Managing Server Infrastructure with

Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center

Elke Freymann, Principal Sales Consultant
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 Enterprise Manager Ops Center
Converged Hardware Management for Sun Environements
Integrated Infrastructure
Management
+
Integrated Application-to-
Disk Management
+
Integrated Lifecycle
Management
+
Integrated Systems
Management & Support
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 Ops Center Everywhere Program

• No license costs for customers with Oracle Support contracts

• Right-to-use included with Systems Product Support
• Oracle Servers, Oracle Storage, Oracle Networking Products
• Oracle Operating Systems (Oracle Solaris and Oracle Linux)
• Oracle VM (x86 and SPARC)
• For new systems as well as installed base
• Program announced at Open World 2011
• Ops Center support also included in Systems Product Support:
no license costs, no support costs

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 Ops Center Everywhere
Support Statements
• Support statements:

http://www.oracle.com/us/support/systems/premier/index.html

http://www.oracle.com/us/support/systems/operating-systems/index.html

http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/linux/OracleLinuxSupport/index.html

• Ops Center License Agreement on OTN:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/licenses/ops-center-license-1511113.html

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 Ops Center Today

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 Manage All Your Infrastructure In One Place
Enterprise Servers
Operating Systems

Solaris
Cluster

Exadata OPS CENTER

Exalogic Virtualization

Engineered for SPARC

Systems
Containers

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Fabrics Storage Systems
 Intelligent Configuration Management

SOLARIS
Knowledge
Generation
LINUX
Machine

Enhanced Metadata

• Simulation & rollback capability

• New Solaris Cluster patching
• Comprehensive compliance reporting
• Track and audit change history
• Audit patch & configuration compliance
• Configuration profiles

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 Solaris Patching
• Patch to an EIS Baseline, or recommended patch set
• Produce patching reports of what is up to date and what is not
• Produce security compliance reporting
• Ops Center automatically works out:
• What patches are needed
• Dependencies
• Which patches are withdrawn
• Which patches need a reboot
• Time and cost savings
• Patches can be simulated before deployment
• Patches can be scheduled to run out of hours
• Patches can be applied to multiple servers across the estate
• Ops Center is Live Upgrade aware so can patch the ABE (Alternate Boot Environment)

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 Ops Center Tomorrow

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Enterprise Manager Ops Center
The management solution for all Oracle virtualization

• Centralized interface for VM lifecycle management

• Manage M-Series hard-partitions, OVM, and Solaris Containers from one place
• Complete management of Virtual Storage and Networks

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 Adoption of Existing Environments
Now Supported!
• Solaris Zones that Ops Center did not create are now
modeled and full features enabled during discovery in
conjunction with a extensibility framework for advance
storage mgmt and migration
• OVM SPARC VMs that Ops Center did not create are now
modeled and most features enabled with the exception of
pools, migration, and storage mgmt

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 Auto-HA for Zones
With Ops Center Server Pools
• Automatically restart non-global zones on another server in server pool after global zone fails
• Server pool guarantees same networking and storage connectivity and provides a resource
boundary
• Restart zones in priority order
• Helps resolve any resource contention
• Avoid split brain scenario
• Failover triggered only when global zone and all non-global zone agents and IPs are
unreachable
• Old server powered off via service processor
• New global zone pings IPs before bringing up zone
• New global zone checks for heartbeat on NFS storage
• On next boot of old GZ, zpool init fails and agent cleans up

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 Ops Center and Solaris 11
Ready for the Cloud
AI/Manifests/Distro Constructor Capture the relationship between software and services
and capture in a repeatable object or definition
IPS Increase level of change management enables a higher
degree of software volatility with a small amount of risk

SMF Insight into service awareness over just process

awareness.
Most effective way to capture and roll back operating
BE/ZFS
building blocks in a cost effective manner.

NIC V12N Higher degree of flow control and

hardware level
Higher degree of awareness and fault diagnose built in so
Dtrace/FMA
that more policy can be autonomously executed

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 Solaris 11 Software Management
• New Support for Image Packaging
System
• Enhanced Interaction with
Alternate Boot Environments
• New Support for Automated
Installer
• Improved Software Profiler
• Better Dependency Handling
• Increased Vendor Provider Patch
Bundles
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 Solaris 11 Network Virtualization
• Automatically Leverages
NIC Level Virtualization
with Zones
• Exposes Throughput and
Priority Control over Pipes
• Allows for Virtualized
Workload that needs a
dedicated TCP/IP Stack
while sharing the same
kernel

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 Ops Center Host Level Hardware Awareness
HW Coverage Doesn’t Stop at the Service Processor
• Highest Disk Fault Coverage
• Integration with Disk
Firmware
• Integration with HBA CPU
card

• Highest Level of ECC and Memory

MEM events
• Integration with FMA
and SMF I/O
• New Overall FRU
Health Coverage

Error detection across server HW enables swift and exact treatment

→ Unplanned downtime reduced !
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 OS Analytics
• Massive Increase in
Monitored Attributes
• Autonomous/Smart
Thresholding
• Link Processes to
Business Services
• Both System and Process
Level Historical Trending
• Zone Aware
• Agentless

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 Full Telemetry to My Oracle Support
Oracle Support
Knowledge Problem/SR Configuration
Management Management Management

Knowledge Problem/SR Configuration

Management Management Management

Performance Problem Provisioning &

Management Diagnosis Patching
Customer Enterprise Manager Ops Center

Servers Storage Switches OS/Virtualization

• Full “Automated Service Request” (ASR) Management

• Integration with Oracle Configuration Manager (OCM)
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 Enterprise Manager Ops Center
Converged Hardware Management Accelerates Cloud Deployments

EM12c Application Control

EM12c Self Service Apps
Storage Blocks
Elastic IP
IaaS API Exposure Level
Unix and Linux Coverage

Resource Aggregation
Heterogeneous Virtualization
Complex Deployment Plans

Low Level Server Orchestration

Next Generation Fabric Intelligence
Intel, AMD, SPARC64, SPARC CMT, T4
IB, 10GBE, IPoIB, EoIB, FC, iSCSI
ZFS, OFS, NFS-HA, CIFS Storage and Network

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 Built-in Infrastructure as a Service
Ops Center IaaS for SPARC&Intel

Increase
Business Value Network

Storage

Server Pool

Users
Drive Down
Costs & Time to
Market

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 Easy Control for IaaS

• The IaaS API will offer functionality in a key set of areas that
map to the core of the EC2-like API
• Template Management
• Instance Management
• Elastic Block Store-style storage management
• Security Groups-like constructs
• Key Pair Management for VM access control
• Tag Management for per VM meta data
• Simple user portal, CLI and Web Services interfaces
• Integration with Oracle Assembly Builder Deployer

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 Enterprise Manager
Self Service Provisioning
• Out-of-box console ; no additional set up required
• Rich service catalog
– Oracle VM Templates
– Complete Assemblies
– Database service
– Java applications
• Additional capabilities include
– Basic resource monitoring
– Chargeback information
– Quota monitoring
– Backup VM/Database/Start/Stop etc.
• Cloud APIs

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Engineered Systems
Unique Value for Oracle Engineered Systems
Exadata SuperCluster
• Enhanced ASR • New Rack View Topology
• Increased Hardware Fault Awareness • Solaris 11 Life Cycle Control
• Improve Storage Cell Monitoring • Performance Analytics
• Service Processor and HBA Management • Infiniband Active Management
• OL/Solaris 11 OS Analytics and Software Mgmt • OVM-SPARC Management
• Infiniband Monitoring • Solaris Cluster Monitoring
• ZFSSA Active Management
Exalogic • Storage Cell Monitoring
• Ops Center is Built into the Rack
• Enhanced ASR
• Engineered Together w/ OVM, OVAB, Exabus
• Deepest Possible Fault Vision
• New Rack View Topology
• OL/Solaris 11 OS OS Analytics and Software Mgmt
• Increased Awareness of Exalogic Life Cycle
• Active Infiniband Management
• IaaS API Exposure and Cloud Management Console
• ZFSSA Active Management
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 Better Architecture
Ops Center Enhances Core Components

• Local or Remote Database Support

• Proxy HA and Adaptive Load Balancing
• Public Schema for Persistent Data Proxy Control
Proxy Controller Proxy Controller
• Shared Backbone with EMCC Proxy Contr

API
HA Enterprise Control via Clusterware
• LDAP Integration for Roles

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 Q&A

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 Useful Links

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 Ops Center today documentation

• complete Collection:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E18440_01/index.htm

• Architectural details, connected /disconnected mode, required

network ports etc:

Concepts Guide
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E18440_01/doc.111/e17968/architecture.htm#CACJAGHF

Site Preparation Guide

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E18440_01/doc.111/e18418/chapter_decide.htm#sthref8

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 Ops Center blog entries / technical webcasts
for added guidance on individual topics
• central entry point: https://blogs.oracle.com/oem/

• OC Doctor step by step:

https://blogs.oracle.com/oem/entry/ops_center_doctor_the_administrator

• Alert Monitoring and Problem Notification:

https://blogs.oracle.com/oem/entry/alert_monitoring_and_problem_notification

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