
Multiple databases are configured in a single VM, partition, or
physical server CRM DB
Pros:
• Fewer OS images to maintain HR DB
• Binaries may still be separate or consolidated
Cons:
• Still requires maintenance of each database LPAR
• All databases must be able to support a common SLA
• Resource management needed

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POWER Systems Flexibility Advantage with
Oracle Database
Implement and deploy an appropriate mix of RAC and non-RAC Oracle database
instances as well as application instances
Size individual database LPARs to match Isolate critical databases in different LPARs
specific CPU, I/O and memory needs Isolate database by department or other
Scale from very small to very large LPARs Mix test and production on the same frame
and Oracle instances
Mix application and database on the same
Create independent security domains machine
Deploy varying versions of Oracle

AIX OS OS OS OS OS OS OS
WPARs
RAC RAC
DB

DB DB App DB DB DB
OS OS
DB
RAC RAC
App

PowerVM Hypervisor PowerVM Hypervisor

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= IBM Advantages #powersystems
Server virtualization security is critical for DB workloads since many are
run in virtual environments

0
reported security breaches
on the PowerVM
hypervisor

The PowerVM hypervisor has never had a reported security

vulnerability and provides the bullet-proof security that
customers demand for mission-critical workloads
The VIOS, which is part of the overall virtualization has had 0
reported security vulnerabilities
Dare to compare – search any security tracking DB and
compare Power against x86

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Security of critical workload (SAP) deployments on Power is
beyond reproach
0
reported security breaches with
SAP and IBM DB2 or Oracle
on Power
SAP on Power versus competitive SAP
deployments study with over 54,150 clients
analyzed
The security for ERP systems, including SAP, can
be very challenging – by nature, the mixture of
application modules, user profiles, plug-in
components and so on, provide many avenues for
security breaches

Source: Business Impacts on SAP Deployments; Solitaire Interglobal Ltd (All rights
reserved); January 2013.

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Power RAS is built into the platform so clients do not have to
dedicate scarce resources to prepare for downtime

Power exhibits only

6.6 minutes of planned
downtime per year

With built-in RAS, the platform comes close to maintaining

itself
67% of corporations now require a minimum of 99.99%
uptime or better for mission critical hardware, operating
systems and main line of business (LOB) applications
AIX on Power consistently has the least amount of downtime
in ITIC studies for several years
Industry leading availability for all workloads, including SAP

Source: ITIC 2013 Global Server Hardware, Server OS Reliability Survey, ITIC, (All
rights reserved); January 2013.

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PowerVM workload management is nearly perfect when mixing
workloads
High Priority Workload Run High And Low Priority Workloads Together

Workload Metrics 10.2% High Priority Workload

Total Throughput: 14.42M throughput Metrics
reduction Total Throughput: 12.95M
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Oracle VM for SPARC workload management loses 48% throughput
when mixing workloads
High Priority Workload Run High And Low Priority Workloads Together

Workload Metrics 48.3% High Priority Workload

Total Throughput: 4.89M throughput Metrics
reduction Total Throughput: 2.53M
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VMware workload management loses 30% throughput when mixing
workloads
Run High And Low
High Priority Workload Priority Workloads Together

Workload Metrics 30.7% High Priority Workload

Total Throughput: 6.48M throughput Metrics
reduction Total Throughput: 4.48M
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