The Benefits of Power10

for Oracle over x86

Servers
IBM Power in the Oracle Ecosystem

Oracle Support Statement Announcement

• Confirms the large install base and relevance of IBM Power to Oracle with almost 80,000 joint clients
• Confirmslong-term commitment to develop and release Oracle Database on IBM Power
• Confirms upcoming Long-Term Releases of Oracle Database will be on IBM Power and provides a target date for next release of 2023
• Demonstratessupported offerings well past the end of the decade

+25 Years Joint Enablement Technology Features Cooperative

Collaboration and Optimization Recognition via Customer Support
ensure IBM and Oracle products • On-site people dedicated to joint
Certification Process
working together at their most current Oracle & IBM product
Oracle leverages Technology Technology Implementation
releases development Adoption Enablement Support
• Power & AIX Exclusives
• Oracle Technologies (DB, RAC, • Technical Assistance and • execution in a micro-partition
• exploitation of SMT, VIOS, AME, Post Sales & Support
Fusion Middleware …) platform-specific training to Oracle
Live Kernel Update …
Oracle SRs + IBM Cases
• Oracle Applications (Siebel, EBS, • Documented best practices,
PSFT, FlexCube …) performance tuning and other Proof point of 2-ways collaboration
IBM and Oracle have a formal joint process
lessons learnt for formal communications between support
• IBM Systems & Software Oracle acknowleges our Power
organization on an “as required” basis
Value-Add 3
New Oracle on IBM Power Redbook
 IBM Power is Long-Term Investment Protection & Secure Roadmap
Oracle Certifies for the O/S, All IBM Power servers run the same AIX AIX 7.3 Beta Program Open
Oracle SW on IBM Power is long-term commitment GA December 2021

Oracle can be deployed, migrated, restored on any server and Power Virtual Server
Complete Scalability, Flexibility and Ease of Migration

AIX 6.1 AIX 7.2

AIX 6.1
from Scale-Out to High-End

AIX 7.2 AIX 7.2 AIX 7.3

AIX 7.1
Power
AIX 5.3 AIX 7.1 AIX 7.1
until 6/2017 Virtual
Power8 Power9 Power10 Server

Power Private Cloud with Dynamic Capacity for investment protection +

and transition mechanism to Power10
PowerVM
servers

Same OS / Same Virtualization across Power Technologies

Migration Methods : MKSYSB Backup/Restore Re-map volum es to new server

Live Partition Mobility (LPM) Fresh Install with RMAN Back up/Restore

Keep running as-is your current Oracle DB version on Power10 with AIX7.2 support till 2030
AIX 7.1 AIX Power
DLPAR LPM AME WPAR
AIX 7.2 LKU VM
https://www.oracle.com/fr/database/technologies/virtualization-matrix.html
 How Power drives Oracle TCO Savings ?
Oracle SW is 80% of the TCO,
licensing and SWMA cost reduction is the key to success
Oracle costs lay beneath the surface
➢ Reduce #Cores to reduce Oracle SWMAcost
➢ Reduce #Cores to prepare Oracle Unlimited License Agreement (ULA) exit
➢ Reduce #Cores to grow the workload with no additional licenses purchase

70% 30%

Highest Performance per Core Higher Utilization Rate Platform Efficiency

P9 vs x86 → x2.2* Architecture Design Unique Capabilities for

Power10 vs x86 cascade Lake →2.8 for Data processing Flexibility , Agility, Robustness, and
Real Simultaneous Multi threading Unique integration for the CPU, memory, Optimized infrastructure
SMT8 throughput auto-optimized I/O and all components usage Better scalability
Core performance improvement limits Oracle licenses
per Core Performance, trend over time and technology
IDC Qualified Performance Indicator

>2.2x +146%

+60%
incompatible
2012 2013 2015 2016 2017 2019 2021 2012 2014 2017 2021

Exa X3 Exa X4 Exa X5 Exa X6 Exa X7 Exa X8M Exa X9M Power7 Power8 Power9 Power10
16 Cores 24 Cores 36 Cores 44 Cores 48 Cores 48 Cores 64 Cores P780+ E980 E1080
E880
Xeon E5-2690 Xeon E5-2697 Xeon E5-2699 Xeon E5-2699 Xeon 8160 Xeon 8260 Xeon 8358 15 core/chip
8-Core/chip 12-Core/chip
8-Core/chip 12-Core/chip 12-Core/chip
18-Core/chip 22-Core/chip 24-Core/chip 24-Core/chip 32-Core/chip 7 nanometers
10 nanometers
Continuous improvement
Source: IDC QPI, http://www.idc.com/qpi
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 RAS & Resilience, IBM Power servers Ranked Number #1
by ITIC , 12 years in a row

← 4.8 mins / server / year

← Enterprises classify mission

critical class as 0.17

https://itic -c orp.c om/blog/2 02 0/05/itic -2 02 0-relia bility-poll-ibm -lenovo-hpe-

hua wei-m ission-c ritic al-servers-deliver-highest-uptim e-a vailia bility/

Is RAC cluster DB option required to meet Business Continuity, Uptim e SLA ?

NO ➔ Save $23,000 per license (list price) + 22% SWMA per year
YES ➔ Use RAC on Power Systems as a stretched active/active, it’s HA, not just DR
 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search
PowerVM’s
firmware-baseddesignoffersunrivaled
security!
➔Outsta nding sec urity tra ckrec ord, compared to our competition!
e.g. when it comes to vulnerabilities

➔Power8 and Power9 servers were the first in the IT industry with
risk mitiga tion against Spec tre and Meltdown sec urity conc erns

Disable HMT on x86 to mitigate the issue *data pulled July 20th, 290221
https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/L1TF

▪ The PowerVM hypervisor has very few reported security

vulnerabilities since inception and provides the bullet-proof
sec urity that custom ers demand for mission-c ritic al work loads
▪ Dare to compare – search any sec urity tra cking DB and compare
Power against x86
Oracle savings, Reduce License usage

Objective : Choose the right platform to prepare Oracle ULA exit E950 – 40c E950 – 40c
Upgrade x86 Servers to Intel Cascade Lake or Migrate to POWER9
PowerHA
Pro Pro
d d
Pr Pr
od od
Shared
Dev Te Processor Pool Dev Te
X86/VMWare X86/VMWare X86/VMWare for Oracle
X86/VMWare X86/VMWare X86/VMWare X86/VMWare st LPARs
st
VM Ware HA – Auto-Restart VM Ware HA – Auto-Restart
VIOS1 - 1 VIOS2 - 1 VIOS1 - 1 VIOS2 - 1
core core core core
SAN Storage GAD SAN Storage SAN Storage GAD SAN Storage

Sizing based on IDC QPI Data Target Usage 75% OracleSW 4years ListPrice Discounted
TCO
Equivalent Current $ 43,855,700.00 $ 24,120,635.00
Target x86 Server POWER9 POWER9
Current Infrastructure Cascade
(48 cores) (Equivalent) (Usage Target 120 x86 Lic
Lake (5 servers)
Rate) $ 33,952,800.00 $ 18,674,040.00
#Servers #Cores #Cores #Servers #Cores
#Cores #Cores
20 290 230 5 240
102 60 Savings $ 9,902,900.00 $ 5,446,595.00
OracleLicenses 155 115 120
102
Savings 26% 23% Target 60 P9 cores $ 16,976,400.00 $ 9,337,020.00
34% 61%
Savings $ 26,879,300.00 $ 14,783,615.00
Reduce Oracle Licensing Costs Target 80 P9 cores $ 22,635,200.00 $ 12,449,360.00
Reduce Footprint
Savings $ 21,220,500.00 $ 11,671,275.00
Flexibility in Architecture / Consolidate Multiple Workloads (SAP/Oracle/HANA) 45% Oracle SW Discount – Oracle EE + Partitioning + Advanced Security +
Diagnostic Pack + Tuning Pack + Database Vault + Multitenant
Thank You