Migration Made Easy:

Switching from Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Oracle Linux in

Minutes
Steven Harris, Senior Sales Director, LVMGBU
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 Agenda

• Oracle Linux
• Why Choose Oracle Linux vs. Red Hat
Enterprise Linux?
• Migration or Switch?
• Resources and Next Steps

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 Oracle: Nearly 15 Years of
Investments in Linux 2007
2010
 Oracle Linux
 Validated Configurations Enhanced with
Launched Mainline-based Kernel
1998  Oracle Linux
2005 Undergoes 80,000 QA 2013
 First Commercial Hours Per Day  Free XFS Support
RDBMS for Linux On Demand Adopts
Linux History

x64 Linux  Exadata Engineered  Ksplice Offline

at Oracle

OCFS2 Accepted Into with Oracle Linux  10000 Customers

2000 Mainline 2008-9
9,000 Developers  Btrfs, Xen
 First x64 Linux Port Switch to Oracle Contributions
Supported Linux
 42,000 Oracle Linux Cloud Computing
Servers Deployed at
2002 2006 Oracle Big Data
 Launch of Oracle Linux Support
Unbreakable Linux Announced 2012
Linux Datacenter

 Asynch I/O, OCFS v1  Support Lifecycle

Oracle Joins Linux
Extended to 10 Yrs
Workloads

Foundation as Board Data Warehouse

Member 2011  Dtrace GA

 7,000 Oracle Linux

Support Customers
Single Use Production General Purpose
Deployments ERP/CRM  Oracle Buys Ksplice
Development Systems  DTrace Porting Begins

1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2013

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 Linux Distributions
For The Record…

 Nobody owns Linux – not Oracle, not Red

Hat, not SUSE, not Ubuntu, not Debian
Linux receives contributions from a variety
of sources representing hardware and
software vendors, as well as community
supporters for a variety of solutions
Oracle Linux will focus on features
important to enterprise customers

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 Oracle Linux

Community Innovation Oracle Enhancements

The Best Enterprise

Linux

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 Oracle Linux

Featuring the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel

Compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Free source code, binaries and patches
Runs in Oracle’s Engineered Systems
Oracle’s base Linux development platform

Optimized for Cloud and Enterprise Workloads

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 Oracle Linux 7

– Oracle Linux is ready to drive the next

generation data center.
– Physical
– Virtual
– Public Cloud
– Private Cloud
– Hybrid Cloud
– Embedded
– Engineered Systems
– 3rd party solutions

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 Oracle Linux
Fastest Growing Enterprise Linux

High YoY Thousands of

Growth Customers

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 Oracle Linux

Over 12,000 Customers; Increasing by Double Digits Annually

Oracle Linux is one of the top 3 distributions,

growing more than 80 percent year-over-year
in 2012, which outpaced the overall Linux
server operating system market growth(1).

(1) Source: Gartner, Market Share, All Software Markets, Worldwide, 2012 – March 29, 2013

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 Comprehensive Linux Solution

 Dedicated development team

 Dedicated QA team

 Dedicated support team

 Dedicated ISV and IHV team
 Oracle Linux training and certification

 Oracle Linux consulting services

The only Linux Oracle recommends for Oracle software

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 Agenda

• Oracle Linux
• Why Choose Oracle Linux vs. Red Hat
Enterprise Linux?
• Migration or Switch?
• Resources and Next Steps

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 Developed by World’s Leading Enterprise
Computing Company
Engineered for the Enterprise
• Engineered together with servers,
storage, database, middleware, apps
• Designed to support performance,
scalability, reliability requirements of
Engineered Systems
• Customers using Oracle Linux elsewhere
can/will run the exact same code
• Tracks Linux mainline closely
• Industry leading benchmarks

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 Oracle Linux: Best Tested Enterprise Linux

Tested Continuously
• Base development platform for
almost all Oracle products
• 128,000 compute hours/day
testing Oracle products on Oracle
Linux
• More than 42,000 servers run in
Linux QA farm

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 Best Linux for Deploying Oracle Database

Tight Integration
• Base development platform for
Oracle Database
• Optimized features such as Data
Integrity, DTrace, Database
Smart Flash Cache support
• Pre-install package for faster
deployment

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 Mission Critical Support

Comprehensive Support

• 24/7 enterprise-class support available in

145 countries
• Supported by Linux experts who also
have deep knowledge of Oracle's entire
stack
• Premier backports
• Extended support lifecycle
• Oracle customers get a single point of
support for the stack

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 Innovations and Unique Features

Get More from your Linux OS

• Ksplice: Apply updates without reboot;
Improve application availability and
uptime, realize greater security and lower
your operational costs
• DTrace: Get valuable insight to tune and
troubleshoot your Linux OS
• Linux Containers: Save on CPU and
memory use by running multiple instances
of an OS or application on a single host.

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 Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel
The Latest Innovations from the Mainline Linux Kernel

• Developed using latest stable kernel release from

mainline/upstream
• Latest features and innovations
• No risky backports of new features into an old kernel
• Does not break application-level compatibility in
userspace (ie you can use it with your 3rd party apps
• Used in all x86 Engineered Systems

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 Industry-Leading Management & Clustering Tools

No Hidden Costs

• Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c

for managing Linux servers
• OCFS2 and Oracle Clusterware
for high availability
• All included at no additional
charge with Basic and Premier
Support

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 Deployment Best Practices

Faster Time to Deployment

• Oracle Validated Configurations

• Oracle VM Templates: deploy

virtual machine images of
enterprise applications in
minutes

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 Oracle Linux Subscription Pricing

• Buy support for the systems you need Level Price

– use the same software with updates Installable binaries and errata Free
on everything! Basic Limited
(24x7, unlimited support) $499
• Oracle only counts physical sockets; (2 or less CPUs)
no limit on cores or number of virtual Basic
guests (24x7, unlimited support) $1,199
(More than 2 CPUs)
• Oracle Linux Premier Support is Premier Limited
included as part of Oracle’s Sun x86 (24x7, unlimited support) $1,399
(2 or less CPUs)
Premier Support for Systems
Premier
(24x7, unlimited support) $2,299
(More than 2 CPUs)

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 Lowest Cost
Red Hat Enterprise
Oracle Linux Premier Linux Server Premium*
Access to Updates and Patches
24x7 Phone and Web support
No Forced Upgrades to Obtain Bug Fixes
Lifetime Support
Integrated Management and Monitoring
Clustering Software and File System
Zero Downtime Updates with Ksplice
Comprehensive Legal Indemnification
Pricing $2,299 $6,498
(2 X $3,249 per socket pair)

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 Pricing: Red Hat Add-ons (per socket-pair unless noted)
Red Hat Add-On
Red Hat Price Oracle Solution Oracle Price
Solution
High Availability $399 Oracle Clusterware $0 - included
Load Balancer $199 Oracle Clusterware $0 – included
Resilient Storage (GFS) $799 OCFS2 or ASM $0 – included
Scalable File System XFS) $199 XFS $0 – included (premier)
High Performance Network
$199 OFED $0 – included

Red Hat Satellite Server $0 – included

$10,000 (server) Enterprise Manager 12C

Smart Management (2-4 $0 – included

sockets, 4 virtual guests) $288 Enterprise Manager 12C

Smart Management (2-4

sockets, unlimited guests) $0 – included
$576 Enterprise Manager 12C

Source: http://www.redhat.com/rhel/purchasing_guide.html

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Pricing Example:100 servers; Unlimited Virtual Guests

Oracle Red Hat

Servers Oracle Linux Basic Support Red Hat Premium Support
(unlimited sockets)- $1,199 (4 Socket-System) - $6,498

Management Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Red Hat Satellite Subscription- $10,000
12c and Ops Center included with Smart Management Module $576
Premier support
License - $0 * 100 servers - $57,600
Support - $0 Total: $67,600
Total Cost $119,900 $717,400
(Annual)
Total Cost
(3 Years)
$359,700 $2,152,200

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 Free to Download, Use, Distribute

Try it Now!
Free downloads
• Oracle Linux installation media free to
download, use, re-distribution Free to use
(edelivery.oracle.com/linux)
• All source code for Oracle Linux, including Free errata
patches and errata are freely available
(oss.oracle.com)
Free to distribute
• All updates and errata for are freely
available from public-yum for everyone with
or without subscription at same time

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 The True Enterprise Linux

Optimized for
Enterprise Faster time to
Apps Market

Lowest Cost Most Tested

Latest Highest
Quality
Innovations
Support

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 Agenda

• Oracle Linux
• Why Choose Oracle Linux vs. Red Hat
Enterprise Linux?
• Migration or Switch?
• Resources and Next Steps

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 Assess Your Environment, Assess Your Costs
Traditional Migration Planning

Hardware

Update,
3rd Party Patch &
Software Provision
Tools
Assessment

High
Backup
Availability

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 Migrating from RHEL to Oracle Linux

NO Migration Needed…
• The process is simple:
– You are not required to reinstall your operating system
– Oracle has developed scripts which can be used to easily switch you from Red Hat
Network to Oracle’s Unbreakable Linux Network (ULN) for patches and updates
– The distribution is binary compatible to Red Hat – we build from the same source so
applications deployed on your Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers will work
seamlessly with Oracle Linux. We provide this assurance to all RHEL customers.
– The entire process takes only a few short minutes

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 Switch from RHEL to Oracle Linux
https://linux.oracle.com/switch.html

Four Simple Commands!

Red Hat Unbreakable

Enterprise Linux 6 Linux Network

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 Switch to Oracle Linux
It is just easy!

Four Simple Commands!

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Subscribed to Red Hat Subscribed to Unbreakable
Network with Red Hat Support Linux Network with Oracle
Linux Support

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 Unbreakable Linux Network (ULN)
Manage Your Systems with ULN
 ULN provides a web based interface for administrators to quickly view
information critical to their Oracle Linux environments
– Summary views of recently registered systems and updated channels
– Channel information which can be filtered to meet your needs
– System profiles with detailed reports on errata status, subscription
expirations and channel subscriptions
– Consolidated view of errata information which can be filtered by bug,
security or enhancement (includes severity level for all security updates
– Searchable CVE information, which can be filtered by year

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 Agenda

• Oracle Linux
• Why Choose Oracle Linux vs. Red Hat
Enterprise Linux?
• Migration or Switch?
• Resources and Next Steps

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 Resources
• Find out more about Oracle Linux
• Top Ten Reasons to use Oracle Linux
• Datasheets
• Whitepapers
• Customer stories
• Videos
• Podcasts

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 Calculate your savings: Linux TCO calculator

http://www.oracle.com/us/media/calculator/linuxtco/index.html

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 Ksplice 30 Day Free Trial for RHEL Customers

• Available to any with RHEL 5 or RHEL 6

user
• Free 30 Day Trial
• Simple registration
https://www.ksplice.com/rhel-signup
• One minute installation of Uptrack client

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 Next Steps

Step Step Step

Done
1 2 3
Purchase Register for Download Start getting your
support or use the ULN account via up2date rpm Linux updates from
Public Yum linux.oracle.com/register Oracle!

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 More Resources
Join our communities for more information

@ORCL_Linux Facebook.com/ Blogs.oracle.com Oracle Linux YouTube.com/

OracleLinux /linux Experts Group oraclelinuxchannel

Software Download: edelivery.oracle.com/linux

Home Page: oracle.com/linux

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 Agenda

• Oracle Linux
• Why Choose Oracle Linux vs. Red Hat
Enterprise Linux?
• Migration or Switch?
• Resources and Next Steps
• Use Cases

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 Customer Case Study
Progressive Insurance

Problems/Challenges Why they Chose Oracle Linux

• High cost of Red Hat support • Lower cost of support and maintenance
• Low performance • Better performance and scalability
• Lack of consolidated management • Ability to manage the whole Oracle stack
and cost associated with that • Easy to virtualize with Oracle VM
• Scalability Templates
• Ability to implement applications • Patch management and downtime
quickly minimized with Ksplice

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 Customer case Study
Diebold

Problems/Challenges Why they Chose Oracle Linux

• Improving support quality for • Running Oracle E-Business Suite and

mission-critical Linux systems Oracle DB – Oracle Linux best for Oracle
• Need to improve operational • Reduced Linux support costs up to 50%
efficiency without compromising • Improved satisfaction with issue resolution
service―including looking at ways over Red Hat
to reduce IT support costs
• Better performance
• Streamline systems complexity • Simplified management with Oracle
and vendor management Enterprise Manager

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 Customer case Study
British Telecom

Problems/Challenges Why they Chose Oracle Linux

• Not scalable • Reliability and scalability

• Disparate systems • Cost reduction

• Compatibility with Oracle Apps
• Managing multiple suppliers
• Standardizing
• High maintenance cost
• Easier management

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