BASLE BERN BRUGG DÜSSELDORF FRANKFURT A.M. FREIBURG I.BR. GENEVA

HAMBURG COPENHAGEN LAUSANNE MUNICH STUTTGART VIENNA ZURICH

Manage of OVM server Sparc with the VM manager, OpsCenter or VDCF

SOUG DAY 02.MÄRZ 2016

Roman Gächter

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Our company.

Trivadis is a market leader in IT consulting, system integration, solution engineering

and the provision of IT services focusing on and technologies

in Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Denmark. We offer our services in the following

strategic business fields:

Trivadis Services takes over the interacting operation of your IT systems.

O P E R A T I O N

COPENHAGEN

MUNICH

LAUSANNE

BERN

ZURICH

BRUGG

GENEVA

HAMBURG

DÜSSELDORF

FRANKFURT

STUTTGART

FREIBURG

BASEL

VIENNA

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With over 600 specialists and IT experts in your region.

• 14 Trivadis branches and more than

600 employees

• 200 Service Level Agreements

• Over 4,000 training participants

• Research and development budget:

CHF 5.0 million

• Financially self-supporting and

sustainably profitable

• Experience from more than 1,900

projects per year at over 800

customers

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Starting position

Starting position

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New HW for test- and development-environment

Starting position

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Criterias for rating I

• Support of our architecture

□ With current versions from Solaris and VM-servers

□ Support from current VM manager in combination with VM-Server X86

• Painless takeover from our consisting configuration

• HW monitoring from the SPARC T4 systems

• Configurationmanagement of the SPARC Hypervisors

• Configurationsmanagement from Solaris zones

• Optimal support of networkstacks in the hypervisor and in Solaris

Starting position

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Criteria for evaluation II

• Provisioning from Solaris and Solaris Zones

• Solaris updates / patching

• Support from our operational concepts

□ Migration from Zones / LDoms of a HW to the other

• Monitoring LDoms, zones and Solaris

• Simple Setup and operability of the tools

• The installation and the setup are not allowed to take too much time

Trivadis technology center

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Test scenario

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Oracle VM manager

VM manager

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VM manager

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First impression

• Start with factory default LDOM configuration

• OVM server cluster

□ Repository and server pools only on NFS Share

□ OCFS2 only of Oracle Linux

VM Manager

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Setup

• Controller domain

□ OVM server SPARC is a component of Solaris 11

□ Agent for VM manager necessary

□ Start with ,,factory default,, LDom configuration

□ Start with ,,DefaultFixed network configuration profile,,

• VM manager

□ Installation on Oracle Linux 6.6

VM Manager

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Configuration

• Configuration sequence

VM manager

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Configuration

• Example link

□ Aggregation

□ Trunk

□ Datalink multipathing

VM Manager

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Configuration

• Network on hypervisor

VM manager

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Configuration

• Aggregate of «primary» and Vnic of «guest» LDOM

VM manager

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Tested

• Repository and sercer pool on NFS Share

□ live migration is working

• Add disks (vdisk, local)

• Network

□ Bond ports

□ link aggregation

• Install Guest LDom with template

• Clone from LDoms

VM manager

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Remarks

• Solaris zones

□ He doesn’t know

• SAN LUN’s for cluster

□ Not supported

• Clone

□ Guest domain must be shut down

VM manager

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Remarks

• Vnics over Vnet for zones

□ Like with the VM manager?

VM manager

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Remarks

• No alternative mac`s about VM manager?

□ Attention, don’t do it with ldm by hand!!!

(ldm set-vnet alt-mac-addrs=auto,auto,auto,auto,auto vnet0 bern)

VM manager

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Remarks

• No manual changes to the LDoms configuration

VM manager

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Results VM manager

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Oracle Enterprise Manager

OpsCenter

OpsCenter

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Overview

OpsCenter

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Architecture

OpsCenter

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First impression

• Current version?

□ OpsCenter 12c Release 3

□ OVM 3.3 not supported

□ Oracle VM Server SPARC 3.2

□ Oracle Virtual Machine X86 v3.0.x, 3.1.x and 3.2.x

OpsCenter

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Setup

• Installations

□ Script for check the requirements

□ Script for installation

• Setup

□ «discovery» about existing VM manager

□ Additional agents

• Error Messages

□ Difficult to understand

OpsCenter

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What went wrong?

OpsCenter

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Awarded to few rights

OpsCenter

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HW monitoring

OpsCenter

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HW monitoring

OpsCenter

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HW monitoring

OpsCenter

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Monitoring

• A lot policies available

OpsCenter

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Provisioning

• Solaris zones

□ Cryptic names

• LDoms

□ Not performed due to incompatibility with the latest OVM Manager 3.3 Agent

OpsCenter

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Migration zones

• Server pool with shared storage

OpsCenter

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Update

• Nice GUI

• Problems after it

OpsCenter

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Collaboration with VM manager

• Can be used in combination

• Configuration is going to be applied

• Locking mechanism results

OpsCenter

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Results

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VDCF

VDCF

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Overview

VDCF

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First impression

• commercial product

• Free version

□ Number nodes limited to 5

• No GUI but top command line interface

• Simple archtiecture

□ Management server

□ Client SW, SSH interfaces

□ Proxy server in need

VDCF

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Installation

• Simple

□ Install SW components as Solaris packages

• Central configuration file

• User with SSH keys as RBAC configuration

• Command line interface

□ Each command have a good help function

VDCF

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Takeover of our environment

• «discover» the current environment

• Exclude SAN LUNS’s

VDCF

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Deployment

• Setup from AI and repositories with ipsadm

VDCF

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Deployment

• LDoms

VDCF

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Deployment

• Zones

VDCF

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Migration from LDoms and zones

• Ldoms

• Zones

VDCF

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Monitoring

• HW

• Osmon

VDCF

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Monitoring

• Osmon

VDCF

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Monitoring

• Ressources

VDCF

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Results

Solaris bordmedium

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Building own tools

• Solaris bordmedium

«Idm commands»

«zonecfg commands»

«zoneadm commands»

ZFS administration

Own scripts

• Puppet ressource

Zones

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Conclusion

Conclusion

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Comparison of tools

• VM manager

□ Not yet matured

□ Limitations

• OpsCenter

□ Top for monitoring

□ Complicated setup for virtualization and Solaris components

□ Plan on Oracle support

□ Didn’t support the current version from VM manager in summer 2015

Conclusion

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Comparison of tools

• VDCF

□ Commercial Tool

□ Free version with limited nodes

□ Very easy setup

□ No GUI

□ Top command line interface

□ Meets all our needs

Roman Gächter

Principal Consultant

Roman.gaechter@trivadis .com

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