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HP ProLiant DL980 G7 Ideal Business Intelligence Choice for Oracle-Sun SPARC and IBM POWER Replacement
Optimize and reduce costs in your data center by migrating from legacy Oracle-Sun SPARC and IBM POWER systems to HP ProLiant DL980 G7 with Intelreg Xeonreg Processor 7500 Series
Technical white paper
Table of contents
Introduction 2
Why Migrate to HP 3 HP ProLiant DL980 G7 3 The HP Converged Infrastructure 10 TCO Analysis 12
Migration Drivers 14 General Migration Drivers 14 Oracle-Sun Specific Drivers 15 IBM Specific Drivers 15
HP Migration Resources 16
Call to Action 18
For More Information 19
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Introduction For medium to large businesses the cost of acquiring provisioning implementing maintaining and improving Business Intelligence (BI) environments can often require a significant amount of the total IT budget Furthermore BI efforts have largely been undertaken in silos with each business domain creating its own solutions for analyzing data This siloed approach almost always results in duplication of efforts and inefficiency These conditions may also lead to multiple versions of the truth an impediment to accurate decision making Additionally the siloed approach usually leads to increased costsndashbudget that can be better used for true IT innovation
Figure 1 HP ProLiant DL980 G7 server
Reducing the cost of BI implementations while improving the efficiency are current priorities for many data center managers Many enterprises are achieving these goals by migrating their core BI data warehouse (DW) data marts operational data stores (ODS) and BI applications off of expensive and proprietary Oracle-Sun SPARC and IBM POWER platforms and onto standards-based Intelreg servers Also occurring in many enterprises is the reduction or elimination of these costly BI silos by adopting a common integrated infrastructure Reducing time to implementation of a BI solution is a critical success factor and a common integrated infrastructure improves the time to solution
The HP ProLiant DL980 G7 server with Intel Xeon processor 7500 series (Figure 1) has been designed with the enterprise-wide BI workload in mind Itrsquos also an excellent platform for scale-up consolidation and virtualization of legacy BI workloads The DL980 has the power the capacity and the resiliency to support very large single instance or multi-instance BI database and application environments
New Intel Xeon processor 7500 series features contribute to a balanced processing IO and memory design that enables a robust and high-performance platform for BI solution software Intel provides Intel QuickPath Interconnect architecture which provides point-to-point high-speed links to distributed shared memory adding significant improvement to parallel processing performancendashso important for highly concurrent BI workloads Additionally Intel has added over 20 new RAS features to ensure the reliability of this enterprise platform in BI environments
The DL980 is a cost-effective and powerful candidate to replace expensive and outdated custom RISC silos by providing a modular standards-based 8U building block that is solidly integrated into HPrsquos Converged Architecture
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Why Migrate to HP
Implementing managing and supporting BI implementations consisting of legacy platforms such as Sun SPARC or IBM POWER servers are expensive Legacy RISC server environments typically have many under-utilized non-virtualized servers sized for peak workloads This increases the cost of application deployment and system management The DL980 with clustered Linuxreg or clustered Windowsreg can address these legacy enterprise issues with
bull A comparatively low TCO (see TCO section below) bull High-end BI workload performance bull Large-scale consolidation bull Enterprise-level high availability bull Virtualization bull Simplified and unified workload management with HP Converged Infrastructure bull HPrsquos proven migration methodologies and resources
HP ProLiant DL980 G7 DL980 and the BI Workload
The potentially large impact of BI workloads caused by the explosion in demand of enterprise BI solutions with the business user community often overruns legacy RISC server capabilities further taxing IT and the cost of delivering BI solutions Change and growth are constants for many BI environments
bull Data volumes and parent database entities increase over time o Additional database structures Tables (3NF models) subject areas and dimensions (Dimensional models) Summary tables Indexes
bull Additional users and business groups over time o Additional analytical needs per each added business group o Additional ad hoc and canned queries o Queries of greater complexity o Greater query concurrency
bull Longer and more demanding backups
All these factors result in greater performance pressure on a BI workload that is unique when compared to standard business workloads The uniqueness results from data warehouse and data mart workloads that often apply extreme pressure on several to all of the following critical resources simultaneously
bull processing bull parallelism bull sustained IO throughput bull memory
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Furthermore if a single server is hosting a true mixed workload for example consisting of a data warehouse and an operational data store IOPs and transactionssec will be as important for the ODS as IO throughput and rowssec are for the DW A balanced server design able to handle a mixed workload is then also a critical requirement
Thus several critical requirements arise from the BI workload and the modern data center for an ideal server
bull A high degree of parallelism using powerful processors bull Large sustained IO throughput bull Large memory bull Enterprise-level reliability bull Consolidation hosting bull Virtualization bull Excellent priceperformance as well as low TCA and low TCO
The DL980 meets or exceeds all of these requirements as wersquoll discuss throughout the paper
Additionally the combination of the DL980 along with several key Intel advancements support the key data processing elements of BI solution workloads ndash data integration data analysis data query and data transformation A high-level view of Data Action processes and their concomitant Intel features is shown below (Table 1)
Table 1 Intel architecture and the BI workload
Data Action Process
Data Warehousing
Data Integration Data Analysis Data Query Data Transformation
Operational Description
Data access Extract Transform and Load of data from many sources
Computational Processing of data to provide insight
Requests made to the Data Domain
Qualified data structured and formatted for BI usage
Intel Technology Support
Multi-core IA to facilitate DW efficiency
RAS features to support IT HA policy
Use of software solution tools optimized for the Intel Xeon 7500 architecture
Use of optimized IA instructions that efficiently analyze data for BI reporting
Multi-threaded DQ software that allows faster response time
Use of CPU instructions to structure store and secure data - Intel SSE42 instruction set
Business Value
Cost effective Fault Tolerance with standard solutions
Improved time to decision making facilitated by multi-threaded software
Improved response time for large data sets
Performance based infrastructure - response times and SLAs on data requests are improved
BI solution processing is comprehensively integrated with higher levels of output
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Performance and Scalability
The DL980 is well situated to solve the performance and fault-tolerant characteristics inherently desired in a BI workload infrastructure Supporting a performance optimized BI solution the DL980
bull Leverages enterprise functionality from HPrsquos large Integrity enterprise servers for both performance and reliability
bull Contains up to 64 high-power Intel Xeon processor 7500 cores bull Provides up to 128 logical CPUs with Intel Hyper-threading Technology to facilitate query
parallelism bull Provides enterprise-level parallel access to storage with a measured 25GBsec sustained IO
throughput rate (as measured in the 3TB TPC-H test) from up to 16 PCIe expansion slots bull Provides up to 2TB of memory to facilitate large in-memory processing
In addition the DL980 contains HPrsquos PREMA Architecture which brings many performance and scalability benefits for processing the BI workload Large numbers of processors in x86 servers typically create an inter-processor communication bottleneck To solve this issue for x86 servers HP looked to the design of our higher-end ccNUMA scale-up servers At the core of the HP PREMA Architecture is a node controller ASIC derived from Intel technology powering the HP Integrity Superdome 2 The HP PREMA Architecture provides these particular benefits for processing and data-intensive BI workloads
bull Smart CPU caching Achieves up to 20 better processor scaling than competitive 8 socket systems by reducing processor overhead
bull Resilient system fabric Provides 50 more interconnect capacity and dynamic traffic routing capability for improved performance in highly concurrent highly parallel BI workload environments
HP Advantage The DL980 offers many features not available in other x86 servers such as the HP PREMA Architecture The DL980 was specifically designed for scale-up enterprise workloads using proven designs from HPrsquos long presence in enterprise environments with HP 9000 and HP Integrity servers
The DL980 is expandable and able to grow with your BI workload as you consolidate legacy BI structures or add data database entities users and query concurrency
bull From 4-socket up to 8-socket servers bull CPU capacity up to 8 processors and 64 cores bull 128 DDR3 DIMM slots for a maximum memory of 2TB bull Up to 16 PCIe IO slots
HP Advantage The enterprise class (64 maximum cores) Intel Xeon processor 7500 series HP PREMA Architecture large sustained IO throughput and large memory features all enable a high degree of efficient parallelism necessary for handling complex analytical queries and hefty query concurrency The DL980 allows ample room for growth as you consolidate or grow your BI workload
HP Advantage The large Intel Xeon platform memory architecture in conjunction with DL980 enterprise-level features easily support in-memory database solutions and computational BI solutions
Blending business intelligence and mission-critical requirements as well as industry-standard design principles the DL980 server is built to handle the largest enterprise environments with confidence It is because of this atypical blend that the DL980 is readily able to host mixed workloads either as a mixed DWODS host as a consolidation platform or as a virtualized consolidation platform
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Performance Results
Performance testing using both industry standard benchmarks and internal workload testing confirms the advantages of the DL980 server with HP PREMA Architecture By reducing processor overhead the DL980 server delivers better system performance for the BI workload than competitive 8-socket and even larger systems
Using the TPC-H3TB benchmark (Table 2) the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 achieved 1626017 QphH3000GB and the top price performance for non-clustered systems at $268 USDQphH3000GB (Table 3)
bull This result showed that the ProLiant DL980 G7 server delivers better performance and 77x better price performance in one-tenth the rack space compared to the IBM POWER6-based POWER 595
bull This result showed that the ProLiant DL980 G7 server delivers almost as much performance and 62x better price performance in one-fifth the rack space compared to the SUN SPARC M9000
Table 2 TPC-H3000GB
Server Total System Cost QphH PriceQphH Comparison to DL980 rack size
HP DL980 G7 $435169 162602 US $268 1
IBM POWER 595 $3224000 156573 US $2060 10x
Oracle-Sun SPARC M9000
$3298483 198907 US $1658 5x
HP Advantage The audited results from the TPC-H benchmark clearly show that the DL980 offers the best priceperformance in its class by far and in the smallest rack space As can be seen the Total System Cost of the DL980 used for the benchmark is 17th that of the TSCs of IBM and Oracle-Sun
Fourteen years of internal BI workload testing undertaken by HP has gone into the HP Reference Configurations for BI The HP Reference Configurations for the DL980 and Oracle 11gR2 yield the following results (Table 3) These guideline results are an indication of the amount of raw data size and user concurrency that is within expected ranges with typical BI workloads
bull Metrics are provided for the 4p32c and 8p64c sized DL980 server bull Advanced performance assumes the primary goal is performance and cost secondary that
necessary indexing exists and is used and queries are well behaved bull Intermediate performance assumes a compromise between performance and cost that necessary
indexing exists and is used and queries are well behaved bull Concurrent users count refers to users that are logged on and active Non-active users are not
tallied in the metrics below
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Table 3 BI Workload Reference Configuration for the DL980 G7
SYSTEM ProcessorsCores Advanced Performance Intermediate Performance
HP DL980 G7 432 4TB raw data 7TB raw data
350ndash700 concurrent users 250ndash500 concurrent users
HP DL980 G7 864 7TB raw data 14TB raw data
500ndash1000 concurrent users 350ndash700 concurrent users
Reliability and Availability
The days when many BI systems had few or lax HA requirements are over for most IT shops Thus many traditional OLTP HA features have become increasingly attractive to the enterprises that depend upon their BI structures for critical operations Many reliability and availability features are built into the DL980 the Linux and Windows operating systems and associated software
Downtime costs the business HP understands this and has designed the DL980 with enterprise-grade reliability and availability features at a fraction of the cost
Redundant Components
bull System interconnect fabric data paths bull Power supplies fans (all hot-swappable) bull Dual-path IO cards (option) bull Memory spare rank (option) bull Mirrored memory (option) bull Hot plug drives and RAID storage
Resiliency
bull CPU (Intel features) o Intel Machine Check Architecture recovery allows the system to recover from otherwise fatal
memory errors o Intel Scalable Memory Interconnect Lane failover and Intel QuickPath Interconnect self-healing
enable the platform to identify problems and fail over to another lane or modify link operations
bull Memory (mirroring rank sparing demand scrubbing link level retry correction codes) bull IO (PCIe monitoring and shutdown upon error link level retry redundancy)
Advantage HP The DL980 provides superior reliability compared to legacy Sun and IBM servers Additionally there are far more reliability and availability hardware and firmware components uniquely built into a DL980 than lower TCO x86 servers These features enable BI operations to keep running during historically fatal errors
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For the highest level of availability necessary for 24x7 data warehouses and BI structures that are designed for minimal down time there are several failover-clustering options available on the DL980
bull Red Hat Enterprise Linux Cluster Suite bull Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension bull Veritas Cluster Server bull VMware High Availability (additionally VMware VMotion can be used to obviate the need for
planned downtime maintenance) bull LifeKeeper bull Microsoft Failover Clustering bull Oracle Clusterware
Manageability
The DL980 benefits from a common management infrastructure that exists across the HP server line This infrastructure includes both hardware and software components
Integrated Lights-Out 3 (iLO 3) is a management processor integrated into every DL980 server providing secure remote management capabilities regardless of server status or location
HP Insight Software is an integrated portfolio of infrastructure management software for HP servers Within this portfolio HP Insight Control can help save time and money by making it easy to deploy migrate monitor control and optimize your IT infrastructure through a single simple management console Also within the HP Insight Software portfolio HP Insight Dynamics provides advanced infrastructure lifecycle management software Insight Dynamics includes integrated infrastructure design with automated activation of servers storage and networking Insight Dynamics also provides built-in capacity planning and rebalancing tools as well as providing automated disaster recovery and failover capabilities
Advantage HP Common ldquosingle pane of glassrdquo management software across all HP servers storage and networking reduces complexity time and cost
Best of Breed Choice and Standards
Business Intelligence is a mature technology with widespread adoption and a wealth of mature solutions Numerous best-of-breed solutions exist with leading edge technology and attractive cost A BI architect can make an informed choice of the best-of-breed solution that most satisfies the current and future needs of the business user requirements Best-of-breed solutions are often the product of vendors who focus and specialize in well-defined areas of BI They arenrsquot spread thin instead they offer leading edge technologies that can give a business the technological edge needed over their rivals
The current strategy of both IBM and Oracle-Sun through extensive acquisitions of numerous smaller companies is to promote a suite of solutions that ultimately equates to vendor lock-in for the customer Vendor lock-in reached its peak in the mid lsquo90s and has declined since that point The biggest reason for the decline of the all-encompassing suite was that the eventual cost of the suite after the initial deployment became a burden Ultimately costs always went up for support upgrades and services Also many suites are not as integrated as they should be adding unforeseen costs to the deployment
Advantage HP HP offers choice HP provides industry-standard solutions and a wealth of best-of-breed solutions through in-house solutions and strong partnerships
Operating System Choice
Both Linux and Microsoftreg Windows are capable choices to run BI focused databases and BI applications on the DL980
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As can be seen from the Winter Corporation Top Ten Survey of 2005 enterprise IT shops have been able to house large data warehouses on Windows and Linux for years The Winter Corporation specializes in high-end BI and has presented Very Large Database proof points In the Top Ten Database survey The survey is collated from actual customer BI implementations data which is gathered using approved sizing and monitoring tools
The link below to the Winter Corporation Top Ten Survey shows interesting customer data supporting the existence of large production BI data warehouses on both Linux and Windows servers
In summary 10 customer instances are noted on Windows between 4TB and 194TB data warehouse size and 8 customer instances on Linux between 1TB and 24TB data warehouse size httpwwwwintercorpcomVLDB2005_TopTen_SurveyTopTenWinners_2005asp
Please keep in mind that this Top Ten Survey is just a sampling of the worldwide Very Large Data Warehouse pool and is now 5 years old Since that time BI databases on both Windows and Linux have grown in both total database size and the number of such large instances now in existence
Advantage HP HP is the top provider of Linux and Windows server systems in terms of worldwide shipments The foundation for this success is a strong technical partnership for each of these offerings
All major Linux offerings run on HPrsquos standards-based Intel Xeon processor-based platforms including market leaders Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Oracle Enterprise Linux is supported as well
Advantage HP Approximately 14000 Linux applications are available for HPrsquos standards-based Intel Xeon processor-based ProLiant servers There are far fewer applications available on specialized Linux distributions and for proprietary RISC systems that offer Linux support Additionally these ldquoLinux specialsrdquo often require specialized integration and customization
Database Choice
All major databases are available and optimized for the standards-based DL980 Microsoft SQL Server Sybase IQ and Oracle are all capable choices for hosting data warehouse operational data stores or data marts
Virtualization Choice
Virtualization is particularly useful for consolidation of multiple isolated BI workloads onto a DL980 For the enterprise that has scores of data marts and operational marts consolidation onto a larger platform has the following benefits
bull Decommissioning isolated and underutilized BI silos bull Reducing power consumption management effort cooling and floor space bull Freeing up IT budget that can be used for true innovation elsewhere
Many choices exist for virtualization software that runs on the DL980
bull VMware vSphere bull Microsoft Hyper-V bull KVM bull OpenVZ bull Citrix Xen bull Parallels Virtuozzo Containers
Advantage HP Standards-based offerings as well as choice are strong factors in reining in data center costs as well as providing solid solutions for the BI user community
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The HP Converged Infrastructure A modern enterprise infrastructure implies IT unification through data center convergence It is imperative that legacy issues be resolved and not repeated IT has to evolve or face expensive stagnation
Built on innovation standards and choice the HP Converged Infrastructure is the modern paradigm for achieving this data center of the future HP is soundly positioned to deliver the Converged Infrastructure to its customers with a full portfolio of integrated solutions and services developed for modern unified data centers
Unification is a central theme of the HP Converged Infrastructure (Figure 2) Common components span HP servers (both ProLiant and Integrity) HP storage and HP networking
bull A common modular infrastructure with common building blocks bull Common power and cooling bull A common network fabric bull Common management software
Figure 2 The HP Converged Infrastructure
Power amp cooling
ServersStorage
Management software
Network
Converged Infrastructure
This converged architectural framework simplifies integrates and automates technology
bull Simplifies the infrastructure and reduces TCO bull Lowers the cost of deployment and implementation by obviating the need for expensive and lengthy
integration and interoperability consulting bull Removes server silos and server sprawl bull Integrates multiple vendorsrsquo technology into pools of interoperable resources
HP Matrix Operating Environment ndash The HP Matrix Operating Environment is a common management platform that extends from infrastructure to application across servers storage and networks It includes tools for provisioning and modifying complex infrastructures lifecycle management resource provisioning high availability performance and capacity assessment and automated consolidation analysis
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At the core of the HP Matrix Operating Environment is HP Insight Softwaremdashthe comprehensive family of HP infrastructure management software HP Insight Software infrastructure orchestration capabilities let you provision infrastructure in minutes to automatically activate physical and virtual servers storage and networking from pools of shared resources
HP Advantage This software enables your organization to simultaneously control all elements of an infrastructure needed to deliver a service It unifies all the tools for infrastructure lifecycle management into one command center It allows quick provisioning of the infrastructure using a common management platform It reduces complexity reduces time to operation increases commonality across solutions and thereby reduces cost
HP Virtual Resource Pools ndash HP Virtual Resource Pools create a common modular infrastructure of virtualized compute memory storage and network resources Resources are aggregated and shared across the data center between HP ProLiant servers HP Integrity servers and StorageWorks storage products Businesses can use the same architecture to manage multiple workloads across servers storage and networking
HP Advantage Reduces underutilized platforms reduces server and storage sprawl reduces server silos frees up floor space increases productivity reduces complexity and reduces cost
HP Data Center Smart Grid ndash HP Data Center Smart Grid provides intelligent energy management across systems and facilities controlling and reducing energy usage in real time The Smart Grid is a set of monitoring tools and embedded sensors that enable resource monitoring and capacity planning HP Thermal Logic includes embedded technology designed to reduce energy usage and associated costs Sea of Sensors monitors energy consumption and automatically adjusts cooling resources using up to 32 sensors to adjust fan speeds and power only the slots that are in use Dynamic Power Capping enables the reclaiming of trapped power and cooling capacity by safely limiting server power consumption
HP Advantage Reduces energy consumption extends the energy capacity of existing data center facilities and reduces cost
HP Servers ndash HP standards-based servers are ideal for IT organizations considering building a shared services infrastructure to centralize IT and reduce operational costs HP servers are a robust offering for multi-tier enterprise applications The common infrastructure and common management supports both cost-effective ProLiant servers as well as mission-critical Integrity HP-UX servers
All HP servers are engineered for balanced performance across the two major workloads BI and OLTP workloadsndashunlike the POWER platforms that exhibit engineering and optimization for the CPU-centric OLTP workload such as TPC-C
HP Advantage The commonality and interoperability of HP servers in the Converged Infrastructure reduces complexity and reduces the deployment integration and customization required to achieve a cost-effective infrastructure Furthermore these characteristics allow the fast implementation and efficient management of a multi-tier solution back-end data warehouse database hosting DL980 servers and front-end application hosting Intel Xeon processor-based servers
HP Advantage For the 57th consecutive quarter more than 14 years HP ProLiant is the x86 server market share leader in both factory revenue and units shipping more than 1 out of every 3 servers in this market with a 379 unit share HPrsquos x86 revenue share 401 was 188 percentage points higher than its nearest competitor Dell and 213 percentage points higher than IBM1
1 Source All of the above market share figures are for the 3rd quarter [unless otherwise noted] and represent
worldwide results as reported by the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker for 3Q 10 December 2010
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TCO Analysis An analysis of the DL980 powered with the Intel Xeon processor 7500 series versus both the IBM POWER 770 and the Oracle-Sun SPARC M9000 shows a clear 3-year TCO advantage for the DL980 The immediate acquisition cost savings is striking savings that can be used for IT innovation instead of maintaining the inefficient legacy status quo
The most important cost categories are included in this analysis
bull Hardware acquisition cost bull Server software (OS and Oracle database) bull Hardware and software support and maintenance bull Systems administration bull Facilities (power cooling space)
Data Source Ideas International Ltd amp Alinean Inc were used to make the performance and cost comparisons (June 2010)
Comparison - IBM POWER 770 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Table 4 Comparative solution specifics ndash IBM POWER 770 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Server OS DBMS Server number SocketsCores Total cores
IBM POWER7 770 (31 GHz) AIX Oracle 11g 1 864 64
HP DL980 G7 Intel Xeon X7560 (226 GHz)
Red Hat
Red Hat
Enterprise
Linux
Oracle 11g 1 864 64
Table 5 3 Year TCO comparisons ndash IBM POWER 770 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
TCO Comparison ndash Cumulative 3 Year Solution A
IBM P7 770 64c
Solution B
HP ProLiant DL980 G7 64c
Difference
(A ndash B) Amount
Difference
(A ndash B) Percentage
Server Hardware $318560 $112092 $206468 648
Server Software (OS amp DB) $2416064 $1146207 $1269857 526
Hardware and Software Support amp Maintenance
$1682173 $755348 $926825 551
System Administration $43620 $31371 $12249 281
Facilities (Power Cooling amp Floor space) $38235 $24084 $14151 370
Total IT Costs $4498652 $2069102 $2429550 540
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TCOROI Summary (summary derived from Table 5)
bull Overall savings of 54 over 3 years with the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 bull Hardware acquisition cost savings of 65 bull Hardware and software support and maintenance cost savings of 55
Comparison ndash Oracle-Sun M9000 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Table 6 3 Year TCO comparisons ndash Oracle-Sun M9000 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Server OS DBMS Server number
SocketsCores Total cores
Oracle-Sun M9000 SPARC64 VI (24 GHz)
Solaris Oracle 11g 1 64128 128
HP DL980 G7 Intel Xeon X7560 (226 GHz)
Red Hat Enterprise
Linux
Oracle 11g 1 864 64
Table 7 3 Year TCO comparisons ndash Oracle-Sun M9000 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
TCO Comparison ndash Cumulative 3 Year
Solution A
OracleSun M9000 SPARC VI 128c
Solution B
HP ProLiant DL980 G7 64c
Difference
(A ndash B) Amount
Difference
(A ndash B) Percentage
Server Hardware $3404864 $112092 $3292772 967
Server Software (OS amp DB) $3520000 $1146207 $2373793 674
Hardware and Software Support amp Maintenance
$3809070 $755348 $3053772 802
System Administration $40428 $31371 $9057 224
Facilities (Power Cooling amp Floor space)
$237357 $24084 $213273 899
Total IT Costs $11011719 $2069102 $8942617 812
TCOROI Summary (summary derived from Table 7)
bull Overall savings of 81 over 3 years with the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 bull Hardware acquisition cost savings of 97 bull Hardware and software support and maintenance cost savings of 80
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Migration Drivers In transforming data centers and BI solution platforms into efficient and modern entities migrations are a necessity Fortunately migrations from IBM and Sun are not a new phenomenon theyrsquove been going on for the better part of 20 years Thousands of migrations have occurred giving rise to the creation and use by HP of mature migration methodologies tools and expertise
Before any migration can be considered valid reasons must exist to justify the investment Fortunately valid migrational drivers exist in both the business and technical areas of every corporation Drivers that lead to migrations tend to revolve around solid objectives related to lowering computing cost and improving service levels There are numerous drivers that apply to most IT shops whether that shop has older Oracle-Sun SPARC servers or older IBM POWER servers In addition to these general drivers common to both environments there are compelling reasons to migrate specific to SPARC and POWER environments
General Migration Drivers The following general drivers apply to both older Oracle-Sun SPARC servers and IBM POWER servers
High Support Costs ndash Support costs for older systems are typically higher than the support costs for current systems If the warranty has expired support costs may become a shock the day after warranty expiration
HP Advantage HPrsquos DL980 as well as the entire HP ProLiant server family has excellent TCO compared to both older SPARC and POWER servers as well as newer servers See the TCO Analysis section below for more detail
Data Center Running Out of Floor Space ndash The historic pairing of servers and BI applications for discrete solutions has led to a proliferation of servers dedicated to single tasks Thus many data centers are running out of capacity
HP Advantage The DL980 is an ideal consolidation platform Floor space can be freed up by consolidation of BI instances and applications onto the DL980 with its relatively small footprint
Too Many Database Instances ndash Database consolidation results from an initial state in which too many BI-related database instances exist Numerous small data marts or numerous operational data stores are prime examples Most likely this profusion of small instances occurred by splitting the query workload to enable query and report processing to be accomplished within accepted parameters Database sprawl takes up floor space and IT timendashand ultimately increases cost
HP Advantage Once again the DL980 is an ideal consolidation and virtualization platform for large database environments with too many instances particularly in enterprises beset with too many small data marts
Underutilized Servers ndash While unceasing high-pressure BI workloads do occur theyrsquore in the minority Instead many enterprises create peak BI workload at the end of month end of quarter end of year and other significant times during the yearly business cycle
Thus itrsquos common in older architectures to find dedicated servers that are not fully utilized or are only productively utilized a small percentage of the time Dedicating one workload to each server meant that each server needed to be sized accordingly to accommodate the peak workload For much of the time many servers tend to run lightly loaded outside of peak hours The cost of carrying several of these systems can be significant
15
HP Advantage The DL980 is an ideal high-performance scalable reliable and low-cost consolidation platform
Oracle-Sun Specific Drivers Many of the more troublesome Oracle-Sun specific drivers listed below are outcomes of the last eight years of hard times for SPARC servers
Underperforming Servers ndash With the steady slowdown in the evolution of the SPARC line performance has been an issue for many years Add to this the weight of underutilized servers sized for peak workloads and the drag on an IT operations budget can be significant
HP Advantage Comparative data using Alinean Ltd and Ideas International Inc show a tangible HP advantage especially in enterprise-class servers Ask your HP representative for a TCO analysis
The Risks of a Single-Vendor Solution Stack ndash Hosting an Oracle database on Oracle-Sun servers cedes control of the entire solution stack to Oracle Could you be overspending on servers software and support by relying solely on Oracle-Sun
HP Advantage HP can provide a ldquowhole environmentrdquo view with the DL980 in the Converged Infrastructure and best-of-breed partners to help you move to your next-generation environment
Escalating and Changing Support Costs ndash Higher support costs exist for Oracle-Sun SPARC systems including new ldquomandatoryrdquo hardware support fees
HP Advantage Evaluating the support costs for the DL980 and other HP ProLiant servers relative to Oracle-Sun SPARC support costs can help you find ways to reduce operational support costs Ask your HP representative for a TCO analysis
IBM Specific Drivers IBM has its own set of specific issues that have driven data centers to migrate from IBM servers frequently over the last 20 years
High Cost of Deployment Integration and Maintenance ndash Cost is an issue with architectures consisting of older POWER4 and POWER5 servers IBMrsquos approach to computing technology does not lend itself well to simple deployment and integration POWER servers have been created to interoperate very well in a POWER-only environment Unfortunately it is costly to integrate POWER servers with non-POWER servers (eg x86 servers) storage networking diverse management tools and applications This characteristic of the POWER server line results in higher costs for deployment integration support maintenance and ultimately upgrades to newer POWER servers Unfortunately when choosing a POWER-to-POWER upgrade the high-cost IBM lifecycle begins again and data centers are firmly locked into the same inflexible architecture
The IBM Architectural Silo Model ndash The piecemeal nature of siloed POWER solutions (separate HA separate networking no standard management infrastructure etc) requires extensive and custom integration Unfortunately IBM mainframes and x86 servers subscribe to siloed architecture as well The IBM approach to architectural design and component deployment forces customers to adapt their business operations to fit IBMrsquos technology silos such as mainframe or POWER servers To implement cost-effective multi-tier computing infrastructures customers must piece together their own enterprise architecture By modern standards this is a needless investment of development time and budget that can be better used for higher priority tasks
16
Lack of Solution Flexibility ndash Instead of vendor guidance toward overcoming many of the legacy issues above are you guided into upgrading the legacy environment instead of transforming it into a cost-effective and contemporary infrastructure Being guided into an IBM-only siloed infrastructure philosophy solves only surface issues and can perpetuate cost and resource inefficiency
HP Advantage For the issues above HP provides a ldquowhole environmentrdquo view with the DL980 and best-of-breed partners to help you move to your next generation environment HP Converged Infrastructure offers common building blocksndashstandards-based servers ProLiant Xeon servers and Integrity Itanium Servers common management software common power and cooling and a common network fabric
Older POWER Server Processing and Workload Shortcomings ndash It should come as no surprise that for many intense BI workloads these older POWER4 and POWER5 systems lack the necessary processing IO bandwidth and reliability IBMrsquos message was also quite clear when they optimized the POWER architecture primarily for the OLTP workload The OLTP workload does not have the same characteristics of mixed workloads or BI workloads Specific components subsystems and features are necessary to satisfy the intense IO bandwidth and processing requirements of high-volume BI workloads mixed OLTP and BI workloads and long-running batch processing
HP Advantage The DL980 was specifically designed and optimized to process mixed workloads including the two most popular workloads the Business Intelligence workload and the mission-critical OLTP workload It contains by conscious design the necessary hardware and software components to excel at these business-critical workloads Thus the DL980 is able to efficiently handle a mixed workload containing both analytical BI and operational BI In addition the DL980 provides up to 2TB of memory to facilitate in-memory processing
HP Migration Resources HP Migration Process
The HP migration process (Figure 3) embodies a mature and flexible methodology that provides a consistent framework for capturing and carrying out customer requirements The process is built upon years of migration experience and best practices across a variety of databases applications and platforms The process is tool agnostic providing flexibility in solution development Using this mature process as a foundation HP provides a customer-driven migration process instead of an inflexible process based on single-path choices
HP has over 20 years worth of experience migrating customers off of Oracle-Sun servers IBM servers databases and applications to HP solutions HP offers a Solaris-to-Linux porting kit and also uses IBM tools that are available for AIX-to-Linux porting
17
Figure 3 HP Migration Process
HP-UX 11i on HP Integrity
Linux on HP ProLiant
Windows on HP ProLiant
MIGRATION PATH
THE HP MIGRATION CENTER
MIGRATION PROCESS
SupportExecutePlanAssess
HP SUNSET COMPLETE CARE INCENTIVES
The key benefits of the HP migration process are
bull A standard high level process which is o based on decades of expertise and best practices o repeatable o customizable by database and application technology platform and migration toolset o scalable accommodating simple to complex migrations
bull Identifies migration requirements up front and properly addresses those requirements in a strategy document A TCO analysis is also included which provides solid data points to facilitate validation of the migration business case
bull Incorporates production dress rehearsals to refine the deployment prior to the actual deployment phase
bull Includes data quality analysis to address source side data issues prior to migration
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HP Migration Center and Services
Over the past 20+ years HP has helped migrate thousands of customers gaining valuable knowledge expertise and repeatability Migrations from older architectures allow customers to take advantage of HP infrastructure to reduce costs improve performance and gain competitive advantage Through the HP Migration Center HP combines best practices with new technologies such as the HP Converged Infrastructure to give you simple and unified low-risk solutions
Modernizing from antiquated and siloed Oracle-Sun and IBM environments to a flexible and integrated Converged Infrastructure takes experience and planning The HP Migration Competence Center as well as HPrsquos data center transformation specialists can guide your operations teams through the following decisions and options required to take advantage of the Converged Infrastructure capabilities
bull Reduce aggregate server and core count by eliminating underutilized dedicated servers Let HP evaluate your current workload inventory and help you plan a consolidated or virtualized environment that improves utilization while cutting software instances and related licensing costs
bull Cut provisioning time from days to minutes Distributed environments are known for complex cabling parallel server and storage wiring and slow complex error-prone provisioning procedures HP can help you accelerate repetitive provisioning tasks by taking advantage of application templates while relying on HP Virtual Connect to instantly provision servers and storage connections
bull Dedicated servers are usually underutilized outside of peak workload hours Verify there is always ldquojust enoughrdquo capacity by letting HP evaluate your current workloads and demand cycles in order to help you define a much more efficient environment Accurately address capacity needs without overspending using HP Capacity Planner technology part of the HP Converged Infrastructure management umbrella
bull HP can help you constrain power consumption to match active workloads HP Data Center Smart Grid enables the automatic ldquodialing backrdquo of power consumption for lightly loaded resources As the load increases power consumption will be automatically ldquodialed uprdquo to ensure that appropriate performance levels are met
The HP Migration Center maintains a close relationship with many database and application partners to ensure a smooth complete migration solution with respect to the databases and applications Additionally the HP Migrations Center works closely with the HP Solution Centers and Competence Centers to assist with database and application migrations
The Migration Center can deploy experts for the DL980 and Linux as well as HP specialists for the operating systems of other vendors Additionally HP maintains close development and support arrangements with major operating systems vendors including Microsoft Windows Novell SUSE Linux Oracle Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Call to Action See for yourself how the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 makes an ideal platform for your enterprise workloads Ask for a TCO assessment or migration assessment to get started For more information please contact your HP representative or visit httpwwwhpcomgomigratetohp
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Introduction For medium to large businesses the cost of acquiring provisioning implementing maintaining and improving Business Intelligence (BI) environments can often require a significant amount of the total IT budget Furthermore BI efforts have largely been undertaken in silos with each business domain creating its own solutions for analyzing data This siloed approach almost always results in duplication of efforts and inefficiency These conditions may also lead to multiple versions of the truth an impediment to accurate decision making Additionally the siloed approach usually leads to increased costsndashbudget that can be better used for true IT innovation
Figure 1 HP ProLiant DL980 G7 server
Reducing the cost of BI implementations while improving the efficiency are current priorities for many data center managers Many enterprises are achieving these goals by migrating their core BI data warehouse (DW) data marts operational data stores (ODS) and BI applications off of expensive and proprietary Oracle-Sun SPARC and IBM POWER platforms and onto standards-based Intelreg servers Also occurring in many enterprises is the reduction or elimination of these costly BI silos by adopting a common integrated infrastructure Reducing time to implementation of a BI solution is a critical success factor and a common integrated infrastructure improves the time to solution
The HP ProLiant DL980 G7 server with Intel Xeon processor 7500 series (Figure 1) has been designed with the enterprise-wide BI workload in mind Itrsquos also an excellent platform for scale-up consolidation and virtualization of legacy BI workloads The DL980 has the power the capacity and the resiliency to support very large single instance or multi-instance BI database and application environments
New Intel Xeon processor 7500 series features contribute to a balanced processing IO and memory design that enables a robust and high-performance platform for BI solution software Intel provides Intel QuickPath Interconnect architecture which provides point-to-point high-speed links to distributed shared memory adding significant improvement to parallel processing performancendashso important for highly concurrent BI workloads Additionally Intel has added over 20 new RAS features to ensure the reliability of this enterprise platform in BI environments
The DL980 is a cost-effective and powerful candidate to replace expensive and outdated custom RISC silos by providing a modular standards-based 8U building block that is solidly integrated into HPrsquos Converged Architecture
3
Why Migrate to HP
Implementing managing and supporting BI implementations consisting of legacy platforms such as Sun SPARC or IBM POWER servers are expensive Legacy RISC server environments typically have many under-utilized non-virtualized servers sized for peak workloads This increases the cost of application deployment and system management The DL980 with clustered Linuxreg or clustered Windowsreg can address these legacy enterprise issues with
bull A comparatively low TCO (see TCO section below) bull High-end BI workload performance bull Large-scale consolidation bull Enterprise-level high availability bull Virtualization bull Simplified and unified workload management with HP Converged Infrastructure bull HPrsquos proven migration methodologies and resources
HP ProLiant DL980 G7 DL980 and the BI Workload
The potentially large impact of BI workloads caused by the explosion in demand of enterprise BI solutions with the business user community often overruns legacy RISC server capabilities further taxing IT and the cost of delivering BI solutions Change and growth are constants for many BI environments
bull Data volumes and parent database entities increase over time o Additional database structures Tables (3NF models) subject areas and dimensions (Dimensional models) Summary tables Indexes
bull Additional users and business groups over time o Additional analytical needs per each added business group o Additional ad hoc and canned queries o Queries of greater complexity o Greater query concurrency
bull Longer and more demanding backups
All these factors result in greater performance pressure on a BI workload that is unique when compared to standard business workloads The uniqueness results from data warehouse and data mart workloads that often apply extreme pressure on several to all of the following critical resources simultaneously
bull processing bull parallelism bull sustained IO throughput bull memory
4
Furthermore if a single server is hosting a true mixed workload for example consisting of a data warehouse and an operational data store IOPs and transactionssec will be as important for the ODS as IO throughput and rowssec are for the DW A balanced server design able to handle a mixed workload is then also a critical requirement
Thus several critical requirements arise from the BI workload and the modern data center for an ideal server
bull A high degree of parallelism using powerful processors bull Large sustained IO throughput bull Large memory bull Enterprise-level reliability bull Consolidation hosting bull Virtualization bull Excellent priceperformance as well as low TCA and low TCO
The DL980 meets or exceeds all of these requirements as wersquoll discuss throughout the paper
Additionally the combination of the DL980 along with several key Intel advancements support the key data processing elements of BI solution workloads ndash data integration data analysis data query and data transformation A high-level view of Data Action processes and their concomitant Intel features is shown below (Table 1)
Table 1 Intel architecture and the BI workload
Data Action Process
Data Warehousing
Data Integration Data Analysis Data Query Data Transformation
Operational Description
Data access Extract Transform and Load of data from many sources
Computational Processing of data to provide insight
Requests made to the Data Domain
Qualified data structured and formatted for BI usage
Intel Technology Support
Multi-core IA to facilitate DW efficiency
RAS features to support IT HA policy
Use of software solution tools optimized for the Intel Xeon 7500 architecture
Use of optimized IA instructions that efficiently analyze data for BI reporting
Multi-threaded DQ software that allows faster response time
Use of CPU instructions to structure store and secure data - Intel SSE42 instruction set
Business Value
Cost effective Fault Tolerance with standard solutions
Improved time to decision making facilitated by multi-threaded software
Improved response time for large data sets
Performance based infrastructure - response times and SLAs on data requests are improved
BI solution processing is comprehensively integrated with higher levels of output
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Performance and Scalability
The DL980 is well situated to solve the performance and fault-tolerant characteristics inherently desired in a BI workload infrastructure Supporting a performance optimized BI solution the DL980
bull Leverages enterprise functionality from HPrsquos large Integrity enterprise servers for both performance and reliability
bull Contains up to 64 high-power Intel Xeon processor 7500 cores bull Provides up to 128 logical CPUs with Intel Hyper-threading Technology to facilitate query
parallelism bull Provides enterprise-level parallel access to storage with a measured 25GBsec sustained IO
throughput rate (as measured in the 3TB TPC-H test) from up to 16 PCIe expansion slots bull Provides up to 2TB of memory to facilitate large in-memory processing
In addition the DL980 contains HPrsquos PREMA Architecture which brings many performance and scalability benefits for processing the BI workload Large numbers of processors in x86 servers typically create an inter-processor communication bottleneck To solve this issue for x86 servers HP looked to the design of our higher-end ccNUMA scale-up servers At the core of the HP PREMA Architecture is a node controller ASIC derived from Intel technology powering the HP Integrity Superdome 2 The HP PREMA Architecture provides these particular benefits for processing and data-intensive BI workloads
bull Smart CPU caching Achieves up to 20 better processor scaling than competitive 8 socket systems by reducing processor overhead
bull Resilient system fabric Provides 50 more interconnect capacity and dynamic traffic routing capability for improved performance in highly concurrent highly parallel BI workload environments
HP Advantage The DL980 offers many features not available in other x86 servers such as the HP PREMA Architecture The DL980 was specifically designed for scale-up enterprise workloads using proven designs from HPrsquos long presence in enterprise environments with HP 9000 and HP Integrity servers
The DL980 is expandable and able to grow with your BI workload as you consolidate legacy BI structures or add data database entities users and query concurrency
bull From 4-socket up to 8-socket servers bull CPU capacity up to 8 processors and 64 cores bull 128 DDR3 DIMM slots for a maximum memory of 2TB bull Up to 16 PCIe IO slots
HP Advantage The enterprise class (64 maximum cores) Intel Xeon processor 7500 series HP PREMA Architecture large sustained IO throughput and large memory features all enable a high degree of efficient parallelism necessary for handling complex analytical queries and hefty query concurrency The DL980 allows ample room for growth as you consolidate or grow your BI workload
HP Advantage The large Intel Xeon platform memory architecture in conjunction with DL980 enterprise-level features easily support in-memory database solutions and computational BI solutions
Blending business intelligence and mission-critical requirements as well as industry-standard design principles the DL980 server is built to handle the largest enterprise environments with confidence It is because of this atypical blend that the DL980 is readily able to host mixed workloads either as a mixed DWODS host as a consolidation platform or as a virtualized consolidation platform
6
Performance Results
Performance testing using both industry standard benchmarks and internal workload testing confirms the advantages of the DL980 server with HP PREMA Architecture By reducing processor overhead the DL980 server delivers better system performance for the BI workload than competitive 8-socket and even larger systems
Using the TPC-H3TB benchmark (Table 2) the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 achieved 1626017 QphH3000GB and the top price performance for non-clustered systems at $268 USDQphH3000GB (Table 3)
bull This result showed that the ProLiant DL980 G7 server delivers better performance and 77x better price performance in one-tenth the rack space compared to the IBM POWER6-based POWER 595
bull This result showed that the ProLiant DL980 G7 server delivers almost as much performance and 62x better price performance in one-fifth the rack space compared to the SUN SPARC M9000
Table 2 TPC-H3000GB
Server Total System Cost QphH PriceQphH Comparison to DL980 rack size
HP DL980 G7 $435169 162602 US $268 1
IBM POWER 595 $3224000 156573 US $2060 10x
Oracle-Sun SPARC M9000
$3298483 198907 US $1658 5x
HP Advantage The audited results from the TPC-H benchmark clearly show that the DL980 offers the best priceperformance in its class by far and in the smallest rack space As can be seen the Total System Cost of the DL980 used for the benchmark is 17th that of the TSCs of IBM and Oracle-Sun
Fourteen years of internal BI workload testing undertaken by HP has gone into the HP Reference Configurations for BI The HP Reference Configurations for the DL980 and Oracle 11gR2 yield the following results (Table 3) These guideline results are an indication of the amount of raw data size and user concurrency that is within expected ranges with typical BI workloads
bull Metrics are provided for the 4p32c and 8p64c sized DL980 server bull Advanced performance assumes the primary goal is performance and cost secondary that
necessary indexing exists and is used and queries are well behaved bull Intermediate performance assumes a compromise between performance and cost that necessary
indexing exists and is used and queries are well behaved bull Concurrent users count refers to users that are logged on and active Non-active users are not
tallied in the metrics below
7
Table 3 BI Workload Reference Configuration for the DL980 G7
SYSTEM ProcessorsCores Advanced Performance Intermediate Performance
HP DL980 G7 432 4TB raw data 7TB raw data
350ndash700 concurrent users 250ndash500 concurrent users
HP DL980 G7 864 7TB raw data 14TB raw data
500ndash1000 concurrent users 350ndash700 concurrent users
Reliability and Availability
The days when many BI systems had few or lax HA requirements are over for most IT shops Thus many traditional OLTP HA features have become increasingly attractive to the enterprises that depend upon their BI structures for critical operations Many reliability and availability features are built into the DL980 the Linux and Windows operating systems and associated software
Downtime costs the business HP understands this and has designed the DL980 with enterprise-grade reliability and availability features at a fraction of the cost
Redundant Components
bull System interconnect fabric data paths bull Power supplies fans (all hot-swappable) bull Dual-path IO cards (option) bull Memory spare rank (option) bull Mirrored memory (option) bull Hot plug drives and RAID storage
Resiliency
bull CPU (Intel features) o Intel Machine Check Architecture recovery allows the system to recover from otherwise fatal
memory errors o Intel Scalable Memory Interconnect Lane failover and Intel QuickPath Interconnect self-healing
enable the platform to identify problems and fail over to another lane or modify link operations
bull Memory (mirroring rank sparing demand scrubbing link level retry correction codes) bull IO (PCIe monitoring and shutdown upon error link level retry redundancy)
Advantage HP The DL980 provides superior reliability compared to legacy Sun and IBM servers Additionally there are far more reliability and availability hardware and firmware components uniquely built into a DL980 than lower TCO x86 servers These features enable BI operations to keep running during historically fatal errors
8
For the highest level of availability necessary for 24x7 data warehouses and BI structures that are designed for minimal down time there are several failover-clustering options available on the DL980
bull Red Hat Enterprise Linux Cluster Suite bull Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension bull Veritas Cluster Server bull VMware High Availability (additionally VMware VMotion can be used to obviate the need for
planned downtime maintenance) bull LifeKeeper bull Microsoft Failover Clustering bull Oracle Clusterware
Manageability
The DL980 benefits from a common management infrastructure that exists across the HP server line This infrastructure includes both hardware and software components
Integrated Lights-Out 3 (iLO 3) is a management processor integrated into every DL980 server providing secure remote management capabilities regardless of server status or location
HP Insight Software is an integrated portfolio of infrastructure management software for HP servers Within this portfolio HP Insight Control can help save time and money by making it easy to deploy migrate monitor control and optimize your IT infrastructure through a single simple management console Also within the HP Insight Software portfolio HP Insight Dynamics provides advanced infrastructure lifecycle management software Insight Dynamics includes integrated infrastructure design with automated activation of servers storage and networking Insight Dynamics also provides built-in capacity planning and rebalancing tools as well as providing automated disaster recovery and failover capabilities
Advantage HP Common ldquosingle pane of glassrdquo management software across all HP servers storage and networking reduces complexity time and cost
Best of Breed Choice and Standards
Business Intelligence is a mature technology with widespread adoption and a wealth of mature solutions Numerous best-of-breed solutions exist with leading edge technology and attractive cost A BI architect can make an informed choice of the best-of-breed solution that most satisfies the current and future needs of the business user requirements Best-of-breed solutions are often the product of vendors who focus and specialize in well-defined areas of BI They arenrsquot spread thin instead they offer leading edge technologies that can give a business the technological edge needed over their rivals
The current strategy of both IBM and Oracle-Sun through extensive acquisitions of numerous smaller companies is to promote a suite of solutions that ultimately equates to vendor lock-in for the customer Vendor lock-in reached its peak in the mid lsquo90s and has declined since that point The biggest reason for the decline of the all-encompassing suite was that the eventual cost of the suite after the initial deployment became a burden Ultimately costs always went up for support upgrades and services Also many suites are not as integrated as they should be adding unforeseen costs to the deployment
Advantage HP HP offers choice HP provides industry-standard solutions and a wealth of best-of-breed solutions through in-house solutions and strong partnerships
Operating System Choice
Both Linux and Microsoftreg Windows are capable choices to run BI focused databases and BI applications on the DL980
9
As can be seen from the Winter Corporation Top Ten Survey of 2005 enterprise IT shops have been able to house large data warehouses on Windows and Linux for years The Winter Corporation specializes in high-end BI and has presented Very Large Database proof points In the Top Ten Database survey The survey is collated from actual customer BI implementations data which is gathered using approved sizing and monitoring tools
The link below to the Winter Corporation Top Ten Survey shows interesting customer data supporting the existence of large production BI data warehouses on both Linux and Windows servers
In summary 10 customer instances are noted on Windows between 4TB and 194TB data warehouse size and 8 customer instances on Linux between 1TB and 24TB data warehouse size httpwwwwintercorpcomVLDB2005_TopTen_SurveyTopTenWinners_2005asp
Please keep in mind that this Top Ten Survey is just a sampling of the worldwide Very Large Data Warehouse pool and is now 5 years old Since that time BI databases on both Windows and Linux have grown in both total database size and the number of such large instances now in existence
Advantage HP HP is the top provider of Linux and Windows server systems in terms of worldwide shipments The foundation for this success is a strong technical partnership for each of these offerings
All major Linux offerings run on HPrsquos standards-based Intel Xeon processor-based platforms including market leaders Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Oracle Enterprise Linux is supported as well
Advantage HP Approximately 14000 Linux applications are available for HPrsquos standards-based Intel Xeon processor-based ProLiant servers There are far fewer applications available on specialized Linux distributions and for proprietary RISC systems that offer Linux support Additionally these ldquoLinux specialsrdquo often require specialized integration and customization
Database Choice
All major databases are available and optimized for the standards-based DL980 Microsoft SQL Server Sybase IQ and Oracle are all capable choices for hosting data warehouse operational data stores or data marts
Virtualization Choice
Virtualization is particularly useful for consolidation of multiple isolated BI workloads onto a DL980 For the enterprise that has scores of data marts and operational marts consolidation onto a larger platform has the following benefits
bull Decommissioning isolated and underutilized BI silos bull Reducing power consumption management effort cooling and floor space bull Freeing up IT budget that can be used for true innovation elsewhere
Many choices exist for virtualization software that runs on the DL980
bull VMware vSphere bull Microsoft Hyper-V bull KVM bull OpenVZ bull Citrix Xen bull Parallels Virtuozzo Containers
Advantage HP Standards-based offerings as well as choice are strong factors in reining in data center costs as well as providing solid solutions for the BI user community
10
The HP Converged Infrastructure A modern enterprise infrastructure implies IT unification through data center convergence It is imperative that legacy issues be resolved and not repeated IT has to evolve or face expensive stagnation
Built on innovation standards and choice the HP Converged Infrastructure is the modern paradigm for achieving this data center of the future HP is soundly positioned to deliver the Converged Infrastructure to its customers with a full portfolio of integrated solutions and services developed for modern unified data centers
Unification is a central theme of the HP Converged Infrastructure (Figure 2) Common components span HP servers (both ProLiant and Integrity) HP storage and HP networking
bull A common modular infrastructure with common building blocks bull Common power and cooling bull A common network fabric bull Common management software
Figure 2 The HP Converged Infrastructure
Power amp cooling
ServersStorage
Management software
Network
Converged Infrastructure
This converged architectural framework simplifies integrates and automates technology
bull Simplifies the infrastructure and reduces TCO bull Lowers the cost of deployment and implementation by obviating the need for expensive and lengthy
integration and interoperability consulting bull Removes server silos and server sprawl bull Integrates multiple vendorsrsquo technology into pools of interoperable resources
HP Matrix Operating Environment ndash The HP Matrix Operating Environment is a common management platform that extends from infrastructure to application across servers storage and networks It includes tools for provisioning and modifying complex infrastructures lifecycle management resource provisioning high availability performance and capacity assessment and automated consolidation analysis
11
At the core of the HP Matrix Operating Environment is HP Insight Softwaremdashthe comprehensive family of HP infrastructure management software HP Insight Software infrastructure orchestration capabilities let you provision infrastructure in minutes to automatically activate physical and virtual servers storage and networking from pools of shared resources
HP Advantage This software enables your organization to simultaneously control all elements of an infrastructure needed to deliver a service It unifies all the tools for infrastructure lifecycle management into one command center It allows quick provisioning of the infrastructure using a common management platform It reduces complexity reduces time to operation increases commonality across solutions and thereby reduces cost
HP Virtual Resource Pools ndash HP Virtual Resource Pools create a common modular infrastructure of virtualized compute memory storage and network resources Resources are aggregated and shared across the data center between HP ProLiant servers HP Integrity servers and StorageWorks storage products Businesses can use the same architecture to manage multiple workloads across servers storage and networking
HP Advantage Reduces underutilized platforms reduces server and storage sprawl reduces server silos frees up floor space increases productivity reduces complexity and reduces cost
HP Data Center Smart Grid ndash HP Data Center Smart Grid provides intelligent energy management across systems and facilities controlling and reducing energy usage in real time The Smart Grid is a set of monitoring tools and embedded sensors that enable resource monitoring and capacity planning HP Thermal Logic includes embedded technology designed to reduce energy usage and associated costs Sea of Sensors monitors energy consumption and automatically adjusts cooling resources using up to 32 sensors to adjust fan speeds and power only the slots that are in use Dynamic Power Capping enables the reclaiming of trapped power and cooling capacity by safely limiting server power consumption
HP Advantage Reduces energy consumption extends the energy capacity of existing data center facilities and reduces cost
HP Servers ndash HP standards-based servers are ideal for IT organizations considering building a shared services infrastructure to centralize IT and reduce operational costs HP servers are a robust offering for multi-tier enterprise applications The common infrastructure and common management supports both cost-effective ProLiant servers as well as mission-critical Integrity HP-UX servers
All HP servers are engineered for balanced performance across the two major workloads BI and OLTP workloadsndashunlike the POWER platforms that exhibit engineering and optimization for the CPU-centric OLTP workload such as TPC-C
HP Advantage The commonality and interoperability of HP servers in the Converged Infrastructure reduces complexity and reduces the deployment integration and customization required to achieve a cost-effective infrastructure Furthermore these characteristics allow the fast implementation and efficient management of a multi-tier solution back-end data warehouse database hosting DL980 servers and front-end application hosting Intel Xeon processor-based servers
HP Advantage For the 57th consecutive quarter more than 14 years HP ProLiant is the x86 server market share leader in both factory revenue and units shipping more than 1 out of every 3 servers in this market with a 379 unit share HPrsquos x86 revenue share 401 was 188 percentage points higher than its nearest competitor Dell and 213 percentage points higher than IBM1
1 Source All of the above market share figures are for the 3rd quarter [unless otherwise noted] and represent
worldwide results as reported by the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker for 3Q 10 December 2010
12
TCO Analysis An analysis of the DL980 powered with the Intel Xeon processor 7500 series versus both the IBM POWER 770 and the Oracle-Sun SPARC M9000 shows a clear 3-year TCO advantage for the DL980 The immediate acquisition cost savings is striking savings that can be used for IT innovation instead of maintaining the inefficient legacy status quo
The most important cost categories are included in this analysis
bull Hardware acquisition cost bull Server software (OS and Oracle database) bull Hardware and software support and maintenance bull Systems administration bull Facilities (power cooling space)
Data Source Ideas International Ltd amp Alinean Inc were used to make the performance and cost comparisons (June 2010)
Comparison - IBM POWER 770 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Table 4 Comparative solution specifics ndash IBM POWER 770 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Server OS DBMS Server number SocketsCores Total cores
IBM POWER7 770 (31 GHz) AIX Oracle 11g 1 864 64
HP DL980 G7 Intel Xeon X7560 (226 GHz)
Red Hat
Red Hat
Enterprise
Linux
Oracle 11g 1 864 64
Table 5 3 Year TCO comparisons ndash IBM POWER 770 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
TCO Comparison ndash Cumulative 3 Year Solution A
IBM P7 770 64c
Solution B
HP ProLiant DL980 G7 64c
Difference
(A ndash B) Amount
Difference
(A ndash B) Percentage
Server Hardware $318560 $112092 $206468 648
Server Software (OS amp DB) $2416064 $1146207 $1269857 526
Hardware and Software Support amp Maintenance
$1682173 $755348 $926825 551
System Administration $43620 $31371 $12249 281
Facilities (Power Cooling amp Floor space) $38235 $24084 $14151 370
Total IT Costs $4498652 $2069102 $2429550 540
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TCOROI Summary (summary derived from Table 5)
bull Overall savings of 54 over 3 years with the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 bull Hardware acquisition cost savings of 65 bull Hardware and software support and maintenance cost savings of 55
Comparison ndash Oracle-Sun M9000 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Table 6 3 Year TCO comparisons ndash Oracle-Sun M9000 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Server OS DBMS Server number
SocketsCores Total cores
Oracle-Sun M9000 SPARC64 VI (24 GHz)
Solaris Oracle 11g 1 64128 128
HP DL980 G7 Intel Xeon X7560 (226 GHz)
Red Hat Enterprise
Linux
Oracle 11g 1 864 64
Table 7 3 Year TCO comparisons ndash Oracle-Sun M9000 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
TCO Comparison ndash Cumulative 3 Year
Solution A
OracleSun M9000 SPARC VI 128c
Solution B
HP ProLiant DL980 G7 64c
Difference
(A ndash B) Amount
Difference
(A ndash B) Percentage
Server Hardware $3404864 $112092 $3292772 967
Server Software (OS amp DB) $3520000 $1146207 $2373793 674
Hardware and Software Support amp Maintenance
$3809070 $755348 $3053772 802
System Administration $40428 $31371 $9057 224
Facilities (Power Cooling amp Floor space)
$237357 $24084 $213273 899
Total IT Costs $11011719 $2069102 $8942617 812
TCOROI Summary (summary derived from Table 7)
bull Overall savings of 81 over 3 years with the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 bull Hardware acquisition cost savings of 97 bull Hardware and software support and maintenance cost savings of 80
14
Migration Drivers In transforming data centers and BI solution platforms into efficient and modern entities migrations are a necessity Fortunately migrations from IBM and Sun are not a new phenomenon theyrsquove been going on for the better part of 20 years Thousands of migrations have occurred giving rise to the creation and use by HP of mature migration methodologies tools and expertise
Before any migration can be considered valid reasons must exist to justify the investment Fortunately valid migrational drivers exist in both the business and technical areas of every corporation Drivers that lead to migrations tend to revolve around solid objectives related to lowering computing cost and improving service levels There are numerous drivers that apply to most IT shops whether that shop has older Oracle-Sun SPARC servers or older IBM POWER servers In addition to these general drivers common to both environments there are compelling reasons to migrate specific to SPARC and POWER environments
General Migration Drivers The following general drivers apply to both older Oracle-Sun SPARC servers and IBM POWER servers
High Support Costs ndash Support costs for older systems are typically higher than the support costs for current systems If the warranty has expired support costs may become a shock the day after warranty expiration
HP Advantage HPrsquos DL980 as well as the entire HP ProLiant server family has excellent TCO compared to both older SPARC and POWER servers as well as newer servers See the TCO Analysis section below for more detail
Data Center Running Out of Floor Space ndash The historic pairing of servers and BI applications for discrete solutions has led to a proliferation of servers dedicated to single tasks Thus many data centers are running out of capacity
HP Advantage The DL980 is an ideal consolidation platform Floor space can be freed up by consolidation of BI instances and applications onto the DL980 with its relatively small footprint
Too Many Database Instances ndash Database consolidation results from an initial state in which too many BI-related database instances exist Numerous small data marts or numerous operational data stores are prime examples Most likely this profusion of small instances occurred by splitting the query workload to enable query and report processing to be accomplished within accepted parameters Database sprawl takes up floor space and IT timendashand ultimately increases cost
HP Advantage Once again the DL980 is an ideal consolidation and virtualization platform for large database environments with too many instances particularly in enterprises beset with too many small data marts
Underutilized Servers ndash While unceasing high-pressure BI workloads do occur theyrsquore in the minority Instead many enterprises create peak BI workload at the end of month end of quarter end of year and other significant times during the yearly business cycle
Thus itrsquos common in older architectures to find dedicated servers that are not fully utilized or are only productively utilized a small percentage of the time Dedicating one workload to each server meant that each server needed to be sized accordingly to accommodate the peak workload For much of the time many servers tend to run lightly loaded outside of peak hours The cost of carrying several of these systems can be significant
15
HP Advantage The DL980 is an ideal high-performance scalable reliable and low-cost consolidation platform
Oracle-Sun Specific Drivers Many of the more troublesome Oracle-Sun specific drivers listed below are outcomes of the last eight years of hard times for SPARC servers
Underperforming Servers ndash With the steady slowdown in the evolution of the SPARC line performance has been an issue for many years Add to this the weight of underutilized servers sized for peak workloads and the drag on an IT operations budget can be significant
HP Advantage Comparative data using Alinean Ltd and Ideas International Inc show a tangible HP advantage especially in enterprise-class servers Ask your HP representative for a TCO analysis
The Risks of a Single-Vendor Solution Stack ndash Hosting an Oracle database on Oracle-Sun servers cedes control of the entire solution stack to Oracle Could you be overspending on servers software and support by relying solely on Oracle-Sun
HP Advantage HP can provide a ldquowhole environmentrdquo view with the DL980 in the Converged Infrastructure and best-of-breed partners to help you move to your next-generation environment
Escalating and Changing Support Costs ndash Higher support costs exist for Oracle-Sun SPARC systems including new ldquomandatoryrdquo hardware support fees
HP Advantage Evaluating the support costs for the DL980 and other HP ProLiant servers relative to Oracle-Sun SPARC support costs can help you find ways to reduce operational support costs Ask your HP representative for a TCO analysis
IBM Specific Drivers IBM has its own set of specific issues that have driven data centers to migrate from IBM servers frequently over the last 20 years
High Cost of Deployment Integration and Maintenance ndash Cost is an issue with architectures consisting of older POWER4 and POWER5 servers IBMrsquos approach to computing technology does not lend itself well to simple deployment and integration POWER servers have been created to interoperate very well in a POWER-only environment Unfortunately it is costly to integrate POWER servers with non-POWER servers (eg x86 servers) storage networking diverse management tools and applications This characteristic of the POWER server line results in higher costs for deployment integration support maintenance and ultimately upgrades to newer POWER servers Unfortunately when choosing a POWER-to-POWER upgrade the high-cost IBM lifecycle begins again and data centers are firmly locked into the same inflexible architecture
The IBM Architectural Silo Model ndash The piecemeal nature of siloed POWER solutions (separate HA separate networking no standard management infrastructure etc) requires extensive and custom integration Unfortunately IBM mainframes and x86 servers subscribe to siloed architecture as well The IBM approach to architectural design and component deployment forces customers to adapt their business operations to fit IBMrsquos technology silos such as mainframe or POWER servers To implement cost-effective multi-tier computing infrastructures customers must piece together their own enterprise architecture By modern standards this is a needless investment of development time and budget that can be better used for higher priority tasks
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Lack of Solution Flexibility ndash Instead of vendor guidance toward overcoming many of the legacy issues above are you guided into upgrading the legacy environment instead of transforming it into a cost-effective and contemporary infrastructure Being guided into an IBM-only siloed infrastructure philosophy solves only surface issues and can perpetuate cost and resource inefficiency
HP Advantage For the issues above HP provides a ldquowhole environmentrdquo view with the DL980 and best-of-breed partners to help you move to your next generation environment HP Converged Infrastructure offers common building blocksndashstandards-based servers ProLiant Xeon servers and Integrity Itanium Servers common management software common power and cooling and a common network fabric
Older POWER Server Processing and Workload Shortcomings ndash It should come as no surprise that for many intense BI workloads these older POWER4 and POWER5 systems lack the necessary processing IO bandwidth and reliability IBMrsquos message was also quite clear when they optimized the POWER architecture primarily for the OLTP workload The OLTP workload does not have the same characteristics of mixed workloads or BI workloads Specific components subsystems and features are necessary to satisfy the intense IO bandwidth and processing requirements of high-volume BI workloads mixed OLTP and BI workloads and long-running batch processing
HP Advantage The DL980 was specifically designed and optimized to process mixed workloads including the two most popular workloads the Business Intelligence workload and the mission-critical OLTP workload It contains by conscious design the necessary hardware and software components to excel at these business-critical workloads Thus the DL980 is able to efficiently handle a mixed workload containing both analytical BI and operational BI In addition the DL980 provides up to 2TB of memory to facilitate in-memory processing
HP Migration Resources HP Migration Process
The HP migration process (Figure 3) embodies a mature and flexible methodology that provides a consistent framework for capturing and carrying out customer requirements The process is built upon years of migration experience and best practices across a variety of databases applications and platforms The process is tool agnostic providing flexibility in solution development Using this mature process as a foundation HP provides a customer-driven migration process instead of an inflexible process based on single-path choices
HP has over 20 years worth of experience migrating customers off of Oracle-Sun servers IBM servers databases and applications to HP solutions HP offers a Solaris-to-Linux porting kit and also uses IBM tools that are available for AIX-to-Linux porting
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Figure 3 HP Migration Process
HP-UX 11i on HP Integrity
Linux on HP ProLiant
Windows on HP ProLiant
MIGRATION PATH
THE HP MIGRATION CENTER
MIGRATION PROCESS
SupportExecutePlanAssess
HP SUNSET COMPLETE CARE INCENTIVES
The key benefits of the HP migration process are
bull A standard high level process which is o based on decades of expertise and best practices o repeatable o customizable by database and application technology platform and migration toolset o scalable accommodating simple to complex migrations
bull Identifies migration requirements up front and properly addresses those requirements in a strategy document A TCO analysis is also included which provides solid data points to facilitate validation of the migration business case
bull Incorporates production dress rehearsals to refine the deployment prior to the actual deployment phase
bull Includes data quality analysis to address source side data issues prior to migration
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HP Migration Center and Services
Over the past 20+ years HP has helped migrate thousands of customers gaining valuable knowledge expertise and repeatability Migrations from older architectures allow customers to take advantage of HP infrastructure to reduce costs improve performance and gain competitive advantage Through the HP Migration Center HP combines best practices with new technologies such as the HP Converged Infrastructure to give you simple and unified low-risk solutions
Modernizing from antiquated and siloed Oracle-Sun and IBM environments to a flexible and integrated Converged Infrastructure takes experience and planning The HP Migration Competence Center as well as HPrsquos data center transformation specialists can guide your operations teams through the following decisions and options required to take advantage of the Converged Infrastructure capabilities
bull Reduce aggregate server and core count by eliminating underutilized dedicated servers Let HP evaluate your current workload inventory and help you plan a consolidated or virtualized environment that improves utilization while cutting software instances and related licensing costs
bull Cut provisioning time from days to minutes Distributed environments are known for complex cabling parallel server and storage wiring and slow complex error-prone provisioning procedures HP can help you accelerate repetitive provisioning tasks by taking advantage of application templates while relying on HP Virtual Connect to instantly provision servers and storage connections
bull Dedicated servers are usually underutilized outside of peak workload hours Verify there is always ldquojust enoughrdquo capacity by letting HP evaluate your current workloads and demand cycles in order to help you define a much more efficient environment Accurately address capacity needs without overspending using HP Capacity Planner technology part of the HP Converged Infrastructure management umbrella
bull HP can help you constrain power consumption to match active workloads HP Data Center Smart Grid enables the automatic ldquodialing backrdquo of power consumption for lightly loaded resources As the load increases power consumption will be automatically ldquodialed uprdquo to ensure that appropriate performance levels are met
The HP Migration Center maintains a close relationship with many database and application partners to ensure a smooth complete migration solution with respect to the databases and applications Additionally the HP Migrations Center works closely with the HP Solution Centers and Competence Centers to assist with database and application migrations
The Migration Center can deploy experts for the DL980 and Linux as well as HP specialists for the operating systems of other vendors Additionally HP maintains close development and support arrangements with major operating systems vendors including Microsoft Windows Novell SUSE Linux Oracle Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Call to Action See for yourself how the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 makes an ideal platform for your enterprise workloads Ask for a TCO assessment or migration assessment to get started For more information please contact your HP representative or visit httpwwwhpcomgomigratetohp
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Intel and Intel Xeon are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the US and other countries Linux is a US registered trademark of Linus Torvalds Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation andor its affiliates Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries
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Why Migrate to HP
Implementing managing and supporting BI implementations consisting of legacy platforms such as Sun SPARC or IBM POWER servers are expensive Legacy RISC server environments typically have many under-utilized non-virtualized servers sized for peak workloads This increases the cost of application deployment and system management The DL980 with clustered Linuxreg or clustered Windowsreg can address these legacy enterprise issues with
bull A comparatively low TCO (see TCO section below) bull High-end BI workload performance bull Large-scale consolidation bull Enterprise-level high availability bull Virtualization bull Simplified and unified workload management with HP Converged Infrastructure bull HPrsquos proven migration methodologies and resources
HP ProLiant DL980 G7 DL980 and the BI Workload
The potentially large impact of BI workloads caused by the explosion in demand of enterprise BI solutions with the business user community often overruns legacy RISC server capabilities further taxing IT and the cost of delivering BI solutions Change and growth are constants for many BI environments
bull Data volumes and parent database entities increase over time o Additional database structures Tables (3NF models) subject areas and dimensions (Dimensional models) Summary tables Indexes
bull Additional users and business groups over time o Additional analytical needs per each added business group o Additional ad hoc and canned queries o Queries of greater complexity o Greater query concurrency
bull Longer and more demanding backups
All these factors result in greater performance pressure on a BI workload that is unique when compared to standard business workloads The uniqueness results from data warehouse and data mart workloads that often apply extreme pressure on several to all of the following critical resources simultaneously
bull processing bull parallelism bull sustained IO throughput bull memory
4
Furthermore if a single server is hosting a true mixed workload for example consisting of a data warehouse and an operational data store IOPs and transactionssec will be as important for the ODS as IO throughput and rowssec are for the DW A balanced server design able to handle a mixed workload is then also a critical requirement
Thus several critical requirements arise from the BI workload and the modern data center for an ideal server
bull A high degree of parallelism using powerful processors bull Large sustained IO throughput bull Large memory bull Enterprise-level reliability bull Consolidation hosting bull Virtualization bull Excellent priceperformance as well as low TCA and low TCO
The DL980 meets or exceeds all of these requirements as wersquoll discuss throughout the paper
Additionally the combination of the DL980 along with several key Intel advancements support the key data processing elements of BI solution workloads ndash data integration data analysis data query and data transformation A high-level view of Data Action processes and their concomitant Intel features is shown below (Table 1)
Table 1 Intel architecture and the BI workload
Data Action Process
Data Warehousing
Data Integration Data Analysis Data Query Data Transformation
Operational Description
Data access Extract Transform and Load of data from many sources
Computational Processing of data to provide insight
Requests made to the Data Domain
Qualified data structured and formatted for BI usage
Intel Technology Support
Multi-core IA to facilitate DW efficiency
RAS features to support IT HA policy
Use of software solution tools optimized for the Intel Xeon 7500 architecture
Use of optimized IA instructions that efficiently analyze data for BI reporting
Multi-threaded DQ software that allows faster response time
Use of CPU instructions to structure store and secure data - Intel SSE42 instruction set
Business Value
Cost effective Fault Tolerance with standard solutions
Improved time to decision making facilitated by multi-threaded software
Improved response time for large data sets
Performance based infrastructure - response times and SLAs on data requests are improved
BI solution processing is comprehensively integrated with higher levels of output
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Performance and Scalability
The DL980 is well situated to solve the performance and fault-tolerant characteristics inherently desired in a BI workload infrastructure Supporting a performance optimized BI solution the DL980
bull Leverages enterprise functionality from HPrsquos large Integrity enterprise servers for both performance and reliability
bull Contains up to 64 high-power Intel Xeon processor 7500 cores bull Provides up to 128 logical CPUs with Intel Hyper-threading Technology to facilitate query
parallelism bull Provides enterprise-level parallel access to storage with a measured 25GBsec sustained IO
throughput rate (as measured in the 3TB TPC-H test) from up to 16 PCIe expansion slots bull Provides up to 2TB of memory to facilitate large in-memory processing
In addition the DL980 contains HPrsquos PREMA Architecture which brings many performance and scalability benefits for processing the BI workload Large numbers of processors in x86 servers typically create an inter-processor communication bottleneck To solve this issue for x86 servers HP looked to the design of our higher-end ccNUMA scale-up servers At the core of the HP PREMA Architecture is a node controller ASIC derived from Intel technology powering the HP Integrity Superdome 2 The HP PREMA Architecture provides these particular benefits for processing and data-intensive BI workloads
bull Smart CPU caching Achieves up to 20 better processor scaling than competitive 8 socket systems by reducing processor overhead
bull Resilient system fabric Provides 50 more interconnect capacity and dynamic traffic routing capability for improved performance in highly concurrent highly parallel BI workload environments
HP Advantage The DL980 offers many features not available in other x86 servers such as the HP PREMA Architecture The DL980 was specifically designed for scale-up enterprise workloads using proven designs from HPrsquos long presence in enterprise environments with HP 9000 and HP Integrity servers
The DL980 is expandable and able to grow with your BI workload as you consolidate legacy BI structures or add data database entities users and query concurrency
bull From 4-socket up to 8-socket servers bull CPU capacity up to 8 processors and 64 cores bull 128 DDR3 DIMM slots for a maximum memory of 2TB bull Up to 16 PCIe IO slots
HP Advantage The enterprise class (64 maximum cores) Intel Xeon processor 7500 series HP PREMA Architecture large sustained IO throughput and large memory features all enable a high degree of efficient parallelism necessary for handling complex analytical queries and hefty query concurrency The DL980 allows ample room for growth as you consolidate or grow your BI workload
HP Advantage The large Intel Xeon platform memory architecture in conjunction with DL980 enterprise-level features easily support in-memory database solutions and computational BI solutions
Blending business intelligence and mission-critical requirements as well as industry-standard design principles the DL980 server is built to handle the largest enterprise environments with confidence It is because of this atypical blend that the DL980 is readily able to host mixed workloads either as a mixed DWODS host as a consolidation platform or as a virtualized consolidation platform
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Performance Results
Performance testing using both industry standard benchmarks and internal workload testing confirms the advantages of the DL980 server with HP PREMA Architecture By reducing processor overhead the DL980 server delivers better system performance for the BI workload than competitive 8-socket and even larger systems
Using the TPC-H3TB benchmark (Table 2) the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 achieved 1626017 QphH3000GB and the top price performance for non-clustered systems at $268 USDQphH3000GB (Table 3)
bull This result showed that the ProLiant DL980 G7 server delivers better performance and 77x better price performance in one-tenth the rack space compared to the IBM POWER6-based POWER 595
bull This result showed that the ProLiant DL980 G7 server delivers almost as much performance and 62x better price performance in one-fifth the rack space compared to the SUN SPARC M9000
Table 2 TPC-H3000GB
Server Total System Cost QphH PriceQphH Comparison to DL980 rack size
HP DL980 G7 $435169 162602 US $268 1
IBM POWER 595 $3224000 156573 US $2060 10x
Oracle-Sun SPARC M9000
$3298483 198907 US $1658 5x
HP Advantage The audited results from the TPC-H benchmark clearly show that the DL980 offers the best priceperformance in its class by far and in the smallest rack space As can be seen the Total System Cost of the DL980 used for the benchmark is 17th that of the TSCs of IBM and Oracle-Sun
Fourteen years of internal BI workload testing undertaken by HP has gone into the HP Reference Configurations for BI The HP Reference Configurations for the DL980 and Oracle 11gR2 yield the following results (Table 3) These guideline results are an indication of the amount of raw data size and user concurrency that is within expected ranges with typical BI workloads
bull Metrics are provided for the 4p32c and 8p64c sized DL980 server bull Advanced performance assumes the primary goal is performance and cost secondary that
necessary indexing exists and is used and queries are well behaved bull Intermediate performance assumes a compromise between performance and cost that necessary
indexing exists and is used and queries are well behaved bull Concurrent users count refers to users that are logged on and active Non-active users are not
tallied in the metrics below
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Table 3 BI Workload Reference Configuration for the DL980 G7
SYSTEM ProcessorsCores Advanced Performance Intermediate Performance
HP DL980 G7 432 4TB raw data 7TB raw data
350ndash700 concurrent users 250ndash500 concurrent users
HP DL980 G7 864 7TB raw data 14TB raw data
500ndash1000 concurrent users 350ndash700 concurrent users
Reliability and Availability
The days when many BI systems had few or lax HA requirements are over for most IT shops Thus many traditional OLTP HA features have become increasingly attractive to the enterprises that depend upon their BI structures for critical operations Many reliability and availability features are built into the DL980 the Linux and Windows operating systems and associated software
Downtime costs the business HP understands this and has designed the DL980 with enterprise-grade reliability and availability features at a fraction of the cost
Redundant Components
bull System interconnect fabric data paths bull Power supplies fans (all hot-swappable) bull Dual-path IO cards (option) bull Memory spare rank (option) bull Mirrored memory (option) bull Hot plug drives and RAID storage
Resiliency
bull CPU (Intel features) o Intel Machine Check Architecture recovery allows the system to recover from otherwise fatal
memory errors o Intel Scalable Memory Interconnect Lane failover and Intel QuickPath Interconnect self-healing
enable the platform to identify problems and fail over to another lane or modify link operations
bull Memory (mirroring rank sparing demand scrubbing link level retry correction codes) bull IO (PCIe monitoring and shutdown upon error link level retry redundancy)
Advantage HP The DL980 provides superior reliability compared to legacy Sun and IBM servers Additionally there are far more reliability and availability hardware and firmware components uniquely built into a DL980 than lower TCO x86 servers These features enable BI operations to keep running during historically fatal errors
8
For the highest level of availability necessary for 24x7 data warehouses and BI structures that are designed for minimal down time there are several failover-clustering options available on the DL980
bull Red Hat Enterprise Linux Cluster Suite bull Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension bull Veritas Cluster Server bull VMware High Availability (additionally VMware VMotion can be used to obviate the need for
planned downtime maintenance) bull LifeKeeper bull Microsoft Failover Clustering bull Oracle Clusterware
Manageability
The DL980 benefits from a common management infrastructure that exists across the HP server line This infrastructure includes both hardware and software components
Integrated Lights-Out 3 (iLO 3) is a management processor integrated into every DL980 server providing secure remote management capabilities regardless of server status or location
HP Insight Software is an integrated portfolio of infrastructure management software for HP servers Within this portfolio HP Insight Control can help save time and money by making it easy to deploy migrate monitor control and optimize your IT infrastructure through a single simple management console Also within the HP Insight Software portfolio HP Insight Dynamics provides advanced infrastructure lifecycle management software Insight Dynamics includes integrated infrastructure design with automated activation of servers storage and networking Insight Dynamics also provides built-in capacity planning and rebalancing tools as well as providing automated disaster recovery and failover capabilities
Advantage HP Common ldquosingle pane of glassrdquo management software across all HP servers storage and networking reduces complexity time and cost
Best of Breed Choice and Standards
Business Intelligence is a mature technology with widespread adoption and a wealth of mature solutions Numerous best-of-breed solutions exist with leading edge technology and attractive cost A BI architect can make an informed choice of the best-of-breed solution that most satisfies the current and future needs of the business user requirements Best-of-breed solutions are often the product of vendors who focus and specialize in well-defined areas of BI They arenrsquot spread thin instead they offer leading edge technologies that can give a business the technological edge needed over their rivals
The current strategy of both IBM and Oracle-Sun through extensive acquisitions of numerous smaller companies is to promote a suite of solutions that ultimately equates to vendor lock-in for the customer Vendor lock-in reached its peak in the mid lsquo90s and has declined since that point The biggest reason for the decline of the all-encompassing suite was that the eventual cost of the suite after the initial deployment became a burden Ultimately costs always went up for support upgrades and services Also many suites are not as integrated as they should be adding unforeseen costs to the deployment
Advantage HP HP offers choice HP provides industry-standard solutions and a wealth of best-of-breed solutions through in-house solutions and strong partnerships
Operating System Choice
Both Linux and Microsoftreg Windows are capable choices to run BI focused databases and BI applications on the DL980
9
As can be seen from the Winter Corporation Top Ten Survey of 2005 enterprise IT shops have been able to house large data warehouses on Windows and Linux for years The Winter Corporation specializes in high-end BI and has presented Very Large Database proof points In the Top Ten Database survey The survey is collated from actual customer BI implementations data which is gathered using approved sizing and monitoring tools
The link below to the Winter Corporation Top Ten Survey shows interesting customer data supporting the existence of large production BI data warehouses on both Linux and Windows servers
In summary 10 customer instances are noted on Windows between 4TB and 194TB data warehouse size and 8 customer instances on Linux between 1TB and 24TB data warehouse size httpwwwwintercorpcomVLDB2005_TopTen_SurveyTopTenWinners_2005asp
Please keep in mind that this Top Ten Survey is just a sampling of the worldwide Very Large Data Warehouse pool and is now 5 years old Since that time BI databases on both Windows and Linux have grown in both total database size and the number of such large instances now in existence
Advantage HP HP is the top provider of Linux and Windows server systems in terms of worldwide shipments The foundation for this success is a strong technical partnership for each of these offerings
All major Linux offerings run on HPrsquos standards-based Intel Xeon processor-based platforms including market leaders Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Oracle Enterprise Linux is supported as well
Advantage HP Approximately 14000 Linux applications are available for HPrsquos standards-based Intel Xeon processor-based ProLiant servers There are far fewer applications available on specialized Linux distributions and for proprietary RISC systems that offer Linux support Additionally these ldquoLinux specialsrdquo often require specialized integration and customization
Database Choice
All major databases are available and optimized for the standards-based DL980 Microsoft SQL Server Sybase IQ and Oracle are all capable choices for hosting data warehouse operational data stores or data marts
Virtualization Choice
Virtualization is particularly useful for consolidation of multiple isolated BI workloads onto a DL980 For the enterprise that has scores of data marts and operational marts consolidation onto a larger platform has the following benefits
bull Decommissioning isolated and underutilized BI silos bull Reducing power consumption management effort cooling and floor space bull Freeing up IT budget that can be used for true innovation elsewhere
Many choices exist for virtualization software that runs on the DL980
bull VMware vSphere bull Microsoft Hyper-V bull KVM bull OpenVZ bull Citrix Xen bull Parallels Virtuozzo Containers
Advantage HP Standards-based offerings as well as choice are strong factors in reining in data center costs as well as providing solid solutions for the BI user community
10
The HP Converged Infrastructure A modern enterprise infrastructure implies IT unification through data center convergence It is imperative that legacy issues be resolved and not repeated IT has to evolve or face expensive stagnation
Built on innovation standards and choice the HP Converged Infrastructure is the modern paradigm for achieving this data center of the future HP is soundly positioned to deliver the Converged Infrastructure to its customers with a full portfolio of integrated solutions and services developed for modern unified data centers
Unification is a central theme of the HP Converged Infrastructure (Figure 2) Common components span HP servers (both ProLiant and Integrity) HP storage and HP networking
bull A common modular infrastructure with common building blocks bull Common power and cooling bull A common network fabric bull Common management software
Figure 2 The HP Converged Infrastructure
Power amp cooling
ServersStorage
Management software
Network
Converged Infrastructure
This converged architectural framework simplifies integrates and automates technology
bull Simplifies the infrastructure and reduces TCO bull Lowers the cost of deployment and implementation by obviating the need for expensive and lengthy
integration and interoperability consulting bull Removes server silos and server sprawl bull Integrates multiple vendorsrsquo technology into pools of interoperable resources
HP Matrix Operating Environment ndash The HP Matrix Operating Environment is a common management platform that extends from infrastructure to application across servers storage and networks It includes tools for provisioning and modifying complex infrastructures lifecycle management resource provisioning high availability performance and capacity assessment and automated consolidation analysis
11
At the core of the HP Matrix Operating Environment is HP Insight Softwaremdashthe comprehensive family of HP infrastructure management software HP Insight Software infrastructure orchestration capabilities let you provision infrastructure in minutes to automatically activate physical and virtual servers storage and networking from pools of shared resources
HP Advantage This software enables your organization to simultaneously control all elements of an infrastructure needed to deliver a service It unifies all the tools for infrastructure lifecycle management into one command center It allows quick provisioning of the infrastructure using a common management platform It reduces complexity reduces time to operation increases commonality across solutions and thereby reduces cost
HP Virtual Resource Pools ndash HP Virtual Resource Pools create a common modular infrastructure of virtualized compute memory storage and network resources Resources are aggregated and shared across the data center between HP ProLiant servers HP Integrity servers and StorageWorks storage products Businesses can use the same architecture to manage multiple workloads across servers storage and networking
HP Advantage Reduces underutilized platforms reduces server and storage sprawl reduces server silos frees up floor space increases productivity reduces complexity and reduces cost
HP Data Center Smart Grid ndash HP Data Center Smart Grid provides intelligent energy management across systems and facilities controlling and reducing energy usage in real time The Smart Grid is a set of monitoring tools and embedded sensors that enable resource monitoring and capacity planning HP Thermal Logic includes embedded technology designed to reduce energy usage and associated costs Sea of Sensors monitors energy consumption and automatically adjusts cooling resources using up to 32 sensors to adjust fan speeds and power only the slots that are in use Dynamic Power Capping enables the reclaiming of trapped power and cooling capacity by safely limiting server power consumption
HP Advantage Reduces energy consumption extends the energy capacity of existing data center facilities and reduces cost
HP Servers ndash HP standards-based servers are ideal for IT organizations considering building a shared services infrastructure to centralize IT and reduce operational costs HP servers are a robust offering for multi-tier enterprise applications The common infrastructure and common management supports both cost-effective ProLiant servers as well as mission-critical Integrity HP-UX servers
All HP servers are engineered for balanced performance across the two major workloads BI and OLTP workloadsndashunlike the POWER platforms that exhibit engineering and optimization for the CPU-centric OLTP workload such as TPC-C
HP Advantage The commonality and interoperability of HP servers in the Converged Infrastructure reduces complexity and reduces the deployment integration and customization required to achieve a cost-effective infrastructure Furthermore these characteristics allow the fast implementation and efficient management of a multi-tier solution back-end data warehouse database hosting DL980 servers and front-end application hosting Intel Xeon processor-based servers
HP Advantage For the 57th consecutive quarter more than 14 years HP ProLiant is the x86 server market share leader in both factory revenue and units shipping more than 1 out of every 3 servers in this market with a 379 unit share HPrsquos x86 revenue share 401 was 188 percentage points higher than its nearest competitor Dell and 213 percentage points higher than IBM1
1 Source All of the above market share figures are for the 3rd quarter [unless otherwise noted] and represent
worldwide results as reported by the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker for 3Q 10 December 2010
12
TCO Analysis An analysis of the DL980 powered with the Intel Xeon processor 7500 series versus both the IBM POWER 770 and the Oracle-Sun SPARC M9000 shows a clear 3-year TCO advantage for the DL980 The immediate acquisition cost savings is striking savings that can be used for IT innovation instead of maintaining the inefficient legacy status quo
The most important cost categories are included in this analysis
bull Hardware acquisition cost bull Server software (OS and Oracle database) bull Hardware and software support and maintenance bull Systems administration bull Facilities (power cooling space)
Data Source Ideas International Ltd amp Alinean Inc were used to make the performance and cost comparisons (June 2010)
Comparison - IBM POWER 770 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Table 4 Comparative solution specifics ndash IBM POWER 770 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Server OS DBMS Server number SocketsCores Total cores
IBM POWER7 770 (31 GHz) AIX Oracle 11g 1 864 64
HP DL980 G7 Intel Xeon X7560 (226 GHz)
Red Hat
Red Hat
Enterprise
Linux
Oracle 11g 1 864 64
Table 5 3 Year TCO comparisons ndash IBM POWER 770 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
TCO Comparison ndash Cumulative 3 Year Solution A
IBM P7 770 64c
Solution B
HP ProLiant DL980 G7 64c
Difference
(A ndash B) Amount
Difference
(A ndash B) Percentage
Server Hardware $318560 $112092 $206468 648
Server Software (OS amp DB) $2416064 $1146207 $1269857 526
Hardware and Software Support amp Maintenance
$1682173 $755348 $926825 551
System Administration $43620 $31371 $12249 281
Facilities (Power Cooling amp Floor space) $38235 $24084 $14151 370
Total IT Costs $4498652 $2069102 $2429550 540
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TCOROI Summary (summary derived from Table 5)
bull Overall savings of 54 over 3 years with the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 bull Hardware acquisition cost savings of 65 bull Hardware and software support and maintenance cost savings of 55
Comparison ndash Oracle-Sun M9000 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Table 6 3 Year TCO comparisons ndash Oracle-Sun M9000 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Server OS DBMS Server number
SocketsCores Total cores
Oracle-Sun M9000 SPARC64 VI (24 GHz)
Solaris Oracle 11g 1 64128 128
HP DL980 G7 Intel Xeon X7560 (226 GHz)
Red Hat Enterprise
Linux
Oracle 11g 1 864 64
Table 7 3 Year TCO comparisons ndash Oracle-Sun M9000 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
TCO Comparison ndash Cumulative 3 Year
Solution A
OracleSun M9000 SPARC VI 128c
Solution B
HP ProLiant DL980 G7 64c
Difference
(A ndash B) Amount
Difference
(A ndash B) Percentage
Server Hardware $3404864 $112092 $3292772 967
Server Software (OS amp DB) $3520000 $1146207 $2373793 674
Hardware and Software Support amp Maintenance
$3809070 $755348 $3053772 802
System Administration $40428 $31371 $9057 224
Facilities (Power Cooling amp Floor space)
$237357 $24084 $213273 899
Total IT Costs $11011719 $2069102 $8942617 812
TCOROI Summary (summary derived from Table 7)
bull Overall savings of 81 over 3 years with the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 bull Hardware acquisition cost savings of 97 bull Hardware and software support and maintenance cost savings of 80
14
Migration Drivers In transforming data centers and BI solution platforms into efficient and modern entities migrations are a necessity Fortunately migrations from IBM and Sun are not a new phenomenon theyrsquove been going on for the better part of 20 years Thousands of migrations have occurred giving rise to the creation and use by HP of mature migration methodologies tools and expertise
Before any migration can be considered valid reasons must exist to justify the investment Fortunately valid migrational drivers exist in both the business and technical areas of every corporation Drivers that lead to migrations tend to revolve around solid objectives related to lowering computing cost and improving service levels There are numerous drivers that apply to most IT shops whether that shop has older Oracle-Sun SPARC servers or older IBM POWER servers In addition to these general drivers common to both environments there are compelling reasons to migrate specific to SPARC and POWER environments
General Migration Drivers The following general drivers apply to both older Oracle-Sun SPARC servers and IBM POWER servers
High Support Costs ndash Support costs for older systems are typically higher than the support costs for current systems If the warranty has expired support costs may become a shock the day after warranty expiration
HP Advantage HPrsquos DL980 as well as the entire HP ProLiant server family has excellent TCO compared to both older SPARC and POWER servers as well as newer servers See the TCO Analysis section below for more detail
Data Center Running Out of Floor Space ndash The historic pairing of servers and BI applications for discrete solutions has led to a proliferation of servers dedicated to single tasks Thus many data centers are running out of capacity
HP Advantage The DL980 is an ideal consolidation platform Floor space can be freed up by consolidation of BI instances and applications onto the DL980 with its relatively small footprint
Too Many Database Instances ndash Database consolidation results from an initial state in which too many BI-related database instances exist Numerous small data marts or numerous operational data stores are prime examples Most likely this profusion of small instances occurred by splitting the query workload to enable query and report processing to be accomplished within accepted parameters Database sprawl takes up floor space and IT timendashand ultimately increases cost
HP Advantage Once again the DL980 is an ideal consolidation and virtualization platform for large database environments with too many instances particularly in enterprises beset with too many small data marts
Underutilized Servers ndash While unceasing high-pressure BI workloads do occur theyrsquore in the minority Instead many enterprises create peak BI workload at the end of month end of quarter end of year and other significant times during the yearly business cycle
Thus itrsquos common in older architectures to find dedicated servers that are not fully utilized or are only productively utilized a small percentage of the time Dedicating one workload to each server meant that each server needed to be sized accordingly to accommodate the peak workload For much of the time many servers tend to run lightly loaded outside of peak hours The cost of carrying several of these systems can be significant
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HP Advantage The DL980 is an ideal high-performance scalable reliable and low-cost consolidation platform
Oracle-Sun Specific Drivers Many of the more troublesome Oracle-Sun specific drivers listed below are outcomes of the last eight years of hard times for SPARC servers
Underperforming Servers ndash With the steady slowdown in the evolution of the SPARC line performance has been an issue for many years Add to this the weight of underutilized servers sized for peak workloads and the drag on an IT operations budget can be significant
HP Advantage Comparative data using Alinean Ltd and Ideas International Inc show a tangible HP advantage especially in enterprise-class servers Ask your HP representative for a TCO analysis
The Risks of a Single-Vendor Solution Stack ndash Hosting an Oracle database on Oracle-Sun servers cedes control of the entire solution stack to Oracle Could you be overspending on servers software and support by relying solely on Oracle-Sun
HP Advantage HP can provide a ldquowhole environmentrdquo view with the DL980 in the Converged Infrastructure and best-of-breed partners to help you move to your next-generation environment
Escalating and Changing Support Costs ndash Higher support costs exist for Oracle-Sun SPARC systems including new ldquomandatoryrdquo hardware support fees
HP Advantage Evaluating the support costs for the DL980 and other HP ProLiant servers relative to Oracle-Sun SPARC support costs can help you find ways to reduce operational support costs Ask your HP representative for a TCO analysis
IBM Specific Drivers IBM has its own set of specific issues that have driven data centers to migrate from IBM servers frequently over the last 20 years
High Cost of Deployment Integration and Maintenance ndash Cost is an issue with architectures consisting of older POWER4 and POWER5 servers IBMrsquos approach to computing technology does not lend itself well to simple deployment and integration POWER servers have been created to interoperate very well in a POWER-only environment Unfortunately it is costly to integrate POWER servers with non-POWER servers (eg x86 servers) storage networking diverse management tools and applications This characteristic of the POWER server line results in higher costs for deployment integration support maintenance and ultimately upgrades to newer POWER servers Unfortunately when choosing a POWER-to-POWER upgrade the high-cost IBM lifecycle begins again and data centers are firmly locked into the same inflexible architecture
The IBM Architectural Silo Model ndash The piecemeal nature of siloed POWER solutions (separate HA separate networking no standard management infrastructure etc) requires extensive and custom integration Unfortunately IBM mainframes and x86 servers subscribe to siloed architecture as well The IBM approach to architectural design and component deployment forces customers to adapt their business operations to fit IBMrsquos technology silos such as mainframe or POWER servers To implement cost-effective multi-tier computing infrastructures customers must piece together their own enterprise architecture By modern standards this is a needless investment of development time and budget that can be better used for higher priority tasks
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Lack of Solution Flexibility ndash Instead of vendor guidance toward overcoming many of the legacy issues above are you guided into upgrading the legacy environment instead of transforming it into a cost-effective and contemporary infrastructure Being guided into an IBM-only siloed infrastructure philosophy solves only surface issues and can perpetuate cost and resource inefficiency
HP Advantage For the issues above HP provides a ldquowhole environmentrdquo view with the DL980 and best-of-breed partners to help you move to your next generation environment HP Converged Infrastructure offers common building blocksndashstandards-based servers ProLiant Xeon servers and Integrity Itanium Servers common management software common power and cooling and a common network fabric
Older POWER Server Processing and Workload Shortcomings ndash It should come as no surprise that for many intense BI workloads these older POWER4 and POWER5 systems lack the necessary processing IO bandwidth and reliability IBMrsquos message was also quite clear when they optimized the POWER architecture primarily for the OLTP workload The OLTP workload does not have the same characteristics of mixed workloads or BI workloads Specific components subsystems and features are necessary to satisfy the intense IO bandwidth and processing requirements of high-volume BI workloads mixed OLTP and BI workloads and long-running batch processing
HP Advantage The DL980 was specifically designed and optimized to process mixed workloads including the two most popular workloads the Business Intelligence workload and the mission-critical OLTP workload It contains by conscious design the necessary hardware and software components to excel at these business-critical workloads Thus the DL980 is able to efficiently handle a mixed workload containing both analytical BI and operational BI In addition the DL980 provides up to 2TB of memory to facilitate in-memory processing
HP Migration Resources HP Migration Process
The HP migration process (Figure 3) embodies a mature and flexible methodology that provides a consistent framework for capturing and carrying out customer requirements The process is built upon years of migration experience and best practices across a variety of databases applications and platforms The process is tool agnostic providing flexibility in solution development Using this mature process as a foundation HP provides a customer-driven migration process instead of an inflexible process based on single-path choices
HP has over 20 years worth of experience migrating customers off of Oracle-Sun servers IBM servers databases and applications to HP solutions HP offers a Solaris-to-Linux porting kit and also uses IBM tools that are available for AIX-to-Linux porting
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Figure 3 HP Migration Process
HP-UX 11i on HP Integrity
Linux on HP ProLiant
Windows on HP ProLiant
MIGRATION PATH
THE HP MIGRATION CENTER
MIGRATION PROCESS
SupportExecutePlanAssess
HP SUNSET COMPLETE CARE INCENTIVES
The key benefits of the HP migration process are
bull A standard high level process which is o based on decades of expertise and best practices o repeatable o customizable by database and application technology platform and migration toolset o scalable accommodating simple to complex migrations
bull Identifies migration requirements up front and properly addresses those requirements in a strategy document A TCO analysis is also included which provides solid data points to facilitate validation of the migration business case
bull Incorporates production dress rehearsals to refine the deployment prior to the actual deployment phase
bull Includes data quality analysis to address source side data issues prior to migration
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HP Migration Center and Services
Over the past 20+ years HP has helped migrate thousands of customers gaining valuable knowledge expertise and repeatability Migrations from older architectures allow customers to take advantage of HP infrastructure to reduce costs improve performance and gain competitive advantage Through the HP Migration Center HP combines best practices with new technologies such as the HP Converged Infrastructure to give you simple and unified low-risk solutions
Modernizing from antiquated and siloed Oracle-Sun and IBM environments to a flexible and integrated Converged Infrastructure takes experience and planning The HP Migration Competence Center as well as HPrsquos data center transformation specialists can guide your operations teams through the following decisions and options required to take advantage of the Converged Infrastructure capabilities
bull Reduce aggregate server and core count by eliminating underutilized dedicated servers Let HP evaluate your current workload inventory and help you plan a consolidated or virtualized environment that improves utilization while cutting software instances and related licensing costs
bull Cut provisioning time from days to minutes Distributed environments are known for complex cabling parallel server and storage wiring and slow complex error-prone provisioning procedures HP can help you accelerate repetitive provisioning tasks by taking advantage of application templates while relying on HP Virtual Connect to instantly provision servers and storage connections
bull Dedicated servers are usually underutilized outside of peak workload hours Verify there is always ldquojust enoughrdquo capacity by letting HP evaluate your current workloads and demand cycles in order to help you define a much more efficient environment Accurately address capacity needs without overspending using HP Capacity Planner technology part of the HP Converged Infrastructure management umbrella
bull HP can help you constrain power consumption to match active workloads HP Data Center Smart Grid enables the automatic ldquodialing backrdquo of power consumption for lightly loaded resources As the load increases power consumption will be automatically ldquodialed uprdquo to ensure that appropriate performance levels are met
The HP Migration Center maintains a close relationship with many database and application partners to ensure a smooth complete migration solution with respect to the databases and applications Additionally the HP Migrations Center works closely with the HP Solution Centers and Competence Centers to assist with database and application migrations
The Migration Center can deploy experts for the DL980 and Linux as well as HP specialists for the operating systems of other vendors Additionally HP maintains close development and support arrangements with major operating systems vendors including Microsoft Windows Novell SUSE Linux Oracle Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Call to Action See for yourself how the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 makes an ideal platform for your enterprise workloads Ask for a TCO assessment or migration assessment to get started For more information please contact your HP representative or visit httpwwwhpcomgomigratetohp
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Intel and Intel Xeon are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the US and other countries Linux is a US registered trademark of Linus Torvalds Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation andor its affiliates Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries
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Furthermore if a single server is hosting a true mixed workload for example consisting of a data warehouse and an operational data store IOPs and transactionssec will be as important for the ODS as IO throughput and rowssec are for the DW A balanced server design able to handle a mixed workload is then also a critical requirement
Thus several critical requirements arise from the BI workload and the modern data center for an ideal server
bull A high degree of parallelism using powerful processors bull Large sustained IO throughput bull Large memory bull Enterprise-level reliability bull Consolidation hosting bull Virtualization bull Excellent priceperformance as well as low TCA and low TCO
The DL980 meets or exceeds all of these requirements as wersquoll discuss throughout the paper
Additionally the combination of the DL980 along with several key Intel advancements support the key data processing elements of BI solution workloads ndash data integration data analysis data query and data transformation A high-level view of Data Action processes and their concomitant Intel features is shown below (Table 1)
Table 1 Intel architecture and the BI workload
Data Action Process
Data Warehousing
Data Integration Data Analysis Data Query Data Transformation
Operational Description
Data access Extract Transform and Load of data from many sources
Computational Processing of data to provide insight
Requests made to the Data Domain
Qualified data structured and formatted for BI usage
Intel Technology Support
Multi-core IA to facilitate DW efficiency
RAS features to support IT HA policy
Use of software solution tools optimized for the Intel Xeon 7500 architecture
Use of optimized IA instructions that efficiently analyze data for BI reporting
Multi-threaded DQ software that allows faster response time
Use of CPU instructions to structure store and secure data - Intel SSE42 instruction set
Business Value
Cost effective Fault Tolerance with standard solutions
Improved time to decision making facilitated by multi-threaded software
Improved response time for large data sets
Performance based infrastructure - response times and SLAs on data requests are improved
BI solution processing is comprehensively integrated with higher levels of output
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Performance and Scalability
The DL980 is well situated to solve the performance and fault-tolerant characteristics inherently desired in a BI workload infrastructure Supporting a performance optimized BI solution the DL980
bull Leverages enterprise functionality from HPrsquos large Integrity enterprise servers for both performance and reliability
bull Contains up to 64 high-power Intel Xeon processor 7500 cores bull Provides up to 128 logical CPUs with Intel Hyper-threading Technology to facilitate query
parallelism bull Provides enterprise-level parallel access to storage with a measured 25GBsec sustained IO
throughput rate (as measured in the 3TB TPC-H test) from up to 16 PCIe expansion slots bull Provides up to 2TB of memory to facilitate large in-memory processing
In addition the DL980 contains HPrsquos PREMA Architecture which brings many performance and scalability benefits for processing the BI workload Large numbers of processors in x86 servers typically create an inter-processor communication bottleneck To solve this issue for x86 servers HP looked to the design of our higher-end ccNUMA scale-up servers At the core of the HP PREMA Architecture is a node controller ASIC derived from Intel technology powering the HP Integrity Superdome 2 The HP PREMA Architecture provides these particular benefits for processing and data-intensive BI workloads
bull Smart CPU caching Achieves up to 20 better processor scaling than competitive 8 socket systems by reducing processor overhead
bull Resilient system fabric Provides 50 more interconnect capacity and dynamic traffic routing capability for improved performance in highly concurrent highly parallel BI workload environments
HP Advantage The DL980 offers many features not available in other x86 servers such as the HP PREMA Architecture The DL980 was specifically designed for scale-up enterprise workloads using proven designs from HPrsquos long presence in enterprise environments with HP 9000 and HP Integrity servers
The DL980 is expandable and able to grow with your BI workload as you consolidate legacy BI structures or add data database entities users and query concurrency
bull From 4-socket up to 8-socket servers bull CPU capacity up to 8 processors and 64 cores bull 128 DDR3 DIMM slots for a maximum memory of 2TB bull Up to 16 PCIe IO slots
HP Advantage The enterprise class (64 maximum cores) Intel Xeon processor 7500 series HP PREMA Architecture large sustained IO throughput and large memory features all enable a high degree of efficient parallelism necessary for handling complex analytical queries and hefty query concurrency The DL980 allows ample room for growth as you consolidate or grow your BI workload
HP Advantage The large Intel Xeon platform memory architecture in conjunction with DL980 enterprise-level features easily support in-memory database solutions and computational BI solutions
Blending business intelligence and mission-critical requirements as well as industry-standard design principles the DL980 server is built to handle the largest enterprise environments with confidence It is because of this atypical blend that the DL980 is readily able to host mixed workloads either as a mixed DWODS host as a consolidation platform or as a virtualized consolidation platform
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Performance Results
Performance testing using both industry standard benchmarks and internal workload testing confirms the advantages of the DL980 server with HP PREMA Architecture By reducing processor overhead the DL980 server delivers better system performance for the BI workload than competitive 8-socket and even larger systems
Using the TPC-H3TB benchmark (Table 2) the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 achieved 1626017 QphH3000GB and the top price performance for non-clustered systems at $268 USDQphH3000GB (Table 3)
bull This result showed that the ProLiant DL980 G7 server delivers better performance and 77x better price performance in one-tenth the rack space compared to the IBM POWER6-based POWER 595
bull This result showed that the ProLiant DL980 G7 server delivers almost as much performance and 62x better price performance in one-fifth the rack space compared to the SUN SPARC M9000
Table 2 TPC-H3000GB
Server Total System Cost QphH PriceQphH Comparison to DL980 rack size
HP DL980 G7 $435169 162602 US $268 1
IBM POWER 595 $3224000 156573 US $2060 10x
Oracle-Sun SPARC M9000
$3298483 198907 US $1658 5x
HP Advantage The audited results from the TPC-H benchmark clearly show that the DL980 offers the best priceperformance in its class by far and in the smallest rack space As can be seen the Total System Cost of the DL980 used for the benchmark is 17th that of the TSCs of IBM and Oracle-Sun
Fourteen years of internal BI workload testing undertaken by HP has gone into the HP Reference Configurations for BI The HP Reference Configurations for the DL980 and Oracle 11gR2 yield the following results (Table 3) These guideline results are an indication of the amount of raw data size and user concurrency that is within expected ranges with typical BI workloads
bull Metrics are provided for the 4p32c and 8p64c sized DL980 server bull Advanced performance assumes the primary goal is performance and cost secondary that
necessary indexing exists and is used and queries are well behaved bull Intermediate performance assumes a compromise between performance and cost that necessary
indexing exists and is used and queries are well behaved bull Concurrent users count refers to users that are logged on and active Non-active users are not
tallied in the metrics below
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Table 3 BI Workload Reference Configuration for the DL980 G7
SYSTEM ProcessorsCores Advanced Performance Intermediate Performance
HP DL980 G7 432 4TB raw data 7TB raw data
350ndash700 concurrent users 250ndash500 concurrent users
HP DL980 G7 864 7TB raw data 14TB raw data
500ndash1000 concurrent users 350ndash700 concurrent users
Reliability and Availability
The days when many BI systems had few or lax HA requirements are over for most IT shops Thus many traditional OLTP HA features have become increasingly attractive to the enterprises that depend upon their BI structures for critical operations Many reliability and availability features are built into the DL980 the Linux and Windows operating systems and associated software
Downtime costs the business HP understands this and has designed the DL980 with enterprise-grade reliability and availability features at a fraction of the cost
Redundant Components
bull System interconnect fabric data paths bull Power supplies fans (all hot-swappable) bull Dual-path IO cards (option) bull Memory spare rank (option) bull Mirrored memory (option) bull Hot plug drives and RAID storage
Resiliency
bull CPU (Intel features) o Intel Machine Check Architecture recovery allows the system to recover from otherwise fatal
memory errors o Intel Scalable Memory Interconnect Lane failover and Intel QuickPath Interconnect self-healing
enable the platform to identify problems and fail over to another lane or modify link operations
bull Memory (mirroring rank sparing demand scrubbing link level retry correction codes) bull IO (PCIe monitoring and shutdown upon error link level retry redundancy)
Advantage HP The DL980 provides superior reliability compared to legacy Sun and IBM servers Additionally there are far more reliability and availability hardware and firmware components uniquely built into a DL980 than lower TCO x86 servers These features enable BI operations to keep running during historically fatal errors
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For the highest level of availability necessary for 24x7 data warehouses and BI structures that are designed for minimal down time there are several failover-clustering options available on the DL980
bull Red Hat Enterprise Linux Cluster Suite bull Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension bull Veritas Cluster Server bull VMware High Availability (additionally VMware VMotion can be used to obviate the need for
planned downtime maintenance) bull LifeKeeper bull Microsoft Failover Clustering bull Oracle Clusterware
Manageability
The DL980 benefits from a common management infrastructure that exists across the HP server line This infrastructure includes both hardware and software components
Integrated Lights-Out 3 (iLO 3) is a management processor integrated into every DL980 server providing secure remote management capabilities regardless of server status or location
HP Insight Software is an integrated portfolio of infrastructure management software for HP servers Within this portfolio HP Insight Control can help save time and money by making it easy to deploy migrate monitor control and optimize your IT infrastructure through a single simple management console Also within the HP Insight Software portfolio HP Insight Dynamics provides advanced infrastructure lifecycle management software Insight Dynamics includes integrated infrastructure design with automated activation of servers storage and networking Insight Dynamics also provides built-in capacity planning and rebalancing tools as well as providing automated disaster recovery and failover capabilities
Advantage HP Common ldquosingle pane of glassrdquo management software across all HP servers storage and networking reduces complexity time and cost
Best of Breed Choice and Standards
Business Intelligence is a mature technology with widespread adoption and a wealth of mature solutions Numerous best-of-breed solutions exist with leading edge technology and attractive cost A BI architect can make an informed choice of the best-of-breed solution that most satisfies the current and future needs of the business user requirements Best-of-breed solutions are often the product of vendors who focus and specialize in well-defined areas of BI They arenrsquot spread thin instead they offer leading edge technologies that can give a business the technological edge needed over their rivals
The current strategy of both IBM and Oracle-Sun through extensive acquisitions of numerous smaller companies is to promote a suite of solutions that ultimately equates to vendor lock-in for the customer Vendor lock-in reached its peak in the mid lsquo90s and has declined since that point The biggest reason for the decline of the all-encompassing suite was that the eventual cost of the suite after the initial deployment became a burden Ultimately costs always went up for support upgrades and services Also many suites are not as integrated as they should be adding unforeseen costs to the deployment
Advantage HP HP offers choice HP provides industry-standard solutions and a wealth of best-of-breed solutions through in-house solutions and strong partnerships
Operating System Choice
Both Linux and Microsoftreg Windows are capable choices to run BI focused databases and BI applications on the DL980
9
As can be seen from the Winter Corporation Top Ten Survey of 2005 enterprise IT shops have been able to house large data warehouses on Windows and Linux for years The Winter Corporation specializes in high-end BI and has presented Very Large Database proof points In the Top Ten Database survey The survey is collated from actual customer BI implementations data which is gathered using approved sizing and monitoring tools
The link below to the Winter Corporation Top Ten Survey shows interesting customer data supporting the existence of large production BI data warehouses on both Linux and Windows servers
In summary 10 customer instances are noted on Windows between 4TB and 194TB data warehouse size and 8 customer instances on Linux between 1TB and 24TB data warehouse size httpwwwwintercorpcomVLDB2005_TopTen_SurveyTopTenWinners_2005asp
Please keep in mind that this Top Ten Survey is just a sampling of the worldwide Very Large Data Warehouse pool and is now 5 years old Since that time BI databases on both Windows and Linux have grown in both total database size and the number of such large instances now in existence
Advantage HP HP is the top provider of Linux and Windows server systems in terms of worldwide shipments The foundation for this success is a strong technical partnership for each of these offerings
All major Linux offerings run on HPrsquos standards-based Intel Xeon processor-based platforms including market leaders Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Oracle Enterprise Linux is supported as well
Advantage HP Approximately 14000 Linux applications are available for HPrsquos standards-based Intel Xeon processor-based ProLiant servers There are far fewer applications available on specialized Linux distributions and for proprietary RISC systems that offer Linux support Additionally these ldquoLinux specialsrdquo often require specialized integration and customization
Database Choice
All major databases are available and optimized for the standards-based DL980 Microsoft SQL Server Sybase IQ and Oracle are all capable choices for hosting data warehouse operational data stores or data marts
Virtualization Choice
Virtualization is particularly useful for consolidation of multiple isolated BI workloads onto a DL980 For the enterprise that has scores of data marts and operational marts consolidation onto a larger platform has the following benefits
bull Decommissioning isolated and underutilized BI silos bull Reducing power consumption management effort cooling and floor space bull Freeing up IT budget that can be used for true innovation elsewhere
Many choices exist for virtualization software that runs on the DL980
bull VMware vSphere bull Microsoft Hyper-V bull KVM bull OpenVZ bull Citrix Xen bull Parallels Virtuozzo Containers
Advantage HP Standards-based offerings as well as choice are strong factors in reining in data center costs as well as providing solid solutions for the BI user community
10
The HP Converged Infrastructure A modern enterprise infrastructure implies IT unification through data center convergence It is imperative that legacy issues be resolved and not repeated IT has to evolve or face expensive stagnation
Built on innovation standards and choice the HP Converged Infrastructure is the modern paradigm for achieving this data center of the future HP is soundly positioned to deliver the Converged Infrastructure to its customers with a full portfolio of integrated solutions and services developed for modern unified data centers
Unification is a central theme of the HP Converged Infrastructure (Figure 2) Common components span HP servers (both ProLiant and Integrity) HP storage and HP networking
bull A common modular infrastructure with common building blocks bull Common power and cooling bull A common network fabric bull Common management software
Figure 2 The HP Converged Infrastructure
Power amp cooling
ServersStorage
Management software
Network
Converged Infrastructure
This converged architectural framework simplifies integrates and automates technology
bull Simplifies the infrastructure and reduces TCO bull Lowers the cost of deployment and implementation by obviating the need for expensive and lengthy
integration and interoperability consulting bull Removes server silos and server sprawl bull Integrates multiple vendorsrsquo technology into pools of interoperable resources
HP Matrix Operating Environment ndash The HP Matrix Operating Environment is a common management platform that extends from infrastructure to application across servers storage and networks It includes tools for provisioning and modifying complex infrastructures lifecycle management resource provisioning high availability performance and capacity assessment and automated consolidation analysis
11
At the core of the HP Matrix Operating Environment is HP Insight Softwaremdashthe comprehensive family of HP infrastructure management software HP Insight Software infrastructure orchestration capabilities let you provision infrastructure in minutes to automatically activate physical and virtual servers storage and networking from pools of shared resources
HP Advantage This software enables your organization to simultaneously control all elements of an infrastructure needed to deliver a service It unifies all the tools for infrastructure lifecycle management into one command center It allows quick provisioning of the infrastructure using a common management platform It reduces complexity reduces time to operation increases commonality across solutions and thereby reduces cost
HP Virtual Resource Pools ndash HP Virtual Resource Pools create a common modular infrastructure of virtualized compute memory storage and network resources Resources are aggregated and shared across the data center between HP ProLiant servers HP Integrity servers and StorageWorks storage products Businesses can use the same architecture to manage multiple workloads across servers storage and networking
HP Advantage Reduces underutilized platforms reduces server and storage sprawl reduces server silos frees up floor space increases productivity reduces complexity and reduces cost
HP Data Center Smart Grid ndash HP Data Center Smart Grid provides intelligent energy management across systems and facilities controlling and reducing energy usage in real time The Smart Grid is a set of monitoring tools and embedded sensors that enable resource monitoring and capacity planning HP Thermal Logic includes embedded technology designed to reduce energy usage and associated costs Sea of Sensors monitors energy consumption and automatically adjusts cooling resources using up to 32 sensors to adjust fan speeds and power only the slots that are in use Dynamic Power Capping enables the reclaiming of trapped power and cooling capacity by safely limiting server power consumption
HP Advantage Reduces energy consumption extends the energy capacity of existing data center facilities and reduces cost
HP Servers ndash HP standards-based servers are ideal for IT organizations considering building a shared services infrastructure to centralize IT and reduce operational costs HP servers are a robust offering for multi-tier enterprise applications The common infrastructure and common management supports both cost-effective ProLiant servers as well as mission-critical Integrity HP-UX servers
All HP servers are engineered for balanced performance across the two major workloads BI and OLTP workloadsndashunlike the POWER platforms that exhibit engineering and optimization for the CPU-centric OLTP workload such as TPC-C
HP Advantage The commonality and interoperability of HP servers in the Converged Infrastructure reduces complexity and reduces the deployment integration and customization required to achieve a cost-effective infrastructure Furthermore these characteristics allow the fast implementation and efficient management of a multi-tier solution back-end data warehouse database hosting DL980 servers and front-end application hosting Intel Xeon processor-based servers
HP Advantage For the 57th consecutive quarter more than 14 years HP ProLiant is the x86 server market share leader in both factory revenue and units shipping more than 1 out of every 3 servers in this market with a 379 unit share HPrsquos x86 revenue share 401 was 188 percentage points higher than its nearest competitor Dell and 213 percentage points higher than IBM1
1 Source All of the above market share figures are for the 3rd quarter [unless otherwise noted] and represent
worldwide results as reported by the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker for 3Q 10 December 2010
12
TCO Analysis An analysis of the DL980 powered with the Intel Xeon processor 7500 series versus both the IBM POWER 770 and the Oracle-Sun SPARC M9000 shows a clear 3-year TCO advantage for the DL980 The immediate acquisition cost savings is striking savings that can be used for IT innovation instead of maintaining the inefficient legacy status quo
The most important cost categories are included in this analysis
bull Hardware acquisition cost bull Server software (OS and Oracle database) bull Hardware and software support and maintenance bull Systems administration bull Facilities (power cooling space)
Data Source Ideas International Ltd amp Alinean Inc were used to make the performance and cost comparisons (June 2010)
Comparison - IBM POWER 770 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Table 4 Comparative solution specifics ndash IBM POWER 770 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Server OS DBMS Server number SocketsCores Total cores
IBM POWER7 770 (31 GHz) AIX Oracle 11g 1 864 64
HP DL980 G7 Intel Xeon X7560 (226 GHz)
Red Hat
Red Hat
Enterprise
Linux
Oracle 11g 1 864 64
Table 5 3 Year TCO comparisons ndash IBM POWER 770 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
TCO Comparison ndash Cumulative 3 Year Solution A
IBM P7 770 64c
Solution B
HP ProLiant DL980 G7 64c
Difference
(A ndash B) Amount
Difference
(A ndash B) Percentage
Server Hardware $318560 $112092 $206468 648
Server Software (OS amp DB) $2416064 $1146207 $1269857 526
Hardware and Software Support amp Maintenance
$1682173 $755348 $926825 551
System Administration $43620 $31371 $12249 281
Facilities (Power Cooling amp Floor space) $38235 $24084 $14151 370
Total IT Costs $4498652 $2069102 $2429550 540
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TCOROI Summary (summary derived from Table 5)
bull Overall savings of 54 over 3 years with the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 bull Hardware acquisition cost savings of 65 bull Hardware and software support and maintenance cost savings of 55
Comparison ndash Oracle-Sun M9000 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Table 6 3 Year TCO comparisons ndash Oracle-Sun M9000 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Server OS DBMS Server number
SocketsCores Total cores
Oracle-Sun M9000 SPARC64 VI (24 GHz)
Solaris Oracle 11g 1 64128 128
HP DL980 G7 Intel Xeon X7560 (226 GHz)
Red Hat Enterprise
Linux
Oracle 11g 1 864 64
Table 7 3 Year TCO comparisons ndash Oracle-Sun M9000 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
TCO Comparison ndash Cumulative 3 Year
Solution A
OracleSun M9000 SPARC VI 128c
Solution B
HP ProLiant DL980 G7 64c
Difference
(A ndash B) Amount
Difference
(A ndash B) Percentage
Server Hardware $3404864 $112092 $3292772 967
Server Software (OS amp DB) $3520000 $1146207 $2373793 674
Hardware and Software Support amp Maintenance
$3809070 $755348 $3053772 802
System Administration $40428 $31371 $9057 224
Facilities (Power Cooling amp Floor space)
$237357 $24084 $213273 899
Total IT Costs $11011719 $2069102 $8942617 812
TCOROI Summary (summary derived from Table 7)
bull Overall savings of 81 over 3 years with the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 bull Hardware acquisition cost savings of 97 bull Hardware and software support and maintenance cost savings of 80
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Migration Drivers In transforming data centers and BI solution platforms into efficient and modern entities migrations are a necessity Fortunately migrations from IBM and Sun are not a new phenomenon theyrsquove been going on for the better part of 20 years Thousands of migrations have occurred giving rise to the creation and use by HP of mature migration methodologies tools and expertise
Before any migration can be considered valid reasons must exist to justify the investment Fortunately valid migrational drivers exist in both the business and technical areas of every corporation Drivers that lead to migrations tend to revolve around solid objectives related to lowering computing cost and improving service levels There are numerous drivers that apply to most IT shops whether that shop has older Oracle-Sun SPARC servers or older IBM POWER servers In addition to these general drivers common to both environments there are compelling reasons to migrate specific to SPARC and POWER environments
General Migration Drivers The following general drivers apply to both older Oracle-Sun SPARC servers and IBM POWER servers
High Support Costs ndash Support costs for older systems are typically higher than the support costs for current systems If the warranty has expired support costs may become a shock the day after warranty expiration
HP Advantage HPrsquos DL980 as well as the entire HP ProLiant server family has excellent TCO compared to both older SPARC and POWER servers as well as newer servers See the TCO Analysis section below for more detail
Data Center Running Out of Floor Space ndash The historic pairing of servers and BI applications for discrete solutions has led to a proliferation of servers dedicated to single tasks Thus many data centers are running out of capacity
HP Advantage The DL980 is an ideal consolidation platform Floor space can be freed up by consolidation of BI instances and applications onto the DL980 with its relatively small footprint
Too Many Database Instances ndash Database consolidation results from an initial state in which too many BI-related database instances exist Numerous small data marts or numerous operational data stores are prime examples Most likely this profusion of small instances occurred by splitting the query workload to enable query and report processing to be accomplished within accepted parameters Database sprawl takes up floor space and IT timendashand ultimately increases cost
HP Advantage Once again the DL980 is an ideal consolidation and virtualization platform for large database environments with too many instances particularly in enterprises beset with too many small data marts
Underutilized Servers ndash While unceasing high-pressure BI workloads do occur theyrsquore in the minority Instead many enterprises create peak BI workload at the end of month end of quarter end of year and other significant times during the yearly business cycle
Thus itrsquos common in older architectures to find dedicated servers that are not fully utilized or are only productively utilized a small percentage of the time Dedicating one workload to each server meant that each server needed to be sized accordingly to accommodate the peak workload For much of the time many servers tend to run lightly loaded outside of peak hours The cost of carrying several of these systems can be significant
15
HP Advantage The DL980 is an ideal high-performance scalable reliable and low-cost consolidation platform
Oracle-Sun Specific Drivers Many of the more troublesome Oracle-Sun specific drivers listed below are outcomes of the last eight years of hard times for SPARC servers
Underperforming Servers ndash With the steady slowdown in the evolution of the SPARC line performance has been an issue for many years Add to this the weight of underutilized servers sized for peak workloads and the drag on an IT operations budget can be significant
HP Advantage Comparative data using Alinean Ltd and Ideas International Inc show a tangible HP advantage especially in enterprise-class servers Ask your HP representative for a TCO analysis
The Risks of a Single-Vendor Solution Stack ndash Hosting an Oracle database on Oracle-Sun servers cedes control of the entire solution stack to Oracle Could you be overspending on servers software and support by relying solely on Oracle-Sun
HP Advantage HP can provide a ldquowhole environmentrdquo view with the DL980 in the Converged Infrastructure and best-of-breed partners to help you move to your next-generation environment
Escalating and Changing Support Costs ndash Higher support costs exist for Oracle-Sun SPARC systems including new ldquomandatoryrdquo hardware support fees
HP Advantage Evaluating the support costs for the DL980 and other HP ProLiant servers relative to Oracle-Sun SPARC support costs can help you find ways to reduce operational support costs Ask your HP representative for a TCO analysis
IBM Specific Drivers IBM has its own set of specific issues that have driven data centers to migrate from IBM servers frequently over the last 20 years
High Cost of Deployment Integration and Maintenance ndash Cost is an issue with architectures consisting of older POWER4 and POWER5 servers IBMrsquos approach to computing technology does not lend itself well to simple deployment and integration POWER servers have been created to interoperate very well in a POWER-only environment Unfortunately it is costly to integrate POWER servers with non-POWER servers (eg x86 servers) storage networking diverse management tools and applications This characteristic of the POWER server line results in higher costs for deployment integration support maintenance and ultimately upgrades to newer POWER servers Unfortunately when choosing a POWER-to-POWER upgrade the high-cost IBM lifecycle begins again and data centers are firmly locked into the same inflexible architecture
The IBM Architectural Silo Model ndash The piecemeal nature of siloed POWER solutions (separate HA separate networking no standard management infrastructure etc) requires extensive and custom integration Unfortunately IBM mainframes and x86 servers subscribe to siloed architecture as well The IBM approach to architectural design and component deployment forces customers to adapt their business operations to fit IBMrsquos technology silos such as mainframe or POWER servers To implement cost-effective multi-tier computing infrastructures customers must piece together their own enterprise architecture By modern standards this is a needless investment of development time and budget that can be better used for higher priority tasks
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Lack of Solution Flexibility ndash Instead of vendor guidance toward overcoming many of the legacy issues above are you guided into upgrading the legacy environment instead of transforming it into a cost-effective and contemporary infrastructure Being guided into an IBM-only siloed infrastructure philosophy solves only surface issues and can perpetuate cost and resource inefficiency
HP Advantage For the issues above HP provides a ldquowhole environmentrdquo view with the DL980 and best-of-breed partners to help you move to your next generation environment HP Converged Infrastructure offers common building blocksndashstandards-based servers ProLiant Xeon servers and Integrity Itanium Servers common management software common power and cooling and a common network fabric
Older POWER Server Processing and Workload Shortcomings ndash It should come as no surprise that for many intense BI workloads these older POWER4 and POWER5 systems lack the necessary processing IO bandwidth and reliability IBMrsquos message was also quite clear when they optimized the POWER architecture primarily for the OLTP workload The OLTP workload does not have the same characteristics of mixed workloads or BI workloads Specific components subsystems and features are necessary to satisfy the intense IO bandwidth and processing requirements of high-volume BI workloads mixed OLTP and BI workloads and long-running batch processing
HP Advantage The DL980 was specifically designed and optimized to process mixed workloads including the two most popular workloads the Business Intelligence workload and the mission-critical OLTP workload It contains by conscious design the necessary hardware and software components to excel at these business-critical workloads Thus the DL980 is able to efficiently handle a mixed workload containing both analytical BI and operational BI In addition the DL980 provides up to 2TB of memory to facilitate in-memory processing
HP Migration Resources HP Migration Process
The HP migration process (Figure 3) embodies a mature and flexible methodology that provides a consistent framework for capturing and carrying out customer requirements The process is built upon years of migration experience and best practices across a variety of databases applications and platforms The process is tool agnostic providing flexibility in solution development Using this mature process as a foundation HP provides a customer-driven migration process instead of an inflexible process based on single-path choices
HP has over 20 years worth of experience migrating customers off of Oracle-Sun servers IBM servers databases and applications to HP solutions HP offers a Solaris-to-Linux porting kit and also uses IBM tools that are available for AIX-to-Linux porting
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Figure 3 HP Migration Process
HP-UX 11i on HP Integrity
Linux on HP ProLiant
Windows on HP ProLiant
MIGRATION PATH
THE HP MIGRATION CENTER
MIGRATION PROCESS
SupportExecutePlanAssess
HP SUNSET COMPLETE CARE INCENTIVES
The key benefits of the HP migration process are
bull A standard high level process which is o based on decades of expertise and best practices o repeatable o customizable by database and application technology platform and migration toolset o scalable accommodating simple to complex migrations
bull Identifies migration requirements up front and properly addresses those requirements in a strategy document A TCO analysis is also included which provides solid data points to facilitate validation of the migration business case
bull Incorporates production dress rehearsals to refine the deployment prior to the actual deployment phase
bull Includes data quality analysis to address source side data issues prior to migration
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HP Migration Center and Services
Over the past 20+ years HP has helped migrate thousands of customers gaining valuable knowledge expertise and repeatability Migrations from older architectures allow customers to take advantage of HP infrastructure to reduce costs improve performance and gain competitive advantage Through the HP Migration Center HP combines best practices with new technologies such as the HP Converged Infrastructure to give you simple and unified low-risk solutions
Modernizing from antiquated and siloed Oracle-Sun and IBM environments to a flexible and integrated Converged Infrastructure takes experience and planning The HP Migration Competence Center as well as HPrsquos data center transformation specialists can guide your operations teams through the following decisions and options required to take advantage of the Converged Infrastructure capabilities
bull Reduce aggregate server and core count by eliminating underutilized dedicated servers Let HP evaluate your current workload inventory and help you plan a consolidated or virtualized environment that improves utilization while cutting software instances and related licensing costs
bull Cut provisioning time from days to minutes Distributed environments are known for complex cabling parallel server and storage wiring and slow complex error-prone provisioning procedures HP can help you accelerate repetitive provisioning tasks by taking advantage of application templates while relying on HP Virtual Connect to instantly provision servers and storage connections
bull Dedicated servers are usually underutilized outside of peak workload hours Verify there is always ldquojust enoughrdquo capacity by letting HP evaluate your current workloads and demand cycles in order to help you define a much more efficient environment Accurately address capacity needs without overspending using HP Capacity Planner technology part of the HP Converged Infrastructure management umbrella
bull HP can help you constrain power consumption to match active workloads HP Data Center Smart Grid enables the automatic ldquodialing backrdquo of power consumption for lightly loaded resources As the load increases power consumption will be automatically ldquodialed uprdquo to ensure that appropriate performance levels are met
The HP Migration Center maintains a close relationship with many database and application partners to ensure a smooth complete migration solution with respect to the databases and applications Additionally the HP Migrations Center works closely with the HP Solution Centers and Competence Centers to assist with database and application migrations
The Migration Center can deploy experts for the DL980 and Linux as well as HP specialists for the operating systems of other vendors Additionally HP maintains close development and support arrangements with major operating systems vendors including Microsoft Windows Novell SUSE Linux Oracle Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Call to Action See for yourself how the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 makes an ideal platform for your enterprise workloads Ask for a TCO assessment or migration assessment to get started For more information please contact your HP representative or visit httpwwwhpcomgomigratetohp
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Intel and Intel Xeon are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the US and other countries Linux is a US registered trademark of Linus Torvalds Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation andor its affiliates Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries
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Performance and Scalability
The DL980 is well situated to solve the performance and fault-tolerant characteristics inherently desired in a BI workload infrastructure Supporting a performance optimized BI solution the DL980
bull Leverages enterprise functionality from HPrsquos large Integrity enterprise servers for both performance and reliability
bull Contains up to 64 high-power Intel Xeon processor 7500 cores bull Provides up to 128 logical CPUs with Intel Hyper-threading Technology to facilitate query
parallelism bull Provides enterprise-level parallel access to storage with a measured 25GBsec sustained IO
throughput rate (as measured in the 3TB TPC-H test) from up to 16 PCIe expansion slots bull Provides up to 2TB of memory to facilitate large in-memory processing
In addition the DL980 contains HPrsquos PREMA Architecture which brings many performance and scalability benefits for processing the BI workload Large numbers of processors in x86 servers typically create an inter-processor communication bottleneck To solve this issue for x86 servers HP looked to the design of our higher-end ccNUMA scale-up servers At the core of the HP PREMA Architecture is a node controller ASIC derived from Intel technology powering the HP Integrity Superdome 2 The HP PREMA Architecture provides these particular benefits for processing and data-intensive BI workloads
bull Smart CPU caching Achieves up to 20 better processor scaling than competitive 8 socket systems by reducing processor overhead
bull Resilient system fabric Provides 50 more interconnect capacity and dynamic traffic routing capability for improved performance in highly concurrent highly parallel BI workload environments
HP Advantage The DL980 offers many features not available in other x86 servers such as the HP PREMA Architecture The DL980 was specifically designed for scale-up enterprise workloads using proven designs from HPrsquos long presence in enterprise environments with HP 9000 and HP Integrity servers
The DL980 is expandable and able to grow with your BI workload as you consolidate legacy BI structures or add data database entities users and query concurrency
bull From 4-socket up to 8-socket servers bull CPU capacity up to 8 processors and 64 cores bull 128 DDR3 DIMM slots for a maximum memory of 2TB bull Up to 16 PCIe IO slots
HP Advantage The enterprise class (64 maximum cores) Intel Xeon processor 7500 series HP PREMA Architecture large sustained IO throughput and large memory features all enable a high degree of efficient parallelism necessary for handling complex analytical queries and hefty query concurrency The DL980 allows ample room for growth as you consolidate or grow your BI workload
HP Advantage The large Intel Xeon platform memory architecture in conjunction with DL980 enterprise-level features easily support in-memory database solutions and computational BI solutions
Blending business intelligence and mission-critical requirements as well as industry-standard design principles the DL980 server is built to handle the largest enterprise environments with confidence It is because of this atypical blend that the DL980 is readily able to host mixed workloads either as a mixed DWODS host as a consolidation platform or as a virtualized consolidation platform
6
Performance Results
Performance testing using both industry standard benchmarks and internal workload testing confirms the advantages of the DL980 server with HP PREMA Architecture By reducing processor overhead the DL980 server delivers better system performance for the BI workload than competitive 8-socket and even larger systems
Using the TPC-H3TB benchmark (Table 2) the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 achieved 1626017 QphH3000GB and the top price performance for non-clustered systems at $268 USDQphH3000GB (Table 3)
bull This result showed that the ProLiant DL980 G7 server delivers better performance and 77x better price performance in one-tenth the rack space compared to the IBM POWER6-based POWER 595
bull This result showed that the ProLiant DL980 G7 server delivers almost as much performance and 62x better price performance in one-fifth the rack space compared to the SUN SPARC M9000
Table 2 TPC-H3000GB
Server Total System Cost QphH PriceQphH Comparison to DL980 rack size
HP DL980 G7 $435169 162602 US $268 1
IBM POWER 595 $3224000 156573 US $2060 10x
Oracle-Sun SPARC M9000
$3298483 198907 US $1658 5x
HP Advantage The audited results from the TPC-H benchmark clearly show that the DL980 offers the best priceperformance in its class by far and in the smallest rack space As can be seen the Total System Cost of the DL980 used for the benchmark is 17th that of the TSCs of IBM and Oracle-Sun
Fourteen years of internal BI workload testing undertaken by HP has gone into the HP Reference Configurations for BI The HP Reference Configurations for the DL980 and Oracle 11gR2 yield the following results (Table 3) These guideline results are an indication of the amount of raw data size and user concurrency that is within expected ranges with typical BI workloads
bull Metrics are provided for the 4p32c and 8p64c sized DL980 server bull Advanced performance assumes the primary goal is performance and cost secondary that
necessary indexing exists and is used and queries are well behaved bull Intermediate performance assumes a compromise between performance and cost that necessary
indexing exists and is used and queries are well behaved bull Concurrent users count refers to users that are logged on and active Non-active users are not
tallied in the metrics below
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Table 3 BI Workload Reference Configuration for the DL980 G7
SYSTEM ProcessorsCores Advanced Performance Intermediate Performance
HP DL980 G7 432 4TB raw data 7TB raw data
350ndash700 concurrent users 250ndash500 concurrent users
HP DL980 G7 864 7TB raw data 14TB raw data
500ndash1000 concurrent users 350ndash700 concurrent users
Reliability and Availability
The days when many BI systems had few or lax HA requirements are over for most IT shops Thus many traditional OLTP HA features have become increasingly attractive to the enterprises that depend upon their BI structures for critical operations Many reliability and availability features are built into the DL980 the Linux and Windows operating systems and associated software
Downtime costs the business HP understands this and has designed the DL980 with enterprise-grade reliability and availability features at a fraction of the cost
Redundant Components
bull System interconnect fabric data paths bull Power supplies fans (all hot-swappable) bull Dual-path IO cards (option) bull Memory spare rank (option) bull Mirrored memory (option) bull Hot plug drives and RAID storage
Resiliency
bull CPU (Intel features) o Intel Machine Check Architecture recovery allows the system to recover from otherwise fatal
memory errors o Intel Scalable Memory Interconnect Lane failover and Intel QuickPath Interconnect self-healing
enable the platform to identify problems and fail over to another lane or modify link operations
bull Memory (mirroring rank sparing demand scrubbing link level retry correction codes) bull IO (PCIe monitoring and shutdown upon error link level retry redundancy)
Advantage HP The DL980 provides superior reliability compared to legacy Sun and IBM servers Additionally there are far more reliability and availability hardware and firmware components uniquely built into a DL980 than lower TCO x86 servers These features enable BI operations to keep running during historically fatal errors
8
For the highest level of availability necessary for 24x7 data warehouses and BI structures that are designed for minimal down time there are several failover-clustering options available on the DL980
bull Red Hat Enterprise Linux Cluster Suite bull Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension bull Veritas Cluster Server bull VMware High Availability (additionally VMware VMotion can be used to obviate the need for
planned downtime maintenance) bull LifeKeeper bull Microsoft Failover Clustering bull Oracle Clusterware
Manageability
The DL980 benefits from a common management infrastructure that exists across the HP server line This infrastructure includes both hardware and software components
Integrated Lights-Out 3 (iLO 3) is a management processor integrated into every DL980 server providing secure remote management capabilities regardless of server status or location
HP Insight Software is an integrated portfolio of infrastructure management software for HP servers Within this portfolio HP Insight Control can help save time and money by making it easy to deploy migrate monitor control and optimize your IT infrastructure through a single simple management console Also within the HP Insight Software portfolio HP Insight Dynamics provides advanced infrastructure lifecycle management software Insight Dynamics includes integrated infrastructure design with automated activation of servers storage and networking Insight Dynamics also provides built-in capacity planning and rebalancing tools as well as providing automated disaster recovery and failover capabilities
Advantage HP Common ldquosingle pane of glassrdquo management software across all HP servers storage and networking reduces complexity time and cost
Best of Breed Choice and Standards
Business Intelligence is a mature technology with widespread adoption and a wealth of mature solutions Numerous best-of-breed solutions exist with leading edge technology and attractive cost A BI architect can make an informed choice of the best-of-breed solution that most satisfies the current and future needs of the business user requirements Best-of-breed solutions are often the product of vendors who focus and specialize in well-defined areas of BI They arenrsquot spread thin instead they offer leading edge technologies that can give a business the technological edge needed over their rivals
The current strategy of both IBM and Oracle-Sun through extensive acquisitions of numerous smaller companies is to promote a suite of solutions that ultimately equates to vendor lock-in for the customer Vendor lock-in reached its peak in the mid lsquo90s and has declined since that point The biggest reason for the decline of the all-encompassing suite was that the eventual cost of the suite after the initial deployment became a burden Ultimately costs always went up for support upgrades and services Also many suites are not as integrated as they should be adding unforeseen costs to the deployment
Advantage HP HP offers choice HP provides industry-standard solutions and a wealth of best-of-breed solutions through in-house solutions and strong partnerships
Operating System Choice
Both Linux and Microsoftreg Windows are capable choices to run BI focused databases and BI applications on the DL980
9
As can be seen from the Winter Corporation Top Ten Survey of 2005 enterprise IT shops have been able to house large data warehouses on Windows and Linux for years The Winter Corporation specializes in high-end BI and has presented Very Large Database proof points In the Top Ten Database survey The survey is collated from actual customer BI implementations data which is gathered using approved sizing and monitoring tools
The link below to the Winter Corporation Top Ten Survey shows interesting customer data supporting the existence of large production BI data warehouses on both Linux and Windows servers
In summary 10 customer instances are noted on Windows between 4TB and 194TB data warehouse size and 8 customer instances on Linux between 1TB and 24TB data warehouse size httpwwwwintercorpcomVLDB2005_TopTen_SurveyTopTenWinners_2005asp
Please keep in mind that this Top Ten Survey is just a sampling of the worldwide Very Large Data Warehouse pool and is now 5 years old Since that time BI databases on both Windows and Linux have grown in both total database size and the number of such large instances now in existence
Advantage HP HP is the top provider of Linux and Windows server systems in terms of worldwide shipments The foundation for this success is a strong technical partnership for each of these offerings
All major Linux offerings run on HPrsquos standards-based Intel Xeon processor-based platforms including market leaders Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Oracle Enterprise Linux is supported as well
Advantage HP Approximately 14000 Linux applications are available for HPrsquos standards-based Intel Xeon processor-based ProLiant servers There are far fewer applications available on specialized Linux distributions and for proprietary RISC systems that offer Linux support Additionally these ldquoLinux specialsrdquo often require specialized integration and customization
Database Choice
All major databases are available and optimized for the standards-based DL980 Microsoft SQL Server Sybase IQ and Oracle are all capable choices for hosting data warehouse operational data stores or data marts
Virtualization Choice
Virtualization is particularly useful for consolidation of multiple isolated BI workloads onto a DL980 For the enterprise that has scores of data marts and operational marts consolidation onto a larger platform has the following benefits
bull Decommissioning isolated and underutilized BI silos bull Reducing power consumption management effort cooling and floor space bull Freeing up IT budget that can be used for true innovation elsewhere
Many choices exist for virtualization software that runs on the DL980
bull VMware vSphere bull Microsoft Hyper-V bull KVM bull OpenVZ bull Citrix Xen bull Parallels Virtuozzo Containers
Advantage HP Standards-based offerings as well as choice are strong factors in reining in data center costs as well as providing solid solutions for the BI user community
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The HP Converged Infrastructure A modern enterprise infrastructure implies IT unification through data center convergence It is imperative that legacy issues be resolved and not repeated IT has to evolve or face expensive stagnation
Built on innovation standards and choice the HP Converged Infrastructure is the modern paradigm for achieving this data center of the future HP is soundly positioned to deliver the Converged Infrastructure to its customers with a full portfolio of integrated solutions and services developed for modern unified data centers
Unification is a central theme of the HP Converged Infrastructure (Figure 2) Common components span HP servers (both ProLiant and Integrity) HP storage and HP networking
bull A common modular infrastructure with common building blocks bull Common power and cooling bull A common network fabric bull Common management software
Figure 2 The HP Converged Infrastructure
Power amp cooling
ServersStorage
Management software
Network
Converged Infrastructure
This converged architectural framework simplifies integrates and automates technology
bull Simplifies the infrastructure and reduces TCO bull Lowers the cost of deployment and implementation by obviating the need for expensive and lengthy
integration and interoperability consulting bull Removes server silos and server sprawl bull Integrates multiple vendorsrsquo technology into pools of interoperable resources
HP Matrix Operating Environment ndash The HP Matrix Operating Environment is a common management platform that extends from infrastructure to application across servers storage and networks It includes tools for provisioning and modifying complex infrastructures lifecycle management resource provisioning high availability performance and capacity assessment and automated consolidation analysis
11
At the core of the HP Matrix Operating Environment is HP Insight Softwaremdashthe comprehensive family of HP infrastructure management software HP Insight Software infrastructure orchestration capabilities let you provision infrastructure in minutes to automatically activate physical and virtual servers storage and networking from pools of shared resources
HP Advantage This software enables your organization to simultaneously control all elements of an infrastructure needed to deliver a service It unifies all the tools for infrastructure lifecycle management into one command center It allows quick provisioning of the infrastructure using a common management platform It reduces complexity reduces time to operation increases commonality across solutions and thereby reduces cost
HP Virtual Resource Pools ndash HP Virtual Resource Pools create a common modular infrastructure of virtualized compute memory storage and network resources Resources are aggregated and shared across the data center between HP ProLiant servers HP Integrity servers and StorageWorks storage products Businesses can use the same architecture to manage multiple workloads across servers storage and networking
HP Advantage Reduces underutilized platforms reduces server and storage sprawl reduces server silos frees up floor space increases productivity reduces complexity and reduces cost
HP Data Center Smart Grid ndash HP Data Center Smart Grid provides intelligent energy management across systems and facilities controlling and reducing energy usage in real time The Smart Grid is a set of monitoring tools and embedded sensors that enable resource monitoring and capacity planning HP Thermal Logic includes embedded technology designed to reduce energy usage and associated costs Sea of Sensors monitors energy consumption and automatically adjusts cooling resources using up to 32 sensors to adjust fan speeds and power only the slots that are in use Dynamic Power Capping enables the reclaiming of trapped power and cooling capacity by safely limiting server power consumption
HP Advantage Reduces energy consumption extends the energy capacity of existing data center facilities and reduces cost
HP Servers ndash HP standards-based servers are ideal for IT organizations considering building a shared services infrastructure to centralize IT and reduce operational costs HP servers are a robust offering for multi-tier enterprise applications The common infrastructure and common management supports both cost-effective ProLiant servers as well as mission-critical Integrity HP-UX servers
All HP servers are engineered for balanced performance across the two major workloads BI and OLTP workloadsndashunlike the POWER platforms that exhibit engineering and optimization for the CPU-centric OLTP workload such as TPC-C
HP Advantage The commonality and interoperability of HP servers in the Converged Infrastructure reduces complexity and reduces the deployment integration and customization required to achieve a cost-effective infrastructure Furthermore these characteristics allow the fast implementation and efficient management of a multi-tier solution back-end data warehouse database hosting DL980 servers and front-end application hosting Intel Xeon processor-based servers
HP Advantage For the 57th consecutive quarter more than 14 years HP ProLiant is the x86 server market share leader in both factory revenue and units shipping more than 1 out of every 3 servers in this market with a 379 unit share HPrsquos x86 revenue share 401 was 188 percentage points higher than its nearest competitor Dell and 213 percentage points higher than IBM1
1 Source All of the above market share figures are for the 3rd quarter [unless otherwise noted] and represent
worldwide results as reported by the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker for 3Q 10 December 2010
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TCO Analysis An analysis of the DL980 powered with the Intel Xeon processor 7500 series versus both the IBM POWER 770 and the Oracle-Sun SPARC M9000 shows a clear 3-year TCO advantage for the DL980 The immediate acquisition cost savings is striking savings that can be used for IT innovation instead of maintaining the inefficient legacy status quo
The most important cost categories are included in this analysis
bull Hardware acquisition cost bull Server software (OS and Oracle database) bull Hardware and software support and maintenance bull Systems administration bull Facilities (power cooling space)
Data Source Ideas International Ltd amp Alinean Inc were used to make the performance and cost comparisons (June 2010)
Comparison - IBM POWER 770 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Table 4 Comparative solution specifics ndash IBM POWER 770 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Server OS DBMS Server number SocketsCores Total cores
IBM POWER7 770 (31 GHz) AIX Oracle 11g 1 864 64
HP DL980 G7 Intel Xeon X7560 (226 GHz)
Red Hat
Red Hat
Enterprise
Linux
Oracle 11g 1 864 64
Table 5 3 Year TCO comparisons ndash IBM POWER 770 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
TCO Comparison ndash Cumulative 3 Year Solution A
IBM P7 770 64c
Solution B
HP ProLiant DL980 G7 64c
Difference
(A ndash B) Amount
Difference
(A ndash B) Percentage
Server Hardware $318560 $112092 $206468 648
Server Software (OS amp DB) $2416064 $1146207 $1269857 526
Hardware and Software Support amp Maintenance
$1682173 $755348 $926825 551
System Administration $43620 $31371 $12249 281
Facilities (Power Cooling amp Floor space) $38235 $24084 $14151 370
Total IT Costs $4498652 $2069102 $2429550 540
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TCOROI Summary (summary derived from Table 5)
bull Overall savings of 54 over 3 years with the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 bull Hardware acquisition cost savings of 65 bull Hardware and software support and maintenance cost savings of 55
Comparison ndash Oracle-Sun M9000 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Table 6 3 Year TCO comparisons ndash Oracle-Sun M9000 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Server OS DBMS Server number
SocketsCores Total cores
Oracle-Sun M9000 SPARC64 VI (24 GHz)
Solaris Oracle 11g 1 64128 128
HP DL980 G7 Intel Xeon X7560 (226 GHz)
Red Hat Enterprise
Linux
Oracle 11g 1 864 64
Table 7 3 Year TCO comparisons ndash Oracle-Sun M9000 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
TCO Comparison ndash Cumulative 3 Year
Solution A
OracleSun M9000 SPARC VI 128c
Solution B
HP ProLiant DL980 G7 64c
Difference
(A ndash B) Amount
Difference
(A ndash B) Percentage
Server Hardware $3404864 $112092 $3292772 967
Server Software (OS amp DB) $3520000 $1146207 $2373793 674
Hardware and Software Support amp Maintenance
$3809070 $755348 $3053772 802
System Administration $40428 $31371 $9057 224
Facilities (Power Cooling amp Floor space)
$237357 $24084 $213273 899
Total IT Costs $11011719 $2069102 $8942617 812
TCOROI Summary (summary derived from Table 7)
bull Overall savings of 81 over 3 years with the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 bull Hardware acquisition cost savings of 97 bull Hardware and software support and maintenance cost savings of 80
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Migration Drivers In transforming data centers and BI solution platforms into efficient and modern entities migrations are a necessity Fortunately migrations from IBM and Sun are not a new phenomenon theyrsquove been going on for the better part of 20 years Thousands of migrations have occurred giving rise to the creation and use by HP of mature migration methodologies tools and expertise
Before any migration can be considered valid reasons must exist to justify the investment Fortunately valid migrational drivers exist in both the business and technical areas of every corporation Drivers that lead to migrations tend to revolve around solid objectives related to lowering computing cost and improving service levels There are numerous drivers that apply to most IT shops whether that shop has older Oracle-Sun SPARC servers or older IBM POWER servers In addition to these general drivers common to both environments there are compelling reasons to migrate specific to SPARC and POWER environments
General Migration Drivers The following general drivers apply to both older Oracle-Sun SPARC servers and IBM POWER servers
High Support Costs ndash Support costs for older systems are typically higher than the support costs for current systems If the warranty has expired support costs may become a shock the day after warranty expiration
HP Advantage HPrsquos DL980 as well as the entire HP ProLiant server family has excellent TCO compared to both older SPARC and POWER servers as well as newer servers See the TCO Analysis section below for more detail
Data Center Running Out of Floor Space ndash The historic pairing of servers and BI applications for discrete solutions has led to a proliferation of servers dedicated to single tasks Thus many data centers are running out of capacity
HP Advantage The DL980 is an ideal consolidation platform Floor space can be freed up by consolidation of BI instances and applications onto the DL980 with its relatively small footprint
Too Many Database Instances ndash Database consolidation results from an initial state in which too many BI-related database instances exist Numerous small data marts or numerous operational data stores are prime examples Most likely this profusion of small instances occurred by splitting the query workload to enable query and report processing to be accomplished within accepted parameters Database sprawl takes up floor space and IT timendashand ultimately increases cost
HP Advantage Once again the DL980 is an ideal consolidation and virtualization platform for large database environments with too many instances particularly in enterprises beset with too many small data marts
Underutilized Servers ndash While unceasing high-pressure BI workloads do occur theyrsquore in the minority Instead many enterprises create peak BI workload at the end of month end of quarter end of year and other significant times during the yearly business cycle
Thus itrsquos common in older architectures to find dedicated servers that are not fully utilized or are only productively utilized a small percentage of the time Dedicating one workload to each server meant that each server needed to be sized accordingly to accommodate the peak workload For much of the time many servers tend to run lightly loaded outside of peak hours The cost of carrying several of these systems can be significant
15
HP Advantage The DL980 is an ideal high-performance scalable reliable and low-cost consolidation platform
Oracle-Sun Specific Drivers Many of the more troublesome Oracle-Sun specific drivers listed below are outcomes of the last eight years of hard times for SPARC servers
Underperforming Servers ndash With the steady slowdown in the evolution of the SPARC line performance has been an issue for many years Add to this the weight of underutilized servers sized for peak workloads and the drag on an IT operations budget can be significant
HP Advantage Comparative data using Alinean Ltd and Ideas International Inc show a tangible HP advantage especially in enterprise-class servers Ask your HP representative for a TCO analysis
The Risks of a Single-Vendor Solution Stack ndash Hosting an Oracle database on Oracle-Sun servers cedes control of the entire solution stack to Oracle Could you be overspending on servers software and support by relying solely on Oracle-Sun
HP Advantage HP can provide a ldquowhole environmentrdquo view with the DL980 in the Converged Infrastructure and best-of-breed partners to help you move to your next-generation environment
Escalating and Changing Support Costs ndash Higher support costs exist for Oracle-Sun SPARC systems including new ldquomandatoryrdquo hardware support fees
HP Advantage Evaluating the support costs for the DL980 and other HP ProLiant servers relative to Oracle-Sun SPARC support costs can help you find ways to reduce operational support costs Ask your HP representative for a TCO analysis
IBM Specific Drivers IBM has its own set of specific issues that have driven data centers to migrate from IBM servers frequently over the last 20 years
High Cost of Deployment Integration and Maintenance ndash Cost is an issue with architectures consisting of older POWER4 and POWER5 servers IBMrsquos approach to computing technology does not lend itself well to simple deployment and integration POWER servers have been created to interoperate very well in a POWER-only environment Unfortunately it is costly to integrate POWER servers with non-POWER servers (eg x86 servers) storage networking diverse management tools and applications This characteristic of the POWER server line results in higher costs for deployment integration support maintenance and ultimately upgrades to newer POWER servers Unfortunately when choosing a POWER-to-POWER upgrade the high-cost IBM lifecycle begins again and data centers are firmly locked into the same inflexible architecture
The IBM Architectural Silo Model ndash The piecemeal nature of siloed POWER solutions (separate HA separate networking no standard management infrastructure etc) requires extensive and custom integration Unfortunately IBM mainframes and x86 servers subscribe to siloed architecture as well The IBM approach to architectural design and component deployment forces customers to adapt their business operations to fit IBMrsquos technology silos such as mainframe or POWER servers To implement cost-effective multi-tier computing infrastructures customers must piece together their own enterprise architecture By modern standards this is a needless investment of development time and budget that can be better used for higher priority tasks
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Lack of Solution Flexibility ndash Instead of vendor guidance toward overcoming many of the legacy issues above are you guided into upgrading the legacy environment instead of transforming it into a cost-effective and contemporary infrastructure Being guided into an IBM-only siloed infrastructure philosophy solves only surface issues and can perpetuate cost and resource inefficiency
HP Advantage For the issues above HP provides a ldquowhole environmentrdquo view with the DL980 and best-of-breed partners to help you move to your next generation environment HP Converged Infrastructure offers common building blocksndashstandards-based servers ProLiant Xeon servers and Integrity Itanium Servers common management software common power and cooling and a common network fabric
Older POWER Server Processing and Workload Shortcomings ndash It should come as no surprise that for many intense BI workloads these older POWER4 and POWER5 systems lack the necessary processing IO bandwidth and reliability IBMrsquos message was also quite clear when they optimized the POWER architecture primarily for the OLTP workload The OLTP workload does not have the same characteristics of mixed workloads or BI workloads Specific components subsystems and features are necessary to satisfy the intense IO bandwidth and processing requirements of high-volume BI workloads mixed OLTP and BI workloads and long-running batch processing
HP Advantage The DL980 was specifically designed and optimized to process mixed workloads including the two most popular workloads the Business Intelligence workload and the mission-critical OLTP workload It contains by conscious design the necessary hardware and software components to excel at these business-critical workloads Thus the DL980 is able to efficiently handle a mixed workload containing both analytical BI and operational BI In addition the DL980 provides up to 2TB of memory to facilitate in-memory processing
HP Migration Resources HP Migration Process
The HP migration process (Figure 3) embodies a mature and flexible methodology that provides a consistent framework for capturing and carrying out customer requirements The process is built upon years of migration experience and best practices across a variety of databases applications and platforms The process is tool agnostic providing flexibility in solution development Using this mature process as a foundation HP provides a customer-driven migration process instead of an inflexible process based on single-path choices
HP has over 20 years worth of experience migrating customers off of Oracle-Sun servers IBM servers databases and applications to HP solutions HP offers a Solaris-to-Linux porting kit and also uses IBM tools that are available for AIX-to-Linux porting
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Figure 3 HP Migration Process
HP-UX 11i on HP Integrity
Linux on HP ProLiant
Windows on HP ProLiant
MIGRATION PATH
THE HP MIGRATION CENTER
MIGRATION PROCESS
SupportExecutePlanAssess
HP SUNSET COMPLETE CARE INCENTIVES
The key benefits of the HP migration process are
bull A standard high level process which is o based on decades of expertise and best practices o repeatable o customizable by database and application technology platform and migration toolset o scalable accommodating simple to complex migrations
bull Identifies migration requirements up front and properly addresses those requirements in a strategy document A TCO analysis is also included which provides solid data points to facilitate validation of the migration business case
bull Incorporates production dress rehearsals to refine the deployment prior to the actual deployment phase
bull Includes data quality analysis to address source side data issues prior to migration
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HP Migration Center and Services
Over the past 20+ years HP has helped migrate thousands of customers gaining valuable knowledge expertise and repeatability Migrations from older architectures allow customers to take advantage of HP infrastructure to reduce costs improve performance and gain competitive advantage Through the HP Migration Center HP combines best practices with new technologies such as the HP Converged Infrastructure to give you simple and unified low-risk solutions
Modernizing from antiquated and siloed Oracle-Sun and IBM environments to a flexible and integrated Converged Infrastructure takes experience and planning The HP Migration Competence Center as well as HPrsquos data center transformation specialists can guide your operations teams through the following decisions and options required to take advantage of the Converged Infrastructure capabilities
bull Reduce aggregate server and core count by eliminating underutilized dedicated servers Let HP evaluate your current workload inventory and help you plan a consolidated or virtualized environment that improves utilization while cutting software instances and related licensing costs
bull Cut provisioning time from days to minutes Distributed environments are known for complex cabling parallel server and storage wiring and slow complex error-prone provisioning procedures HP can help you accelerate repetitive provisioning tasks by taking advantage of application templates while relying on HP Virtual Connect to instantly provision servers and storage connections
bull Dedicated servers are usually underutilized outside of peak workload hours Verify there is always ldquojust enoughrdquo capacity by letting HP evaluate your current workloads and demand cycles in order to help you define a much more efficient environment Accurately address capacity needs without overspending using HP Capacity Planner technology part of the HP Converged Infrastructure management umbrella
bull HP can help you constrain power consumption to match active workloads HP Data Center Smart Grid enables the automatic ldquodialing backrdquo of power consumption for lightly loaded resources As the load increases power consumption will be automatically ldquodialed uprdquo to ensure that appropriate performance levels are met
The HP Migration Center maintains a close relationship with many database and application partners to ensure a smooth complete migration solution with respect to the databases and applications Additionally the HP Migrations Center works closely with the HP Solution Centers and Competence Centers to assist with database and application migrations
The Migration Center can deploy experts for the DL980 and Linux as well as HP specialists for the operating systems of other vendors Additionally HP maintains close development and support arrangements with major operating systems vendors including Microsoft Windows Novell SUSE Linux Oracle Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Call to Action See for yourself how the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 makes an ideal platform for your enterprise workloads Ask for a TCO assessment or migration assessment to get started For more information please contact your HP representative or visit httpwwwhpcomgomigratetohp
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copy Copyright 2011 Hewlett-Packard Development Company LP The information contained herein is subject to change without notice The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein
Intel and Intel Xeon are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the US and other countries Linux is a US registered trademark of Linus Torvalds Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation andor its affiliates Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries
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Performance Results
Performance testing using both industry standard benchmarks and internal workload testing confirms the advantages of the DL980 server with HP PREMA Architecture By reducing processor overhead the DL980 server delivers better system performance for the BI workload than competitive 8-socket and even larger systems
Using the TPC-H3TB benchmark (Table 2) the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 achieved 1626017 QphH3000GB and the top price performance for non-clustered systems at $268 USDQphH3000GB (Table 3)
bull This result showed that the ProLiant DL980 G7 server delivers better performance and 77x better price performance in one-tenth the rack space compared to the IBM POWER6-based POWER 595
bull This result showed that the ProLiant DL980 G7 server delivers almost as much performance and 62x better price performance in one-fifth the rack space compared to the SUN SPARC M9000
Table 2 TPC-H3000GB
Server Total System Cost QphH PriceQphH Comparison to DL980 rack size
HP DL980 G7 $435169 162602 US $268 1
IBM POWER 595 $3224000 156573 US $2060 10x
Oracle-Sun SPARC M9000
$3298483 198907 US $1658 5x
HP Advantage The audited results from the TPC-H benchmark clearly show that the DL980 offers the best priceperformance in its class by far and in the smallest rack space As can be seen the Total System Cost of the DL980 used for the benchmark is 17th that of the TSCs of IBM and Oracle-Sun
Fourteen years of internal BI workload testing undertaken by HP has gone into the HP Reference Configurations for BI The HP Reference Configurations for the DL980 and Oracle 11gR2 yield the following results (Table 3) These guideline results are an indication of the amount of raw data size and user concurrency that is within expected ranges with typical BI workloads
bull Metrics are provided for the 4p32c and 8p64c sized DL980 server bull Advanced performance assumes the primary goal is performance and cost secondary that
necessary indexing exists and is used and queries are well behaved bull Intermediate performance assumes a compromise between performance and cost that necessary
indexing exists and is used and queries are well behaved bull Concurrent users count refers to users that are logged on and active Non-active users are not
tallied in the metrics below
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Table 3 BI Workload Reference Configuration for the DL980 G7
SYSTEM ProcessorsCores Advanced Performance Intermediate Performance
HP DL980 G7 432 4TB raw data 7TB raw data
350ndash700 concurrent users 250ndash500 concurrent users
HP DL980 G7 864 7TB raw data 14TB raw data
500ndash1000 concurrent users 350ndash700 concurrent users
Reliability and Availability
The days when many BI systems had few or lax HA requirements are over for most IT shops Thus many traditional OLTP HA features have become increasingly attractive to the enterprises that depend upon their BI structures for critical operations Many reliability and availability features are built into the DL980 the Linux and Windows operating systems and associated software
Downtime costs the business HP understands this and has designed the DL980 with enterprise-grade reliability and availability features at a fraction of the cost
Redundant Components
bull System interconnect fabric data paths bull Power supplies fans (all hot-swappable) bull Dual-path IO cards (option) bull Memory spare rank (option) bull Mirrored memory (option) bull Hot plug drives and RAID storage
Resiliency
bull CPU (Intel features) o Intel Machine Check Architecture recovery allows the system to recover from otherwise fatal
memory errors o Intel Scalable Memory Interconnect Lane failover and Intel QuickPath Interconnect self-healing
enable the platform to identify problems and fail over to another lane or modify link operations
bull Memory (mirroring rank sparing demand scrubbing link level retry correction codes) bull IO (PCIe monitoring and shutdown upon error link level retry redundancy)
Advantage HP The DL980 provides superior reliability compared to legacy Sun and IBM servers Additionally there are far more reliability and availability hardware and firmware components uniquely built into a DL980 than lower TCO x86 servers These features enable BI operations to keep running during historically fatal errors
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For the highest level of availability necessary for 24x7 data warehouses and BI structures that are designed for minimal down time there are several failover-clustering options available on the DL980
bull Red Hat Enterprise Linux Cluster Suite bull Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension bull Veritas Cluster Server bull VMware High Availability (additionally VMware VMotion can be used to obviate the need for
planned downtime maintenance) bull LifeKeeper bull Microsoft Failover Clustering bull Oracle Clusterware
Manageability
The DL980 benefits from a common management infrastructure that exists across the HP server line This infrastructure includes both hardware and software components
Integrated Lights-Out 3 (iLO 3) is a management processor integrated into every DL980 server providing secure remote management capabilities regardless of server status or location
HP Insight Software is an integrated portfolio of infrastructure management software for HP servers Within this portfolio HP Insight Control can help save time and money by making it easy to deploy migrate monitor control and optimize your IT infrastructure through a single simple management console Also within the HP Insight Software portfolio HP Insight Dynamics provides advanced infrastructure lifecycle management software Insight Dynamics includes integrated infrastructure design with automated activation of servers storage and networking Insight Dynamics also provides built-in capacity planning and rebalancing tools as well as providing automated disaster recovery and failover capabilities
Advantage HP Common ldquosingle pane of glassrdquo management software across all HP servers storage and networking reduces complexity time and cost
Best of Breed Choice and Standards
Business Intelligence is a mature technology with widespread adoption and a wealth of mature solutions Numerous best-of-breed solutions exist with leading edge technology and attractive cost A BI architect can make an informed choice of the best-of-breed solution that most satisfies the current and future needs of the business user requirements Best-of-breed solutions are often the product of vendors who focus and specialize in well-defined areas of BI They arenrsquot spread thin instead they offer leading edge technologies that can give a business the technological edge needed over their rivals
The current strategy of both IBM and Oracle-Sun through extensive acquisitions of numerous smaller companies is to promote a suite of solutions that ultimately equates to vendor lock-in for the customer Vendor lock-in reached its peak in the mid lsquo90s and has declined since that point The biggest reason for the decline of the all-encompassing suite was that the eventual cost of the suite after the initial deployment became a burden Ultimately costs always went up for support upgrades and services Also many suites are not as integrated as they should be adding unforeseen costs to the deployment
Advantage HP HP offers choice HP provides industry-standard solutions and a wealth of best-of-breed solutions through in-house solutions and strong partnerships
Operating System Choice
Both Linux and Microsoftreg Windows are capable choices to run BI focused databases and BI applications on the DL980
9
As can be seen from the Winter Corporation Top Ten Survey of 2005 enterprise IT shops have been able to house large data warehouses on Windows and Linux for years The Winter Corporation specializes in high-end BI and has presented Very Large Database proof points In the Top Ten Database survey The survey is collated from actual customer BI implementations data which is gathered using approved sizing and monitoring tools
The link below to the Winter Corporation Top Ten Survey shows interesting customer data supporting the existence of large production BI data warehouses on both Linux and Windows servers
In summary 10 customer instances are noted on Windows between 4TB and 194TB data warehouse size and 8 customer instances on Linux between 1TB and 24TB data warehouse size httpwwwwintercorpcomVLDB2005_TopTen_SurveyTopTenWinners_2005asp
Please keep in mind that this Top Ten Survey is just a sampling of the worldwide Very Large Data Warehouse pool and is now 5 years old Since that time BI databases on both Windows and Linux have grown in both total database size and the number of such large instances now in existence
Advantage HP HP is the top provider of Linux and Windows server systems in terms of worldwide shipments The foundation for this success is a strong technical partnership for each of these offerings
All major Linux offerings run on HPrsquos standards-based Intel Xeon processor-based platforms including market leaders Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Oracle Enterprise Linux is supported as well
Advantage HP Approximately 14000 Linux applications are available for HPrsquos standards-based Intel Xeon processor-based ProLiant servers There are far fewer applications available on specialized Linux distributions and for proprietary RISC systems that offer Linux support Additionally these ldquoLinux specialsrdquo often require specialized integration and customization
Database Choice
All major databases are available and optimized for the standards-based DL980 Microsoft SQL Server Sybase IQ and Oracle are all capable choices for hosting data warehouse operational data stores or data marts
Virtualization Choice
Virtualization is particularly useful for consolidation of multiple isolated BI workloads onto a DL980 For the enterprise that has scores of data marts and operational marts consolidation onto a larger platform has the following benefits
bull Decommissioning isolated and underutilized BI silos bull Reducing power consumption management effort cooling and floor space bull Freeing up IT budget that can be used for true innovation elsewhere
Many choices exist for virtualization software that runs on the DL980
bull VMware vSphere bull Microsoft Hyper-V bull KVM bull OpenVZ bull Citrix Xen bull Parallels Virtuozzo Containers
Advantage HP Standards-based offerings as well as choice are strong factors in reining in data center costs as well as providing solid solutions for the BI user community
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The HP Converged Infrastructure A modern enterprise infrastructure implies IT unification through data center convergence It is imperative that legacy issues be resolved and not repeated IT has to evolve or face expensive stagnation
Built on innovation standards and choice the HP Converged Infrastructure is the modern paradigm for achieving this data center of the future HP is soundly positioned to deliver the Converged Infrastructure to its customers with a full portfolio of integrated solutions and services developed for modern unified data centers
Unification is a central theme of the HP Converged Infrastructure (Figure 2) Common components span HP servers (both ProLiant and Integrity) HP storage and HP networking
bull A common modular infrastructure with common building blocks bull Common power and cooling bull A common network fabric bull Common management software
Figure 2 The HP Converged Infrastructure
Power amp cooling
ServersStorage
Management software
Network
Converged Infrastructure
This converged architectural framework simplifies integrates and automates technology
bull Simplifies the infrastructure and reduces TCO bull Lowers the cost of deployment and implementation by obviating the need for expensive and lengthy
integration and interoperability consulting bull Removes server silos and server sprawl bull Integrates multiple vendorsrsquo technology into pools of interoperable resources
HP Matrix Operating Environment ndash The HP Matrix Operating Environment is a common management platform that extends from infrastructure to application across servers storage and networks It includes tools for provisioning and modifying complex infrastructures lifecycle management resource provisioning high availability performance and capacity assessment and automated consolidation analysis
11
At the core of the HP Matrix Operating Environment is HP Insight Softwaremdashthe comprehensive family of HP infrastructure management software HP Insight Software infrastructure orchestration capabilities let you provision infrastructure in minutes to automatically activate physical and virtual servers storage and networking from pools of shared resources
HP Advantage This software enables your organization to simultaneously control all elements of an infrastructure needed to deliver a service It unifies all the tools for infrastructure lifecycle management into one command center It allows quick provisioning of the infrastructure using a common management platform It reduces complexity reduces time to operation increases commonality across solutions and thereby reduces cost
HP Virtual Resource Pools ndash HP Virtual Resource Pools create a common modular infrastructure of virtualized compute memory storage and network resources Resources are aggregated and shared across the data center between HP ProLiant servers HP Integrity servers and StorageWorks storage products Businesses can use the same architecture to manage multiple workloads across servers storage and networking
HP Advantage Reduces underutilized platforms reduces server and storage sprawl reduces server silos frees up floor space increases productivity reduces complexity and reduces cost
HP Data Center Smart Grid ndash HP Data Center Smart Grid provides intelligent energy management across systems and facilities controlling and reducing energy usage in real time The Smart Grid is a set of monitoring tools and embedded sensors that enable resource monitoring and capacity planning HP Thermal Logic includes embedded technology designed to reduce energy usage and associated costs Sea of Sensors monitors energy consumption and automatically adjusts cooling resources using up to 32 sensors to adjust fan speeds and power only the slots that are in use Dynamic Power Capping enables the reclaiming of trapped power and cooling capacity by safely limiting server power consumption
HP Advantage Reduces energy consumption extends the energy capacity of existing data center facilities and reduces cost
HP Servers ndash HP standards-based servers are ideal for IT organizations considering building a shared services infrastructure to centralize IT and reduce operational costs HP servers are a robust offering for multi-tier enterprise applications The common infrastructure and common management supports both cost-effective ProLiant servers as well as mission-critical Integrity HP-UX servers
All HP servers are engineered for balanced performance across the two major workloads BI and OLTP workloadsndashunlike the POWER platforms that exhibit engineering and optimization for the CPU-centric OLTP workload such as TPC-C
HP Advantage The commonality and interoperability of HP servers in the Converged Infrastructure reduces complexity and reduces the deployment integration and customization required to achieve a cost-effective infrastructure Furthermore these characteristics allow the fast implementation and efficient management of a multi-tier solution back-end data warehouse database hosting DL980 servers and front-end application hosting Intel Xeon processor-based servers
HP Advantage For the 57th consecutive quarter more than 14 years HP ProLiant is the x86 server market share leader in both factory revenue and units shipping more than 1 out of every 3 servers in this market with a 379 unit share HPrsquos x86 revenue share 401 was 188 percentage points higher than its nearest competitor Dell and 213 percentage points higher than IBM1
1 Source All of the above market share figures are for the 3rd quarter [unless otherwise noted] and represent
worldwide results as reported by the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker for 3Q 10 December 2010
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TCO Analysis An analysis of the DL980 powered with the Intel Xeon processor 7500 series versus both the IBM POWER 770 and the Oracle-Sun SPARC M9000 shows a clear 3-year TCO advantage for the DL980 The immediate acquisition cost savings is striking savings that can be used for IT innovation instead of maintaining the inefficient legacy status quo
The most important cost categories are included in this analysis
bull Hardware acquisition cost bull Server software (OS and Oracle database) bull Hardware and software support and maintenance bull Systems administration bull Facilities (power cooling space)
Data Source Ideas International Ltd amp Alinean Inc were used to make the performance and cost comparisons (June 2010)
Comparison - IBM POWER 770 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Table 4 Comparative solution specifics ndash IBM POWER 770 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Server OS DBMS Server number SocketsCores Total cores
IBM POWER7 770 (31 GHz) AIX Oracle 11g 1 864 64
HP DL980 G7 Intel Xeon X7560 (226 GHz)
Red Hat
Red Hat
Enterprise
Linux
Oracle 11g 1 864 64
Table 5 3 Year TCO comparisons ndash IBM POWER 770 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
TCO Comparison ndash Cumulative 3 Year Solution A
IBM P7 770 64c
Solution B
HP ProLiant DL980 G7 64c
Difference
(A ndash B) Amount
Difference
(A ndash B) Percentage
Server Hardware $318560 $112092 $206468 648
Server Software (OS amp DB) $2416064 $1146207 $1269857 526
Hardware and Software Support amp Maintenance
$1682173 $755348 $926825 551
System Administration $43620 $31371 $12249 281
Facilities (Power Cooling amp Floor space) $38235 $24084 $14151 370
Total IT Costs $4498652 $2069102 $2429550 540
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TCOROI Summary (summary derived from Table 5)
bull Overall savings of 54 over 3 years with the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 bull Hardware acquisition cost savings of 65 bull Hardware and software support and maintenance cost savings of 55
Comparison ndash Oracle-Sun M9000 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Table 6 3 Year TCO comparisons ndash Oracle-Sun M9000 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Server OS DBMS Server number
SocketsCores Total cores
Oracle-Sun M9000 SPARC64 VI (24 GHz)
Solaris Oracle 11g 1 64128 128
HP DL980 G7 Intel Xeon X7560 (226 GHz)
Red Hat Enterprise
Linux
Oracle 11g 1 864 64
Table 7 3 Year TCO comparisons ndash Oracle-Sun M9000 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
TCO Comparison ndash Cumulative 3 Year
Solution A
OracleSun M9000 SPARC VI 128c
Solution B
HP ProLiant DL980 G7 64c
Difference
(A ndash B) Amount
Difference
(A ndash B) Percentage
Server Hardware $3404864 $112092 $3292772 967
Server Software (OS amp DB) $3520000 $1146207 $2373793 674
Hardware and Software Support amp Maintenance
$3809070 $755348 $3053772 802
System Administration $40428 $31371 $9057 224
Facilities (Power Cooling amp Floor space)
$237357 $24084 $213273 899
Total IT Costs $11011719 $2069102 $8942617 812
TCOROI Summary (summary derived from Table 7)
bull Overall savings of 81 over 3 years with the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 bull Hardware acquisition cost savings of 97 bull Hardware and software support and maintenance cost savings of 80
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Migration Drivers In transforming data centers and BI solution platforms into efficient and modern entities migrations are a necessity Fortunately migrations from IBM and Sun are not a new phenomenon theyrsquove been going on for the better part of 20 years Thousands of migrations have occurred giving rise to the creation and use by HP of mature migration methodologies tools and expertise
Before any migration can be considered valid reasons must exist to justify the investment Fortunately valid migrational drivers exist in both the business and technical areas of every corporation Drivers that lead to migrations tend to revolve around solid objectives related to lowering computing cost and improving service levels There are numerous drivers that apply to most IT shops whether that shop has older Oracle-Sun SPARC servers or older IBM POWER servers In addition to these general drivers common to both environments there are compelling reasons to migrate specific to SPARC and POWER environments
General Migration Drivers The following general drivers apply to both older Oracle-Sun SPARC servers and IBM POWER servers
High Support Costs ndash Support costs for older systems are typically higher than the support costs for current systems If the warranty has expired support costs may become a shock the day after warranty expiration
HP Advantage HPrsquos DL980 as well as the entire HP ProLiant server family has excellent TCO compared to both older SPARC and POWER servers as well as newer servers See the TCO Analysis section below for more detail
Data Center Running Out of Floor Space ndash The historic pairing of servers and BI applications for discrete solutions has led to a proliferation of servers dedicated to single tasks Thus many data centers are running out of capacity
HP Advantage The DL980 is an ideal consolidation platform Floor space can be freed up by consolidation of BI instances and applications onto the DL980 with its relatively small footprint
Too Many Database Instances ndash Database consolidation results from an initial state in which too many BI-related database instances exist Numerous small data marts or numerous operational data stores are prime examples Most likely this profusion of small instances occurred by splitting the query workload to enable query and report processing to be accomplished within accepted parameters Database sprawl takes up floor space and IT timendashand ultimately increases cost
HP Advantage Once again the DL980 is an ideal consolidation and virtualization platform for large database environments with too many instances particularly in enterprises beset with too many small data marts
Underutilized Servers ndash While unceasing high-pressure BI workloads do occur theyrsquore in the minority Instead many enterprises create peak BI workload at the end of month end of quarter end of year and other significant times during the yearly business cycle
Thus itrsquos common in older architectures to find dedicated servers that are not fully utilized or are only productively utilized a small percentage of the time Dedicating one workload to each server meant that each server needed to be sized accordingly to accommodate the peak workload For much of the time many servers tend to run lightly loaded outside of peak hours The cost of carrying several of these systems can be significant
15
HP Advantage The DL980 is an ideal high-performance scalable reliable and low-cost consolidation platform
Oracle-Sun Specific Drivers Many of the more troublesome Oracle-Sun specific drivers listed below are outcomes of the last eight years of hard times for SPARC servers
Underperforming Servers ndash With the steady slowdown in the evolution of the SPARC line performance has been an issue for many years Add to this the weight of underutilized servers sized for peak workloads and the drag on an IT operations budget can be significant
HP Advantage Comparative data using Alinean Ltd and Ideas International Inc show a tangible HP advantage especially in enterprise-class servers Ask your HP representative for a TCO analysis
The Risks of a Single-Vendor Solution Stack ndash Hosting an Oracle database on Oracle-Sun servers cedes control of the entire solution stack to Oracle Could you be overspending on servers software and support by relying solely on Oracle-Sun
HP Advantage HP can provide a ldquowhole environmentrdquo view with the DL980 in the Converged Infrastructure and best-of-breed partners to help you move to your next-generation environment
Escalating and Changing Support Costs ndash Higher support costs exist for Oracle-Sun SPARC systems including new ldquomandatoryrdquo hardware support fees
HP Advantage Evaluating the support costs for the DL980 and other HP ProLiant servers relative to Oracle-Sun SPARC support costs can help you find ways to reduce operational support costs Ask your HP representative for a TCO analysis
IBM Specific Drivers IBM has its own set of specific issues that have driven data centers to migrate from IBM servers frequently over the last 20 years
High Cost of Deployment Integration and Maintenance ndash Cost is an issue with architectures consisting of older POWER4 and POWER5 servers IBMrsquos approach to computing technology does not lend itself well to simple deployment and integration POWER servers have been created to interoperate very well in a POWER-only environment Unfortunately it is costly to integrate POWER servers with non-POWER servers (eg x86 servers) storage networking diverse management tools and applications This characteristic of the POWER server line results in higher costs for deployment integration support maintenance and ultimately upgrades to newer POWER servers Unfortunately when choosing a POWER-to-POWER upgrade the high-cost IBM lifecycle begins again and data centers are firmly locked into the same inflexible architecture
The IBM Architectural Silo Model ndash The piecemeal nature of siloed POWER solutions (separate HA separate networking no standard management infrastructure etc) requires extensive and custom integration Unfortunately IBM mainframes and x86 servers subscribe to siloed architecture as well The IBM approach to architectural design and component deployment forces customers to adapt their business operations to fit IBMrsquos technology silos such as mainframe or POWER servers To implement cost-effective multi-tier computing infrastructures customers must piece together their own enterprise architecture By modern standards this is a needless investment of development time and budget that can be better used for higher priority tasks
16
Lack of Solution Flexibility ndash Instead of vendor guidance toward overcoming many of the legacy issues above are you guided into upgrading the legacy environment instead of transforming it into a cost-effective and contemporary infrastructure Being guided into an IBM-only siloed infrastructure philosophy solves only surface issues and can perpetuate cost and resource inefficiency
HP Advantage For the issues above HP provides a ldquowhole environmentrdquo view with the DL980 and best-of-breed partners to help you move to your next generation environment HP Converged Infrastructure offers common building blocksndashstandards-based servers ProLiant Xeon servers and Integrity Itanium Servers common management software common power and cooling and a common network fabric
Older POWER Server Processing and Workload Shortcomings ndash It should come as no surprise that for many intense BI workloads these older POWER4 and POWER5 systems lack the necessary processing IO bandwidth and reliability IBMrsquos message was also quite clear when they optimized the POWER architecture primarily for the OLTP workload The OLTP workload does not have the same characteristics of mixed workloads or BI workloads Specific components subsystems and features are necessary to satisfy the intense IO bandwidth and processing requirements of high-volume BI workloads mixed OLTP and BI workloads and long-running batch processing
HP Advantage The DL980 was specifically designed and optimized to process mixed workloads including the two most popular workloads the Business Intelligence workload and the mission-critical OLTP workload It contains by conscious design the necessary hardware and software components to excel at these business-critical workloads Thus the DL980 is able to efficiently handle a mixed workload containing both analytical BI and operational BI In addition the DL980 provides up to 2TB of memory to facilitate in-memory processing
HP Migration Resources HP Migration Process
The HP migration process (Figure 3) embodies a mature and flexible methodology that provides a consistent framework for capturing and carrying out customer requirements The process is built upon years of migration experience and best practices across a variety of databases applications and platforms The process is tool agnostic providing flexibility in solution development Using this mature process as a foundation HP provides a customer-driven migration process instead of an inflexible process based on single-path choices
HP has over 20 years worth of experience migrating customers off of Oracle-Sun servers IBM servers databases and applications to HP solutions HP offers a Solaris-to-Linux porting kit and also uses IBM tools that are available for AIX-to-Linux porting
17
Figure 3 HP Migration Process
HP-UX 11i on HP Integrity
Linux on HP ProLiant
Windows on HP ProLiant
MIGRATION PATH
THE HP MIGRATION CENTER
MIGRATION PROCESS
SupportExecutePlanAssess
HP SUNSET COMPLETE CARE INCENTIVES
The key benefits of the HP migration process are
bull A standard high level process which is o based on decades of expertise and best practices o repeatable o customizable by database and application technology platform and migration toolset o scalable accommodating simple to complex migrations
bull Identifies migration requirements up front and properly addresses those requirements in a strategy document A TCO analysis is also included which provides solid data points to facilitate validation of the migration business case
bull Incorporates production dress rehearsals to refine the deployment prior to the actual deployment phase
bull Includes data quality analysis to address source side data issues prior to migration
18
HP Migration Center and Services
Over the past 20+ years HP has helped migrate thousands of customers gaining valuable knowledge expertise and repeatability Migrations from older architectures allow customers to take advantage of HP infrastructure to reduce costs improve performance and gain competitive advantage Through the HP Migration Center HP combines best practices with new technologies such as the HP Converged Infrastructure to give you simple and unified low-risk solutions
Modernizing from antiquated and siloed Oracle-Sun and IBM environments to a flexible and integrated Converged Infrastructure takes experience and planning The HP Migration Competence Center as well as HPrsquos data center transformation specialists can guide your operations teams through the following decisions and options required to take advantage of the Converged Infrastructure capabilities
bull Reduce aggregate server and core count by eliminating underutilized dedicated servers Let HP evaluate your current workload inventory and help you plan a consolidated or virtualized environment that improves utilization while cutting software instances and related licensing costs
bull Cut provisioning time from days to minutes Distributed environments are known for complex cabling parallel server and storage wiring and slow complex error-prone provisioning procedures HP can help you accelerate repetitive provisioning tasks by taking advantage of application templates while relying on HP Virtual Connect to instantly provision servers and storage connections
bull Dedicated servers are usually underutilized outside of peak workload hours Verify there is always ldquojust enoughrdquo capacity by letting HP evaluate your current workloads and demand cycles in order to help you define a much more efficient environment Accurately address capacity needs without overspending using HP Capacity Planner technology part of the HP Converged Infrastructure management umbrella
bull HP can help you constrain power consumption to match active workloads HP Data Center Smart Grid enables the automatic ldquodialing backrdquo of power consumption for lightly loaded resources As the load increases power consumption will be automatically ldquodialed uprdquo to ensure that appropriate performance levels are met
The HP Migration Center maintains a close relationship with many database and application partners to ensure a smooth complete migration solution with respect to the databases and applications Additionally the HP Migrations Center works closely with the HP Solution Centers and Competence Centers to assist with database and application migrations
The Migration Center can deploy experts for the DL980 and Linux as well as HP specialists for the operating systems of other vendors Additionally HP maintains close development and support arrangements with major operating systems vendors including Microsoft Windows Novell SUSE Linux Oracle Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Call to Action See for yourself how the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 makes an ideal platform for your enterprise workloads Ask for a TCO assessment or migration assessment to get started For more information please contact your HP representative or visit httpwwwhpcomgomigratetohp
Share with colleagues
copy Copyright 2011 Hewlett-Packard Development Company LP The information contained herein is subject to change without notice The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein
Intel and Intel Xeon are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the US and other countries Linux is a US registered trademark of Linus Torvalds Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation andor its affiliates Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries
4AA3-3180ENW Created February 2011 Updated March 2011 Rev 1
For More Information HP ProLiant DL980 G7 serverndashDatasheet
HP ProLiant DL980 G7 Server with HP PREMA Architecture
httph20195www2hpcomv2GetPDFaspx4AA1-5671ENWpdf
httph20195www2hpcomv2GetPDFaspx4AA3-0643ENWpdf
Intel Xeon processor 7500 series
httpwwwintelcomitcenterproductsxeon7500
HP Converged Infrastructure
httph18004www1hpcomproductssolutionsconvergedmainhtml
The HP Migration Center white paper
httph20195www2hpcomv2GetPDFaspx4AA1-0783ENWpdf
Linux on HP ProLiant servers
httph18004www1hpcomproductsserverslinuxindexhtml
7
Table 3 BI Workload Reference Configuration for the DL980 G7
SYSTEM ProcessorsCores Advanced Performance Intermediate Performance
HP DL980 G7 432 4TB raw data 7TB raw data
350ndash700 concurrent users 250ndash500 concurrent users
HP DL980 G7 864 7TB raw data 14TB raw data
500ndash1000 concurrent users 350ndash700 concurrent users
Reliability and Availability
The days when many BI systems had few or lax HA requirements are over for most IT shops Thus many traditional OLTP HA features have become increasingly attractive to the enterprises that depend upon their BI structures for critical operations Many reliability and availability features are built into the DL980 the Linux and Windows operating systems and associated software
Downtime costs the business HP understands this and has designed the DL980 with enterprise-grade reliability and availability features at a fraction of the cost
Redundant Components
bull System interconnect fabric data paths bull Power supplies fans (all hot-swappable) bull Dual-path IO cards (option) bull Memory spare rank (option) bull Mirrored memory (option) bull Hot plug drives and RAID storage
Resiliency
bull CPU (Intel features) o Intel Machine Check Architecture recovery allows the system to recover from otherwise fatal
memory errors o Intel Scalable Memory Interconnect Lane failover and Intel QuickPath Interconnect self-healing
enable the platform to identify problems and fail over to another lane or modify link operations
bull Memory (mirroring rank sparing demand scrubbing link level retry correction codes) bull IO (PCIe monitoring and shutdown upon error link level retry redundancy)
Advantage HP The DL980 provides superior reliability compared to legacy Sun and IBM servers Additionally there are far more reliability and availability hardware and firmware components uniquely built into a DL980 than lower TCO x86 servers These features enable BI operations to keep running during historically fatal errors
8
For the highest level of availability necessary for 24x7 data warehouses and BI structures that are designed for minimal down time there are several failover-clustering options available on the DL980
bull Red Hat Enterprise Linux Cluster Suite bull Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension bull Veritas Cluster Server bull VMware High Availability (additionally VMware VMotion can be used to obviate the need for
planned downtime maintenance) bull LifeKeeper bull Microsoft Failover Clustering bull Oracle Clusterware
Manageability
The DL980 benefits from a common management infrastructure that exists across the HP server line This infrastructure includes both hardware and software components
Integrated Lights-Out 3 (iLO 3) is a management processor integrated into every DL980 server providing secure remote management capabilities regardless of server status or location
HP Insight Software is an integrated portfolio of infrastructure management software for HP servers Within this portfolio HP Insight Control can help save time and money by making it easy to deploy migrate monitor control and optimize your IT infrastructure through a single simple management console Also within the HP Insight Software portfolio HP Insight Dynamics provides advanced infrastructure lifecycle management software Insight Dynamics includes integrated infrastructure design with automated activation of servers storage and networking Insight Dynamics also provides built-in capacity planning and rebalancing tools as well as providing automated disaster recovery and failover capabilities
Advantage HP Common ldquosingle pane of glassrdquo management software across all HP servers storage and networking reduces complexity time and cost
Best of Breed Choice and Standards
Business Intelligence is a mature technology with widespread adoption and a wealth of mature solutions Numerous best-of-breed solutions exist with leading edge technology and attractive cost A BI architect can make an informed choice of the best-of-breed solution that most satisfies the current and future needs of the business user requirements Best-of-breed solutions are often the product of vendors who focus and specialize in well-defined areas of BI They arenrsquot spread thin instead they offer leading edge technologies that can give a business the technological edge needed over their rivals
The current strategy of both IBM and Oracle-Sun through extensive acquisitions of numerous smaller companies is to promote a suite of solutions that ultimately equates to vendor lock-in for the customer Vendor lock-in reached its peak in the mid lsquo90s and has declined since that point The biggest reason for the decline of the all-encompassing suite was that the eventual cost of the suite after the initial deployment became a burden Ultimately costs always went up for support upgrades and services Also many suites are not as integrated as they should be adding unforeseen costs to the deployment
Advantage HP HP offers choice HP provides industry-standard solutions and a wealth of best-of-breed solutions through in-house solutions and strong partnerships
Operating System Choice
Both Linux and Microsoftreg Windows are capable choices to run BI focused databases and BI applications on the DL980
9
As can be seen from the Winter Corporation Top Ten Survey of 2005 enterprise IT shops have been able to house large data warehouses on Windows and Linux for years The Winter Corporation specializes in high-end BI and has presented Very Large Database proof points In the Top Ten Database survey The survey is collated from actual customer BI implementations data which is gathered using approved sizing and monitoring tools
The link below to the Winter Corporation Top Ten Survey shows interesting customer data supporting the existence of large production BI data warehouses on both Linux and Windows servers
In summary 10 customer instances are noted on Windows between 4TB and 194TB data warehouse size and 8 customer instances on Linux between 1TB and 24TB data warehouse size httpwwwwintercorpcomVLDB2005_TopTen_SurveyTopTenWinners_2005asp
Please keep in mind that this Top Ten Survey is just a sampling of the worldwide Very Large Data Warehouse pool and is now 5 years old Since that time BI databases on both Windows and Linux have grown in both total database size and the number of such large instances now in existence
Advantage HP HP is the top provider of Linux and Windows server systems in terms of worldwide shipments The foundation for this success is a strong technical partnership for each of these offerings
All major Linux offerings run on HPrsquos standards-based Intel Xeon processor-based platforms including market leaders Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Oracle Enterprise Linux is supported as well
Advantage HP Approximately 14000 Linux applications are available for HPrsquos standards-based Intel Xeon processor-based ProLiant servers There are far fewer applications available on specialized Linux distributions and for proprietary RISC systems that offer Linux support Additionally these ldquoLinux specialsrdquo often require specialized integration and customization
Database Choice
All major databases are available and optimized for the standards-based DL980 Microsoft SQL Server Sybase IQ and Oracle are all capable choices for hosting data warehouse operational data stores or data marts
Virtualization Choice
Virtualization is particularly useful for consolidation of multiple isolated BI workloads onto a DL980 For the enterprise that has scores of data marts and operational marts consolidation onto a larger platform has the following benefits
bull Decommissioning isolated and underutilized BI silos bull Reducing power consumption management effort cooling and floor space bull Freeing up IT budget that can be used for true innovation elsewhere
Many choices exist for virtualization software that runs on the DL980
bull VMware vSphere bull Microsoft Hyper-V bull KVM bull OpenVZ bull Citrix Xen bull Parallels Virtuozzo Containers
Advantage HP Standards-based offerings as well as choice are strong factors in reining in data center costs as well as providing solid solutions for the BI user community
10
The HP Converged Infrastructure A modern enterprise infrastructure implies IT unification through data center convergence It is imperative that legacy issues be resolved and not repeated IT has to evolve or face expensive stagnation
Built on innovation standards and choice the HP Converged Infrastructure is the modern paradigm for achieving this data center of the future HP is soundly positioned to deliver the Converged Infrastructure to its customers with a full portfolio of integrated solutions and services developed for modern unified data centers
Unification is a central theme of the HP Converged Infrastructure (Figure 2) Common components span HP servers (both ProLiant and Integrity) HP storage and HP networking
bull A common modular infrastructure with common building blocks bull Common power and cooling bull A common network fabric bull Common management software
Figure 2 The HP Converged Infrastructure
Power amp cooling
ServersStorage
Management software
Network
Converged Infrastructure
This converged architectural framework simplifies integrates and automates technology
bull Simplifies the infrastructure and reduces TCO bull Lowers the cost of deployment and implementation by obviating the need for expensive and lengthy
integration and interoperability consulting bull Removes server silos and server sprawl bull Integrates multiple vendorsrsquo technology into pools of interoperable resources
HP Matrix Operating Environment ndash The HP Matrix Operating Environment is a common management platform that extends from infrastructure to application across servers storage and networks It includes tools for provisioning and modifying complex infrastructures lifecycle management resource provisioning high availability performance and capacity assessment and automated consolidation analysis
11
At the core of the HP Matrix Operating Environment is HP Insight Softwaremdashthe comprehensive family of HP infrastructure management software HP Insight Software infrastructure orchestration capabilities let you provision infrastructure in minutes to automatically activate physical and virtual servers storage and networking from pools of shared resources
HP Advantage This software enables your organization to simultaneously control all elements of an infrastructure needed to deliver a service It unifies all the tools for infrastructure lifecycle management into one command center It allows quick provisioning of the infrastructure using a common management platform It reduces complexity reduces time to operation increases commonality across solutions and thereby reduces cost
HP Virtual Resource Pools ndash HP Virtual Resource Pools create a common modular infrastructure of virtualized compute memory storage and network resources Resources are aggregated and shared across the data center between HP ProLiant servers HP Integrity servers and StorageWorks storage products Businesses can use the same architecture to manage multiple workloads across servers storage and networking
HP Advantage Reduces underutilized platforms reduces server and storage sprawl reduces server silos frees up floor space increases productivity reduces complexity and reduces cost
HP Data Center Smart Grid ndash HP Data Center Smart Grid provides intelligent energy management across systems and facilities controlling and reducing energy usage in real time The Smart Grid is a set of monitoring tools and embedded sensors that enable resource monitoring and capacity planning HP Thermal Logic includes embedded technology designed to reduce energy usage and associated costs Sea of Sensors monitors energy consumption and automatically adjusts cooling resources using up to 32 sensors to adjust fan speeds and power only the slots that are in use Dynamic Power Capping enables the reclaiming of trapped power and cooling capacity by safely limiting server power consumption
HP Advantage Reduces energy consumption extends the energy capacity of existing data center facilities and reduces cost
HP Servers ndash HP standards-based servers are ideal for IT organizations considering building a shared services infrastructure to centralize IT and reduce operational costs HP servers are a robust offering for multi-tier enterprise applications The common infrastructure and common management supports both cost-effective ProLiant servers as well as mission-critical Integrity HP-UX servers
All HP servers are engineered for balanced performance across the two major workloads BI and OLTP workloadsndashunlike the POWER platforms that exhibit engineering and optimization for the CPU-centric OLTP workload such as TPC-C
HP Advantage The commonality and interoperability of HP servers in the Converged Infrastructure reduces complexity and reduces the deployment integration and customization required to achieve a cost-effective infrastructure Furthermore these characteristics allow the fast implementation and efficient management of a multi-tier solution back-end data warehouse database hosting DL980 servers and front-end application hosting Intel Xeon processor-based servers
HP Advantage For the 57th consecutive quarter more than 14 years HP ProLiant is the x86 server market share leader in both factory revenue and units shipping more than 1 out of every 3 servers in this market with a 379 unit share HPrsquos x86 revenue share 401 was 188 percentage points higher than its nearest competitor Dell and 213 percentage points higher than IBM1
1 Source All of the above market share figures are for the 3rd quarter [unless otherwise noted] and represent
worldwide results as reported by the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker for 3Q 10 December 2010
12
TCO Analysis An analysis of the DL980 powered with the Intel Xeon processor 7500 series versus both the IBM POWER 770 and the Oracle-Sun SPARC M9000 shows a clear 3-year TCO advantage for the DL980 The immediate acquisition cost savings is striking savings that can be used for IT innovation instead of maintaining the inefficient legacy status quo
The most important cost categories are included in this analysis
bull Hardware acquisition cost bull Server software (OS and Oracle database) bull Hardware and software support and maintenance bull Systems administration bull Facilities (power cooling space)
Data Source Ideas International Ltd amp Alinean Inc were used to make the performance and cost comparisons (June 2010)
Comparison - IBM POWER 770 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Table 4 Comparative solution specifics ndash IBM POWER 770 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Server OS DBMS Server number SocketsCores Total cores
IBM POWER7 770 (31 GHz) AIX Oracle 11g 1 864 64
HP DL980 G7 Intel Xeon X7560 (226 GHz)
Red Hat
Red Hat
Enterprise
Linux
Oracle 11g 1 864 64
Table 5 3 Year TCO comparisons ndash IBM POWER 770 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
TCO Comparison ndash Cumulative 3 Year Solution A
IBM P7 770 64c
Solution B
HP ProLiant DL980 G7 64c
Difference
(A ndash B) Amount
Difference
(A ndash B) Percentage
Server Hardware $318560 $112092 $206468 648
Server Software (OS amp DB) $2416064 $1146207 $1269857 526
Hardware and Software Support amp Maintenance
$1682173 $755348 $926825 551
System Administration $43620 $31371 $12249 281
Facilities (Power Cooling amp Floor space) $38235 $24084 $14151 370
Total IT Costs $4498652 $2069102 $2429550 540
13
TCOROI Summary (summary derived from Table 5)
bull Overall savings of 54 over 3 years with the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 bull Hardware acquisition cost savings of 65 bull Hardware and software support and maintenance cost savings of 55
Comparison ndash Oracle-Sun M9000 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Table 6 3 Year TCO comparisons ndash Oracle-Sun M9000 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Server OS DBMS Server number
SocketsCores Total cores
Oracle-Sun M9000 SPARC64 VI (24 GHz)
Solaris Oracle 11g 1 64128 128
HP DL980 G7 Intel Xeon X7560 (226 GHz)
Red Hat Enterprise
Linux
Oracle 11g 1 864 64
Table 7 3 Year TCO comparisons ndash Oracle-Sun M9000 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
TCO Comparison ndash Cumulative 3 Year
Solution A
OracleSun M9000 SPARC VI 128c
Solution B
HP ProLiant DL980 G7 64c
Difference
(A ndash B) Amount
Difference
(A ndash B) Percentage
Server Hardware $3404864 $112092 $3292772 967
Server Software (OS amp DB) $3520000 $1146207 $2373793 674
Hardware and Software Support amp Maintenance
$3809070 $755348 $3053772 802
System Administration $40428 $31371 $9057 224
Facilities (Power Cooling amp Floor space)
$237357 $24084 $213273 899
Total IT Costs $11011719 $2069102 $8942617 812
TCOROI Summary (summary derived from Table 7)
bull Overall savings of 81 over 3 years with the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 bull Hardware acquisition cost savings of 97 bull Hardware and software support and maintenance cost savings of 80
14
Migration Drivers In transforming data centers and BI solution platforms into efficient and modern entities migrations are a necessity Fortunately migrations from IBM and Sun are not a new phenomenon theyrsquove been going on for the better part of 20 years Thousands of migrations have occurred giving rise to the creation and use by HP of mature migration methodologies tools and expertise
Before any migration can be considered valid reasons must exist to justify the investment Fortunately valid migrational drivers exist in both the business and technical areas of every corporation Drivers that lead to migrations tend to revolve around solid objectives related to lowering computing cost and improving service levels There are numerous drivers that apply to most IT shops whether that shop has older Oracle-Sun SPARC servers or older IBM POWER servers In addition to these general drivers common to both environments there are compelling reasons to migrate specific to SPARC and POWER environments
General Migration Drivers The following general drivers apply to both older Oracle-Sun SPARC servers and IBM POWER servers
High Support Costs ndash Support costs for older systems are typically higher than the support costs for current systems If the warranty has expired support costs may become a shock the day after warranty expiration
HP Advantage HPrsquos DL980 as well as the entire HP ProLiant server family has excellent TCO compared to both older SPARC and POWER servers as well as newer servers See the TCO Analysis section below for more detail
Data Center Running Out of Floor Space ndash The historic pairing of servers and BI applications for discrete solutions has led to a proliferation of servers dedicated to single tasks Thus many data centers are running out of capacity
HP Advantage The DL980 is an ideal consolidation platform Floor space can be freed up by consolidation of BI instances and applications onto the DL980 with its relatively small footprint
Too Many Database Instances ndash Database consolidation results from an initial state in which too many BI-related database instances exist Numerous small data marts or numerous operational data stores are prime examples Most likely this profusion of small instances occurred by splitting the query workload to enable query and report processing to be accomplished within accepted parameters Database sprawl takes up floor space and IT timendashand ultimately increases cost
HP Advantage Once again the DL980 is an ideal consolidation and virtualization platform for large database environments with too many instances particularly in enterprises beset with too many small data marts
Underutilized Servers ndash While unceasing high-pressure BI workloads do occur theyrsquore in the minority Instead many enterprises create peak BI workload at the end of month end of quarter end of year and other significant times during the yearly business cycle
Thus itrsquos common in older architectures to find dedicated servers that are not fully utilized or are only productively utilized a small percentage of the time Dedicating one workload to each server meant that each server needed to be sized accordingly to accommodate the peak workload For much of the time many servers tend to run lightly loaded outside of peak hours The cost of carrying several of these systems can be significant
15
HP Advantage The DL980 is an ideal high-performance scalable reliable and low-cost consolidation platform
Oracle-Sun Specific Drivers Many of the more troublesome Oracle-Sun specific drivers listed below are outcomes of the last eight years of hard times for SPARC servers
Underperforming Servers ndash With the steady slowdown in the evolution of the SPARC line performance has been an issue for many years Add to this the weight of underutilized servers sized for peak workloads and the drag on an IT operations budget can be significant
HP Advantage Comparative data using Alinean Ltd and Ideas International Inc show a tangible HP advantage especially in enterprise-class servers Ask your HP representative for a TCO analysis
The Risks of a Single-Vendor Solution Stack ndash Hosting an Oracle database on Oracle-Sun servers cedes control of the entire solution stack to Oracle Could you be overspending on servers software and support by relying solely on Oracle-Sun
HP Advantage HP can provide a ldquowhole environmentrdquo view with the DL980 in the Converged Infrastructure and best-of-breed partners to help you move to your next-generation environment
Escalating and Changing Support Costs ndash Higher support costs exist for Oracle-Sun SPARC systems including new ldquomandatoryrdquo hardware support fees
HP Advantage Evaluating the support costs for the DL980 and other HP ProLiant servers relative to Oracle-Sun SPARC support costs can help you find ways to reduce operational support costs Ask your HP representative for a TCO analysis
IBM Specific Drivers IBM has its own set of specific issues that have driven data centers to migrate from IBM servers frequently over the last 20 years
High Cost of Deployment Integration and Maintenance ndash Cost is an issue with architectures consisting of older POWER4 and POWER5 servers IBMrsquos approach to computing technology does not lend itself well to simple deployment and integration POWER servers have been created to interoperate very well in a POWER-only environment Unfortunately it is costly to integrate POWER servers with non-POWER servers (eg x86 servers) storage networking diverse management tools and applications This characteristic of the POWER server line results in higher costs for deployment integration support maintenance and ultimately upgrades to newer POWER servers Unfortunately when choosing a POWER-to-POWER upgrade the high-cost IBM lifecycle begins again and data centers are firmly locked into the same inflexible architecture
The IBM Architectural Silo Model ndash The piecemeal nature of siloed POWER solutions (separate HA separate networking no standard management infrastructure etc) requires extensive and custom integration Unfortunately IBM mainframes and x86 servers subscribe to siloed architecture as well The IBM approach to architectural design and component deployment forces customers to adapt their business operations to fit IBMrsquos technology silos such as mainframe or POWER servers To implement cost-effective multi-tier computing infrastructures customers must piece together their own enterprise architecture By modern standards this is a needless investment of development time and budget that can be better used for higher priority tasks
16
Lack of Solution Flexibility ndash Instead of vendor guidance toward overcoming many of the legacy issues above are you guided into upgrading the legacy environment instead of transforming it into a cost-effective and contemporary infrastructure Being guided into an IBM-only siloed infrastructure philosophy solves only surface issues and can perpetuate cost and resource inefficiency
HP Advantage For the issues above HP provides a ldquowhole environmentrdquo view with the DL980 and best-of-breed partners to help you move to your next generation environment HP Converged Infrastructure offers common building blocksndashstandards-based servers ProLiant Xeon servers and Integrity Itanium Servers common management software common power and cooling and a common network fabric
Older POWER Server Processing and Workload Shortcomings ndash It should come as no surprise that for many intense BI workloads these older POWER4 and POWER5 systems lack the necessary processing IO bandwidth and reliability IBMrsquos message was also quite clear when they optimized the POWER architecture primarily for the OLTP workload The OLTP workload does not have the same characteristics of mixed workloads or BI workloads Specific components subsystems and features are necessary to satisfy the intense IO bandwidth and processing requirements of high-volume BI workloads mixed OLTP and BI workloads and long-running batch processing
HP Advantage The DL980 was specifically designed and optimized to process mixed workloads including the two most popular workloads the Business Intelligence workload and the mission-critical OLTP workload It contains by conscious design the necessary hardware and software components to excel at these business-critical workloads Thus the DL980 is able to efficiently handle a mixed workload containing both analytical BI and operational BI In addition the DL980 provides up to 2TB of memory to facilitate in-memory processing
HP Migration Resources HP Migration Process
The HP migration process (Figure 3) embodies a mature and flexible methodology that provides a consistent framework for capturing and carrying out customer requirements The process is built upon years of migration experience and best practices across a variety of databases applications and platforms The process is tool agnostic providing flexibility in solution development Using this mature process as a foundation HP provides a customer-driven migration process instead of an inflexible process based on single-path choices
HP has over 20 years worth of experience migrating customers off of Oracle-Sun servers IBM servers databases and applications to HP solutions HP offers a Solaris-to-Linux porting kit and also uses IBM tools that are available for AIX-to-Linux porting
17
Figure 3 HP Migration Process
HP-UX 11i on HP Integrity
Linux on HP ProLiant
Windows on HP ProLiant
MIGRATION PATH
THE HP MIGRATION CENTER
MIGRATION PROCESS
SupportExecutePlanAssess
HP SUNSET COMPLETE CARE INCENTIVES
The key benefits of the HP migration process are
bull A standard high level process which is o based on decades of expertise and best practices o repeatable o customizable by database and application technology platform and migration toolset o scalable accommodating simple to complex migrations
bull Identifies migration requirements up front and properly addresses those requirements in a strategy document A TCO analysis is also included which provides solid data points to facilitate validation of the migration business case
bull Incorporates production dress rehearsals to refine the deployment prior to the actual deployment phase
bull Includes data quality analysis to address source side data issues prior to migration
18
HP Migration Center and Services
Over the past 20+ years HP has helped migrate thousands of customers gaining valuable knowledge expertise and repeatability Migrations from older architectures allow customers to take advantage of HP infrastructure to reduce costs improve performance and gain competitive advantage Through the HP Migration Center HP combines best practices with new technologies such as the HP Converged Infrastructure to give you simple and unified low-risk solutions
Modernizing from antiquated and siloed Oracle-Sun and IBM environments to a flexible and integrated Converged Infrastructure takes experience and planning The HP Migration Competence Center as well as HPrsquos data center transformation specialists can guide your operations teams through the following decisions and options required to take advantage of the Converged Infrastructure capabilities
bull Reduce aggregate server and core count by eliminating underutilized dedicated servers Let HP evaluate your current workload inventory and help you plan a consolidated or virtualized environment that improves utilization while cutting software instances and related licensing costs
bull Cut provisioning time from days to minutes Distributed environments are known for complex cabling parallel server and storage wiring and slow complex error-prone provisioning procedures HP can help you accelerate repetitive provisioning tasks by taking advantage of application templates while relying on HP Virtual Connect to instantly provision servers and storage connections
bull Dedicated servers are usually underutilized outside of peak workload hours Verify there is always ldquojust enoughrdquo capacity by letting HP evaluate your current workloads and demand cycles in order to help you define a much more efficient environment Accurately address capacity needs without overspending using HP Capacity Planner technology part of the HP Converged Infrastructure management umbrella
bull HP can help you constrain power consumption to match active workloads HP Data Center Smart Grid enables the automatic ldquodialing backrdquo of power consumption for lightly loaded resources As the load increases power consumption will be automatically ldquodialed uprdquo to ensure that appropriate performance levels are met
The HP Migration Center maintains a close relationship with many database and application partners to ensure a smooth complete migration solution with respect to the databases and applications Additionally the HP Migrations Center works closely with the HP Solution Centers and Competence Centers to assist with database and application migrations
The Migration Center can deploy experts for the DL980 and Linux as well as HP specialists for the operating systems of other vendors Additionally HP maintains close development and support arrangements with major operating systems vendors including Microsoft Windows Novell SUSE Linux Oracle Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Call to Action See for yourself how the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 makes an ideal platform for your enterprise workloads Ask for a TCO assessment or migration assessment to get started For more information please contact your HP representative or visit httpwwwhpcomgomigratetohp
Share with colleagues
copy Copyright 2011 Hewlett-Packard Development Company LP The information contained herein is subject to change without notice The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein
Intel and Intel Xeon are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the US and other countries Linux is a US registered trademark of Linus Torvalds Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation andor its affiliates Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries
4AA3-3180ENW Created February 2011 Updated March 2011 Rev 1
For More Information HP ProLiant DL980 G7 serverndashDatasheet
HP ProLiant DL980 G7 Server with HP PREMA Architecture
httph20195www2hpcomv2GetPDFaspx4AA1-5671ENWpdf
httph20195www2hpcomv2GetPDFaspx4AA3-0643ENWpdf
Intel Xeon processor 7500 series
httpwwwintelcomitcenterproductsxeon7500
HP Converged Infrastructure
httph18004www1hpcomproductssolutionsconvergedmainhtml
The HP Migration Center white paper
httph20195www2hpcomv2GetPDFaspx4AA1-0783ENWpdf
Linux on HP ProLiant servers
httph18004www1hpcomproductsserverslinuxindexhtml
8
For the highest level of availability necessary for 24x7 data warehouses and BI structures that are designed for minimal down time there are several failover-clustering options available on the DL980
bull Red Hat Enterprise Linux Cluster Suite bull Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension bull Veritas Cluster Server bull VMware High Availability (additionally VMware VMotion can be used to obviate the need for
planned downtime maintenance) bull LifeKeeper bull Microsoft Failover Clustering bull Oracle Clusterware
Manageability
The DL980 benefits from a common management infrastructure that exists across the HP server line This infrastructure includes both hardware and software components
Integrated Lights-Out 3 (iLO 3) is a management processor integrated into every DL980 server providing secure remote management capabilities regardless of server status or location
HP Insight Software is an integrated portfolio of infrastructure management software for HP servers Within this portfolio HP Insight Control can help save time and money by making it easy to deploy migrate monitor control and optimize your IT infrastructure through a single simple management console Also within the HP Insight Software portfolio HP Insight Dynamics provides advanced infrastructure lifecycle management software Insight Dynamics includes integrated infrastructure design with automated activation of servers storage and networking Insight Dynamics also provides built-in capacity planning and rebalancing tools as well as providing automated disaster recovery and failover capabilities
Advantage HP Common ldquosingle pane of glassrdquo management software across all HP servers storage and networking reduces complexity time and cost
Best of Breed Choice and Standards
Business Intelligence is a mature technology with widespread adoption and a wealth of mature solutions Numerous best-of-breed solutions exist with leading edge technology and attractive cost A BI architect can make an informed choice of the best-of-breed solution that most satisfies the current and future needs of the business user requirements Best-of-breed solutions are often the product of vendors who focus and specialize in well-defined areas of BI They arenrsquot spread thin instead they offer leading edge technologies that can give a business the technological edge needed over their rivals
The current strategy of both IBM and Oracle-Sun through extensive acquisitions of numerous smaller companies is to promote a suite of solutions that ultimately equates to vendor lock-in for the customer Vendor lock-in reached its peak in the mid lsquo90s and has declined since that point The biggest reason for the decline of the all-encompassing suite was that the eventual cost of the suite after the initial deployment became a burden Ultimately costs always went up for support upgrades and services Also many suites are not as integrated as they should be adding unforeseen costs to the deployment
Advantage HP HP offers choice HP provides industry-standard solutions and a wealth of best-of-breed solutions through in-house solutions and strong partnerships
Operating System Choice
Both Linux and Microsoftreg Windows are capable choices to run BI focused databases and BI applications on the DL980
9
As can be seen from the Winter Corporation Top Ten Survey of 2005 enterprise IT shops have been able to house large data warehouses on Windows and Linux for years The Winter Corporation specializes in high-end BI and has presented Very Large Database proof points In the Top Ten Database survey The survey is collated from actual customer BI implementations data which is gathered using approved sizing and monitoring tools
The link below to the Winter Corporation Top Ten Survey shows interesting customer data supporting the existence of large production BI data warehouses on both Linux and Windows servers
In summary 10 customer instances are noted on Windows between 4TB and 194TB data warehouse size and 8 customer instances on Linux between 1TB and 24TB data warehouse size httpwwwwintercorpcomVLDB2005_TopTen_SurveyTopTenWinners_2005asp
Please keep in mind that this Top Ten Survey is just a sampling of the worldwide Very Large Data Warehouse pool and is now 5 years old Since that time BI databases on both Windows and Linux have grown in both total database size and the number of such large instances now in existence
Advantage HP HP is the top provider of Linux and Windows server systems in terms of worldwide shipments The foundation for this success is a strong technical partnership for each of these offerings
All major Linux offerings run on HPrsquos standards-based Intel Xeon processor-based platforms including market leaders Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Oracle Enterprise Linux is supported as well
Advantage HP Approximately 14000 Linux applications are available for HPrsquos standards-based Intel Xeon processor-based ProLiant servers There are far fewer applications available on specialized Linux distributions and for proprietary RISC systems that offer Linux support Additionally these ldquoLinux specialsrdquo often require specialized integration and customization
Database Choice
All major databases are available and optimized for the standards-based DL980 Microsoft SQL Server Sybase IQ and Oracle are all capable choices for hosting data warehouse operational data stores or data marts
Virtualization Choice
Virtualization is particularly useful for consolidation of multiple isolated BI workloads onto a DL980 For the enterprise that has scores of data marts and operational marts consolidation onto a larger platform has the following benefits
bull Decommissioning isolated and underutilized BI silos bull Reducing power consumption management effort cooling and floor space bull Freeing up IT budget that can be used for true innovation elsewhere
Many choices exist for virtualization software that runs on the DL980
bull VMware vSphere bull Microsoft Hyper-V bull KVM bull OpenVZ bull Citrix Xen bull Parallels Virtuozzo Containers
Advantage HP Standards-based offerings as well as choice are strong factors in reining in data center costs as well as providing solid solutions for the BI user community
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The HP Converged Infrastructure A modern enterprise infrastructure implies IT unification through data center convergence It is imperative that legacy issues be resolved and not repeated IT has to evolve or face expensive stagnation
Built on innovation standards and choice the HP Converged Infrastructure is the modern paradigm for achieving this data center of the future HP is soundly positioned to deliver the Converged Infrastructure to its customers with a full portfolio of integrated solutions and services developed for modern unified data centers
Unification is a central theme of the HP Converged Infrastructure (Figure 2) Common components span HP servers (both ProLiant and Integrity) HP storage and HP networking
bull A common modular infrastructure with common building blocks bull Common power and cooling bull A common network fabric bull Common management software
Figure 2 The HP Converged Infrastructure
Power amp cooling
ServersStorage
Management software
Network
Converged Infrastructure
This converged architectural framework simplifies integrates and automates technology
bull Simplifies the infrastructure and reduces TCO bull Lowers the cost of deployment and implementation by obviating the need for expensive and lengthy
integration and interoperability consulting bull Removes server silos and server sprawl bull Integrates multiple vendorsrsquo technology into pools of interoperable resources
HP Matrix Operating Environment ndash The HP Matrix Operating Environment is a common management platform that extends from infrastructure to application across servers storage and networks It includes tools for provisioning and modifying complex infrastructures lifecycle management resource provisioning high availability performance and capacity assessment and automated consolidation analysis
11
At the core of the HP Matrix Operating Environment is HP Insight Softwaremdashthe comprehensive family of HP infrastructure management software HP Insight Software infrastructure orchestration capabilities let you provision infrastructure in minutes to automatically activate physical and virtual servers storage and networking from pools of shared resources
HP Advantage This software enables your organization to simultaneously control all elements of an infrastructure needed to deliver a service It unifies all the tools for infrastructure lifecycle management into one command center It allows quick provisioning of the infrastructure using a common management platform It reduces complexity reduces time to operation increases commonality across solutions and thereby reduces cost
HP Virtual Resource Pools ndash HP Virtual Resource Pools create a common modular infrastructure of virtualized compute memory storage and network resources Resources are aggregated and shared across the data center between HP ProLiant servers HP Integrity servers and StorageWorks storage products Businesses can use the same architecture to manage multiple workloads across servers storage and networking
HP Advantage Reduces underutilized platforms reduces server and storage sprawl reduces server silos frees up floor space increases productivity reduces complexity and reduces cost
HP Data Center Smart Grid ndash HP Data Center Smart Grid provides intelligent energy management across systems and facilities controlling and reducing energy usage in real time The Smart Grid is a set of monitoring tools and embedded sensors that enable resource monitoring and capacity planning HP Thermal Logic includes embedded technology designed to reduce energy usage and associated costs Sea of Sensors monitors energy consumption and automatically adjusts cooling resources using up to 32 sensors to adjust fan speeds and power only the slots that are in use Dynamic Power Capping enables the reclaiming of trapped power and cooling capacity by safely limiting server power consumption
HP Advantage Reduces energy consumption extends the energy capacity of existing data center facilities and reduces cost
HP Servers ndash HP standards-based servers are ideal for IT organizations considering building a shared services infrastructure to centralize IT and reduce operational costs HP servers are a robust offering for multi-tier enterprise applications The common infrastructure and common management supports both cost-effective ProLiant servers as well as mission-critical Integrity HP-UX servers
All HP servers are engineered for balanced performance across the two major workloads BI and OLTP workloadsndashunlike the POWER platforms that exhibit engineering and optimization for the CPU-centric OLTP workload such as TPC-C
HP Advantage The commonality and interoperability of HP servers in the Converged Infrastructure reduces complexity and reduces the deployment integration and customization required to achieve a cost-effective infrastructure Furthermore these characteristics allow the fast implementation and efficient management of a multi-tier solution back-end data warehouse database hosting DL980 servers and front-end application hosting Intel Xeon processor-based servers
HP Advantage For the 57th consecutive quarter more than 14 years HP ProLiant is the x86 server market share leader in both factory revenue and units shipping more than 1 out of every 3 servers in this market with a 379 unit share HPrsquos x86 revenue share 401 was 188 percentage points higher than its nearest competitor Dell and 213 percentage points higher than IBM1
1 Source All of the above market share figures are for the 3rd quarter [unless otherwise noted] and represent
worldwide results as reported by the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker for 3Q 10 December 2010
12
TCO Analysis An analysis of the DL980 powered with the Intel Xeon processor 7500 series versus both the IBM POWER 770 and the Oracle-Sun SPARC M9000 shows a clear 3-year TCO advantage for the DL980 The immediate acquisition cost savings is striking savings that can be used for IT innovation instead of maintaining the inefficient legacy status quo
The most important cost categories are included in this analysis
bull Hardware acquisition cost bull Server software (OS and Oracle database) bull Hardware and software support and maintenance bull Systems administration bull Facilities (power cooling space)
Data Source Ideas International Ltd amp Alinean Inc were used to make the performance and cost comparisons (June 2010)
Comparison - IBM POWER 770 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Table 4 Comparative solution specifics ndash IBM POWER 770 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Server OS DBMS Server number SocketsCores Total cores
IBM POWER7 770 (31 GHz) AIX Oracle 11g 1 864 64
HP DL980 G7 Intel Xeon X7560 (226 GHz)
Red Hat
Red Hat
Enterprise
Linux
Oracle 11g 1 864 64
Table 5 3 Year TCO comparisons ndash IBM POWER 770 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
TCO Comparison ndash Cumulative 3 Year Solution A
IBM P7 770 64c
Solution B
HP ProLiant DL980 G7 64c
Difference
(A ndash B) Amount
Difference
(A ndash B) Percentage
Server Hardware $318560 $112092 $206468 648
Server Software (OS amp DB) $2416064 $1146207 $1269857 526
Hardware and Software Support amp Maintenance
$1682173 $755348 $926825 551
System Administration $43620 $31371 $12249 281
Facilities (Power Cooling amp Floor space) $38235 $24084 $14151 370
Total IT Costs $4498652 $2069102 $2429550 540
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TCOROI Summary (summary derived from Table 5)
bull Overall savings of 54 over 3 years with the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 bull Hardware acquisition cost savings of 65 bull Hardware and software support and maintenance cost savings of 55
Comparison ndash Oracle-Sun M9000 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Table 6 3 Year TCO comparisons ndash Oracle-Sun M9000 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Server OS DBMS Server number
SocketsCores Total cores
Oracle-Sun M9000 SPARC64 VI (24 GHz)
Solaris Oracle 11g 1 64128 128
HP DL980 G7 Intel Xeon X7560 (226 GHz)
Red Hat Enterprise
Linux
Oracle 11g 1 864 64
Table 7 3 Year TCO comparisons ndash Oracle-Sun M9000 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
TCO Comparison ndash Cumulative 3 Year
Solution A
OracleSun M9000 SPARC VI 128c
Solution B
HP ProLiant DL980 G7 64c
Difference
(A ndash B) Amount
Difference
(A ndash B) Percentage
Server Hardware $3404864 $112092 $3292772 967
Server Software (OS amp DB) $3520000 $1146207 $2373793 674
Hardware and Software Support amp Maintenance
$3809070 $755348 $3053772 802
System Administration $40428 $31371 $9057 224
Facilities (Power Cooling amp Floor space)
$237357 $24084 $213273 899
Total IT Costs $11011719 $2069102 $8942617 812
TCOROI Summary (summary derived from Table 7)
bull Overall savings of 81 over 3 years with the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 bull Hardware acquisition cost savings of 97 bull Hardware and software support and maintenance cost savings of 80
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Migration Drivers In transforming data centers and BI solution platforms into efficient and modern entities migrations are a necessity Fortunately migrations from IBM and Sun are not a new phenomenon theyrsquove been going on for the better part of 20 years Thousands of migrations have occurred giving rise to the creation and use by HP of mature migration methodologies tools and expertise
Before any migration can be considered valid reasons must exist to justify the investment Fortunately valid migrational drivers exist in both the business and technical areas of every corporation Drivers that lead to migrations tend to revolve around solid objectives related to lowering computing cost and improving service levels There are numerous drivers that apply to most IT shops whether that shop has older Oracle-Sun SPARC servers or older IBM POWER servers In addition to these general drivers common to both environments there are compelling reasons to migrate specific to SPARC and POWER environments
General Migration Drivers The following general drivers apply to both older Oracle-Sun SPARC servers and IBM POWER servers
High Support Costs ndash Support costs for older systems are typically higher than the support costs for current systems If the warranty has expired support costs may become a shock the day after warranty expiration
HP Advantage HPrsquos DL980 as well as the entire HP ProLiant server family has excellent TCO compared to both older SPARC and POWER servers as well as newer servers See the TCO Analysis section below for more detail
Data Center Running Out of Floor Space ndash The historic pairing of servers and BI applications for discrete solutions has led to a proliferation of servers dedicated to single tasks Thus many data centers are running out of capacity
HP Advantage The DL980 is an ideal consolidation platform Floor space can be freed up by consolidation of BI instances and applications onto the DL980 with its relatively small footprint
Too Many Database Instances ndash Database consolidation results from an initial state in which too many BI-related database instances exist Numerous small data marts or numerous operational data stores are prime examples Most likely this profusion of small instances occurred by splitting the query workload to enable query and report processing to be accomplished within accepted parameters Database sprawl takes up floor space and IT timendashand ultimately increases cost
HP Advantage Once again the DL980 is an ideal consolidation and virtualization platform for large database environments with too many instances particularly in enterprises beset with too many small data marts
Underutilized Servers ndash While unceasing high-pressure BI workloads do occur theyrsquore in the minority Instead many enterprises create peak BI workload at the end of month end of quarter end of year and other significant times during the yearly business cycle
Thus itrsquos common in older architectures to find dedicated servers that are not fully utilized or are only productively utilized a small percentage of the time Dedicating one workload to each server meant that each server needed to be sized accordingly to accommodate the peak workload For much of the time many servers tend to run lightly loaded outside of peak hours The cost of carrying several of these systems can be significant
15
HP Advantage The DL980 is an ideal high-performance scalable reliable and low-cost consolidation platform
Oracle-Sun Specific Drivers Many of the more troublesome Oracle-Sun specific drivers listed below are outcomes of the last eight years of hard times for SPARC servers
Underperforming Servers ndash With the steady slowdown in the evolution of the SPARC line performance has been an issue for many years Add to this the weight of underutilized servers sized for peak workloads and the drag on an IT operations budget can be significant
HP Advantage Comparative data using Alinean Ltd and Ideas International Inc show a tangible HP advantage especially in enterprise-class servers Ask your HP representative for a TCO analysis
The Risks of a Single-Vendor Solution Stack ndash Hosting an Oracle database on Oracle-Sun servers cedes control of the entire solution stack to Oracle Could you be overspending on servers software and support by relying solely on Oracle-Sun
HP Advantage HP can provide a ldquowhole environmentrdquo view with the DL980 in the Converged Infrastructure and best-of-breed partners to help you move to your next-generation environment
Escalating and Changing Support Costs ndash Higher support costs exist for Oracle-Sun SPARC systems including new ldquomandatoryrdquo hardware support fees
HP Advantage Evaluating the support costs for the DL980 and other HP ProLiant servers relative to Oracle-Sun SPARC support costs can help you find ways to reduce operational support costs Ask your HP representative for a TCO analysis
IBM Specific Drivers IBM has its own set of specific issues that have driven data centers to migrate from IBM servers frequently over the last 20 years
High Cost of Deployment Integration and Maintenance ndash Cost is an issue with architectures consisting of older POWER4 and POWER5 servers IBMrsquos approach to computing technology does not lend itself well to simple deployment and integration POWER servers have been created to interoperate very well in a POWER-only environment Unfortunately it is costly to integrate POWER servers with non-POWER servers (eg x86 servers) storage networking diverse management tools and applications This characteristic of the POWER server line results in higher costs for deployment integration support maintenance and ultimately upgrades to newer POWER servers Unfortunately when choosing a POWER-to-POWER upgrade the high-cost IBM lifecycle begins again and data centers are firmly locked into the same inflexible architecture
The IBM Architectural Silo Model ndash The piecemeal nature of siloed POWER solutions (separate HA separate networking no standard management infrastructure etc) requires extensive and custom integration Unfortunately IBM mainframes and x86 servers subscribe to siloed architecture as well The IBM approach to architectural design and component deployment forces customers to adapt their business operations to fit IBMrsquos technology silos such as mainframe or POWER servers To implement cost-effective multi-tier computing infrastructures customers must piece together their own enterprise architecture By modern standards this is a needless investment of development time and budget that can be better used for higher priority tasks
16
Lack of Solution Flexibility ndash Instead of vendor guidance toward overcoming many of the legacy issues above are you guided into upgrading the legacy environment instead of transforming it into a cost-effective and contemporary infrastructure Being guided into an IBM-only siloed infrastructure philosophy solves only surface issues and can perpetuate cost and resource inefficiency
HP Advantage For the issues above HP provides a ldquowhole environmentrdquo view with the DL980 and best-of-breed partners to help you move to your next generation environment HP Converged Infrastructure offers common building blocksndashstandards-based servers ProLiant Xeon servers and Integrity Itanium Servers common management software common power and cooling and a common network fabric
Older POWER Server Processing and Workload Shortcomings ndash It should come as no surprise that for many intense BI workloads these older POWER4 and POWER5 systems lack the necessary processing IO bandwidth and reliability IBMrsquos message was also quite clear when they optimized the POWER architecture primarily for the OLTP workload The OLTP workload does not have the same characteristics of mixed workloads or BI workloads Specific components subsystems and features are necessary to satisfy the intense IO bandwidth and processing requirements of high-volume BI workloads mixed OLTP and BI workloads and long-running batch processing
HP Advantage The DL980 was specifically designed and optimized to process mixed workloads including the two most popular workloads the Business Intelligence workload and the mission-critical OLTP workload It contains by conscious design the necessary hardware and software components to excel at these business-critical workloads Thus the DL980 is able to efficiently handle a mixed workload containing both analytical BI and operational BI In addition the DL980 provides up to 2TB of memory to facilitate in-memory processing
HP Migration Resources HP Migration Process
The HP migration process (Figure 3) embodies a mature and flexible methodology that provides a consistent framework for capturing and carrying out customer requirements The process is built upon years of migration experience and best practices across a variety of databases applications and platforms The process is tool agnostic providing flexibility in solution development Using this mature process as a foundation HP provides a customer-driven migration process instead of an inflexible process based on single-path choices
HP has over 20 years worth of experience migrating customers off of Oracle-Sun servers IBM servers databases and applications to HP solutions HP offers a Solaris-to-Linux porting kit and also uses IBM tools that are available for AIX-to-Linux porting
17
Figure 3 HP Migration Process
HP-UX 11i on HP Integrity
Linux on HP ProLiant
Windows on HP ProLiant
MIGRATION PATH
THE HP MIGRATION CENTER
MIGRATION PROCESS
SupportExecutePlanAssess
HP SUNSET COMPLETE CARE INCENTIVES
The key benefits of the HP migration process are
bull A standard high level process which is o based on decades of expertise and best practices o repeatable o customizable by database and application technology platform and migration toolset o scalable accommodating simple to complex migrations
bull Identifies migration requirements up front and properly addresses those requirements in a strategy document A TCO analysis is also included which provides solid data points to facilitate validation of the migration business case
bull Incorporates production dress rehearsals to refine the deployment prior to the actual deployment phase
bull Includes data quality analysis to address source side data issues prior to migration
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HP Migration Center and Services
Over the past 20+ years HP has helped migrate thousands of customers gaining valuable knowledge expertise and repeatability Migrations from older architectures allow customers to take advantage of HP infrastructure to reduce costs improve performance and gain competitive advantage Through the HP Migration Center HP combines best practices with new technologies such as the HP Converged Infrastructure to give you simple and unified low-risk solutions
Modernizing from antiquated and siloed Oracle-Sun and IBM environments to a flexible and integrated Converged Infrastructure takes experience and planning The HP Migration Competence Center as well as HPrsquos data center transformation specialists can guide your operations teams through the following decisions and options required to take advantage of the Converged Infrastructure capabilities
bull Reduce aggregate server and core count by eliminating underutilized dedicated servers Let HP evaluate your current workload inventory and help you plan a consolidated or virtualized environment that improves utilization while cutting software instances and related licensing costs
bull Cut provisioning time from days to minutes Distributed environments are known for complex cabling parallel server and storage wiring and slow complex error-prone provisioning procedures HP can help you accelerate repetitive provisioning tasks by taking advantage of application templates while relying on HP Virtual Connect to instantly provision servers and storage connections
bull Dedicated servers are usually underutilized outside of peak workload hours Verify there is always ldquojust enoughrdquo capacity by letting HP evaluate your current workloads and demand cycles in order to help you define a much more efficient environment Accurately address capacity needs without overspending using HP Capacity Planner technology part of the HP Converged Infrastructure management umbrella
bull HP can help you constrain power consumption to match active workloads HP Data Center Smart Grid enables the automatic ldquodialing backrdquo of power consumption for lightly loaded resources As the load increases power consumption will be automatically ldquodialed uprdquo to ensure that appropriate performance levels are met
The HP Migration Center maintains a close relationship with many database and application partners to ensure a smooth complete migration solution with respect to the databases and applications Additionally the HP Migrations Center works closely with the HP Solution Centers and Competence Centers to assist with database and application migrations
The Migration Center can deploy experts for the DL980 and Linux as well as HP specialists for the operating systems of other vendors Additionally HP maintains close development and support arrangements with major operating systems vendors including Microsoft Windows Novell SUSE Linux Oracle Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Call to Action See for yourself how the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 makes an ideal platform for your enterprise workloads Ask for a TCO assessment or migration assessment to get started For more information please contact your HP representative or visit httpwwwhpcomgomigratetohp
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copy Copyright 2011 Hewlett-Packard Development Company LP The information contained herein is subject to change without notice The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein
Intel and Intel Xeon are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the US and other countries Linux is a US registered trademark of Linus Torvalds Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation andor its affiliates Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries
4AA3-3180ENW Created February 2011 Updated March 2011 Rev 1
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HP ProLiant DL980 G7 Server with HP PREMA Architecture
httph20195www2hpcomv2GetPDFaspx4AA1-5671ENWpdf
httph20195www2hpcomv2GetPDFaspx4AA3-0643ENWpdf
Intel Xeon processor 7500 series
httpwwwintelcomitcenterproductsxeon7500
HP Converged Infrastructure
httph18004www1hpcomproductssolutionsconvergedmainhtml
The HP Migration Center white paper
httph20195www2hpcomv2GetPDFaspx4AA1-0783ENWpdf
Linux on HP ProLiant servers
httph18004www1hpcomproductsserverslinuxindexhtml
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As can be seen from the Winter Corporation Top Ten Survey of 2005 enterprise IT shops have been able to house large data warehouses on Windows and Linux for years The Winter Corporation specializes in high-end BI and has presented Very Large Database proof points In the Top Ten Database survey The survey is collated from actual customer BI implementations data which is gathered using approved sizing and monitoring tools
The link below to the Winter Corporation Top Ten Survey shows interesting customer data supporting the existence of large production BI data warehouses on both Linux and Windows servers
In summary 10 customer instances are noted on Windows between 4TB and 194TB data warehouse size and 8 customer instances on Linux between 1TB and 24TB data warehouse size httpwwwwintercorpcomVLDB2005_TopTen_SurveyTopTenWinners_2005asp
Please keep in mind that this Top Ten Survey is just a sampling of the worldwide Very Large Data Warehouse pool and is now 5 years old Since that time BI databases on both Windows and Linux have grown in both total database size and the number of such large instances now in existence
Advantage HP HP is the top provider of Linux and Windows server systems in terms of worldwide shipments The foundation for this success is a strong technical partnership for each of these offerings
All major Linux offerings run on HPrsquos standards-based Intel Xeon processor-based platforms including market leaders Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Oracle Enterprise Linux is supported as well
Advantage HP Approximately 14000 Linux applications are available for HPrsquos standards-based Intel Xeon processor-based ProLiant servers There are far fewer applications available on specialized Linux distributions and for proprietary RISC systems that offer Linux support Additionally these ldquoLinux specialsrdquo often require specialized integration and customization
Database Choice
All major databases are available and optimized for the standards-based DL980 Microsoft SQL Server Sybase IQ and Oracle are all capable choices for hosting data warehouse operational data stores or data marts
Virtualization Choice
Virtualization is particularly useful for consolidation of multiple isolated BI workloads onto a DL980 For the enterprise that has scores of data marts and operational marts consolidation onto a larger platform has the following benefits
bull Decommissioning isolated and underutilized BI silos bull Reducing power consumption management effort cooling and floor space bull Freeing up IT budget that can be used for true innovation elsewhere
Many choices exist for virtualization software that runs on the DL980
bull VMware vSphere bull Microsoft Hyper-V bull KVM bull OpenVZ bull Citrix Xen bull Parallels Virtuozzo Containers
Advantage HP Standards-based offerings as well as choice are strong factors in reining in data center costs as well as providing solid solutions for the BI user community
10
The HP Converged Infrastructure A modern enterprise infrastructure implies IT unification through data center convergence It is imperative that legacy issues be resolved and not repeated IT has to evolve or face expensive stagnation
Built on innovation standards and choice the HP Converged Infrastructure is the modern paradigm for achieving this data center of the future HP is soundly positioned to deliver the Converged Infrastructure to its customers with a full portfolio of integrated solutions and services developed for modern unified data centers
Unification is a central theme of the HP Converged Infrastructure (Figure 2) Common components span HP servers (both ProLiant and Integrity) HP storage and HP networking
bull A common modular infrastructure with common building blocks bull Common power and cooling bull A common network fabric bull Common management software
Figure 2 The HP Converged Infrastructure
Power amp cooling
ServersStorage
Management software
Network
Converged Infrastructure
This converged architectural framework simplifies integrates and automates technology
bull Simplifies the infrastructure and reduces TCO bull Lowers the cost of deployment and implementation by obviating the need for expensive and lengthy
integration and interoperability consulting bull Removes server silos and server sprawl bull Integrates multiple vendorsrsquo technology into pools of interoperable resources
HP Matrix Operating Environment ndash The HP Matrix Operating Environment is a common management platform that extends from infrastructure to application across servers storage and networks It includes tools for provisioning and modifying complex infrastructures lifecycle management resource provisioning high availability performance and capacity assessment and automated consolidation analysis
11
At the core of the HP Matrix Operating Environment is HP Insight Softwaremdashthe comprehensive family of HP infrastructure management software HP Insight Software infrastructure orchestration capabilities let you provision infrastructure in minutes to automatically activate physical and virtual servers storage and networking from pools of shared resources
HP Advantage This software enables your organization to simultaneously control all elements of an infrastructure needed to deliver a service It unifies all the tools for infrastructure lifecycle management into one command center It allows quick provisioning of the infrastructure using a common management platform It reduces complexity reduces time to operation increases commonality across solutions and thereby reduces cost
HP Virtual Resource Pools ndash HP Virtual Resource Pools create a common modular infrastructure of virtualized compute memory storage and network resources Resources are aggregated and shared across the data center between HP ProLiant servers HP Integrity servers and StorageWorks storage products Businesses can use the same architecture to manage multiple workloads across servers storage and networking
HP Advantage Reduces underutilized platforms reduces server and storage sprawl reduces server silos frees up floor space increases productivity reduces complexity and reduces cost
HP Data Center Smart Grid ndash HP Data Center Smart Grid provides intelligent energy management across systems and facilities controlling and reducing energy usage in real time The Smart Grid is a set of monitoring tools and embedded sensors that enable resource monitoring and capacity planning HP Thermal Logic includes embedded technology designed to reduce energy usage and associated costs Sea of Sensors monitors energy consumption and automatically adjusts cooling resources using up to 32 sensors to adjust fan speeds and power only the slots that are in use Dynamic Power Capping enables the reclaiming of trapped power and cooling capacity by safely limiting server power consumption
HP Advantage Reduces energy consumption extends the energy capacity of existing data center facilities and reduces cost
HP Servers ndash HP standards-based servers are ideal for IT organizations considering building a shared services infrastructure to centralize IT and reduce operational costs HP servers are a robust offering for multi-tier enterprise applications The common infrastructure and common management supports both cost-effective ProLiant servers as well as mission-critical Integrity HP-UX servers
All HP servers are engineered for balanced performance across the two major workloads BI and OLTP workloadsndashunlike the POWER platforms that exhibit engineering and optimization for the CPU-centric OLTP workload such as TPC-C
HP Advantage The commonality and interoperability of HP servers in the Converged Infrastructure reduces complexity and reduces the deployment integration and customization required to achieve a cost-effective infrastructure Furthermore these characteristics allow the fast implementation and efficient management of a multi-tier solution back-end data warehouse database hosting DL980 servers and front-end application hosting Intel Xeon processor-based servers
HP Advantage For the 57th consecutive quarter more than 14 years HP ProLiant is the x86 server market share leader in both factory revenue and units shipping more than 1 out of every 3 servers in this market with a 379 unit share HPrsquos x86 revenue share 401 was 188 percentage points higher than its nearest competitor Dell and 213 percentage points higher than IBM1
1 Source All of the above market share figures are for the 3rd quarter [unless otherwise noted] and represent
worldwide results as reported by the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker for 3Q 10 December 2010
12
TCO Analysis An analysis of the DL980 powered with the Intel Xeon processor 7500 series versus both the IBM POWER 770 and the Oracle-Sun SPARC M9000 shows a clear 3-year TCO advantage for the DL980 The immediate acquisition cost savings is striking savings that can be used for IT innovation instead of maintaining the inefficient legacy status quo
The most important cost categories are included in this analysis
bull Hardware acquisition cost bull Server software (OS and Oracle database) bull Hardware and software support and maintenance bull Systems administration bull Facilities (power cooling space)
Data Source Ideas International Ltd amp Alinean Inc were used to make the performance and cost comparisons (June 2010)
Comparison - IBM POWER 770 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Table 4 Comparative solution specifics ndash IBM POWER 770 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Server OS DBMS Server number SocketsCores Total cores
IBM POWER7 770 (31 GHz) AIX Oracle 11g 1 864 64
HP DL980 G7 Intel Xeon X7560 (226 GHz)
Red Hat
Red Hat
Enterprise
Linux
Oracle 11g 1 864 64
Table 5 3 Year TCO comparisons ndash IBM POWER 770 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
TCO Comparison ndash Cumulative 3 Year Solution A
IBM P7 770 64c
Solution B
HP ProLiant DL980 G7 64c
Difference
(A ndash B) Amount
Difference
(A ndash B) Percentage
Server Hardware $318560 $112092 $206468 648
Server Software (OS amp DB) $2416064 $1146207 $1269857 526
Hardware and Software Support amp Maintenance
$1682173 $755348 $926825 551
System Administration $43620 $31371 $12249 281
Facilities (Power Cooling amp Floor space) $38235 $24084 $14151 370
Total IT Costs $4498652 $2069102 $2429550 540
13
TCOROI Summary (summary derived from Table 5)
bull Overall savings of 54 over 3 years with the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 bull Hardware acquisition cost savings of 65 bull Hardware and software support and maintenance cost savings of 55
Comparison ndash Oracle-Sun M9000 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Table 6 3 Year TCO comparisons ndash Oracle-Sun M9000 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Server OS DBMS Server number
SocketsCores Total cores
Oracle-Sun M9000 SPARC64 VI (24 GHz)
Solaris Oracle 11g 1 64128 128
HP DL980 G7 Intel Xeon X7560 (226 GHz)
Red Hat Enterprise
Linux
Oracle 11g 1 864 64
Table 7 3 Year TCO comparisons ndash Oracle-Sun M9000 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
TCO Comparison ndash Cumulative 3 Year
Solution A
OracleSun M9000 SPARC VI 128c
Solution B
HP ProLiant DL980 G7 64c
Difference
(A ndash B) Amount
Difference
(A ndash B) Percentage
Server Hardware $3404864 $112092 $3292772 967
Server Software (OS amp DB) $3520000 $1146207 $2373793 674
Hardware and Software Support amp Maintenance
$3809070 $755348 $3053772 802
System Administration $40428 $31371 $9057 224
Facilities (Power Cooling amp Floor space)
$237357 $24084 $213273 899
Total IT Costs $11011719 $2069102 $8942617 812
TCOROI Summary (summary derived from Table 7)
bull Overall savings of 81 over 3 years with the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 bull Hardware acquisition cost savings of 97 bull Hardware and software support and maintenance cost savings of 80
14
Migration Drivers In transforming data centers and BI solution platforms into efficient and modern entities migrations are a necessity Fortunately migrations from IBM and Sun are not a new phenomenon theyrsquove been going on for the better part of 20 years Thousands of migrations have occurred giving rise to the creation and use by HP of mature migration methodologies tools and expertise
Before any migration can be considered valid reasons must exist to justify the investment Fortunately valid migrational drivers exist in both the business and technical areas of every corporation Drivers that lead to migrations tend to revolve around solid objectives related to lowering computing cost and improving service levels There are numerous drivers that apply to most IT shops whether that shop has older Oracle-Sun SPARC servers or older IBM POWER servers In addition to these general drivers common to both environments there are compelling reasons to migrate specific to SPARC and POWER environments
General Migration Drivers The following general drivers apply to both older Oracle-Sun SPARC servers and IBM POWER servers
High Support Costs ndash Support costs for older systems are typically higher than the support costs for current systems If the warranty has expired support costs may become a shock the day after warranty expiration
HP Advantage HPrsquos DL980 as well as the entire HP ProLiant server family has excellent TCO compared to both older SPARC and POWER servers as well as newer servers See the TCO Analysis section below for more detail
Data Center Running Out of Floor Space ndash The historic pairing of servers and BI applications for discrete solutions has led to a proliferation of servers dedicated to single tasks Thus many data centers are running out of capacity
HP Advantage The DL980 is an ideal consolidation platform Floor space can be freed up by consolidation of BI instances and applications onto the DL980 with its relatively small footprint
Too Many Database Instances ndash Database consolidation results from an initial state in which too many BI-related database instances exist Numerous small data marts or numerous operational data stores are prime examples Most likely this profusion of small instances occurred by splitting the query workload to enable query and report processing to be accomplished within accepted parameters Database sprawl takes up floor space and IT timendashand ultimately increases cost
HP Advantage Once again the DL980 is an ideal consolidation and virtualization platform for large database environments with too many instances particularly in enterprises beset with too many small data marts
Underutilized Servers ndash While unceasing high-pressure BI workloads do occur theyrsquore in the minority Instead many enterprises create peak BI workload at the end of month end of quarter end of year and other significant times during the yearly business cycle
Thus itrsquos common in older architectures to find dedicated servers that are not fully utilized or are only productively utilized a small percentage of the time Dedicating one workload to each server meant that each server needed to be sized accordingly to accommodate the peak workload For much of the time many servers tend to run lightly loaded outside of peak hours The cost of carrying several of these systems can be significant
15
HP Advantage The DL980 is an ideal high-performance scalable reliable and low-cost consolidation platform
Oracle-Sun Specific Drivers Many of the more troublesome Oracle-Sun specific drivers listed below are outcomes of the last eight years of hard times for SPARC servers
Underperforming Servers ndash With the steady slowdown in the evolution of the SPARC line performance has been an issue for many years Add to this the weight of underutilized servers sized for peak workloads and the drag on an IT operations budget can be significant
HP Advantage Comparative data using Alinean Ltd and Ideas International Inc show a tangible HP advantage especially in enterprise-class servers Ask your HP representative for a TCO analysis
The Risks of a Single-Vendor Solution Stack ndash Hosting an Oracle database on Oracle-Sun servers cedes control of the entire solution stack to Oracle Could you be overspending on servers software and support by relying solely on Oracle-Sun
HP Advantage HP can provide a ldquowhole environmentrdquo view with the DL980 in the Converged Infrastructure and best-of-breed partners to help you move to your next-generation environment
Escalating and Changing Support Costs ndash Higher support costs exist for Oracle-Sun SPARC systems including new ldquomandatoryrdquo hardware support fees
HP Advantage Evaluating the support costs for the DL980 and other HP ProLiant servers relative to Oracle-Sun SPARC support costs can help you find ways to reduce operational support costs Ask your HP representative for a TCO analysis
IBM Specific Drivers IBM has its own set of specific issues that have driven data centers to migrate from IBM servers frequently over the last 20 years
High Cost of Deployment Integration and Maintenance ndash Cost is an issue with architectures consisting of older POWER4 and POWER5 servers IBMrsquos approach to computing technology does not lend itself well to simple deployment and integration POWER servers have been created to interoperate very well in a POWER-only environment Unfortunately it is costly to integrate POWER servers with non-POWER servers (eg x86 servers) storage networking diverse management tools and applications This characteristic of the POWER server line results in higher costs for deployment integration support maintenance and ultimately upgrades to newer POWER servers Unfortunately when choosing a POWER-to-POWER upgrade the high-cost IBM lifecycle begins again and data centers are firmly locked into the same inflexible architecture
The IBM Architectural Silo Model ndash The piecemeal nature of siloed POWER solutions (separate HA separate networking no standard management infrastructure etc) requires extensive and custom integration Unfortunately IBM mainframes and x86 servers subscribe to siloed architecture as well The IBM approach to architectural design and component deployment forces customers to adapt their business operations to fit IBMrsquos technology silos such as mainframe or POWER servers To implement cost-effective multi-tier computing infrastructures customers must piece together their own enterprise architecture By modern standards this is a needless investment of development time and budget that can be better used for higher priority tasks
16
Lack of Solution Flexibility ndash Instead of vendor guidance toward overcoming many of the legacy issues above are you guided into upgrading the legacy environment instead of transforming it into a cost-effective and contemporary infrastructure Being guided into an IBM-only siloed infrastructure philosophy solves only surface issues and can perpetuate cost and resource inefficiency
HP Advantage For the issues above HP provides a ldquowhole environmentrdquo view with the DL980 and best-of-breed partners to help you move to your next generation environment HP Converged Infrastructure offers common building blocksndashstandards-based servers ProLiant Xeon servers and Integrity Itanium Servers common management software common power and cooling and a common network fabric
Older POWER Server Processing and Workload Shortcomings ndash It should come as no surprise that for many intense BI workloads these older POWER4 and POWER5 systems lack the necessary processing IO bandwidth and reliability IBMrsquos message was also quite clear when they optimized the POWER architecture primarily for the OLTP workload The OLTP workload does not have the same characteristics of mixed workloads or BI workloads Specific components subsystems and features are necessary to satisfy the intense IO bandwidth and processing requirements of high-volume BI workloads mixed OLTP and BI workloads and long-running batch processing
HP Advantage The DL980 was specifically designed and optimized to process mixed workloads including the two most popular workloads the Business Intelligence workload and the mission-critical OLTP workload It contains by conscious design the necessary hardware and software components to excel at these business-critical workloads Thus the DL980 is able to efficiently handle a mixed workload containing both analytical BI and operational BI In addition the DL980 provides up to 2TB of memory to facilitate in-memory processing
HP Migration Resources HP Migration Process
The HP migration process (Figure 3) embodies a mature and flexible methodology that provides a consistent framework for capturing and carrying out customer requirements The process is built upon years of migration experience and best practices across a variety of databases applications and platforms The process is tool agnostic providing flexibility in solution development Using this mature process as a foundation HP provides a customer-driven migration process instead of an inflexible process based on single-path choices
HP has over 20 years worth of experience migrating customers off of Oracle-Sun servers IBM servers databases and applications to HP solutions HP offers a Solaris-to-Linux porting kit and also uses IBM tools that are available for AIX-to-Linux porting
17
Figure 3 HP Migration Process
HP-UX 11i on HP Integrity
Linux on HP ProLiant
Windows on HP ProLiant
MIGRATION PATH
THE HP MIGRATION CENTER
MIGRATION PROCESS
SupportExecutePlanAssess
HP SUNSET COMPLETE CARE INCENTIVES
The key benefits of the HP migration process are
bull A standard high level process which is o based on decades of expertise and best practices o repeatable o customizable by database and application technology platform and migration toolset o scalable accommodating simple to complex migrations
bull Identifies migration requirements up front and properly addresses those requirements in a strategy document A TCO analysis is also included which provides solid data points to facilitate validation of the migration business case
bull Incorporates production dress rehearsals to refine the deployment prior to the actual deployment phase
bull Includes data quality analysis to address source side data issues prior to migration
18
HP Migration Center and Services
Over the past 20+ years HP has helped migrate thousands of customers gaining valuable knowledge expertise and repeatability Migrations from older architectures allow customers to take advantage of HP infrastructure to reduce costs improve performance and gain competitive advantage Through the HP Migration Center HP combines best practices with new technologies such as the HP Converged Infrastructure to give you simple and unified low-risk solutions
Modernizing from antiquated and siloed Oracle-Sun and IBM environments to a flexible and integrated Converged Infrastructure takes experience and planning The HP Migration Competence Center as well as HPrsquos data center transformation specialists can guide your operations teams through the following decisions and options required to take advantage of the Converged Infrastructure capabilities
bull Reduce aggregate server and core count by eliminating underutilized dedicated servers Let HP evaluate your current workload inventory and help you plan a consolidated or virtualized environment that improves utilization while cutting software instances and related licensing costs
bull Cut provisioning time from days to minutes Distributed environments are known for complex cabling parallel server and storage wiring and slow complex error-prone provisioning procedures HP can help you accelerate repetitive provisioning tasks by taking advantage of application templates while relying on HP Virtual Connect to instantly provision servers and storage connections
bull Dedicated servers are usually underutilized outside of peak workload hours Verify there is always ldquojust enoughrdquo capacity by letting HP evaluate your current workloads and demand cycles in order to help you define a much more efficient environment Accurately address capacity needs without overspending using HP Capacity Planner technology part of the HP Converged Infrastructure management umbrella
bull HP can help you constrain power consumption to match active workloads HP Data Center Smart Grid enables the automatic ldquodialing backrdquo of power consumption for lightly loaded resources As the load increases power consumption will be automatically ldquodialed uprdquo to ensure that appropriate performance levels are met
The HP Migration Center maintains a close relationship with many database and application partners to ensure a smooth complete migration solution with respect to the databases and applications Additionally the HP Migrations Center works closely with the HP Solution Centers and Competence Centers to assist with database and application migrations
The Migration Center can deploy experts for the DL980 and Linux as well as HP specialists for the operating systems of other vendors Additionally HP maintains close development and support arrangements with major operating systems vendors including Microsoft Windows Novell SUSE Linux Oracle Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Call to Action See for yourself how the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 makes an ideal platform for your enterprise workloads Ask for a TCO assessment or migration assessment to get started For more information please contact your HP representative or visit httpwwwhpcomgomigratetohp
Share with colleagues
copy Copyright 2011 Hewlett-Packard Development Company LP The information contained herein is subject to change without notice The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein
Intel and Intel Xeon are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the US and other countries Linux is a US registered trademark of Linus Torvalds Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation andor its affiliates Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries
4AA3-3180ENW Created February 2011 Updated March 2011 Rev 1
For More Information HP ProLiant DL980 G7 serverndashDatasheet
HP ProLiant DL980 G7 Server with HP PREMA Architecture
httph20195www2hpcomv2GetPDFaspx4AA1-5671ENWpdf
httph20195www2hpcomv2GetPDFaspx4AA3-0643ENWpdf
Intel Xeon processor 7500 series
httpwwwintelcomitcenterproductsxeon7500
HP Converged Infrastructure
httph18004www1hpcomproductssolutionsconvergedmainhtml
The HP Migration Center white paper
httph20195www2hpcomv2GetPDFaspx4AA1-0783ENWpdf
Linux on HP ProLiant servers
httph18004www1hpcomproductsserverslinuxindexhtml
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The HP Converged Infrastructure A modern enterprise infrastructure implies IT unification through data center convergence It is imperative that legacy issues be resolved and not repeated IT has to evolve or face expensive stagnation
Built on innovation standards and choice the HP Converged Infrastructure is the modern paradigm for achieving this data center of the future HP is soundly positioned to deliver the Converged Infrastructure to its customers with a full portfolio of integrated solutions and services developed for modern unified data centers
Unification is a central theme of the HP Converged Infrastructure (Figure 2) Common components span HP servers (both ProLiant and Integrity) HP storage and HP networking
bull A common modular infrastructure with common building blocks bull Common power and cooling bull A common network fabric bull Common management software
Figure 2 The HP Converged Infrastructure
Power amp cooling
ServersStorage
Management software
Network
Converged Infrastructure
This converged architectural framework simplifies integrates and automates technology
bull Simplifies the infrastructure and reduces TCO bull Lowers the cost of deployment and implementation by obviating the need for expensive and lengthy
integration and interoperability consulting bull Removes server silos and server sprawl bull Integrates multiple vendorsrsquo technology into pools of interoperable resources
HP Matrix Operating Environment ndash The HP Matrix Operating Environment is a common management platform that extends from infrastructure to application across servers storage and networks It includes tools for provisioning and modifying complex infrastructures lifecycle management resource provisioning high availability performance and capacity assessment and automated consolidation analysis
11
At the core of the HP Matrix Operating Environment is HP Insight Softwaremdashthe comprehensive family of HP infrastructure management software HP Insight Software infrastructure orchestration capabilities let you provision infrastructure in minutes to automatically activate physical and virtual servers storage and networking from pools of shared resources
HP Advantage This software enables your organization to simultaneously control all elements of an infrastructure needed to deliver a service It unifies all the tools for infrastructure lifecycle management into one command center It allows quick provisioning of the infrastructure using a common management platform It reduces complexity reduces time to operation increases commonality across solutions and thereby reduces cost
HP Virtual Resource Pools ndash HP Virtual Resource Pools create a common modular infrastructure of virtualized compute memory storage and network resources Resources are aggregated and shared across the data center between HP ProLiant servers HP Integrity servers and StorageWorks storage products Businesses can use the same architecture to manage multiple workloads across servers storage and networking
HP Advantage Reduces underutilized platforms reduces server and storage sprawl reduces server silos frees up floor space increases productivity reduces complexity and reduces cost
HP Data Center Smart Grid ndash HP Data Center Smart Grid provides intelligent energy management across systems and facilities controlling and reducing energy usage in real time The Smart Grid is a set of monitoring tools and embedded sensors that enable resource monitoring and capacity planning HP Thermal Logic includes embedded technology designed to reduce energy usage and associated costs Sea of Sensors monitors energy consumption and automatically adjusts cooling resources using up to 32 sensors to adjust fan speeds and power only the slots that are in use Dynamic Power Capping enables the reclaiming of trapped power and cooling capacity by safely limiting server power consumption
HP Advantage Reduces energy consumption extends the energy capacity of existing data center facilities and reduces cost
HP Servers ndash HP standards-based servers are ideal for IT organizations considering building a shared services infrastructure to centralize IT and reduce operational costs HP servers are a robust offering for multi-tier enterprise applications The common infrastructure and common management supports both cost-effective ProLiant servers as well as mission-critical Integrity HP-UX servers
All HP servers are engineered for balanced performance across the two major workloads BI and OLTP workloadsndashunlike the POWER platforms that exhibit engineering and optimization for the CPU-centric OLTP workload such as TPC-C
HP Advantage The commonality and interoperability of HP servers in the Converged Infrastructure reduces complexity and reduces the deployment integration and customization required to achieve a cost-effective infrastructure Furthermore these characteristics allow the fast implementation and efficient management of a multi-tier solution back-end data warehouse database hosting DL980 servers and front-end application hosting Intel Xeon processor-based servers
HP Advantage For the 57th consecutive quarter more than 14 years HP ProLiant is the x86 server market share leader in both factory revenue and units shipping more than 1 out of every 3 servers in this market with a 379 unit share HPrsquos x86 revenue share 401 was 188 percentage points higher than its nearest competitor Dell and 213 percentage points higher than IBM1
1 Source All of the above market share figures are for the 3rd quarter [unless otherwise noted] and represent
worldwide results as reported by the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker for 3Q 10 December 2010
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TCO Analysis An analysis of the DL980 powered with the Intel Xeon processor 7500 series versus both the IBM POWER 770 and the Oracle-Sun SPARC M9000 shows a clear 3-year TCO advantage for the DL980 The immediate acquisition cost savings is striking savings that can be used for IT innovation instead of maintaining the inefficient legacy status quo
The most important cost categories are included in this analysis
bull Hardware acquisition cost bull Server software (OS and Oracle database) bull Hardware and software support and maintenance bull Systems administration bull Facilities (power cooling space)
Data Source Ideas International Ltd amp Alinean Inc were used to make the performance and cost comparisons (June 2010)
Comparison - IBM POWER 770 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Table 4 Comparative solution specifics ndash IBM POWER 770 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Server OS DBMS Server number SocketsCores Total cores
IBM POWER7 770 (31 GHz) AIX Oracle 11g 1 864 64
HP DL980 G7 Intel Xeon X7560 (226 GHz)
Red Hat
Red Hat
Enterprise
Linux
Oracle 11g 1 864 64
Table 5 3 Year TCO comparisons ndash IBM POWER 770 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
TCO Comparison ndash Cumulative 3 Year Solution A
IBM P7 770 64c
Solution B
HP ProLiant DL980 G7 64c
Difference
(A ndash B) Amount
Difference
(A ndash B) Percentage
Server Hardware $318560 $112092 $206468 648
Server Software (OS amp DB) $2416064 $1146207 $1269857 526
Hardware and Software Support amp Maintenance
$1682173 $755348 $926825 551
System Administration $43620 $31371 $12249 281
Facilities (Power Cooling amp Floor space) $38235 $24084 $14151 370
Total IT Costs $4498652 $2069102 $2429550 540
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TCOROI Summary (summary derived from Table 5)
bull Overall savings of 54 over 3 years with the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 bull Hardware acquisition cost savings of 65 bull Hardware and software support and maintenance cost savings of 55
Comparison ndash Oracle-Sun M9000 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Table 6 3 Year TCO comparisons ndash Oracle-Sun M9000 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Server OS DBMS Server number
SocketsCores Total cores
Oracle-Sun M9000 SPARC64 VI (24 GHz)
Solaris Oracle 11g 1 64128 128
HP DL980 G7 Intel Xeon X7560 (226 GHz)
Red Hat Enterprise
Linux
Oracle 11g 1 864 64
Table 7 3 Year TCO comparisons ndash Oracle-Sun M9000 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
TCO Comparison ndash Cumulative 3 Year
Solution A
OracleSun M9000 SPARC VI 128c
Solution B
HP ProLiant DL980 G7 64c
Difference
(A ndash B) Amount
Difference
(A ndash B) Percentage
Server Hardware $3404864 $112092 $3292772 967
Server Software (OS amp DB) $3520000 $1146207 $2373793 674
Hardware and Software Support amp Maintenance
$3809070 $755348 $3053772 802
System Administration $40428 $31371 $9057 224
Facilities (Power Cooling amp Floor space)
$237357 $24084 $213273 899
Total IT Costs $11011719 $2069102 $8942617 812
TCOROI Summary (summary derived from Table 7)
bull Overall savings of 81 over 3 years with the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 bull Hardware acquisition cost savings of 97 bull Hardware and software support and maintenance cost savings of 80
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Migration Drivers In transforming data centers and BI solution platforms into efficient and modern entities migrations are a necessity Fortunately migrations from IBM and Sun are not a new phenomenon theyrsquove been going on for the better part of 20 years Thousands of migrations have occurred giving rise to the creation and use by HP of mature migration methodologies tools and expertise
Before any migration can be considered valid reasons must exist to justify the investment Fortunately valid migrational drivers exist in both the business and technical areas of every corporation Drivers that lead to migrations tend to revolve around solid objectives related to lowering computing cost and improving service levels There are numerous drivers that apply to most IT shops whether that shop has older Oracle-Sun SPARC servers or older IBM POWER servers In addition to these general drivers common to both environments there are compelling reasons to migrate specific to SPARC and POWER environments
General Migration Drivers The following general drivers apply to both older Oracle-Sun SPARC servers and IBM POWER servers
High Support Costs ndash Support costs for older systems are typically higher than the support costs for current systems If the warranty has expired support costs may become a shock the day after warranty expiration
HP Advantage HPrsquos DL980 as well as the entire HP ProLiant server family has excellent TCO compared to both older SPARC and POWER servers as well as newer servers See the TCO Analysis section below for more detail
Data Center Running Out of Floor Space ndash The historic pairing of servers and BI applications for discrete solutions has led to a proliferation of servers dedicated to single tasks Thus many data centers are running out of capacity
HP Advantage The DL980 is an ideal consolidation platform Floor space can be freed up by consolidation of BI instances and applications onto the DL980 with its relatively small footprint
Too Many Database Instances ndash Database consolidation results from an initial state in which too many BI-related database instances exist Numerous small data marts or numerous operational data stores are prime examples Most likely this profusion of small instances occurred by splitting the query workload to enable query and report processing to be accomplished within accepted parameters Database sprawl takes up floor space and IT timendashand ultimately increases cost
HP Advantage Once again the DL980 is an ideal consolidation and virtualization platform for large database environments with too many instances particularly in enterprises beset with too many small data marts
Underutilized Servers ndash While unceasing high-pressure BI workloads do occur theyrsquore in the minority Instead many enterprises create peak BI workload at the end of month end of quarter end of year and other significant times during the yearly business cycle
Thus itrsquos common in older architectures to find dedicated servers that are not fully utilized or are only productively utilized a small percentage of the time Dedicating one workload to each server meant that each server needed to be sized accordingly to accommodate the peak workload For much of the time many servers tend to run lightly loaded outside of peak hours The cost of carrying several of these systems can be significant
15
HP Advantage The DL980 is an ideal high-performance scalable reliable and low-cost consolidation platform
Oracle-Sun Specific Drivers Many of the more troublesome Oracle-Sun specific drivers listed below are outcomes of the last eight years of hard times for SPARC servers
Underperforming Servers ndash With the steady slowdown in the evolution of the SPARC line performance has been an issue for many years Add to this the weight of underutilized servers sized for peak workloads and the drag on an IT operations budget can be significant
HP Advantage Comparative data using Alinean Ltd and Ideas International Inc show a tangible HP advantage especially in enterprise-class servers Ask your HP representative for a TCO analysis
The Risks of a Single-Vendor Solution Stack ndash Hosting an Oracle database on Oracle-Sun servers cedes control of the entire solution stack to Oracle Could you be overspending on servers software and support by relying solely on Oracle-Sun
HP Advantage HP can provide a ldquowhole environmentrdquo view with the DL980 in the Converged Infrastructure and best-of-breed partners to help you move to your next-generation environment
Escalating and Changing Support Costs ndash Higher support costs exist for Oracle-Sun SPARC systems including new ldquomandatoryrdquo hardware support fees
HP Advantage Evaluating the support costs for the DL980 and other HP ProLiant servers relative to Oracle-Sun SPARC support costs can help you find ways to reduce operational support costs Ask your HP representative for a TCO analysis
IBM Specific Drivers IBM has its own set of specific issues that have driven data centers to migrate from IBM servers frequently over the last 20 years
High Cost of Deployment Integration and Maintenance ndash Cost is an issue with architectures consisting of older POWER4 and POWER5 servers IBMrsquos approach to computing technology does not lend itself well to simple deployment and integration POWER servers have been created to interoperate very well in a POWER-only environment Unfortunately it is costly to integrate POWER servers with non-POWER servers (eg x86 servers) storage networking diverse management tools and applications This characteristic of the POWER server line results in higher costs for deployment integration support maintenance and ultimately upgrades to newer POWER servers Unfortunately when choosing a POWER-to-POWER upgrade the high-cost IBM lifecycle begins again and data centers are firmly locked into the same inflexible architecture
The IBM Architectural Silo Model ndash The piecemeal nature of siloed POWER solutions (separate HA separate networking no standard management infrastructure etc) requires extensive and custom integration Unfortunately IBM mainframes and x86 servers subscribe to siloed architecture as well The IBM approach to architectural design and component deployment forces customers to adapt their business operations to fit IBMrsquos technology silos such as mainframe or POWER servers To implement cost-effective multi-tier computing infrastructures customers must piece together their own enterprise architecture By modern standards this is a needless investment of development time and budget that can be better used for higher priority tasks
16
Lack of Solution Flexibility ndash Instead of vendor guidance toward overcoming many of the legacy issues above are you guided into upgrading the legacy environment instead of transforming it into a cost-effective and contemporary infrastructure Being guided into an IBM-only siloed infrastructure philosophy solves only surface issues and can perpetuate cost and resource inefficiency
HP Advantage For the issues above HP provides a ldquowhole environmentrdquo view with the DL980 and best-of-breed partners to help you move to your next generation environment HP Converged Infrastructure offers common building blocksndashstandards-based servers ProLiant Xeon servers and Integrity Itanium Servers common management software common power and cooling and a common network fabric
Older POWER Server Processing and Workload Shortcomings ndash It should come as no surprise that for many intense BI workloads these older POWER4 and POWER5 systems lack the necessary processing IO bandwidth and reliability IBMrsquos message was also quite clear when they optimized the POWER architecture primarily for the OLTP workload The OLTP workload does not have the same characteristics of mixed workloads or BI workloads Specific components subsystems and features are necessary to satisfy the intense IO bandwidth and processing requirements of high-volume BI workloads mixed OLTP and BI workloads and long-running batch processing
HP Advantage The DL980 was specifically designed and optimized to process mixed workloads including the two most popular workloads the Business Intelligence workload and the mission-critical OLTP workload It contains by conscious design the necessary hardware and software components to excel at these business-critical workloads Thus the DL980 is able to efficiently handle a mixed workload containing both analytical BI and operational BI In addition the DL980 provides up to 2TB of memory to facilitate in-memory processing
HP Migration Resources HP Migration Process
The HP migration process (Figure 3) embodies a mature and flexible methodology that provides a consistent framework for capturing and carrying out customer requirements The process is built upon years of migration experience and best practices across a variety of databases applications and platforms The process is tool agnostic providing flexibility in solution development Using this mature process as a foundation HP provides a customer-driven migration process instead of an inflexible process based on single-path choices
HP has over 20 years worth of experience migrating customers off of Oracle-Sun servers IBM servers databases and applications to HP solutions HP offers a Solaris-to-Linux porting kit and also uses IBM tools that are available for AIX-to-Linux porting
17
Figure 3 HP Migration Process
HP-UX 11i on HP Integrity
Linux on HP ProLiant
Windows on HP ProLiant
MIGRATION PATH
THE HP MIGRATION CENTER
MIGRATION PROCESS
SupportExecutePlanAssess
HP SUNSET COMPLETE CARE INCENTIVES
The key benefits of the HP migration process are
bull A standard high level process which is o based on decades of expertise and best practices o repeatable o customizable by database and application technology platform and migration toolset o scalable accommodating simple to complex migrations
bull Identifies migration requirements up front and properly addresses those requirements in a strategy document A TCO analysis is also included which provides solid data points to facilitate validation of the migration business case
bull Incorporates production dress rehearsals to refine the deployment prior to the actual deployment phase
bull Includes data quality analysis to address source side data issues prior to migration
18
HP Migration Center and Services
Over the past 20+ years HP has helped migrate thousands of customers gaining valuable knowledge expertise and repeatability Migrations from older architectures allow customers to take advantage of HP infrastructure to reduce costs improve performance and gain competitive advantage Through the HP Migration Center HP combines best practices with new technologies such as the HP Converged Infrastructure to give you simple and unified low-risk solutions
Modernizing from antiquated and siloed Oracle-Sun and IBM environments to a flexible and integrated Converged Infrastructure takes experience and planning The HP Migration Competence Center as well as HPrsquos data center transformation specialists can guide your operations teams through the following decisions and options required to take advantage of the Converged Infrastructure capabilities
bull Reduce aggregate server and core count by eliminating underutilized dedicated servers Let HP evaluate your current workload inventory and help you plan a consolidated or virtualized environment that improves utilization while cutting software instances and related licensing costs
bull Cut provisioning time from days to minutes Distributed environments are known for complex cabling parallel server and storage wiring and slow complex error-prone provisioning procedures HP can help you accelerate repetitive provisioning tasks by taking advantage of application templates while relying on HP Virtual Connect to instantly provision servers and storage connections
bull Dedicated servers are usually underutilized outside of peak workload hours Verify there is always ldquojust enoughrdquo capacity by letting HP evaluate your current workloads and demand cycles in order to help you define a much more efficient environment Accurately address capacity needs without overspending using HP Capacity Planner technology part of the HP Converged Infrastructure management umbrella
bull HP can help you constrain power consumption to match active workloads HP Data Center Smart Grid enables the automatic ldquodialing backrdquo of power consumption for lightly loaded resources As the load increases power consumption will be automatically ldquodialed uprdquo to ensure that appropriate performance levels are met
The HP Migration Center maintains a close relationship with many database and application partners to ensure a smooth complete migration solution with respect to the databases and applications Additionally the HP Migrations Center works closely with the HP Solution Centers and Competence Centers to assist with database and application migrations
The Migration Center can deploy experts for the DL980 and Linux as well as HP specialists for the operating systems of other vendors Additionally HP maintains close development and support arrangements with major operating systems vendors including Microsoft Windows Novell SUSE Linux Oracle Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Call to Action See for yourself how the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 makes an ideal platform for your enterprise workloads Ask for a TCO assessment or migration assessment to get started For more information please contact your HP representative or visit httpwwwhpcomgomigratetohp
Share with colleagues
copy Copyright 2011 Hewlett-Packard Development Company LP The information contained herein is subject to change without notice The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein
Intel and Intel Xeon are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the US and other countries Linux is a US registered trademark of Linus Torvalds Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation andor its affiliates Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries
4AA3-3180ENW Created February 2011 Updated March 2011 Rev 1
For More Information HP ProLiant DL980 G7 serverndashDatasheet
HP ProLiant DL980 G7 Server with HP PREMA Architecture
httph20195www2hpcomv2GetPDFaspx4AA1-5671ENWpdf
httph20195www2hpcomv2GetPDFaspx4AA3-0643ENWpdf
Intel Xeon processor 7500 series
httpwwwintelcomitcenterproductsxeon7500
HP Converged Infrastructure
httph18004www1hpcomproductssolutionsconvergedmainhtml
The HP Migration Center white paper
httph20195www2hpcomv2GetPDFaspx4AA1-0783ENWpdf
Linux on HP ProLiant servers
httph18004www1hpcomproductsserverslinuxindexhtml
11
At the core of the HP Matrix Operating Environment is HP Insight Softwaremdashthe comprehensive family of HP infrastructure management software HP Insight Software infrastructure orchestration capabilities let you provision infrastructure in minutes to automatically activate physical and virtual servers storage and networking from pools of shared resources
HP Advantage This software enables your organization to simultaneously control all elements of an infrastructure needed to deliver a service It unifies all the tools for infrastructure lifecycle management into one command center It allows quick provisioning of the infrastructure using a common management platform It reduces complexity reduces time to operation increases commonality across solutions and thereby reduces cost
HP Virtual Resource Pools ndash HP Virtual Resource Pools create a common modular infrastructure of virtualized compute memory storage and network resources Resources are aggregated and shared across the data center between HP ProLiant servers HP Integrity servers and StorageWorks storage products Businesses can use the same architecture to manage multiple workloads across servers storage and networking
HP Advantage Reduces underutilized platforms reduces server and storage sprawl reduces server silos frees up floor space increases productivity reduces complexity and reduces cost
HP Data Center Smart Grid ndash HP Data Center Smart Grid provides intelligent energy management across systems and facilities controlling and reducing energy usage in real time The Smart Grid is a set of monitoring tools and embedded sensors that enable resource monitoring and capacity planning HP Thermal Logic includes embedded technology designed to reduce energy usage and associated costs Sea of Sensors monitors energy consumption and automatically adjusts cooling resources using up to 32 sensors to adjust fan speeds and power only the slots that are in use Dynamic Power Capping enables the reclaiming of trapped power and cooling capacity by safely limiting server power consumption
HP Advantage Reduces energy consumption extends the energy capacity of existing data center facilities and reduces cost
HP Servers ndash HP standards-based servers are ideal for IT organizations considering building a shared services infrastructure to centralize IT and reduce operational costs HP servers are a robust offering for multi-tier enterprise applications The common infrastructure and common management supports both cost-effective ProLiant servers as well as mission-critical Integrity HP-UX servers
All HP servers are engineered for balanced performance across the two major workloads BI and OLTP workloadsndashunlike the POWER platforms that exhibit engineering and optimization for the CPU-centric OLTP workload such as TPC-C
HP Advantage The commonality and interoperability of HP servers in the Converged Infrastructure reduces complexity and reduces the deployment integration and customization required to achieve a cost-effective infrastructure Furthermore these characteristics allow the fast implementation and efficient management of a multi-tier solution back-end data warehouse database hosting DL980 servers and front-end application hosting Intel Xeon processor-based servers
HP Advantage For the 57th consecutive quarter more than 14 years HP ProLiant is the x86 server market share leader in both factory revenue and units shipping more than 1 out of every 3 servers in this market with a 379 unit share HPrsquos x86 revenue share 401 was 188 percentage points higher than its nearest competitor Dell and 213 percentage points higher than IBM1
1 Source All of the above market share figures are for the 3rd quarter [unless otherwise noted] and represent
worldwide results as reported by the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker for 3Q 10 December 2010
12
TCO Analysis An analysis of the DL980 powered with the Intel Xeon processor 7500 series versus both the IBM POWER 770 and the Oracle-Sun SPARC M9000 shows a clear 3-year TCO advantage for the DL980 The immediate acquisition cost savings is striking savings that can be used for IT innovation instead of maintaining the inefficient legacy status quo
The most important cost categories are included in this analysis
bull Hardware acquisition cost bull Server software (OS and Oracle database) bull Hardware and software support and maintenance bull Systems administration bull Facilities (power cooling space)
Data Source Ideas International Ltd amp Alinean Inc were used to make the performance and cost comparisons (June 2010)
Comparison - IBM POWER 770 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Table 4 Comparative solution specifics ndash IBM POWER 770 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Server OS DBMS Server number SocketsCores Total cores
IBM POWER7 770 (31 GHz) AIX Oracle 11g 1 864 64
HP DL980 G7 Intel Xeon X7560 (226 GHz)
Red Hat
Red Hat
Enterprise
Linux
Oracle 11g 1 864 64
Table 5 3 Year TCO comparisons ndash IBM POWER 770 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
TCO Comparison ndash Cumulative 3 Year Solution A
IBM P7 770 64c
Solution B
HP ProLiant DL980 G7 64c
Difference
(A ndash B) Amount
Difference
(A ndash B) Percentage
Server Hardware $318560 $112092 $206468 648
Server Software (OS amp DB) $2416064 $1146207 $1269857 526
Hardware and Software Support amp Maintenance
$1682173 $755348 $926825 551
System Administration $43620 $31371 $12249 281
Facilities (Power Cooling amp Floor space) $38235 $24084 $14151 370
Total IT Costs $4498652 $2069102 $2429550 540
13
TCOROI Summary (summary derived from Table 5)
bull Overall savings of 54 over 3 years with the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 bull Hardware acquisition cost savings of 65 bull Hardware and software support and maintenance cost savings of 55
Comparison ndash Oracle-Sun M9000 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Table 6 3 Year TCO comparisons ndash Oracle-Sun M9000 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Server OS DBMS Server number
SocketsCores Total cores
Oracle-Sun M9000 SPARC64 VI (24 GHz)
Solaris Oracle 11g 1 64128 128
HP DL980 G7 Intel Xeon X7560 (226 GHz)
Red Hat Enterprise
Linux
Oracle 11g 1 864 64
Table 7 3 Year TCO comparisons ndash Oracle-Sun M9000 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
TCO Comparison ndash Cumulative 3 Year
Solution A
OracleSun M9000 SPARC VI 128c
Solution B
HP ProLiant DL980 G7 64c
Difference
(A ndash B) Amount
Difference
(A ndash B) Percentage
Server Hardware $3404864 $112092 $3292772 967
Server Software (OS amp DB) $3520000 $1146207 $2373793 674
Hardware and Software Support amp Maintenance
$3809070 $755348 $3053772 802
System Administration $40428 $31371 $9057 224
Facilities (Power Cooling amp Floor space)
$237357 $24084 $213273 899
Total IT Costs $11011719 $2069102 $8942617 812
TCOROI Summary (summary derived from Table 7)
bull Overall savings of 81 over 3 years with the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 bull Hardware acquisition cost savings of 97 bull Hardware and software support and maintenance cost savings of 80
14
Migration Drivers In transforming data centers and BI solution platforms into efficient and modern entities migrations are a necessity Fortunately migrations from IBM and Sun are not a new phenomenon theyrsquove been going on for the better part of 20 years Thousands of migrations have occurred giving rise to the creation and use by HP of mature migration methodologies tools and expertise
Before any migration can be considered valid reasons must exist to justify the investment Fortunately valid migrational drivers exist in both the business and technical areas of every corporation Drivers that lead to migrations tend to revolve around solid objectives related to lowering computing cost and improving service levels There are numerous drivers that apply to most IT shops whether that shop has older Oracle-Sun SPARC servers or older IBM POWER servers In addition to these general drivers common to both environments there are compelling reasons to migrate specific to SPARC and POWER environments
General Migration Drivers The following general drivers apply to both older Oracle-Sun SPARC servers and IBM POWER servers
High Support Costs ndash Support costs for older systems are typically higher than the support costs for current systems If the warranty has expired support costs may become a shock the day after warranty expiration
HP Advantage HPrsquos DL980 as well as the entire HP ProLiant server family has excellent TCO compared to both older SPARC and POWER servers as well as newer servers See the TCO Analysis section below for more detail
Data Center Running Out of Floor Space ndash The historic pairing of servers and BI applications for discrete solutions has led to a proliferation of servers dedicated to single tasks Thus many data centers are running out of capacity
HP Advantage The DL980 is an ideal consolidation platform Floor space can be freed up by consolidation of BI instances and applications onto the DL980 with its relatively small footprint
Too Many Database Instances ndash Database consolidation results from an initial state in which too many BI-related database instances exist Numerous small data marts or numerous operational data stores are prime examples Most likely this profusion of small instances occurred by splitting the query workload to enable query and report processing to be accomplished within accepted parameters Database sprawl takes up floor space and IT timendashand ultimately increases cost
HP Advantage Once again the DL980 is an ideal consolidation and virtualization platform for large database environments with too many instances particularly in enterprises beset with too many small data marts
Underutilized Servers ndash While unceasing high-pressure BI workloads do occur theyrsquore in the minority Instead many enterprises create peak BI workload at the end of month end of quarter end of year and other significant times during the yearly business cycle
Thus itrsquos common in older architectures to find dedicated servers that are not fully utilized or are only productively utilized a small percentage of the time Dedicating one workload to each server meant that each server needed to be sized accordingly to accommodate the peak workload For much of the time many servers tend to run lightly loaded outside of peak hours The cost of carrying several of these systems can be significant
15
HP Advantage The DL980 is an ideal high-performance scalable reliable and low-cost consolidation platform
Oracle-Sun Specific Drivers Many of the more troublesome Oracle-Sun specific drivers listed below are outcomes of the last eight years of hard times for SPARC servers
Underperforming Servers ndash With the steady slowdown in the evolution of the SPARC line performance has been an issue for many years Add to this the weight of underutilized servers sized for peak workloads and the drag on an IT operations budget can be significant
HP Advantage Comparative data using Alinean Ltd and Ideas International Inc show a tangible HP advantage especially in enterprise-class servers Ask your HP representative for a TCO analysis
The Risks of a Single-Vendor Solution Stack ndash Hosting an Oracle database on Oracle-Sun servers cedes control of the entire solution stack to Oracle Could you be overspending on servers software and support by relying solely on Oracle-Sun
HP Advantage HP can provide a ldquowhole environmentrdquo view with the DL980 in the Converged Infrastructure and best-of-breed partners to help you move to your next-generation environment
Escalating and Changing Support Costs ndash Higher support costs exist for Oracle-Sun SPARC systems including new ldquomandatoryrdquo hardware support fees
HP Advantage Evaluating the support costs for the DL980 and other HP ProLiant servers relative to Oracle-Sun SPARC support costs can help you find ways to reduce operational support costs Ask your HP representative for a TCO analysis
IBM Specific Drivers IBM has its own set of specific issues that have driven data centers to migrate from IBM servers frequently over the last 20 years
High Cost of Deployment Integration and Maintenance ndash Cost is an issue with architectures consisting of older POWER4 and POWER5 servers IBMrsquos approach to computing technology does not lend itself well to simple deployment and integration POWER servers have been created to interoperate very well in a POWER-only environment Unfortunately it is costly to integrate POWER servers with non-POWER servers (eg x86 servers) storage networking diverse management tools and applications This characteristic of the POWER server line results in higher costs for deployment integration support maintenance and ultimately upgrades to newer POWER servers Unfortunately when choosing a POWER-to-POWER upgrade the high-cost IBM lifecycle begins again and data centers are firmly locked into the same inflexible architecture
The IBM Architectural Silo Model ndash The piecemeal nature of siloed POWER solutions (separate HA separate networking no standard management infrastructure etc) requires extensive and custom integration Unfortunately IBM mainframes and x86 servers subscribe to siloed architecture as well The IBM approach to architectural design and component deployment forces customers to adapt their business operations to fit IBMrsquos technology silos such as mainframe or POWER servers To implement cost-effective multi-tier computing infrastructures customers must piece together their own enterprise architecture By modern standards this is a needless investment of development time and budget that can be better used for higher priority tasks
16
Lack of Solution Flexibility ndash Instead of vendor guidance toward overcoming many of the legacy issues above are you guided into upgrading the legacy environment instead of transforming it into a cost-effective and contemporary infrastructure Being guided into an IBM-only siloed infrastructure philosophy solves only surface issues and can perpetuate cost and resource inefficiency
HP Advantage For the issues above HP provides a ldquowhole environmentrdquo view with the DL980 and best-of-breed partners to help you move to your next generation environment HP Converged Infrastructure offers common building blocksndashstandards-based servers ProLiant Xeon servers and Integrity Itanium Servers common management software common power and cooling and a common network fabric
Older POWER Server Processing and Workload Shortcomings ndash It should come as no surprise that for many intense BI workloads these older POWER4 and POWER5 systems lack the necessary processing IO bandwidth and reliability IBMrsquos message was also quite clear when they optimized the POWER architecture primarily for the OLTP workload The OLTP workload does not have the same characteristics of mixed workloads or BI workloads Specific components subsystems and features are necessary to satisfy the intense IO bandwidth and processing requirements of high-volume BI workloads mixed OLTP and BI workloads and long-running batch processing
HP Advantage The DL980 was specifically designed and optimized to process mixed workloads including the two most popular workloads the Business Intelligence workload and the mission-critical OLTP workload It contains by conscious design the necessary hardware and software components to excel at these business-critical workloads Thus the DL980 is able to efficiently handle a mixed workload containing both analytical BI and operational BI In addition the DL980 provides up to 2TB of memory to facilitate in-memory processing
HP Migration Resources HP Migration Process
The HP migration process (Figure 3) embodies a mature and flexible methodology that provides a consistent framework for capturing and carrying out customer requirements The process is built upon years of migration experience and best practices across a variety of databases applications and platforms The process is tool agnostic providing flexibility in solution development Using this mature process as a foundation HP provides a customer-driven migration process instead of an inflexible process based on single-path choices
HP has over 20 years worth of experience migrating customers off of Oracle-Sun servers IBM servers databases and applications to HP solutions HP offers a Solaris-to-Linux porting kit and also uses IBM tools that are available for AIX-to-Linux porting
17
Figure 3 HP Migration Process
HP-UX 11i on HP Integrity
Linux on HP ProLiant
Windows on HP ProLiant
MIGRATION PATH
THE HP MIGRATION CENTER
MIGRATION PROCESS
SupportExecutePlanAssess
HP SUNSET COMPLETE CARE INCENTIVES
The key benefits of the HP migration process are
bull A standard high level process which is o based on decades of expertise and best practices o repeatable o customizable by database and application technology platform and migration toolset o scalable accommodating simple to complex migrations
bull Identifies migration requirements up front and properly addresses those requirements in a strategy document A TCO analysis is also included which provides solid data points to facilitate validation of the migration business case
bull Incorporates production dress rehearsals to refine the deployment prior to the actual deployment phase
bull Includes data quality analysis to address source side data issues prior to migration
18
HP Migration Center and Services
Over the past 20+ years HP has helped migrate thousands of customers gaining valuable knowledge expertise and repeatability Migrations from older architectures allow customers to take advantage of HP infrastructure to reduce costs improve performance and gain competitive advantage Through the HP Migration Center HP combines best practices with new technologies such as the HP Converged Infrastructure to give you simple and unified low-risk solutions
Modernizing from antiquated and siloed Oracle-Sun and IBM environments to a flexible and integrated Converged Infrastructure takes experience and planning The HP Migration Competence Center as well as HPrsquos data center transformation specialists can guide your operations teams through the following decisions and options required to take advantage of the Converged Infrastructure capabilities
bull Reduce aggregate server and core count by eliminating underutilized dedicated servers Let HP evaluate your current workload inventory and help you plan a consolidated or virtualized environment that improves utilization while cutting software instances and related licensing costs
bull Cut provisioning time from days to minutes Distributed environments are known for complex cabling parallel server and storage wiring and slow complex error-prone provisioning procedures HP can help you accelerate repetitive provisioning tasks by taking advantage of application templates while relying on HP Virtual Connect to instantly provision servers and storage connections
bull Dedicated servers are usually underutilized outside of peak workload hours Verify there is always ldquojust enoughrdquo capacity by letting HP evaluate your current workloads and demand cycles in order to help you define a much more efficient environment Accurately address capacity needs without overspending using HP Capacity Planner technology part of the HP Converged Infrastructure management umbrella
bull HP can help you constrain power consumption to match active workloads HP Data Center Smart Grid enables the automatic ldquodialing backrdquo of power consumption for lightly loaded resources As the load increases power consumption will be automatically ldquodialed uprdquo to ensure that appropriate performance levels are met
The HP Migration Center maintains a close relationship with many database and application partners to ensure a smooth complete migration solution with respect to the databases and applications Additionally the HP Migrations Center works closely with the HP Solution Centers and Competence Centers to assist with database and application migrations
The Migration Center can deploy experts for the DL980 and Linux as well as HP specialists for the operating systems of other vendors Additionally HP maintains close development and support arrangements with major operating systems vendors including Microsoft Windows Novell SUSE Linux Oracle Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Call to Action See for yourself how the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 makes an ideal platform for your enterprise workloads Ask for a TCO assessment or migration assessment to get started For more information please contact your HP representative or visit httpwwwhpcomgomigratetohp
Share with colleagues
copy Copyright 2011 Hewlett-Packard Development Company LP The information contained herein is subject to change without notice The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein
Intel and Intel Xeon are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the US and other countries Linux is a US registered trademark of Linus Torvalds Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation andor its affiliates Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries
4AA3-3180ENW Created February 2011 Updated March 2011 Rev 1
For More Information HP ProLiant DL980 G7 serverndashDatasheet
HP ProLiant DL980 G7 Server with HP PREMA Architecture
httph20195www2hpcomv2GetPDFaspx4AA1-5671ENWpdf
httph20195www2hpcomv2GetPDFaspx4AA3-0643ENWpdf
Intel Xeon processor 7500 series
httpwwwintelcomitcenterproductsxeon7500
HP Converged Infrastructure
httph18004www1hpcomproductssolutionsconvergedmainhtml
The HP Migration Center white paper
httph20195www2hpcomv2GetPDFaspx4AA1-0783ENWpdf
Linux on HP ProLiant servers
httph18004www1hpcomproductsserverslinuxindexhtml
12
TCO Analysis An analysis of the DL980 powered with the Intel Xeon processor 7500 series versus both the IBM POWER 770 and the Oracle-Sun SPARC M9000 shows a clear 3-year TCO advantage for the DL980 The immediate acquisition cost savings is striking savings that can be used for IT innovation instead of maintaining the inefficient legacy status quo
The most important cost categories are included in this analysis
bull Hardware acquisition cost bull Server software (OS and Oracle database) bull Hardware and software support and maintenance bull Systems administration bull Facilities (power cooling space)
Data Source Ideas International Ltd amp Alinean Inc were used to make the performance and cost comparisons (June 2010)
Comparison - IBM POWER 770 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Table 4 Comparative solution specifics ndash IBM POWER 770 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Server OS DBMS Server number SocketsCores Total cores
IBM POWER7 770 (31 GHz) AIX Oracle 11g 1 864 64
HP DL980 G7 Intel Xeon X7560 (226 GHz)
Red Hat
Red Hat
Enterprise
Linux
Oracle 11g 1 864 64
Table 5 3 Year TCO comparisons ndash IBM POWER 770 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
TCO Comparison ndash Cumulative 3 Year Solution A
IBM P7 770 64c
Solution B
HP ProLiant DL980 G7 64c
Difference
(A ndash B) Amount
Difference
(A ndash B) Percentage
Server Hardware $318560 $112092 $206468 648
Server Software (OS amp DB) $2416064 $1146207 $1269857 526
Hardware and Software Support amp Maintenance
$1682173 $755348 $926825 551
System Administration $43620 $31371 $12249 281
Facilities (Power Cooling amp Floor space) $38235 $24084 $14151 370
Total IT Costs $4498652 $2069102 $2429550 540
13
TCOROI Summary (summary derived from Table 5)
bull Overall savings of 54 over 3 years with the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 bull Hardware acquisition cost savings of 65 bull Hardware and software support and maintenance cost savings of 55
Comparison ndash Oracle-Sun M9000 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Table 6 3 Year TCO comparisons ndash Oracle-Sun M9000 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Server OS DBMS Server number
SocketsCores Total cores
Oracle-Sun M9000 SPARC64 VI (24 GHz)
Solaris Oracle 11g 1 64128 128
HP DL980 G7 Intel Xeon X7560 (226 GHz)
Red Hat Enterprise
Linux
Oracle 11g 1 864 64
Table 7 3 Year TCO comparisons ndash Oracle-Sun M9000 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
TCO Comparison ndash Cumulative 3 Year
Solution A
OracleSun M9000 SPARC VI 128c
Solution B
HP ProLiant DL980 G7 64c
Difference
(A ndash B) Amount
Difference
(A ndash B) Percentage
Server Hardware $3404864 $112092 $3292772 967
Server Software (OS amp DB) $3520000 $1146207 $2373793 674
Hardware and Software Support amp Maintenance
$3809070 $755348 $3053772 802
System Administration $40428 $31371 $9057 224
Facilities (Power Cooling amp Floor space)
$237357 $24084 $213273 899
Total IT Costs $11011719 $2069102 $8942617 812
TCOROI Summary (summary derived from Table 7)
bull Overall savings of 81 over 3 years with the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 bull Hardware acquisition cost savings of 97 bull Hardware and software support and maintenance cost savings of 80
14
Migration Drivers In transforming data centers and BI solution platforms into efficient and modern entities migrations are a necessity Fortunately migrations from IBM and Sun are not a new phenomenon theyrsquove been going on for the better part of 20 years Thousands of migrations have occurred giving rise to the creation and use by HP of mature migration methodologies tools and expertise
Before any migration can be considered valid reasons must exist to justify the investment Fortunately valid migrational drivers exist in both the business and technical areas of every corporation Drivers that lead to migrations tend to revolve around solid objectives related to lowering computing cost and improving service levels There are numerous drivers that apply to most IT shops whether that shop has older Oracle-Sun SPARC servers or older IBM POWER servers In addition to these general drivers common to both environments there are compelling reasons to migrate specific to SPARC and POWER environments
General Migration Drivers The following general drivers apply to both older Oracle-Sun SPARC servers and IBM POWER servers
High Support Costs ndash Support costs for older systems are typically higher than the support costs for current systems If the warranty has expired support costs may become a shock the day after warranty expiration
HP Advantage HPrsquos DL980 as well as the entire HP ProLiant server family has excellent TCO compared to both older SPARC and POWER servers as well as newer servers See the TCO Analysis section below for more detail
Data Center Running Out of Floor Space ndash The historic pairing of servers and BI applications for discrete solutions has led to a proliferation of servers dedicated to single tasks Thus many data centers are running out of capacity
HP Advantage The DL980 is an ideal consolidation platform Floor space can be freed up by consolidation of BI instances and applications onto the DL980 with its relatively small footprint
Too Many Database Instances ndash Database consolidation results from an initial state in which too many BI-related database instances exist Numerous small data marts or numerous operational data stores are prime examples Most likely this profusion of small instances occurred by splitting the query workload to enable query and report processing to be accomplished within accepted parameters Database sprawl takes up floor space and IT timendashand ultimately increases cost
HP Advantage Once again the DL980 is an ideal consolidation and virtualization platform for large database environments with too many instances particularly in enterprises beset with too many small data marts
Underutilized Servers ndash While unceasing high-pressure BI workloads do occur theyrsquore in the minority Instead many enterprises create peak BI workload at the end of month end of quarter end of year and other significant times during the yearly business cycle
Thus itrsquos common in older architectures to find dedicated servers that are not fully utilized or are only productively utilized a small percentage of the time Dedicating one workload to each server meant that each server needed to be sized accordingly to accommodate the peak workload For much of the time many servers tend to run lightly loaded outside of peak hours The cost of carrying several of these systems can be significant
15
HP Advantage The DL980 is an ideal high-performance scalable reliable and low-cost consolidation platform
Oracle-Sun Specific Drivers Many of the more troublesome Oracle-Sun specific drivers listed below are outcomes of the last eight years of hard times for SPARC servers
Underperforming Servers ndash With the steady slowdown in the evolution of the SPARC line performance has been an issue for many years Add to this the weight of underutilized servers sized for peak workloads and the drag on an IT operations budget can be significant
HP Advantage Comparative data using Alinean Ltd and Ideas International Inc show a tangible HP advantage especially in enterprise-class servers Ask your HP representative for a TCO analysis
The Risks of a Single-Vendor Solution Stack ndash Hosting an Oracle database on Oracle-Sun servers cedes control of the entire solution stack to Oracle Could you be overspending on servers software and support by relying solely on Oracle-Sun
HP Advantage HP can provide a ldquowhole environmentrdquo view with the DL980 in the Converged Infrastructure and best-of-breed partners to help you move to your next-generation environment
Escalating and Changing Support Costs ndash Higher support costs exist for Oracle-Sun SPARC systems including new ldquomandatoryrdquo hardware support fees
HP Advantage Evaluating the support costs for the DL980 and other HP ProLiant servers relative to Oracle-Sun SPARC support costs can help you find ways to reduce operational support costs Ask your HP representative for a TCO analysis
IBM Specific Drivers IBM has its own set of specific issues that have driven data centers to migrate from IBM servers frequently over the last 20 years
High Cost of Deployment Integration and Maintenance ndash Cost is an issue with architectures consisting of older POWER4 and POWER5 servers IBMrsquos approach to computing technology does not lend itself well to simple deployment and integration POWER servers have been created to interoperate very well in a POWER-only environment Unfortunately it is costly to integrate POWER servers with non-POWER servers (eg x86 servers) storage networking diverse management tools and applications This characteristic of the POWER server line results in higher costs for deployment integration support maintenance and ultimately upgrades to newer POWER servers Unfortunately when choosing a POWER-to-POWER upgrade the high-cost IBM lifecycle begins again and data centers are firmly locked into the same inflexible architecture
The IBM Architectural Silo Model ndash The piecemeal nature of siloed POWER solutions (separate HA separate networking no standard management infrastructure etc) requires extensive and custom integration Unfortunately IBM mainframes and x86 servers subscribe to siloed architecture as well The IBM approach to architectural design and component deployment forces customers to adapt their business operations to fit IBMrsquos technology silos such as mainframe or POWER servers To implement cost-effective multi-tier computing infrastructures customers must piece together their own enterprise architecture By modern standards this is a needless investment of development time and budget that can be better used for higher priority tasks
16
Lack of Solution Flexibility ndash Instead of vendor guidance toward overcoming many of the legacy issues above are you guided into upgrading the legacy environment instead of transforming it into a cost-effective and contemporary infrastructure Being guided into an IBM-only siloed infrastructure philosophy solves only surface issues and can perpetuate cost and resource inefficiency
HP Advantage For the issues above HP provides a ldquowhole environmentrdquo view with the DL980 and best-of-breed partners to help you move to your next generation environment HP Converged Infrastructure offers common building blocksndashstandards-based servers ProLiant Xeon servers and Integrity Itanium Servers common management software common power and cooling and a common network fabric
Older POWER Server Processing and Workload Shortcomings ndash It should come as no surprise that for many intense BI workloads these older POWER4 and POWER5 systems lack the necessary processing IO bandwidth and reliability IBMrsquos message was also quite clear when they optimized the POWER architecture primarily for the OLTP workload The OLTP workload does not have the same characteristics of mixed workloads or BI workloads Specific components subsystems and features are necessary to satisfy the intense IO bandwidth and processing requirements of high-volume BI workloads mixed OLTP and BI workloads and long-running batch processing
HP Advantage The DL980 was specifically designed and optimized to process mixed workloads including the two most popular workloads the Business Intelligence workload and the mission-critical OLTP workload It contains by conscious design the necessary hardware and software components to excel at these business-critical workloads Thus the DL980 is able to efficiently handle a mixed workload containing both analytical BI and operational BI In addition the DL980 provides up to 2TB of memory to facilitate in-memory processing
HP Migration Resources HP Migration Process
The HP migration process (Figure 3) embodies a mature and flexible methodology that provides a consistent framework for capturing and carrying out customer requirements The process is built upon years of migration experience and best practices across a variety of databases applications and platforms The process is tool agnostic providing flexibility in solution development Using this mature process as a foundation HP provides a customer-driven migration process instead of an inflexible process based on single-path choices
HP has over 20 years worth of experience migrating customers off of Oracle-Sun servers IBM servers databases and applications to HP solutions HP offers a Solaris-to-Linux porting kit and also uses IBM tools that are available for AIX-to-Linux porting
17
Figure 3 HP Migration Process
HP-UX 11i on HP Integrity
Linux on HP ProLiant
Windows on HP ProLiant
MIGRATION PATH
THE HP MIGRATION CENTER
MIGRATION PROCESS
SupportExecutePlanAssess
HP SUNSET COMPLETE CARE INCENTIVES
The key benefits of the HP migration process are
bull A standard high level process which is o based on decades of expertise and best practices o repeatable o customizable by database and application technology platform and migration toolset o scalable accommodating simple to complex migrations
bull Identifies migration requirements up front and properly addresses those requirements in a strategy document A TCO analysis is also included which provides solid data points to facilitate validation of the migration business case
bull Incorporates production dress rehearsals to refine the deployment prior to the actual deployment phase
bull Includes data quality analysis to address source side data issues prior to migration
18
HP Migration Center and Services
Over the past 20+ years HP has helped migrate thousands of customers gaining valuable knowledge expertise and repeatability Migrations from older architectures allow customers to take advantage of HP infrastructure to reduce costs improve performance and gain competitive advantage Through the HP Migration Center HP combines best practices with new technologies such as the HP Converged Infrastructure to give you simple and unified low-risk solutions
Modernizing from antiquated and siloed Oracle-Sun and IBM environments to a flexible and integrated Converged Infrastructure takes experience and planning The HP Migration Competence Center as well as HPrsquos data center transformation specialists can guide your operations teams through the following decisions and options required to take advantage of the Converged Infrastructure capabilities
bull Reduce aggregate server and core count by eliminating underutilized dedicated servers Let HP evaluate your current workload inventory and help you plan a consolidated or virtualized environment that improves utilization while cutting software instances and related licensing costs
bull Cut provisioning time from days to minutes Distributed environments are known for complex cabling parallel server and storage wiring and slow complex error-prone provisioning procedures HP can help you accelerate repetitive provisioning tasks by taking advantage of application templates while relying on HP Virtual Connect to instantly provision servers and storage connections
bull Dedicated servers are usually underutilized outside of peak workload hours Verify there is always ldquojust enoughrdquo capacity by letting HP evaluate your current workloads and demand cycles in order to help you define a much more efficient environment Accurately address capacity needs without overspending using HP Capacity Planner technology part of the HP Converged Infrastructure management umbrella
bull HP can help you constrain power consumption to match active workloads HP Data Center Smart Grid enables the automatic ldquodialing backrdquo of power consumption for lightly loaded resources As the load increases power consumption will be automatically ldquodialed uprdquo to ensure that appropriate performance levels are met
The HP Migration Center maintains a close relationship with many database and application partners to ensure a smooth complete migration solution with respect to the databases and applications Additionally the HP Migrations Center works closely with the HP Solution Centers and Competence Centers to assist with database and application migrations
The Migration Center can deploy experts for the DL980 and Linux as well as HP specialists for the operating systems of other vendors Additionally HP maintains close development and support arrangements with major operating systems vendors including Microsoft Windows Novell SUSE Linux Oracle Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Call to Action See for yourself how the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 makes an ideal platform for your enterprise workloads Ask for a TCO assessment or migration assessment to get started For more information please contact your HP representative or visit httpwwwhpcomgomigratetohp
Share with colleagues
copy Copyright 2011 Hewlett-Packard Development Company LP The information contained herein is subject to change without notice The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein
Intel and Intel Xeon are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the US and other countries Linux is a US registered trademark of Linus Torvalds Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation andor its affiliates Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries
4AA3-3180ENW Created February 2011 Updated March 2011 Rev 1
For More Information HP ProLiant DL980 G7 serverndashDatasheet
HP ProLiant DL980 G7 Server with HP PREMA Architecture
httph20195www2hpcomv2GetPDFaspx4AA1-5671ENWpdf
httph20195www2hpcomv2GetPDFaspx4AA3-0643ENWpdf
Intel Xeon processor 7500 series
httpwwwintelcomitcenterproductsxeon7500
HP Converged Infrastructure
httph18004www1hpcomproductssolutionsconvergedmainhtml
The HP Migration Center white paper
httph20195www2hpcomv2GetPDFaspx4AA1-0783ENWpdf
Linux on HP ProLiant servers
httph18004www1hpcomproductsserverslinuxindexhtml
13
TCOROI Summary (summary derived from Table 5)
bull Overall savings of 54 over 3 years with the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 bull Hardware acquisition cost savings of 65 bull Hardware and software support and maintenance cost savings of 55
Comparison ndash Oracle-Sun M9000 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Table 6 3 Year TCO comparisons ndash Oracle-Sun M9000 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
Server OS DBMS Server number
SocketsCores Total cores
Oracle-Sun M9000 SPARC64 VI (24 GHz)
Solaris Oracle 11g 1 64128 128
HP DL980 G7 Intel Xeon X7560 (226 GHz)
Red Hat Enterprise
Linux
Oracle 11g 1 864 64
Table 7 3 Year TCO comparisons ndash Oracle-Sun M9000 vs HP ProLiant DL980 G7
TCO Comparison ndash Cumulative 3 Year
Solution A
OracleSun M9000 SPARC VI 128c
Solution B
HP ProLiant DL980 G7 64c
Difference
(A ndash B) Amount
Difference
(A ndash B) Percentage
Server Hardware $3404864 $112092 $3292772 967
Server Software (OS amp DB) $3520000 $1146207 $2373793 674
Hardware and Software Support amp Maintenance
$3809070 $755348 $3053772 802
System Administration $40428 $31371 $9057 224
Facilities (Power Cooling amp Floor space)
$237357 $24084 $213273 899
Total IT Costs $11011719 $2069102 $8942617 812
TCOROI Summary (summary derived from Table 7)
bull Overall savings of 81 over 3 years with the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 bull Hardware acquisition cost savings of 97 bull Hardware and software support and maintenance cost savings of 80
14
Migration Drivers In transforming data centers and BI solution platforms into efficient and modern entities migrations are a necessity Fortunately migrations from IBM and Sun are not a new phenomenon theyrsquove been going on for the better part of 20 years Thousands of migrations have occurred giving rise to the creation and use by HP of mature migration methodologies tools and expertise
Before any migration can be considered valid reasons must exist to justify the investment Fortunately valid migrational drivers exist in both the business and technical areas of every corporation Drivers that lead to migrations tend to revolve around solid objectives related to lowering computing cost and improving service levels There are numerous drivers that apply to most IT shops whether that shop has older Oracle-Sun SPARC servers or older IBM POWER servers In addition to these general drivers common to both environments there are compelling reasons to migrate specific to SPARC and POWER environments
General Migration Drivers The following general drivers apply to both older Oracle-Sun SPARC servers and IBM POWER servers
High Support Costs ndash Support costs for older systems are typically higher than the support costs for current systems If the warranty has expired support costs may become a shock the day after warranty expiration
HP Advantage HPrsquos DL980 as well as the entire HP ProLiant server family has excellent TCO compared to both older SPARC and POWER servers as well as newer servers See the TCO Analysis section below for more detail
Data Center Running Out of Floor Space ndash The historic pairing of servers and BI applications for discrete solutions has led to a proliferation of servers dedicated to single tasks Thus many data centers are running out of capacity
HP Advantage The DL980 is an ideal consolidation platform Floor space can be freed up by consolidation of BI instances and applications onto the DL980 with its relatively small footprint
Too Many Database Instances ndash Database consolidation results from an initial state in which too many BI-related database instances exist Numerous small data marts or numerous operational data stores are prime examples Most likely this profusion of small instances occurred by splitting the query workload to enable query and report processing to be accomplished within accepted parameters Database sprawl takes up floor space and IT timendashand ultimately increases cost
HP Advantage Once again the DL980 is an ideal consolidation and virtualization platform for large database environments with too many instances particularly in enterprises beset with too many small data marts
Underutilized Servers ndash While unceasing high-pressure BI workloads do occur theyrsquore in the minority Instead many enterprises create peak BI workload at the end of month end of quarter end of year and other significant times during the yearly business cycle
Thus itrsquos common in older architectures to find dedicated servers that are not fully utilized or are only productively utilized a small percentage of the time Dedicating one workload to each server meant that each server needed to be sized accordingly to accommodate the peak workload For much of the time many servers tend to run lightly loaded outside of peak hours The cost of carrying several of these systems can be significant
15
HP Advantage The DL980 is an ideal high-performance scalable reliable and low-cost consolidation platform
Oracle-Sun Specific Drivers Many of the more troublesome Oracle-Sun specific drivers listed below are outcomes of the last eight years of hard times for SPARC servers
Underperforming Servers ndash With the steady slowdown in the evolution of the SPARC line performance has been an issue for many years Add to this the weight of underutilized servers sized for peak workloads and the drag on an IT operations budget can be significant
HP Advantage Comparative data using Alinean Ltd and Ideas International Inc show a tangible HP advantage especially in enterprise-class servers Ask your HP representative for a TCO analysis
The Risks of a Single-Vendor Solution Stack ndash Hosting an Oracle database on Oracle-Sun servers cedes control of the entire solution stack to Oracle Could you be overspending on servers software and support by relying solely on Oracle-Sun
HP Advantage HP can provide a ldquowhole environmentrdquo view with the DL980 in the Converged Infrastructure and best-of-breed partners to help you move to your next-generation environment
Escalating and Changing Support Costs ndash Higher support costs exist for Oracle-Sun SPARC systems including new ldquomandatoryrdquo hardware support fees
HP Advantage Evaluating the support costs for the DL980 and other HP ProLiant servers relative to Oracle-Sun SPARC support costs can help you find ways to reduce operational support costs Ask your HP representative for a TCO analysis
IBM Specific Drivers IBM has its own set of specific issues that have driven data centers to migrate from IBM servers frequently over the last 20 years
High Cost of Deployment Integration and Maintenance ndash Cost is an issue with architectures consisting of older POWER4 and POWER5 servers IBMrsquos approach to computing technology does not lend itself well to simple deployment and integration POWER servers have been created to interoperate very well in a POWER-only environment Unfortunately it is costly to integrate POWER servers with non-POWER servers (eg x86 servers) storage networking diverse management tools and applications This characteristic of the POWER server line results in higher costs for deployment integration support maintenance and ultimately upgrades to newer POWER servers Unfortunately when choosing a POWER-to-POWER upgrade the high-cost IBM lifecycle begins again and data centers are firmly locked into the same inflexible architecture
The IBM Architectural Silo Model ndash The piecemeal nature of siloed POWER solutions (separate HA separate networking no standard management infrastructure etc) requires extensive and custom integration Unfortunately IBM mainframes and x86 servers subscribe to siloed architecture as well The IBM approach to architectural design and component deployment forces customers to adapt their business operations to fit IBMrsquos technology silos such as mainframe or POWER servers To implement cost-effective multi-tier computing infrastructures customers must piece together their own enterprise architecture By modern standards this is a needless investment of development time and budget that can be better used for higher priority tasks
16
Lack of Solution Flexibility ndash Instead of vendor guidance toward overcoming many of the legacy issues above are you guided into upgrading the legacy environment instead of transforming it into a cost-effective and contemporary infrastructure Being guided into an IBM-only siloed infrastructure philosophy solves only surface issues and can perpetuate cost and resource inefficiency
HP Advantage For the issues above HP provides a ldquowhole environmentrdquo view with the DL980 and best-of-breed partners to help you move to your next generation environment HP Converged Infrastructure offers common building blocksndashstandards-based servers ProLiant Xeon servers and Integrity Itanium Servers common management software common power and cooling and a common network fabric
Older POWER Server Processing and Workload Shortcomings ndash It should come as no surprise that for many intense BI workloads these older POWER4 and POWER5 systems lack the necessary processing IO bandwidth and reliability IBMrsquos message was also quite clear when they optimized the POWER architecture primarily for the OLTP workload The OLTP workload does not have the same characteristics of mixed workloads or BI workloads Specific components subsystems and features are necessary to satisfy the intense IO bandwidth and processing requirements of high-volume BI workloads mixed OLTP and BI workloads and long-running batch processing
HP Advantage The DL980 was specifically designed and optimized to process mixed workloads including the two most popular workloads the Business Intelligence workload and the mission-critical OLTP workload It contains by conscious design the necessary hardware and software components to excel at these business-critical workloads Thus the DL980 is able to efficiently handle a mixed workload containing both analytical BI and operational BI In addition the DL980 provides up to 2TB of memory to facilitate in-memory processing
HP Migration Resources HP Migration Process
The HP migration process (Figure 3) embodies a mature and flexible methodology that provides a consistent framework for capturing and carrying out customer requirements The process is built upon years of migration experience and best practices across a variety of databases applications and platforms The process is tool agnostic providing flexibility in solution development Using this mature process as a foundation HP provides a customer-driven migration process instead of an inflexible process based on single-path choices
HP has over 20 years worth of experience migrating customers off of Oracle-Sun servers IBM servers databases and applications to HP solutions HP offers a Solaris-to-Linux porting kit and also uses IBM tools that are available for AIX-to-Linux porting
17
Figure 3 HP Migration Process
HP-UX 11i on HP Integrity
Linux on HP ProLiant
Windows on HP ProLiant
MIGRATION PATH
THE HP MIGRATION CENTER
MIGRATION PROCESS
SupportExecutePlanAssess
HP SUNSET COMPLETE CARE INCENTIVES
The key benefits of the HP migration process are
bull A standard high level process which is o based on decades of expertise and best practices o repeatable o customizable by database and application technology platform and migration toolset o scalable accommodating simple to complex migrations
bull Identifies migration requirements up front and properly addresses those requirements in a strategy document A TCO analysis is also included which provides solid data points to facilitate validation of the migration business case
bull Incorporates production dress rehearsals to refine the deployment prior to the actual deployment phase
bull Includes data quality analysis to address source side data issues prior to migration
18
HP Migration Center and Services
Over the past 20+ years HP has helped migrate thousands of customers gaining valuable knowledge expertise and repeatability Migrations from older architectures allow customers to take advantage of HP infrastructure to reduce costs improve performance and gain competitive advantage Through the HP Migration Center HP combines best practices with new technologies such as the HP Converged Infrastructure to give you simple and unified low-risk solutions
Modernizing from antiquated and siloed Oracle-Sun and IBM environments to a flexible and integrated Converged Infrastructure takes experience and planning The HP Migration Competence Center as well as HPrsquos data center transformation specialists can guide your operations teams through the following decisions and options required to take advantage of the Converged Infrastructure capabilities
bull Reduce aggregate server and core count by eliminating underutilized dedicated servers Let HP evaluate your current workload inventory and help you plan a consolidated or virtualized environment that improves utilization while cutting software instances and related licensing costs
bull Cut provisioning time from days to minutes Distributed environments are known for complex cabling parallel server and storage wiring and slow complex error-prone provisioning procedures HP can help you accelerate repetitive provisioning tasks by taking advantage of application templates while relying on HP Virtual Connect to instantly provision servers and storage connections
bull Dedicated servers are usually underutilized outside of peak workload hours Verify there is always ldquojust enoughrdquo capacity by letting HP evaluate your current workloads and demand cycles in order to help you define a much more efficient environment Accurately address capacity needs without overspending using HP Capacity Planner technology part of the HP Converged Infrastructure management umbrella
bull HP can help you constrain power consumption to match active workloads HP Data Center Smart Grid enables the automatic ldquodialing backrdquo of power consumption for lightly loaded resources As the load increases power consumption will be automatically ldquodialed uprdquo to ensure that appropriate performance levels are met
The HP Migration Center maintains a close relationship with many database and application partners to ensure a smooth complete migration solution with respect to the databases and applications Additionally the HP Migrations Center works closely with the HP Solution Centers and Competence Centers to assist with database and application migrations
The Migration Center can deploy experts for the DL980 and Linux as well as HP specialists for the operating systems of other vendors Additionally HP maintains close development and support arrangements with major operating systems vendors including Microsoft Windows Novell SUSE Linux Oracle Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Call to Action See for yourself how the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 makes an ideal platform for your enterprise workloads Ask for a TCO assessment or migration assessment to get started For more information please contact your HP representative or visit httpwwwhpcomgomigratetohp
Share with colleagues
copy Copyright 2011 Hewlett-Packard Development Company LP The information contained herein is subject to change without notice The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein
Intel and Intel Xeon are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the US and other countries Linux is a US registered trademark of Linus Torvalds Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation andor its affiliates Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries
4AA3-3180ENW Created February 2011 Updated March 2011 Rev 1
For More Information HP ProLiant DL980 G7 serverndashDatasheet
HP ProLiant DL980 G7 Server with HP PREMA Architecture
httph20195www2hpcomv2GetPDFaspx4AA1-5671ENWpdf
httph20195www2hpcomv2GetPDFaspx4AA3-0643ENWpdf
Intel Xeon processor 7500 series
httpwwwintelcomitcenterproductsxeon7500
HP Converged Infrastructure
httph18004www1hpcomproductssolutionsconvergedmainhtml
The HP Migration Center white paper
httph20195www2hpcomv2GetPDFaspx4AA1-0783ENWpdf
Linux on HP ProLiant servers
httph18004www1hpcomproductsserverslinuxindexhtml
14
Migration Drivers In transforming data centers and BI solution platforms into efficient and modern entities migrations are a necessity Fortunately migrations from IBM and Sun are not a new phenomenon theyrsquove been going on for the better part of 20 years Thousands of migrations have occurred giving rise to the creation and use by HP of mature migration methodologies tools and expertise
Before any migration can be considered valid reasons must exist to justify the investment Fortunately valid migrational drivers exist in both the business and technical areas of every corporation Drivers that lead to migrations tend to revolve around solid objectives related to lowering computing cost and improving service levels There are numerous drivers that apply to most IT shops whether that shop has older Oracle-Sun SPARC servers or older IBM POWER servers In addition to these general drivers common to both environments there are compelling reasons to migrate specific to SPARC and POWER environments
General Migration Drivers The following general drivers apply to both older Oracle-Sun SPARC servers and IBM POWER servers
High Support Costs ndash Support costs for older systems are typically higher than the support costs for current systems If the warranty has expired support costs may become a shock the day after warranty expiration
HP Advantage HPrsquos DL980 as well as the entire HP ProLiant server family has excellent TCO compared to both older SPARC and POWER servers as well as newer servers See the TCO Analysis section below for more detail
Data Center Running Out of Floor Space ndash The historic pairing of servers and BI applications for discrete solutions has led to a proliferation of servers dedicated to single tasks Thus many data centers are running out of capacity
HP Advantage The DL980 is an ideal consolidation platform Floor space can be freed up by consolidation of BI instances and applications onto the DL980 with its relatively small footprint
Too Many Database Instances ndash Database consolidation results from an initial state in which too many BI-related database instances exist Numerous small data marts or numerous operational data stores are prime examples Most likely this profusion of small instances occurred by splitting the query workload to enable query and report processing to be accomplished within accepted parameters Database sprawl takes up floor space and IT timendashand ultimately increases cost
HP Advantage Once again the DL980 is an ideal consolidation and virtualization platform for large database environments with too many instances particularly in enterprises beset with too many small data marts
Underutilized Servers ndash While unceasing high-pressure BI workloads do occur theyrsquore in the minority Instead many enterprises create peak BI workload at the end of month end of quarter end of year and other significant times during the yearly business cycle
Thus itrsquos common in older architectures to find dedicated servers that are not fully utilized or are only productively utilized a small percentage of the time Dedicating one workload to each server meant that each server needed to be sized accordingly to accommodate the peak workload For much of the time many servers tend to run lightly loaded outside of peak hours The cost of carrying several of these systems can be significant
15
HP Advantage The DL980 is an ideal high-performance scalable reliable and low-cost consolidation platform
Oracle-Sun Specific Drivers Many of the more troublesome Oracle-Sun specific drivers listed below are outcomes of the last eight years of hard times for SPARC servers
Underperforming Servers ndash With the steady slowdown in the evolution of the SPARC line performance has been an issue for many years Add to this the weight of underutilized servers sized for peak workloads and the drag on an IT operations budget can be significant
HP Advantage Comparative data using Alinean Ltd and Ideas International Inc show a tangible HP advantage especially in enterprise-class servers Ask your HP representative for a TCO analysis
The Risks of a Single-Vendor Solution Stack ndash Hosting an Oracle database on Oracle-Sun servers cedes control of the entire solution stack to Oracle Could you be overspending on servers software and support by relying solely on Oracle-Sun
HP Advantage HP can provide a ldquowhole environmentrdquo view with the DL980 in the Converged Infrastructure and best-of-breed partners to help you move to your next-generation environment
Escalating and Changing Support Costs ndash Higher support costs exist for Oracle-Sun SPARC systems including new ldquomandatoryrdquo hardware support fees
HP Advantage Evaluating the support costs for the DL980 and other HP ProLiant servers relative to Oracle-Sun SPARC support costs can help you find ways to reduce operational support costs Ask your HP representative for a TCO analysis
IBM Specific Drivers IBM has its own set of specific issues that have driven data centers to migrate from IBM servers frequently over the last 20 years
High Cost of Deployment Integration and Maintenance ndash Cost is an issue with architectures consisting of older POWER4 and POWER5 servers IBMrsquos approach to computing technology does not lend itself well to simple deployment and integration POWER servers have been created to interoperate very well in a POWER-only environment Unfortunately it is costly to integrate POWER servers with non-POWER servers (eg x86 servers) storage networking diverse management tools and applications This characteristic of the POWER server line results in higher costs for deployment integration support maintenance and ultimately upgrades to newer POWER servers Unfortunately when choosing a POWER-to-POWER upgrade the high-cost IBM lifecycle begins again and data centers are firmly locked into the same inflexible architecture
The IBM Architectural Silo Model ndash The piecemeal nature of siloed POWER solutions (separate HA separate networking no standard management infrastructure etc) requires extensive and custom integration Unfortunately IBM mainframes and x86 servers subscribe to siloed architecture as well The IBM approach to architectural design and component deployment forces customers to adapt their business operations to fit IBMrsquos technology silos such as mainframe or POWER servers To implement cost-effective multi-tier computing infrastructures customers must piece together their own enterprise architecture By modern standards this is a needless investment of development time and budget that can be better used for higher priority tasks
16
Lack of Solution Flexibility ndash Instead of vendor guidance toward overcoming many of the legacy issues above are you guided into upgrading the legacy environment instead of transforming it into a cost-effective and contemporary infrastructure Being guided into an IBM-only siloed infrastructure philosophy solves only surface issues and can perpetuate cost and resource inefficiency
HP Advantage For the issues above HP provides a ldquowhole environmentrdquo view with the DL980 and best-of-breed partners to help you move to your next generation environment HP Converged Infrastructure offers common building blocksndashstandards-based servers ProLiant Xeon servers and Integrity Itanium Servers common management software common power and cooling and a common network fabric
Older POWER Server Processing and Workload Shortcomings ndash It should come as no surprise that for many intense BI workloads these older POWER4 and POWER5 systems lack the necessary processing IO bandwidth and reliability IBMrsquos message was also quite clear when they optimized the POWER architecture primarily for the OLTP workload The OLTP workload does not have the same characteristics of mixed workloads or BI workloads Specific components subsystems and features are necessary to satisfy the intense IO bandwidth and processing requirements of high-volume BI workloads mixed OLTP and BI workloads and long-running batch processing
HP Advantage The DL980 was specifically designed and optimized to process mixed workloads including the two most popular workloads the Business Intelligence workload and the mission-critical OLTP workload It contains by conscious design the necessary hardware and software components to excel at these business-critical workloads Thus the DL980 is able to efficiently handle a mixed workload containing both analytical BI and operational BI In addition the DL980 provides up to 2TB of memory to facilitate in-memory processing
HP Migration Resources HP Migration Process
The HP migration process (Figure 3) embodies a mature and flexible methodology that provides a consistent framework for capturing and carrying out customer requirements The process is built upon years of migration experience and best practices across a variety of databases applications and platforms The process is tool agnostic providing flexibility in solution development Using this mature process as a foundation HP provides a customer-driven migration process instead of an inflexible process based on single-path choices
HP has over 20 years worth of experience migrating customers off of Oracle-Sun servers IBM servers databases and applications to HP solutions HP offers a Solaris-to-Linux porting kit and also uses IBM tools that are available for AIX-to-Linux porting
17
Figure 3 HP Migration Process
HP-UX 11i on HP Integrity
Linux on HP ProLiant
Windows on HP ProLiant
MIGRATION PATH
THE HP MIGRATION CENTER
MIGRATION PROCESS
SupportExecutePlanAssess
HP SUNSET COMPLETE CARE INCENTIVES
The key benefits of the HP migration process are
bull A standard high level process which is o based on decades of expertise and best practices o repeatable o customizable by database and application technology platform and migration toolset o scalable accommodating simple to complex migrations
bull Identifies migration requirements up front and properly addresses those requirements in a strategy document A TCO analysis is also included which provides solid data points to facilitate validation of the migration business case
bull Incorporates production dress rehearsals to refine the deployment prior to the actual deployment phase
bull Includes data quality analysis to address source side data issues prior to migration
18
HP Migration Center and Services
Over the past 20+ years HP has helped migrate thousands of customers gaining valuable knowledge expertise and repeatability Migrations from older architectures allow customers to take advantage of HP infrastructure to reduce costs improve performance and gain competitive advantage Through the HP Migration Center HP combines best practices with new technologies such as the HP Converged Infrastructure to give you simple and unified low-risk solutions
Modernizing from antiquated and siloed Oracle-Sun and IBM environments to a flexible and integrated Converged Infrastructure takes experience and planning The HP Migration Competence Center as well as HPrsquos data center transformation specialists can guide your operations teams through the following decisions and options required to take advantage of the Converged Infrastructure capabilities
bull Reduce aggregate server and core count by eliminating underutilized dedicated servers Let HP evaluate your current workload inventory and help you plan a consolidated or virtualized environment that improves utilization while cutting software instances and related licensing costs
bull Cut provisioning time from days to minutes Distributed environments are known for complex cabling parallel server and storage wiring and slow complex error-prone provisioning procedures HP can help you accelerate repetitive provisioning tasks by taking advantage of application templates while relying on HP Virtual Connect to instantly provision servers and storage connections
bull Dedicated servers are usually underutilized outside of peak workload hours Verify there is always ldquojust enoughrdquo capacity by letting HP evaluate your current workloads and demand cycles in order to help you define a much more efficient environment Accurately address capacity needs without overspending using HP Capacity Planner technology part of the HP Converged Infrastructure management umbrella
bull HP can help you constrain power consumption to match active workloads HP Data Center Smart Grid enables the automatic ldquodialing backrdquo of power consumption for lightly loaded resources As the load increases power consumption will be automatically ldquodialed uprdquo to ensure that appropriate performance levels are met
The HP Migration Center maintains a close relationship with many database and application partners to ensure a smooth complete migration solution with respect to the databases and applications Additionally the HP Migrations Center works closely with the HP Solution Centers and Competence Centers to assist with database and application migrations
The Migration Center can deploy experts for the DL980 and Linux as well as HP specialists for the operating systems of other vendors Additionally HP maintains close development and support arrangements with major operating systems vendors including Microsoft Windows Novell SUSE Linux Oracle Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Call to Action See for yourself how the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 makes an ideal platform for your enterprise workloads Ask for a TCO assessment or migration assessment to get started For more information please contact your HP representative or visit httpwwwhpcomgomigratetohp
Share with colleagues
copy Copyright 2011 Hewlett-Packard Development Company LP The information contained herein is subject to change without notice The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein
Intel and Intel Xeon are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the US and other countries Linux is a US registered trademark of Linus Torvalds Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation andor its affiliates Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries
4AA3-3180ENW Created February 2011 Updated March 2011 Rev 1
For More Information HP ProLiant DL980 G7 serverndashDatasheet
HP ProLiant DL980 G7 Server with HP PREMA Architecture
httph20195www2hpcomv2GetPDFaspx4AA1-5671ENWpdf
httph20195www2hpcomv2GetPDFaspx4AA3-0643ENWpdf
Intel Xeon processor 7500 series
httpwwwintelcomitcenterproductsxeon7500
HP Converged Infrastructure
httph18004www1hpcomproductssolutionsconvergedmainhtml
The HP Migration Center white paper
httph20195www2hpcomv2GetPDFaspx4AA1-0783ENWpdf
Linux on HP ProLiant servers
httph18004www1hpcomproductsserverslinuxindexhtml
15
HP Advantage The DL980 is an ideal high-performance scalable reliable and low-cost consolidation platform
Oracle-Sun Specific Drivers Many of the more troublesome Oracle-Sun specific drivers listed below are outcomes of the last eight years of hard times for SPARC servers
Underperforming Servers ndash With the steady slowdown in the evolution of the SPARC line performance has been an issue for many years Add to this the weight of underutilized servers sized for peak workloads and the drag on an IT operations budget can be significant
HP Advantage Comparative data using Alinean Ltd and Ideas International Inc show a tangible HP advantage especially in enterprise-class servers Ask your HP representative for a TCO analysis
The Risks of a Single-Vendor Solution Stack ndash Hosting an Oracle database on Oracle-Sun servers cedes control of the entire solution stack to Oracle Could you be overspending on servers software and support by relying solely on Oracle-Sun
HP Advantage HP can provide a ldquowhole environmentrdquo view with the DL980 in the Converged Infrastructure and best-of-breed partners to help you move to your next-generation environment
Escalating and Changing Support Costs ndash Higher support costs exist for Oracle-Sun SPARC systems including new ldquomandatoryrdquo hardware support fees
HP Advantage Evaluating the support costs for the DL980 and other HP ProLiant servers relative to Oracle-Sun SPARC support costs can help you find ways to reduce operational support costs Ask your HP representative for a TCO analysis
IBM Specific Drivers IBM has its own set of specific issues that have driven data centers to migrate from IBM servers frequently over the last 20 years
High Cost of Deployment Integration and Maintenance ndash Cost is an issue with architectures consisting of older POWER4 and POWER5 servers IBMrsquos approach to computing technology does not lend itself well to simple deployment and integration POWER servers have been created to interoperate very well in a POWER-only environment Unfortunately it is costly to integrate POWER servers with non-POWER servers (eg x86 servers) storage networking diverse management tools and applications This characteristic of the POWER server line results in higher costs for deployment integration support maintenance and ultimately upgrades to newer POWER servers Unfortunately when choosing a POWER-to-POWER upgrade the high-cost IBM lifecycle begins again and data centers are firmly locked into the same inflexible architecture
The IBM Architectural Silo Model ndash The piecemeal nature of siloed POWER solutions (separate HA separate networking no standard management infrastructure etc) requires extensive and custom integration Unfortunately IBM mainframes and x86 servers subscribe to siloed architecture as well The IBM approach to architectural design and component deployment forces customers to adapt their business operations to fit IBMrsquos technology silos such as mainframe or POWER servers To implement cost-effective multi-tier computing infrastructures customers must piece together their own enterprise architecture By modern standards this is a needless investment of development time and budget that can be better used for higher priority tasks
16
Lack of Solution Flexibility ndash Instead of vendor guidance toward overcoming many of the legacy issues above are you guided into upgrading the legacy environment instead of transforming it into a cost-effective and contemporary infrastructure Being guided into an IBM-only siloed infrastructure philosophy solves only surface issues and can perpetuate cost and resource inefficiency
HP Advantage For the issues above HP provides a ldquowhole environmentrdquo view with the DL980 and best-of-breed partners to help you move to your next generation environment HP Converged Infrastructure offers common building blocksndashstandards-based servers ProLiant Xeon servers and Integrity Itanium Servers common management software common power and cooling and a common network fabric
Older POWER Server Processing and Workload Shortcomings ndash It should come as no surprise that for many intense BI workloads these older POWER4 and POWER5 systems lack the necessary processing IO bandwidth and reliability IBMrsquos message was also quite clear when they optimized the POWER architecture primarily for the OLTP workload The OLTP workload does not have the same characteristics of mixed workloads or BI workloads Specific components subsystems and features are necessary to satisfy the intense IO bandwidth and processing requirements of high-volume BI workloads mixed OLTP and BI workloads and long-running batch processing
HP Advantage The DL980 was specifically designed and optimized to process mixed workloads including the two most popular workloads the Business Intelligence workload and the mission-critical OLTP workload It contains by conscious design the necessary hardware and software components to excel at these business-critical workloads Thus the DL980 is able to efficiently handle a mixed workload containing both analytical BI and operational BI In addition the DL980 provides up to 2TB of memory to facilitate in-memory processing
HP Migration Resources HP Migration Process
The HP migration process (Figure 3) embodies a mature and flexible methodology that provides a consistent framework for capturing and carrying out customer requirements The process is built upon years of migration experience and best practices across a variety of databases applications and platforms The process is tool agnostic providing flexibility in solution development Using this mature process as a foundation HP provides a customer-driven migration process instead of an inflexible process based on single-path choices
HP has over 20 years worth of experience migrating customers off of Oracle-Sun servers IBM servers databases and applications to HP solutions HP offers a Solaris-to-Linux porting kit and also uses IBM tools that are available for AIX-to-Linux porting
17
Figure 3 HP Migration Process
HP-UX 11i on HP Integrity
Linux on HP ProLiant
Windows on HP ProLiant
MIGRATION PATH
THE HP MIGRATION CENTER
MIGRATION PROCESS
SupportExecutePlanAssess
HP SUNSET COMPLETE CARE INCENTIVES
The key benefits of the HP migration process are
bull A standard high level process which is o based on decades of expertise and best practices o repeatable o customizable by database and application technology platform and migration toolset o scalable accommodating simple to complex migrations
bull Identifies migration requirements up front and properly addresses those requirements in a strategy document A TCO analysis is also included which provides solid data points to facilitate validation of the migration business case
bull Incorporates production dress rehearsals to refine the deployment prior to the actual deployment phase
bull Includes data quality analysis to address source side data issues prior to migration
18
HP Migration Center and Services
Over the past 20+ years HP has helped migrate thousands of customers gaining valuable knowledge expertise and repeatability Migrations from older architectures allow customers to take advantage of HP infrastructure to reduce costs improve performance and gain competitive advantage Through the HP Migration Center HP combines best practices with new technologies such as the HP Converged Infrastructure to give you simple and unified low-risk solutions
Modernizing from antiquated and siloed Oracle-Sun and IBM environments to a flexible and integrated Converged Infrastructure takes experience and planning The HP Migration Competence Center as well as HPrsquos data center transformation specialists can guide your operations teams through the following decisions and options required to take advantage of the Converged Infrastructure capabilities
bull Reduce aggregate server and core count by eliminating underutilized dedicated servers Let HP evaluate your current workload inventory and help you plan a consolidated or virtualized environment that improves utilization while cutting software instances and related licensing costs
bull Cut provisioning time from days to minutes Distributed environments are known for complex cabling parallel server and storage wiring and slow complex error-prone provisioning procedures HP can help you accelerate repetitive provisioning tasks by taking advantage of application templates while relying on HP Virtual Connect to instantly provision servers and storage connections
bull Dedicated servers are usually underutilized outside of peak workload hours Verify there is always ldquojust enoughrdquo capacity by letting HP evaluate your current workloads and demand cycles in order to help you define a much more efficient environment Accurately address capacity needs without overspending using HP Capacity Planner technology part of the HP Converged Infrastructure management umbrella
bull HP can help you constrain power consumption to match active workloads HP Data Center Smart Grid enables the automatic ldquodialing backrdquo of power consumption for lightly loaded resources As the load increases power consumption will be automatically ldquodialed uprdquo to ensure that appropriate performance levels are met
The HP Migration Center maintains a close relationship with many database and application partners to ensure a smooth complete migration solution with respect to the databases and applications Additionally the HP Migrations Center works closely with the HP Solution Centers and Competence Centers to assist with database and application migrations
The Migration Center can deploy experts for the DL980 and Linux as well as HP specialists for the operating systems of other vendors Additionally HP maintains close development and support arrangements with major operating systems vendors including Microsoft Windows Novell SUSE Linux Oracle Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Call to Action See for yourself how the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 makes an ideal platform for your enterprise workloads Ask for a TCO assessment or migration assessment to get started For more information please contact your HP representative or visit httpwwwhpcomgomigratetohp
Share with colleagues
copy Copyright 2011 Hewlett-Packard Development Company LP The information contained herein is subject to change without notice The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein
Intel and Intel Xeon are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the US and other countries Linux is a US registered trademark of Linus Torvalds Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation andor its affiliates Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries
4AA3-3180ENW Created February 2011 Updated March 2011 Rev 1
For More Information HP ProLiant DL980 G7 serverndashDatasheet
HP ProLiant DL980 G7 Server with HP PREMA Architecture
httph20195www2hpcomv2GetPDFaspx4AA1-5671ENWpdf
httph20195www2hpcomv2GetPDFaspx4AA3-0643ENWpdf
Intel Xeon processor 7500 series
httpwwwintelcomitcenterproductsxeon7500
HP Converged Infrastructure
httph18004www1hpcomproductssolutionsconvergedmainhtml
The HP Migration Center white paper
httph20195www2hpcomv2GetPDFaspx4AA1-0783ENWpdf
Linux on HP ProLiant servers
httph18004www1hpcomproductsserverslinuxindexhtml
16
Lack of Solution Flexibility ndash Instead of vendor guidance toward overcoming many of the legacy issues above are you guided into upgrading the legacy environment instead of transforming it into a cost-effective and contemporary infrastructure Being guided into an IBM-only siloed infrastructure philosophy solves only surface issues and can perpetuate cost and resource inefficiency
HP Advantage For the issues above HP provides a ldquowhole environmentrdquo view with the DL980 and best-of-breed partners to help you move to your next generation environment HP Converged Infrastructure offers common building blocksndashstandards-based servers ProLiant Xeon servers and Integrity Itanium Servers common management software common power and cooling and a common network fabric
Older POWER Server Processing and Workload Shortcomings ndash It should come as no surprise that for many intense BI workloads these older POWER4 and POWER5 systems lack the necessary processing IO bandwidth and reliability IBMrsquos message was also quite clear when they optimized the POWER architecture primarily for the OLTP workload The OLTP workload does not have the same characteristics of mixed workloads or BI workloads Specific components subsystems and features are necessary to satisfy the intense IO bandwidth and processing requirements of high-volume BI workloads mixed OLTP and BI workloads and long-running batch processing
HP Advantage The DL980 was specifically designed and optimized to process mixed workloads including the two most popular workloads the Business Intelligence workload and the mission-critical OLTP workload It contains by conscious design the necessary hardware and software components to excel at these business-critical workloads Thus the DL980 is able to efficiently handle a mixed workload containing both analytical BI and operational BI In addition the DL980 provides up to 2TB of memory to facilitate in-memory processing
HP Migration Resources HP Migration Process
The HP migration process (Figure 3) embodies a mature and flexible methodology that provides a consistent framework for capturing and carrying out customer requirements The process is built upon years of migration experience and best practices across a variety of databases applications and platforms The process is tool agnostic providing flexibility in solution development Using this mature process as a foundation HP provides a customer-driven migration process instead of an inflexible process based on single-path choices
HP has over 20 years worth of experience migrating customers off of Oracle-Sun servers IBM servers databases and applications to HP solutions HP offers a Solaris-to-Linux porting kit and also uses IBM tools that are available for AIX-to-Linux porting
17
Figure 3 HP Migration Process
HP-UX 11i on HP Integrity
Linux on HP ProLiant
Windows on HP ProLiant
MIGRATION PATH
THE HP MIGRATION CENTER
MIGRATION PROCESS
SupportExecutePlanAssess
HP SUNSET COMPLETE CARE INCENTIVES
The key benefits of the HP migration process are
bull A standard high level process which is o based on decades of expertise and best practices o repeatable o customizable by database and application technology platform and migration toolset o scalable accommodating simple to complex migrations
bull Identifies migration requirements up front and properly addresses those requirements in a strategy document A TCO analysis is also included which provides solid data points to facilitate validation of the migration business case
bull Incorporates production dress rehearsals to refine the deployment prior to the actual deployment phase
bull Includes data quality analysis to address source side data issues prior to migration
18
HP Migration Center and Services
Over the past 20+ years HP has helped migrate thousands of customers gaining valuable knowledge expertise and repeatability Migrations from older architectures allow customers to take advantage of HP infrastructure to reduce costs improve performance and gain competitive advantage Through the HP Migration Center HP combines best practices with new technologies such as the HP Converged Infrastructure to give you simple and unified low-risk solutions
Modernizing from antiquated and siloed Oracle-Sun and IBM environments to a flexible and integrated Converged Infrastructure takes experience and planning The HP Migration Competence Center as well as HPrsquos data center transformation specialists can guide your operations teams through the following decisions and options required to take advantage of the Converged Infrastructure capabilities
bull Reduce aggregate server and core count by eliminating underutilized dedicated servers Let HP evaluate your current workload inventory and help you plan a consolidated or virtualized environment that improves utilization while cutting software instances and related licensing costs
bull Cut provisioning time from days to minutes Distributed environments are known for complex cabling parallel server and storage wiring and slow complex error-prone provisioning procedures HP can help you accelerate repetitive provisioning tasks by taking advantage of application templates while relying on HP Virtual Connect to instantly provision servers and storage connections
bull Dedicated servers are usually underutilized outside of peak workload hours Verify there is always ldquojust enoughrdquo capacity by letting HP evaluate your current workloads and demand cycles in order to help you define a much more efficient environment Accurately address capacity needs without overspending using HP Capacity Planner technology part of the HP Converged Infrastructure management umbrella
bull HP can help you constrain power consumption to match active workloads HP Data Center Smart Grid enables the automatic ldquodialing backrdquo of power consumption for lightly loaded resources As the load increases power consumption will be automatically ldquodialed uprdquo to ensure that appropriate performance levels are met
The HP Migration Center maintains a close relationship with many database and application partners to ensure a smooth complete migration solution with respect to the databases and applications Additionally the HP Migrations Center works closely with the HP Solution Centers and Competence Centers to assist with database and application migrations
The Migration Center can deploy experts for the DL980 and Linux as well as HP specialists for the operating systems of other vendors Additionally HP maintains close development and support arrangements with major operating systems vendors including Microsoft Windows Novell SUSE Linux Oracle Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Call to Action See for yourself how the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 makes an ideal platform for your enterprise workloads Ask for a TCO assessment or migration assessment to get started For more information please contact your HP representative or visit httpwwwhpcomgomigratetohp
Share with colleagues
copy Copyright 2011 Hewlett-Packard Development Company LP The information contained herein is subject to change without notice The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein
Intel and Intel Xeon are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the US and other countries Linux is a US registered trademark of Linus Torvalds Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation andor its affiliates Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries
4AA3-3180ENW Created February 2011 Updated March 2011 Rev 1
For More Information HP ProLiant DL980 G7 serverndashDatasheet
HP ProLiant DL980 G7 Server with HP PREMA Architecture
httph20195www2hpcomv2GetPDFaspx4AA1-5671ENWpdf
httph20195www2hpcomv2GetPDFaspx4AA3-0643ENWpdf
Intel Xeon processor 7500 series
httpwwwintelcomitcenterproductsxeon7500
HP Converged Infrastructure
httph18004www1hpcomproductssolutionsconvergedmainhtml
The HP Migration Center white paper
httph20195www2hpcomv2GetPDFaspx4AA1-0783ENWpdf
Linux on HP ProLiant servers
httph18004www1hpcomproductsserverslinuxindexhtml
17
Figure 3 HP Migration Process
HP-UX 11i on HP Integrity
Linux on HP ProLiant
Windows on HP ProLiant
MIGRATION PATH
THE HP MIGRATION CENTER
MIGRATION PROCESS
SupportExecutePlanAssess
HP SUNSET COMPLETE CARE INCENTIVES
The key benefits of the HP migration process are
bull A standard high level process which is o based on decades of expertise and best practices o repeatable o customizable by database and application technology platform and migration toolset o scalable accommodating simple to complex migrations
bull Identifies migration requirements up front and properly addresses those requirements in a strategy document A TCO analysis is also included which provides solid data points to facilitate validation of the migration business case
bull Incorporates production dress rehearsals to refine the deployment prior to the actual deployment phase
bull Includes data quality analysis to address source side data issues prior to migration
18
HP Migration Center and Services
Over the past 20+ years HP has helped migrate thousands of customers gaining valuable knowledge expertise and repeatability Migrations from older architectures allow customers to take advantage of HP infrastructure to reduce costs improve performance and gain competitive advantage Through the HP Migration Center HP combines best practices with new technologies such as the HP Converged Infrastructure to give you simple and unified low-risk solutions
Modernizing from antiquated and siloed Oracle-Sun and IBM environments to a flexible and integrated Converged Infrastructure takes experience and planning The HP Migration Competence Center as well as HPrsquos data center transformation specialists can guide your operations teams through the following decisions and options required to take advantage of the Converged Infrastructure capabilities
bull Reduce aggregate server and core count by eliminating underutilized dedicated servers Let HP evaluate your current workload inventory and help you plan a consolidated or virtualized environment that improves utilization while cutting software instances and related licensing costs
bull Cut provisioning time from days to minutes Distributed environments are known for complex cabling parallel server and storage wiring and slow complex error-prone provisioning procedures HP can help you accelerate repetitive provisioning tasks by taking advantage of application templates while relying on HP Virtual Connect to instantly provision servers and storage connections
bull Dedicated servers are usually underutilized outside of peak workload hours Verify there is always ldquojust enoughrdquo capacity by letting HP evaluate your current workloads and demand cycles in order to help you define a much more efficient environment Accurately address capacity needs without overspending using HP Capacity Planner technology part of the HP Converged Infrastructure management umbrella
bull HP can help you constrain power consumption to match active workloads HP Data Center Smart Grid enables the automatic ldquodialing backrdquo of power consumption for lightly loaded resources As the load increases power consumption will be automatically ldquodialed uprdquo to ensure that appropriate performance levels are met
The HP Migration Center maintains a close relationship with many database and application partners to ensure a smooth complete migration solution with respect to the databases and applications Additionally the HP Migrations Center works closely with the HP Solution Centers and Competence Centers to assist with database and application migrations
The Migration Center can deploy experts for the DL980 and Linux as well as HP specialists for the operating systems of other vendors Additionally HP maintains close development and support arrangements with major operating systems vendors including Microsoft Windows Novell SUSE Linux Oracle Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Call to Action See for yourself how the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 makes an ideal platform for your enterprise workloads Ask for a TCO assessment or migration assessment to get started For more information please contact your HP representative or visit httpwwwhpcomgomigratetohp
Share with colleagues
copy Copyright 2011 Hewlett-Packard Development Company LP The information contained herein is subject to change without notice The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein
Intel and Intel Xeon are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the US and other countries Linux is a US registered trademark of Linus Torvalds Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation andor its affiliates Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries
4AA3-3180ENW Created February 2011 Updated March 2011 Rev 1
For More Information HP ProLiant DL980 G7 serverndashDatasheet
HP ProLiant DL980 G7 Server with HP PREMA Architecture
httph20195www2hpcomv2GetPDFaspx4AA1-5671ENWpdf
httph20195www2hpcomv2GetPDFaspx4AA3-0643ENWpdf
Intel Xeon processor 7500 series
httpwwwintelcomitcenterproductsxeon7500
HP Converged Infrastructure
httph18004www1hpcomproductssolutionsconvergedmainhtml
The HP Migration Center white paper
httph20195www2hpcomv2GetPDFaspx4AA1-0783ENWpdf
Linux on HP ProLiant servers
httph18004www1hpcomproductsserverslinuxindexhtml
18
HP Migration Center and Services
Over the past 20+ years HP has helped migrate thousands of customers gaining valuable knowledge expertise and repeatability Migrations from older architectures allow customers to take advantage of HP infrastructure to reduce costs improve performance and gain competitive advantage Through the HP Migration Center HP combines best practices with new technologies such as the HP Converged Infrastructure to give you simple and unified low-risk solutions
Modernizing from antiquated and siloed Oracle-Sun and IBM environments to a flexible and integrated Converged Infrastructure takes experience and planning The HP Migration Competence Center as well as HPrsquos data center transformation specialists can guide your operations teams through the following decisions and options required to take advantage of the Converged Infrastructure capabilities
bull Reduce aggregate server and core count by eliminating underutilized dedicated servers Let HP evaluate your current workload inventory and help you plan a consolidated or virtualized environment that improves utilization while cutting software instances and related licensing costs
bull Cut provisioning time from days to minutes Distributed environments are known for complex cabling parallel server and storage wiring and slow complex error-prone provisioning procedures HP can help you accelerate repetitive provisioning tasks by taking advantage of application templates while relying on HP Virtual Connect to instantly provision servers and storage connections
bull Dedicated servers are usually underutilized outside of peak workload hours Verify there is always ldquojust enoughrdquo capacity by letting HP evaluate your current workloads and demand cycles in order to help you define a much more efficient environment Accurately address capacity needs without overspending using HP Capacity Planner technology part of the HP Converged Infrastructure management umbrella
bull HP can help you constrain power consumption to match active workloads HP Data Center Smart Grid enables the automatic ldquodialing backrdquo of power consumption for lightly loaded resources As the load increases power consumption will be automatically ldquodialed uprdquo to ensure that appropriate performance levels are met
The HP Migration Center maintains a close relationship with many database and application partners to ensure a smooth complete migration solution with respect to the databases and applications Additionally the HP Migrations Center works closely with the HP Solution Centers and Competence Centers to assist with database and application migrations
The Migration Center can deploy experts for the DL980 and Linux as well as HP specialists for the operating systems of other vendors Additionally HP maintains close development and support arrangements with major operating systems vendors including Microsoft Windows Novell SUSE Linux Oracle Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Call to Action See for yourself how the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 makes an ideal platform for your enterprise workloads Ask for a TCO assessment or migration assessment to get started For more information please contact your HP representative or visit httpwwwhpcomgomigratetohp
Share with colleagues
copy Copyright 2011 Hewlett-Packard Development Company LP The information contained herein is subject to change without notice The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein
Intel and Intel Xeon are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the US and other countries Linux is a US registered trademark of Linus Torvalds Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation andor its affiliates Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries
4AA3-3180ENW Created February 2011 Updated March 2011 Rev 1
For More Information HP ProLiant DL980 G7 serverndashDatasheet
HP ProLiant DL980 G7 Server with HP PREMA Architecture
httph20195www2hpcomv2GetPDFaspx4AA1-5671ENWpdf
httph20195www2hpcomv2GetPDFaspx4AA3-0643ENWpdf
Intel Xeon processor 7500 series
httpwwwintelcomitcenterproductsxeon7500
HP Converged Infrastructure
httph18004www1hpcomproductssolutionsconvergedmainhtml
The HP Migration Center white paper
httph20195www2hpcomv2GetPDFaspx4AA1-0783ENWpdf
Linux on HP ProLiant servers
httph18004www1hpcomproductsserverslinuxindexhtml
Share with colleagues
copy Copyright 2011 Hewlett-Packard Development Company LP The information contained herein is subject to change without notice The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein
Intel and Intel Xeon are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the US and other countries Linux is a US registered trademark of Linus Torvalds Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation andor its affiliates Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries
4AA3-3180ENW Created February 2011 Updated March 2011 Rev 1
For More Information HP ProLiant DL980 G7 serverndashDatasheet
HP ProLiant DL980 G7 Server with HP PREMA Architecture
httph20195www2hpcomv2GetPDFaspx4AA1-5671ENWpdf
httph20195www2hpcomv2GetPDFaspx4AA3-0643ENWpdf
Intel Xeon processor 7500 series
httpwwwintelcomitcenterproductsxeon7500
HP Converged Infrastructure
httph18004www1hpcomproductssolutionsconvergedmainhtml
The HP Migration Center white paper
httph20195www2hpcomv2GetPDFaspx4AA1-0783ENWpdf
Linux on HP ProLiant servers
httph18004www1hpcomproductsserverslinuxindexhtml
