Business Case for Migrating

from UNIX to SUSE Linux

Rishikesh Kumar(Global Alliance Manager)
rikumar@novell.com

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Goals and Objectives
1. Define the commercial and technical benefits of
migrating from UNIX(SUN,AIX,UX) to SUSE Linux
2. Review TCS migration approach & methodology
3. Why SUSE Linux the ideal enterprise Linux
platform for Unix to Linux migration?
4. Identify actionable items
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Engineering Excellence
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Leading Indicators of UNIX to Linux
Migration
IDC predicts Second Wave of migration by 2014 driven by technology
refresh and drive to reduce CapEx
OS on X86 best positioned for growth with Linux/Windows
34.5% of new Linux deployments are as a result of migration from UNIX
(The Linux Foundation)
63% companies considering UNIX migrations are exploring Cloud (IDC)
Workloads getting migrated onto Linux
Middleware, Application, Web Servers
Databases (Oracle, DB2, Sybase)
Business Applications (SAP, Oracle Enterprise Apps)
Line of Business Applications
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Better Price Performance with SUSE
Linux
TCO Comparison
(5 year cumulative
cost)
Sun Solaris on Sun
SPARC T5440
SLES on HP
ProLiant DL 785 G6
Saving with
SLES
Saving % with
SLES
IT Costs
Server Hardware 124,896 95,328 29,568 23.67%
Server Software 33,000 12,628 20,372 61.73%
Systems Management 95,275 68,225 27,050 28.39%
Facilities 49,155 37,495 11,660 23.72%
Change Costs 5,825 89,134 -83,309 -1430.20%
HW and SW Support
and Maintenance
346,780 27,470 319,310 92.08%
Total IT Costs 654,931 330,280 324,651 49.57%
Source: ALINEAN Report
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UNIX to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
When its business critical, make the smart move
50% to 80% TCO Savings Proven (Study by ALINEAN)
99.999% Proven High Availability and Clustering Built-in
https://www.suse.com/success/stories/burton.html
60% Performance Improvements Proven
http://www.novell.com/success/evonik.html
100% Scalable - As scalable as youll ever need
100% Open - Freedom from vendor lock-in
Endorsed by Microsoft, SAP, IBM, VMWare, Cisco, .
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Customer Case Studies
Evonik Industries (AIX to SUSE Linux Migration)
Met cost reduction objective and achieved 4-5 times faster application performance SAP NetWeaver
Business warehouse application (http://www.novell.com/success/evonik.html)
CIR Foods (Unix to SUSE Linux Migration)
Achieved 70% savings in migrating to SUSE Linux
http://www.novell.com/docrep/2013/04/cir_food_success_story.pdf
Business Connexion (Solaris to SUSE Linux)
Moved BMC ITSM suite with oracle database from Solaris to SUSE Linux on System Z. Drove significant
cost reduction of Oracle license cost
Geberit (HP UX to SUSE Linux)
Hardware and software cost reduction by 50% and SAP ERP performance improvement by 22%
Burton Corporation (HP UX to SUSE Linux)
Company achieved 99.999% uptime and an 80% cost reduction
(https://www.suse.com/success/stories/burton.html)
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Deutsche Telekom Success Story
Revenue Management System Deutsche Telekom
Deutsche Telekom has migrated their SAP Revenue
Management System to Linux
One of the largest SAP Systems worldwide.
System Requirements:
1,5 Mio payment transactions and 1,5 Mio bills per day
9 Mio archived bills and receipts
30 Mio customer accounts
23,000 SAP User, 1,500 active parallel
10,000 Batch Jobs per day, 150 Jobs parallel
24 x 7 Operations
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Deutsche Telekom Success Story
Revenue Management System Deutsche Telekom
Original Server Landscape
2 monolithic Sunfire E15000
128 CPUs
256 GB RAM
50,000 SAPS
OS: Solaris 10
DB: Oracle
SAN Storage
New Solution
24 node cluster
X86_64 AMD/Intel Server
from FSC and IBM
768 GB RAM
166,000 SAPS
OS: SUSE Linux Enterprise
DB: Oracle 10g RAC, 9TB
Network Attached Storage
NetApp
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Deutsche Telekom Success Story
Revenue Management System Deutsche Telekom
Results
30% cost reductions
Server Response Time decreased by 45%
Batch Run Time reduced by 40%
Dialog Response Time reduced by 10%
Overall observation
Cost efficient, better performance and higher reliability
Project
Duration 18 Months
Database Migration (9TB) < 40h
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Enterprises are Migrating from Solaris & AIX
to Linux
Improved Price Performance
x86/SUSE Linux Enterprise Server compares favorably against the IBM System p570 servers
running AIX 5L, v5.3 for the SPECint and SPECfp benchmarks (www.spec.org)
x86/SUSE Linux Enterprise Server platforms are a fraction of the cost of POWER/AIX platform.
AIX 7.1, Enterprise Edition for the POWER 770 is US$2,126 per core or US$136,064 (one
time cost) for a 64 core POWER 770 server
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server subscription for an 80-core Intel-based HP DL980 scale-up
server is US $ 5,990
Less Risk
Uncertainty surrounding Oracle's plans for Solaris and SPARC
Freedom from vendor lock in
POWER/AIX limits your ability to modernize your data center
Oracle Solaris Containers permit one application per virtual server in a container with Oracle
Solaris as the only guest operating system
More Innovation
Non interoperable AIX and Solaris virtualization/cloud
Emerging ISV technology innovation around x86`
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SUSE: Positioned for UNIX migration wave

Solaris features
btrfs: file system with Copy on Write, checksums, snapshotting
LXC: container support based on control groups
LTTng (Linux Trace Toolkit) capabilities

Snapshot / rollback for package and configuration updates
YaST + ZYpp + Snapper + btrfs

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension
Geo-cluster, automated and pre-configuration

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SUSE: Positioned for UNIX migration wave



Improve existing infrastructure and solutions, e.g. NFSv3

Standards compliance
Leading OS in IPv6 certification
Solid base for SUSE Cloud and Integrated Systems
Scalability
Most scalable Linux OS YES certified system with 4096 logical CPUs and 16 TiB RAM
XFS support for 10 years
SAP
Only OS for SAP HANA
Security
Common Criteria Certification (CC OSPP (EAL 4+))
FIPS 140-2 Certification
UEFI Secure Boot



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Comprehensive Portfolio
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SUSE Linux Enterprise
UNIX Leadership Today
Availability on the architecture of your choice
The most scalable and high performing Linux operating
system reliable and secure
Interoperability with UNIX and Windows systems
Reference platform for enterprise applications
Built-in virtualization
Built-in systems management provides IT with more
choices and greater flexibility
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Why migrate from Solaris to SUSE
Linux ?
High Cost of Hardware and Software
Today, SPARC/Oracle Solaris platforms are aging, and support and maintenance contracts
are expensive.
Oracles support is diminishing despite increasing support costs.
Sagging ISV enthusiasm for SPARC/Oracle
ISVs are dropping support for applications on SPARC/Oracle Solaris.
SPARC/Oracle Solaris used to be the leading development platform, but because its market
share is dropping at a fast pace, ISVs port from x86/Linux to SPARC/Oracle Solaris only
when absolutely necessary.
Oracle only virtualization solution
Solaris for SPARC is limited to virtualization technologies designed only for SPARC/Oracle
Solaris and cant interoperate with common virtualization technologies such as Xen, KVM,
etc.
Oracle VM Server for SPARC runs specifically on SPARC T-Series servers and enables
consolidation of software stacks running only on SPARC T-Series servers.
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Oracle cloud limitation
Oracle Optimized Solution for Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure is strictly an Oracle-
customer-only cloud platform and is optimized for Oracle software applications.
RAS at an affordable price
Enterprises are migrating from SPARC/Oracle Solaris to x86/Linux platforms running
new multi-core, scale-up x86 servers such as the HP DL980 Xeon 7500 series servers
and x86 AMD and Intel servers from IBM such as the IBM System x3690
Innovation and interoperability - for flexible system evolution
Many of the innovative ideas used to modernize data centers are built around Linux and
x86 servers, and few, if any, of them are associated with SPARC/Solaris.
SUSE partners with a wide range of partners to optimize its performance on their
hardware and software products including in important evolving technical areas such
as virtualization, cloud computing, Big Data and high performance computing (HPC).
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server provides you with flexible choice in continually
modernizing your data center to meet your business requirements
Why migrate from Solaris to SUSE
Linux ?
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High Cost of hardware and software
Today, POWER/AIX platforms are very expensive with costly software licensing for AIX. Very
expensive POWER servers and server maintenance
Sagging ISV support for POWER/AIX
While IBM is a large ISV with its commercial products running on POWER/AIX, other ISVs are
dropping support for their applications on POWER/AIX unless sufficient demand warrants
porting them to it
Lack of technology innovation
IBM is generally the only company innovating around AIX and POWER, whereas many
companies, including IBM, are innovating around x86 and Linux. This limits your ability to take
advantage of many of the innovations around virtualization, cloud computing and more, that are
important for modernizing your data center and keeping it modern.
Lock-in for the platform
With the limited availability of much innovative technology and limited ISV support and IBM-only
advancements for the platform, migrating to or staying with POWER/AIX limits your ability to
modernize your data center and can even totally lock you in to IBM, leading to continuing high
costs and inflexibility in evolving your data center environment.
Why migrate from AIX to SUSE Linux ?
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RAS at an affordable price
The price, performance and reliability of industry standard x86 servers have improved over the
years to the point where they can meet and exceed the capabilities of RISC/UNIX systems,
including POWER/ AIX.
In other words, the reasons, such as RAS, to buy POWER/ AIX can no longer be used to
differentiate POWER/AIX from x86/Linux. As a result, enterprises are migrating from
POWER/AIX to x86/Linux platforms running new, more affordable multi-core, scale-up x86
servers such as the HP DL980 Xeon 7500 series servers and x86 AMD and Intel servers from
IBM such as the IBM System x3690
Innovation and interoperabilityfor flexible system evolution
Many of the innovative ideas used to modernize data centers are built around Linux and x86
servers, and few, if any, of them are associated with POWER/AIX.
SUSE partners with a wide range of partners to optimize its performance on their hardware and
software products including in important evolving technical areas such as virtualization, cloud
computing, Big Data and high performance computing (HPC).
As a result, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server provides you with flexible choice in continually
modernizing your data center to meet your business requirements
Why migrate from AIX to SUSE Linux ?