Oracle Solaris 11.2
cloud capabilities
A Technical Presentation for Administrators
Karoly Vegh
Principal Sales Consultant
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Program Agenda
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Cloud service providers: the requirements
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Data Management
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Virtualization
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Networking
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Central platform/cloud management
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Virtualization requirements
• Efficiency
• Balance between large standalone instances and overhead
• Multitenancy
• Resource management and sharing
• Security Lockdown
• Administration delegation
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Solaris Virtualization vs. the Competition
OS and Virtualization – Engineered Together
Separate, isolated, slow
RHEL
VMware
HP
Native Zones, Kernel Zones, OVM
Engineered, performant, robust, secure
Deep Integration
Traditional Hypervisors
Native Zone or Kernel Zone Guest
Oracle Solaris Host OS
Hardware
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Solaris 11.2: Kernel Zones
OS and Virtualization – Engineered Together
• Next Generation Virtualization
– Simple administration
– Leverages Oracle Solaris resource
management and network
virtualization
– Seamless P2V and V2P
– Locked-down root file system for both
guest and host
– Recognized as an Oracle License
Boundary
– Minimal discernable impact with SAS
SRU1
S11.2
S11.3
S11.4
Virtual
Router
Oracle Solaris 11.2
10GbE
Network
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Infiniband
Fabric
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Affordable Cloud
Efficient
Simple
Affordable
>$500/VM
Saved
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Affordable Cloud
Major US Company is Saving $20 Million
40,000
VMs
$20,000,000
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Storage requirements
• Hybrid Storage Pools / Storage Tiering
• Performance
• Costs
• Snapshots/Cloning/Replication
• Differential
• Compression, Encryption
• Security Lockdown
• Administration delegation
• Error-detection and correction
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Oracle Solaris ZFS: One Modern File System
Does it all
Block/
Object
Secure Live VM Migration
ISCSI/F
C
NFS/S
MB
Efficient Data
Storage
System Recovery
Deploy/Rollback
App/BE
Data
Protection
Virtualization
ZFS Boot Environments
Flexible Storage Protocols
Compression
Hierarchical Checksums
Encryption
Snapshot/Cloning
Redundancy
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ZFS is Best For OpenStack Cloud Storage
Production ready data management, no compromises
• Data redundancy without sprawl
• Encrypt, compress, snapshot and clone
tenant VMs
• 3X less VM storage overhead
Cinder
&
Swift
Cloud Storage
• Flexible data sharing protocols,
including FC, NFS, SMB, iSCSI
• OpenStack CINDER and SWIFT support
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Oracle ZS4 Enterprise Storage
• Hybrid Storage Pools with
•3TB DRAM + up to 12.8TB read SSDs
• FC/IP/InfiniBand
• Thin VM Cloning
• Encryption, compression...
• Oracle DB integration
...
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Software Defined Networking in Solaris 11.2
Elastic Virtual Switches (EVS)
• Deploy on any fabric
Tenant A
• Integrated with Solaris Zones, LDoms
• Live migration of Vnics/Zones
VM
VM
virtual switch
• Utilizes VXLAN
Tenant B
VM
VM
VM
Tenant C
VM
virtual switch
Cloud Orchestration Layer
VM
VM
virtual switch
virtual
router
VM
virtual switch
Cloud
Controller
• Centralized management and statistics
for VPorts
Infrastructure
Controllers
• SLA enforcement per-Vport
- Networking
- Compute
- Storage
Cloud Hardware Infrastructure
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Application Driven SDN
Automated SLAs, Any Network
L7 Flow
L7 Flow
L7 Flow
L7 Flow
Distributed Virtual Switching & VxLANs
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Unified Archives
• Integrated archive creation and deployment
– Bare metal, Oracle Solaris Zones, LDOMs
• Disaster recovery solution
• Foundation for image management and
deployment at scale with cloning
– Cloud environments
– Application templates
• Based on Open Virtualization Format (OVF)
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Full Distribution of OpenStack in Oracle Solaris
Horizon
Cloud Management
Nova
Compute Virtualization
Neutron
Cloud Networking
Cinder/Swift
Cloud Storage
Glance
Image Deployment
Zones & Kernel
Zones
Elastic Virtual
Switch
ZFS File System
Unified Archives
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System Configuration Enforcement with Puppet
• Automated Configuration Management
– Enforces configuration across multiple systems
using declarative language
– Master / agent architecture
• Support for wide range of Oracle Solaris
resources
– IPS, SMF, Networking, Zones, ZFS
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Key takeaways
• Efficient, zero-overhead virtualization: Solaris Zones
• Cloud-supporting ZFS features
• Software Defined Networking
• Unified Archives allowing VM template management
• OpenStack and Puppet Support
• ...all simply included in Solaris on SPARC and x86 at no
additional costs
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More Information
Oracle Solaris resources
• Oracle.com/solaris
• @ORCL_Solaris
• facebook.com/oraclesolaris
• Oracle Solaris Insider
• blogs.oracle.com/solaris
• youtube.com/oraclesolaris
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