Oracle Linux Strategy and Roadmap

Oracle Linux Strategy and Roadmap Avi Miller Principal Program Manager, Oracle Linux

Agenda Oracle Linux Strategy Product Overview Product Roadmap Support & Pricing Next Steps

Oracle Linux Strategy Bringing the Latest Linux Innovations to Customers Deliver the best performing, most modern and reliable Linux OS Track mainline closely Influence Linux roadmap upstream via direct code contributions Highest value, enterprise-class support Single point of contact for the entire software stack (or hardware stack included with Oracle Servers) Lower cost Comprehensive legal indemnification

Focus on Linux Testing Dedicated Linux QA team Real-world regression and stress testing Customer-centric testing: Test Linux features that matter to Oracle customers Oracle and non-Oracle workloads (e.g. backup) running concurrently Adverse conditions (low memory, low disk space, etc.) Long, continuously running stress tests (detect memory leaks) Check for performance regression and degradation Oracle Product test farm over 128000 hours of QA every 24 hrs

Best Practices: Oracle Validated Configurations Oracle Database Fusion Middleware Pre-tested, validated, and supported Linux architectures, including Software, hardware, storage, drivers, networking components Best practices for Linux deployment Real-world testing of complete stack More than 160 configurations published, freely available for download from oracle.com/linux Oracle Linux Oracle VM Server Storage Oracle Validated Configurations offer faster Linux deployments while lowering infrastructure costs

Oracle Linux Strategy Product Overview Product Roadmap Support & Pricing Next Steps Agenda

Oracle Linux: The Best Linux for the Enterprise Featuring the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2 The best performing, most modern and reliable Linux OS Fully Compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux Free source code, binaries and patches/updates Runs in Oracle’s Engineered Systems Oracle’s base Linux development platform The only Linux Oracle recommends for Oracle software

Kernel Patching Problem SOLVED with Ksplice Only Oracle offers Zero Downtime Patching Client Loaded into the Unbreakable Linux Network Update downloaded and applied to RUNNING customer systems through client – NO DOWNTIME Oracle produces a normal kernel update Transformed into a zero downtime update

Linux Management and Clustering Integrated Apps to Disk Management and HA Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control and Ops Center for Linux Management Administration Patching Provisioning Oracle Clusterware: Linux High Availability Business continuity Protects from failure Included free with: Oracle Linux Network Support Oracle Linux Basic support Oracle Linux Premier support Included free with: Oracle Linux Basic support Oracle Linux Premier support

Application-to-Disk Data Integrity with Oracle Linux 2012 End-to-end data protection prevents bad data from being written Oracle Application sends block with protection information Adapter through Linux I/O stack HBA sends data block with protection information across SAN to the array Array validates protection information Array sends block to drive. Drive firmware validates protection information before writing to media HBA validates protection information Disk drive Linux OS HBA Switch Oracle Database Storage Array Data Integrity Extensions T10-PI T10-PI ASM Kernel Driver

Oracle Database Smart Flash Cache Integration with Oracle Linux Feature of Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Increases the size of the database buffer cache without having to add RAM to the system Available flash memory acts as second level database buffer cache Improves performance by eliminating physical disk reads, especially for read intensive application Only available on Oracle Linux and Oracle Solaris

DTrace Code posted on http://oss.oracle.com/git/ Functionality currently available: dtrace,syscall, profile providers SDT (statically defined tracing) proc,sched,io provider Kernel types and external variables lookup supported (CTF) Extensive Tests Suite No detectable runtime overhead

Oracle Linux – The Year in Review… Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel R2 released March 2012 Improved scheduler for high thread count applications Transmit packet steering across CPUs for lower latency Btrfs production and boot-uekiso for btrfs root partitions Linux Containers (beta) Low overhead O/S isolation and resource management DTrace production release Oracle Linux 6.4 Free errata and patches for Oracle Linux on http://public-yum.oracle.com Many record breaking benchmarks

Oracle Linux – The Year in Review… Unbreakable Linux Network Provide full errata information including security/CVE data http://linux.oracle.com/cve Support for yum list-security, yum info-security, yum update –cve Ksplice integration : automatically generate ksplice id through uln_register Released preinstall-em-agent RPM for easy installation of Oracle EM12c agent Oracle Exadata X3-2 updated to UEK (from 2.6.18) BTRFS root filesystem boot ISO with UEK for OL6.4 on edelivery

Oracle Linux – The Year in Review… DTrace 0.3 on ULN during Oracle OpenWorld 2012 MySQL DRBD support for Oracle Linux on ULN (HA channel for MySQL customers) MySQL community and Enterprise edition channels on ULN

Oracle Linux Benchmarks Faster at Scale

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

public yum repository and CentOS alternative Oracle Linux is free, including errata Free downloadable ISOs from http://edelivery.oracle.com/linux Free updates/errata/fixes from http://public-yum.oracle.com Switch from CentOS to Oracle Linux http://linux.oracle.com/switch/centos Why? Many customers have RHEL(for production/support) and CentOS(test/dev/non-production) deployed. Now you can just use Oracle Linux for both and only maintain 1 distribution/deployment all in sync at same time. Pay for support not for systems.

Commercial Linux Challenges Mainline Linux kernel community rapidly innovating Customers demand stability Hardware vendors (and some customers) demand the latest hardware support Traditional Linux distributions deliver outdated kernels Backport new kernel features into older code resulting in a totally unique kernel Development time better spent making Linux better instead of backporting code

Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel A new development and distribution model for data center workloads Closely tracks the mainline kernel (within a number of months not years) Linux from the enterprise software company Tested with Oracle workloads and engineered systems Brings the best innovations from upstream development into the datacenter and maintain a very competitive product New hardware support through quarterly updates Less backportingresults in better stability (not the other way around) SLES has decided to follow the same model with SLES11

Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Tracking Mainline BETTER delivery System

Some roadmap updates SELinux profiles for Oracle products like WebLogic Smaller installations and preinstall RPMs for other Oracle products Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel R3 based on 3.8

Linux Containers Consolidate applications Increase utilization rates One application per server while sharing hardware resources Software-defined boundaries Allowing multiple private execution environments to run side by side within a single instance of the Oracle Linux OS with each environment having its own identity

Virtualization Memory hotplug Extending existing hotplug API for virtual machines Intelligent overcommit Data integrity based on Data Integrity Extentions (DIX) and T10-PI From Oracle Database in an Oracle VM guest to physical disk

Networking Open vSwitch OpenFlow support Bridging QoS Monitoring TCP connection repair Transparent way to relocate an entire network connection from one host to another Useful for containers

Storage SCSI Target Framework Device mapper Thin provisioning Recursive snapshots Read-only device as source for thinly provisioned volume Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) Standardized interface to PCI Express based SSD devices

Performance Writeback optimizations Transparent Huge Pages improvements Frontswap/zcache2 using transcendent memory can significantly reduce I/O caused by swapping

File Systems Btrfs Rebalancing and restriping enables migration to higher RAID levels RAID5/6 code merged into mainline Btrfs send/receive merged into mainline Many performance improvements Subvolume-aware quotas Ext4 Big allocation blocks reduce overhead and improve performance Easier resizing

File Systems, Cont’d NFS Container support for NFS client and server Stability and performance improvements in NFSv4.1 and pNFS Support for swapping to an NFS file

Security Seccomp filters Mechanism to reduce the set of system calls accessible to a userland process Yama New Linux security module For now, preventing processes from examining each other’s memory UEFI Secure Boot

DTrace More providers to be added Implement userspace tracing support

Linux Contributions ALL Linux kernel enhancements made by Oracle for the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel are open source and have been made available to the Linux community; including change logs, commit messages http://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=linux-2.6-unbreakable.git

Enterprise-class Linux Support, includes: Zero Downtime Kernel Updates Premier backports Comprehensive Management Tool Clustering Tools Legal Indemnification 24x7 global coverage, 145 countries, 29 local languages Dedicated engineering and delivery team Backed by world’s largest support team Real-world testing; Validated Linux Lower cost Included with Oracle Premier Support for Systems & Operating Systems Oracle Linux Support

Premier Backports Premier Backports allow customers to upgrade on their own schedule while still getting bug fixes No forced upgrades Modeled after the way we support traditional Oracle products Provided for packages up to six months after a newer version of that package has been released Example: A bug is reported by customer against 2.6.18-238.36.2 Latest kernel version is 2.6.18-299.1.1 Oracle support provides kernel 2.6.18-238.36.3: the same kernel the customer was running on, with the fix for the problem they hit

More Than 10,000 Oracle Linux Customers

“Compared to our Windows-based infrastructure, with our new infrastructure built on Oracle Linux, Oracle Real Application Clusters, Oracle Database, and Oracle tools, we can significantly reduce operating costs and also guarantee the best possible performance, seamless scalability, and extremely low downtime, even in the face of disaster.” Michael Reimann Managing Director, DVSE GmbH

“Telecom operators like Jazztel demand IT infrastructure with high performance so they can fulfill the service levels expected by our customers. The technical advantages offered by Oracle Linux including the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel and Ksplice zero-downtime upgrades, allows Jazztel to maximize the availability of our servers, while protecting our service levels. In addition, we benefit from a single point of contact for enterprise-grade support both for Oracle Linux as well as the entire Oracle software stack.” Luis Miguel Jiménez Chief Technology Officer

Leading ISVs Support Oracle Linux Infor Progress Software Quest SAP Sungard Symantec Tibco Adobe Autonomy BMC CA CommVault EMC Informatica 150% YoY growth in the no. of apps supported on Oracle Linux

Support & Pricing Comparison Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Premium* Oracle Linux Premier 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 $6,498 $2,299 (2 X $3,249 per socket pair) ** No add-ons; Pricing based on 4 socket comparison and 1 year term, Oracle pricing based on Oracle Linux Premier

Switching to Oracle Linux Existing Red Hat customers do not need to re-install Linux Switch to Oracle Linux in just minutes Step 2 Step 3 Done Step 1 You start getting your Linux updates from Oracle! Install and run uln_register or up2date Purchase support or use the Public Yum Register for ULNaccount via linux.oracle.com/register

Available to any with RHEL 5 or RHEL 6 user Simple registration One minute installation of Uptrack client Ksplice 30 Day Free Trial for RHEL Users

Resources Join our communities YouTube.com/ oraclelinuxchannel Blogs.oracle.com/linux Oracle Linux Experts Group Facebook.com/OracleLinux @ORCL_Linux Visit Oracle.com/linux Download for FREE edelivery.oracle.com/linux

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The preceding is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract.It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described for Oracle’s products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.

Oracle Linux Strategy and Roadmap