Oracle Solaris Simple, Flexible, Fast: Virtualization in 11.3
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The document outlines the features and benefits of Oracle Solaris virtualization, emphasizing its integration and efficiency compared to competitors. It discusses different virtualization types, including kernel and native zones, and highlights advantages such as live migration, immutable zones, and support for Docker. Additionally, the content underscores the strategic direction of moving towards OS virtualization for cloud environments.
Oracle Solaris Simple, Flexible, Fast: Virtualization in 11.3
- 2. Copyright © 2016, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Simple, Flexible, Fast: Virtualization in 11.3 Duncan Hardie – Principal Product Manager Edward Pilatowicz – Senior Principal Software Engineer Oracle Solaris June 14, 2016
- 4. Copyright © 2016 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | 4 Solaris Virtualization vs. the Competition OS and Virtualization – Engineered Together RHEL Native Zone or Kernel Zone VMware HP Traditional Hypervisors Separate, isolated, slow Native Zones, Kernel Zones Engineered, performant, robust, secure Oracle Solaris Host OS Hardware Deep Integration Software in Silicon
- 6. Copyright © 2016 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Virtualization Types 6 Flexibility Isolation LDoms Hardware Kernel Kernel OVM Server for SPARC FUSION APPLICATIONS DATABASE Kernel Native Zone Hardware S10 Zone Kernel Kernel Zone Oracle Solaris Zones FUSION APPLICATIONS DATABASE FUSION APPLICATIONS LDoms PDOM Kernel Kernel LDoms PDOM Physical Domains FUSION APPLICATIONS DATABASE
- 7. Copyright © 2016 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | OVM Server for SPARC Deploy And Move Between Virtualization Types UNPRECEDENTED FLEXIBILITY Unified Archive • No Virtualization “lock-in” • Even move back to bare metal • Move from Development to Test to Production with confidence Oracle Solaris Solaris Zone DATABASE Oracle Solaris DATABASE Oracle Solaris DATABASE 7
- 8. Copyright © 2016 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle Solaris Global Zone Admin Oracle Solaris Zones • Used by almost every Solaris customer • Direction: the “cloud space” is moving towards OS virtualization • From 11.2 all apps should be running inside a zone of some kind 8 Solaris Native Zone DEVELOPMENT VSWITCH VSWITCH VSWITCH Solaris Native Zone PRODUCTION Solaris Kernel Zone PRODUCTION Solaris 10 Zone LEGACY net 0 net 1 net 2 net 3 net0 net1 net0 net0 net0 ZBE3 NFS ZBE1 ZBE2 ZBE3 ZBE4 ZBE1 ZBE2 ZBE4 SAN SRUCPU CPU CPU CPU iSCSI RAD Console
- 9. Copyright © 2016 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | The Best Virtualization For Cloud Highest Efficiency • Avoid the virtualization tax • Power the application not the Technology Instant Resource Sharing • Best application performance profile • Isolate resources only when necessary Total Scalability • No drop off in performance • Run all types of applications in a virtual environment 9
- 10. Copyright © 2016 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Kernel Zones – the Hybrid Hypervisor • Kernel Zones can be optimized unlike any other virtualization technology • As Solaris is the guest & host there is the opportunity to optimize • Optimizing means: – Better performance – Less cross hypervisor calls • All while maintaining the resource sharing of Solaris Zones 10 Kernel Hardware Kernel Zone Kernel Traditional Accelerated
- 11. Copyright © 2016 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Secure Live Migration with Kernel Zones • Move Kernel Zones without outage – Live migrate on SPARC and x86 – No downtime host maintenance – Perform load balancing across infrastructure – Forward and backward compatibility for Live Migration moves – Oracle Solaris 11.3 or later required 11 Oracle SolarisOracle Solaris Solaris 11.3 Zone Solaris 11.3 Zone SAN iSCSI NFS
- 13. Copyright © 2016 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | • Immutable Zones – Read only virtualization – Also possible with global zone and OVM Server for SPARC guest – Access via a trusted path • New - Dynamic Zones setting, allows creation of zones – Very useful for Openstack Nova nodes • Ready made “templates” 13 Read-Only Virtual Machines Protect the Application Infrastructure None Flexible Fixed D-Zone Strict /, /usr, /lb, … Writeable Read Only Read Only Read Only Read Only /etc Writeable Writeable Read Only Read Only Read Only /var Writeable Writeable Writeable Writeable Read Only other Writeable Read Only Read Only Read Only Read Only Create Zone Yes No No Yes No
- 14. Copyright © 2016 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | ZOSS for NFS • More storage types supported – As of 11.3 put Kernel Zone root on NFS as well as SAN/iSCSI – Total storage type flexibility – Avoid configuration errors – Massively reduce number of configuration steps (up to 85% less commands) 14 NEW Oracle SolarisOracle Solaris SAN iSCSI NFS Solaris Native Zone PRODUCTION Solaris Kernel Zone PRODUCTION Solaris Native Zone PRODUCTION Solaris Kernel Zone PRODUCTION
- 15. Copyright © 2016 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Adjust Without Service Interruptions • Independent Zone versions with Kernel Zones – In place updates on single system – Simpler to co-ordinate outage windows • Dynamic resource rebalancing – Live reconfiguration changes active instances – Respond instantly to growth – Add devices “on the fly” – Also available for Kernel Zones 15 50% REDUCTION IN PLANNED OUTAGES
- 17. Copyright © 2016 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Zone Resource Management Improvements • Assign Zone CPU resources by CPUs, Cores, and Sockets • Applies to Zones and Resource Pools • Use psrinfo –t to show socket/core/cpu layout • Makes configuring and complying with license hard partition rules much easier • Recognized license boundary 17 Oracle Solaris Solaris Zone Solaris Zone CoreCore Solaris Zone Core CoreCore Socket Core
- 18. Copyright © 2016 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | • Docker open platform being brought to Oracle Solaris Zones • Oracle joins Open Container Initiative – create open industry standards • Access to enterprise class security, resource isolation and analytics Docker for Oracle Solaris Zones 18 OCI “Integrating Docker with Oracle Solaris Zones will bring a mature and proven container technology to Docker environments running in enterprise class clouds” - Nick Stinemates, Vice President of Business Development & Technical Alliances for Docker
- 19. Copyright © 2016 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Docker and Oracle Solaris Combined – Perfect Partnership • Familiar Docker Experience – Fast application dev lifecycle – Huge ecosystem with proven benefits • Leverage Oracle Solaris Key Features – Secure, mature, built-in virtualization – Secure virtual storage & network – Zero downtime patching, instant rollback – Secure remote administration & role- based access control – Observability, configuration management & audit Security ZFS BEs IPS RAD SMF DTrace N/work V12N SOLARIS 19
- 20. Copyright © 2016 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | OpenStack Across Oracle’s Portfolio Horizon Centralized Cloud Management Zones and Kernel Zones Nova / Ironic Self-Service Compute and Bare Metal Elastic Virtual Switch and Open vSwitch Neutron Software Defined Networking ZFS File System Cinder / Swift Cloud Scale Storage Unified Archives Heat / Glance Murano / Trove Platform as a Service Built into the Infrastructure 20