Oracle Partner Newsletter, January 2017 Issue
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PARTNER NEWS AND
PROGRAMS
Oracle Linux & Oracle VM
Validated Configurations
Oracle Partner Network Corner
ORACLE VIRTUALIZATION AND
LINUX NEWS
UPCOMING EVENTS
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Oracle’s Commitment to Open
Source as exemplified by its
Technical Contributions to Linux
Kernel and Xen Project
Hypervisor
Xen Project Hypervisor
Oracle is a proud member of the Xen Project Advisory Board and has been using and supporting the Xen Project Hypervisor for many years. In fact, Oracle is one of the major contributors for the new release of Xen Project Hypervisor 4.8.
Oracle VM Server for x86 is based on the Xen Project Hypervisor, and has been customized and optimized to allow customers to run the most demanding workloads on the infrastructure of choice; whether it is traditional server virtualization, Infrastructure as a Service, embedded systems or the next generation cloud computing. The latest update of Oracle VM Server for x86 incorporates some of the performance and security enhancements of the Xen Project Hypervisor 4.8. Click here for download instructions.
The Linux Foundation announcement provides a complete list of enhancements delivered in the Xen Project Hypervisor 4.8.
Linux Kernel
The Oracle mainline Linux kernel team works as part of the Linux kernel community to develop new features as well as maintain existing code.
The newly announced Linux Kernel 4.9 is touted as the biggest release based on the number of commits (per the announcement by Linus Tovalds).
Oracle contributed 14,425 lines of codes in this new release. For a list of technical contributions please refer to this blog.
Testing software systems for correct behavior
requires precision and proper setting. As an
example, when it comes to enterprise software
systems, timing can be everything. Is the item of
interest month-end, quarter-end, or year-
end? Has the system correctly aged uncollected
receivables? Have the systems amortized the
debt correctly, over the correct period? These
are examples of what could become date and
time sensitive test cases.
Time Machine, by Solution-Soft, enables
strategically placed software virtual clocks to
time travel the system being validated into the
past or the future. What is strategic about the
software virtual clocks is directly related to how
the system queries the environment for the date
and time and the underlying architecture of the
environment itself. Time Shift Testing with Time
Machine can result in enormous savings over the
life of a project by eliminating the resource
utilization and procedures associated with
changing the system clock on one or many
servers in the environment.
Solution-Soft has been a proud member of the
Oracle Partner Network for over fifteen years,
providing the Time Shift Testing solutions for
customers who write, deploy and execute
software using products in the Oracle eco-
system. Solution-Soft has developed specific
solutions in the Time Machine Suite of Products
for this eco-system using the Oracle Cloud,
Oracle Linux and Oracle Virtualization products.
The Time Machine Framework for Oracle and the
Time Machine Framework for WebLogic were
developed and tested using these platforms and
services and are available on the Oracle Cloud
Marketplace.
Partner Spotlight
Solution-Soft
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Partner News and Programs
For the latest partner
news and updates, visit
the Oracle Linux
partner page and the
Oracle VM partner
pages.
Partner News
APC, by Schneider Electric is an industry-
standard for reliable power and physical infrastructure. Its products are widely used in energy management and automation. Its award-winning PowerChute® Business Edition software has recently added Oracle Linux and Oracle VM as supported environments.
Elastic is an Open Source provider of Cloud
Ready stack of software that takes data from any source, in any format, and provide search, analytic and visualization capability in real time. Elasticsearch and Logstash is supported on Oracle Linux.
By 2018, 45% of CIOs will
focus on platformization,
using DevOps for rapid
development, cost
reduction, and enterprise
agility.
IDC Press Release 02 Nov 2016
IBM’s License Metric Tool (LMT) is a no-charge
tool to determine processor value units licensing requirements. It helps calculate the number of PVUs available to installed Passport Advantage PVU-based software, including supported virtualized servers. LMT is supported on running Oracle Linux.
Performance Test of Real-time Analytics with Oracle® Database 12c In-Memory, with SGI
Trend Micro, a global leader in
cybersecurity solutions, has been named a Leader in the IDC MartketScape: Worldwide Email Security 2016 Vendor Assessment (doc #US41943716, December 2016). Its flagship product Deep Security™ provides advanced server security for physical, virtual, and cloud servers. Deep Security™ 9.6 agent has added support for Oracle Linux 7 and Deep Security Virtual Appliance supports both kernels for Oracle Linux.
Tenable Network Security
BMC is a global leader in innovative software
solutions that enable businesses to transform into digital enterprises for the ultimate competitive advantage. Its performance management product, BMC Patrol added support for Oracle Linux 7. Cloudera delivers the modern platform for
data management and analytics.
Microlite Corporation is a leader in the
Bare Metal Disaster Recovery Technology for Linux. BackupEDGE and its disaster recovery component, recoverEDGE are tested against and supports Oracle Linux and other Linux distributions.
The conclusion was that large enterprises can run analytics on demand at extraordinary speed, without slowing transactions. For more information please refer to the whitepaper
SGI (recently acquired by Hewlett Packard
Enterprise) and Oracle engineering teams have conducted mixed workload testing of Oracle Database In-Memory using the Intel-based SGI UV 300RL server running Oracle Linux and a 10+ terabyte/billion record database.
It is better known for providing one of the world’s fastest, easiest, and most secure Hadoop platform. Its newer release of Cloudera Manager continues its support for Oracle Linux, the latest version being Oracle Linux 7.
FlashGrid has announced an automated
provisioning tool for Oracle RAC clusters in AWS. The clusters are provisioned with VM instances running Oracle Linux 7.3, FlashGrid Cloud Area Network and FlashGrid Storage Fabric software. Creating a cluster fully prepared for Oracle RAC installation now takes less than 10 minutes.
transforms security technology for the business needs of tomorrow through solutions that provide continuous visibility and critical context, enabling decisive actions to protect enterprises. Oracle Linux 7 (both kernels) has been added as a supported Operating System for the Nessus product platform, which includes Nessus Manager, Nessus Professional and Nessus Agents.
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Partner Programs
Oracle Linux and Oracle VM Validated Configurations
The top 5 visited Validated Configuration for month ending December 31st, 2016
1. HP ProLiant BL460c Gen9 + Oracle Linux 6 Update 8 x86_64 + HPE 3PAR StoreServ 7200 + Oracle Database 12c Release 1 (12.1.0.2.0)
2. HP ProLiant BL460c Gen9 + Oracle VM Server 3.4.1 x86_64 + HPE 3PAR StoreServ 7200 + Oracle Database()
3. Cisco Unified Computing Systems B200 M34 + Oracle Linux 6 Update4 x86_64+Nimble Storage CS Series + Oracle Database 12c Release 1(12.1.0.1.0)
4. HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9 + oracle Linux 7 Update 1 x86_64 + HPE 3PAR StoreServ 7200 + Oracle Database 12c Release 1(12.1.0.2.0)
5. Lenovo System x3950 X6 + Oracle Linux 7 Update 2 x86_64 + IBM Storwize V7000 + Oracle Database 12c Release 1(12.1.0.2.0)
Oracle Linux and Oracle
VM Validated
Configurations are tested
and documented best
practices which allow
companies to quickly and
easily deploy complete 3rd
party and Oracle hardware
on Oracle Linux and Oracle
VM at a lower cost. The
FAQ provide more details
about this program.
To join the program,
please send an email to:
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Some blog sites that may
be of interest and worth
checking out:
2. Oracle Linux
3. Oracle Virtualization
4. OTN Garage (System
Admin and Developer
Community)
5. Oracle Mainline Linux
Kernel Development
Customer Newsletters
requiring a subscription
Oracle Linux Newsletter
Oracle Virtualization
Newsletter
Videos and Webcasts
Oracle Webcast
Oracle Media Network
Oracle University
Oracle Linux
Oracle VM
Private Cloud Appliance
Oracle Learning Library
NEW Training Oracle OpenStack for
Oracle Linux: Getting
Started Ed. 1
Oracle Private Cloud
Appliance:
Overview Ed1
Administration Ed 1
Oracle Linux 7:
What’s New for
Administrators Ed 1
System
Administration Ed1
Learn about using
Oracle Private Cloud
Appliance (PCA)
PCA and Disaster Recovery
This short new video (1:27 min) highlights how
disaster recovery on PCA can be done efficiently
and effectively with Oracle Enterprise Manager.
This Whitepaper, this webcast and FAQ can be
used as a reference for getting started with
disaster recovery on PCA.
PCA and Managing it with Oracle Enterprise Manager
This technical Oracle Whitepaper dives into:
The end-to-end process of deploying an
Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c agent to the
PCA management nodes
How to deploy the PCA plug-in on Oracle
Enterprise Manager
How to discover the OVM Manager within the
PCA
Oracle Linux and Open Source
Updated Docker Images on Oracle Linux Docker is the original author and primary
sponsor of the Docker open source project.
Together with the community of maintainers
and contributors, Docker aims to deliver open
tools to help developers build applications
with open APIs to help sysadmins better
manage these applications.
Oracle is part of the Docker community, where
Docker forms the basis of several Oracle Cloud
products, including Developer Cloud, Oracle
Application Container Cloud and Oracle
Container Cloud.
This blog by our Senior Director of Product
Management, Avi Miller, walks through steps
to getting updated Docker Images for Oracle
Linux.
Oracle Virtualization News
Oracle Linux News
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