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S317130: Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle Exadata:

Deployment Best Practices, and Sogeti Live!

Oracle Development, Applications MAA/Exadata:

Richard Exley, Ray Dutcher, Lyn Pratt

Sogeti:

Jack Kemp

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E-Business Suite on Exadata

Introduction: MAA and Exadata

E-Business Suite on Exadata

Migrating to Exadata

Customer Story: Sogeti Live!

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Introduction

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IntroductionMAA/Exadata Team

Committed to delivering a complete hardware and

software solution for deploying Oracle applications on

Exadata

High Performance

Scalability

High Availability

Disaster Recovery

Current focus:

E-Business Suite

PeopleSoft

Siebel

Primary Site Secondary Site

Oracle Data Guard

Application Tier

Exadata

DB Servers

Exadata Storage

Servers

MAA Integration

High Availability

Scalability

Oracle

V2 Exadata Database

Machine

MAA Integration

High Availability

Scalability

Oracle

V2 Exadata Database

Machine

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Exadata Hardware Architecture

Database Grid Intelligent Storage Grid

InfiniBand Network

• Redundant 40Gb/s switches

• Unified server & storage network

• 14 High-performance low-cost

storage servers• 8 Dual-processor x64 database servers

OR

• 2 Eight-processor x64 database servers

Scalable Grid of industry standard servers for Compute and Storage

• Eliminates long-standing tradeoff between Scalability, Availability, Cost

•100 TB High Speed disk, or336 TB High Capacity disk

•5.3 TB PCI Flash

•Data mirrored across storage servers

Copyright © 2010, Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates

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Keys to Speed and Cost Advantage

© 2010 Oracle Corporation

Exadata Hybrid Columnar

Compression

Exadata Intelligent Storage

Grid

Exadata Smart Flash Cache

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Exadata is Smart Storage

Storage Server is smart storage, not a DB node

Storage remains an independent tier

Database Servers

Perform complex database processing such as

joins, aggregation, etc.

Exadata Storage Servers

Search tables and indexes filtering out data that is

not relevant to a query

Cells serve data to multiple databases enabling

OLTP and consolidation

Simplicity, and robustness of storage appliance

© 2010 Oracle Corporation

Compute and Memory Intensive Processing

Data IntensiveProcessing

8© 2010 Oracle Corporation

Exadata Hybrid Columnar CompressionHighest Capacity, Lowest Cost

Data is organized and compressed by column

Dramatically better compression

Speed Optimized Query Mode for Data Warehousing

10X compression typical

Runs faster because of Exadata offload!

Space Optimized Archival Mode for infrequently accessed data

15X to 50X compression typical

Qu

ery

Faster and Simpler

Backup, DR, Caching, Reorg, Clone

Benefits Multiply

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Exadata Smart Flash CacheExtreme Performance OLTP

5X More I/Os than

1000 Disk Enterprise

Storage Array

• Exadata has 5 TB of flash

• 56 Flash PCI cards avoid disk

controller bottlenecks

• Intelligently manages flash

• Smart Flash Cache holds hot data

• Gives speed of flash, cost of disk

• Exadata flash cache achieves:

• Over 1 million IO/sec from SQL (8K)

• Sub-millisecond response times

• 50 GB/sec query throughput

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Failure Protection

Redundant Hardware

Servers, Storage, Network

Database Level HA

Tolerate failures and changes

Documented and validated

Exadata MAA best practices

to achieve the highest

availability

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Data GuardRAC

ASM

Flashback

Secure

Backup

Online

Redefinition

ERP

CRM

Warehouse

Data Mart

HR

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E-Business Suite

on Exadata

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E-Business SuiteMAA on Exadata

Primary Site Secondary Site

Oracle Data Guard

Application Tier

Exadata

DB Servers

Exadata Storage

Servers

MAA Integration

High Availability

Scalability

Oracle

V2 Exadata Database

Machine

MAA Integration

High Availability

Scalability

Oracle

V2 Exadata Database

Machine

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E-Business Suite on ExadataDatabase MAA Features

Primary Site Disaster Recovery Site

Real Application Clusters

& ClusterwareFault Tolerant

Server Scale-Out

Data GuardFully Active

Failover Replica

FlashbackCorrect Errors by

Moving Back in Time

Automatic Storage

ManagementFault Tolerant

Storage Scale-Out

Recovery Manager &

Oracle Secure BackupLow Cost High Performance

Data Protection and Archival

Database Servers Database Servers

Storage Storage

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E-Business Suite MAA Application HA Features

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E-Business Suite on ExadataOngoing Testing

Testing to develop and validate our Exadata and MAA

best practices is ongoing

So far we have tested three scenarios on E-Business

Suite release 12.1.2:

Order to Cash

Payroll

Online Users

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E-Business Suite on ExadataFindings – Overall

This is still E-Business Suite running on Oracle

Database

As you may expect, nothing much changes in the application

Everything you already know still applies

We don’t lose anything with Exadata, but there is lots

to be gained…

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E-Business Suite on ExadataFindings – High CPU Utilization

All workloads are characterized by high DB CPU

utilization

Benefit greatly from the fast Exadata processors

Will likely have spare capacity to facilitate growth or

consolidation

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E-Business Suite on ExadataFindings – High Memory Utilization

Workloads benefit from large SGA and PGA made

possible by large Exadata memory capacity

Allow larger PGA for high concurrency online workloads

Configure hugepages for the SGA

More efficient memory usage, especially with large SGA or

high number of concurrent DB connections

Configured in Linux kernel

Can only be used for SGA, and the entire SGA must fit

See Support Note 744769.1 - How to Configure

HugePages for Oracle Database on 64-bit Linux Platforms

No need to allow for large Linux file system cache with ASM

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E-Business Suite on ExadataFindings – Exadata Smart Flash Cache

Exadata Smart Flash Cache hit rates are high

Average IO latency reduced by 58 percent when flash cache

is enabled

Automatic – no special tuning required

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E-Business Suite on ExadataFindings – Disk IO Capacity

Data intensive batch work benefits from the high IO

request rates and throughput

High IO capacity also benefits other activities:

Backups – up to 20TB per hour in tests – incremental

backups are faster still

Flashback database

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E-Business Suite on ExadataReferences

See MAA OTN Site for EBS MAA best practices

See Note 1110648.1 - Oracle E-Business Suite

Release 12.1 with Oracle Database 11g Advanced

Compression

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Getting to Exadata

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E-Business SuiteFresh Install

Prerequisites

Sun Oracle Database Machine Health Check (1070954.1)

Temporary local file system

Prepare target 11.2 database ORACLE_HOME

“Standard Installation” with Rapid Install

Upgrade the database to 11.2.0.1

Convert database to RAC and move the database

files to ASM using rconfig

Paper available soon

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E-Business SuiteMigration

Migrating an Oracle E-Business Suite Database to Sun Oracle

Database Machine [Support Note ID 1133355.1]

Sun Oracle Database Machine Platform

Linux x86 64-bit (little endian format)

Database 11.2

Supported Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) releases

11.5.10.2 (11i), 12.0.4, 12.1

Source platform factors

Operating System

Endian format (byte ordering)SELECT ENDIAN_FORMAT

FROM V$TRANSPORTABLE_PLATFORM VTP, V$DATABASE VDB

where vtp.platform_id=vdb.platform_id;

Database release

Oracle E-Business Suite release

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E-Business SuitePhysical Migration Options

Data Guard Physical Standby

11.1 (see Note 1055938.1 Case #2) or 11.2 Database

32-bit or 64-bit Windows, 32-bit or 64-bit Linux, Solaris x86-64

Transportable Database

same endian format

same Oracle software version and patches installed

Oracle E-Business Suite Rapid Clone

Cloning Oracle Applications Release 12 with Rapid Clone [ID

406982.1]

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E-Business SuiteData Pump Migration Option

Any platform

Minimum Database release of 10gR2

Flexibility to implement best practices on target

Longest downtime

MAA paper

Migrating Oracle E-Business Suite to Sun Oracle

Database Machine Using Oracle Data Pump

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/features/availability/maa-ebs-dbm-datapump-

167285.pdf

Used by Sogeti to migrate from Sun Solaris to

Exadata

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E-Business SuiteData Pump Migration Steps

1. Prepare the Source System

2. Prepare the Target Database System

MAA database best practices

RAC and ASM

Remove uniform extents and use AUTOALLOCATE

ORACLE_HOME dedicated to a single EBS environment

3. Data Pump Export

Use NFS for export dump files

4. Data Pump Import

No NETWORK_LINK option (LONG and evolved types)

5. Updating the New Database

6. Set up Load Balancing

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Deploying Oracle E-Business Suite

on Oracle Exadata: Tips/Best

Practices

September 21, 2010

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Topics

• The Background

• The Situation

• The Considerations

• The Decision

• The Plan

• The Unexpected

• The Results

• Questions

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The Background

Consumer Products,

Retail & Distribution

Four Capgemini Divisions Across 6 Sectors

Consulting Services (Capgemini Consulting):

helping our clients identify, structure and execute transformation projects that will have lasting effects on their growth and competitiveness.

Technology Services (TS):

designing, developing and implementing packaged-based ERP solutions such as SAP and Oracle for systems integration and global IT roll outs.

Outsourcing Services (OS):

Assisting our clients in the total or partial outsourcing of their IT systems.

Local Professional Services (Sogeti):

Supplying IT projected-based services that are suited to local needs (Microsoft, IBM, Oracle Technologies, business intelligence, testing, application development) while also leveraging Global Delivery.

Sogeti is one of four professional disciplines

of expertise. These services range from

strategy development to IT systems

maintenance. By combining its skills, The

Group’s four main professional disciplines

offer Capgemini’s clients integrated

transformation services.

The Group also combines its areas of

expertise to offer specific solutions across six

sectors.

Manufacturing

Telecom, Media & Entertainment

Financial Services

Public Sector

Energy, Utilities & Chemicals

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The Situation

Sogeti uses Oracle e-Business Suite to support its end-to-end business processes, including financials, human resources, project resource management, and project accounting.

Key statistics:

• Existing Application: EBS 11.5.10.2• Existing Database: 10gR2, Solaris 10 SPARC• Number of users: 3000• Modules Implemented:

• Financials (Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger, Purchasing)

• Human Resources

• Project Accounting (Project Resource Management, iExpenses, Time & Labor)

• Fixed Assets

• Other Applications (outside of EBS): Several legacy applications, CRM, and Payroll

Challenge:

• A small IT team trying to meet the fast growing need of data

• A significant amount of time spent fighting fires, running ad-hoc queries against large data sets and optimize queries which have short shelf life

• Time lost due to performance issues with ad-hoc queries & reports

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The Considerations

The key considerations in the decision

making process included:

• Time spent by IT team in developing and

supporting custom code needed to support

growing data needs of business users &

multiple database instances (estimated effort

reduction of 2 full time equivalents)

• Time spent by end users during the period of

system unavailability (estimated savings of 1

full time equivalent)

• Infrastructure cost avoided by consolidating

multiple database instances

• Time spent by end users while dealing with

performance challenges (estimated savings of

½ full time equivalent)

(Compared NPV of investments and cost savings,

assuming 5 Year Life for hardware and 10 year life for

software with no inflation and 11% weighted average

cost of capital)

5 Year expected ROI(NPV with 11% WACC)

Note: Does not account for fringe benefits resulting from improved and real-time visibility into KPIs/ financial

data, reduced lead times (resulting in faster cash collection)

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The Decision

Based on anticipated savings and additional benefits, we decided to migrate our EBS 11.5.10.2

environment to Oracle Database Machine. Oracle Exadata will help:

Improve Consolidation

• Reduce number of instances by aggregating all Oracle database instances into a single instance

• Reduce effort needed to administer & optimize databases

• Reduce weekly tape backup from 4 hours to daily 4 minutes

Reduce Overall Costs/ Increase Productivity

• Reduce number of servers and simplify software licensing resulting in meaningful cost savings

• Reduce dependence on IT staff

• Increase availability resulting in significant productivity enhancements

• Enhance performance resulting in additional productivity

Enhance Reporting

• Eliminate batch processing for 20-25 nightly and weekly custom reports/ batch jobs

• Provide real-time reporting for critical key performance indicators

• Create a high-performing platform for subsequent BI/ DW implementation

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The Plan

May 2010 June 2010 July 2010 August 2010

Perform Technical Testing

Go-Live

Perform UAT Testing

Conduct Initial Migration to Linux ASM/single instance

Conduct Final Migration to Linux ASM/RAC

Kickoff and Information Gathering/Analysis

Perform Technical Testing

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The Unexpected

Issues Resolution

Failed flash drive • Service request filed; Sun engineer arrived onsite and replaced it within a day

Two cluster crashes • Applied latest patches to avoid bugs that were fixed in the most recent patch

set available at the time

Patch conflict between Oracle

Exadata BP3 and Oracle e-

Business Suite

• The conflicting EBS patches were incorporated into the subsequent Exadata

patch bundles

OEM DB Console did not work after

migration

• Created work around with few parameter changes

• Abandoned OEM DB Console in favor of OEM Grid Control

EM crashed when changing

resource plan

• Known issue that will be resolved in soon to be released BP6

Error in PO approval process in

Workflow

• Resolved with a Profile Option change

Failover not happening for

concurrent manager services when

Node 1 of RAC is down

• Created a work around by restarting concurrent manager when a DB instance

fails

Issues with NTP server

synchronization

• Resolved by reconfiguring NTP to use a relay server. Root cause has something to

do with using a Windows NTP server and Linux ntpd not able to sync with it.

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The Results

Go-live was successful on Saturday, August 15,

2010. Approximate timeline was:

• Took production down on Friday at 7:00 PM

(approximately 6 hours)

• Completed backup by midnight

• Exported data by 9:00 AM (approximately 7

hours)

• Performed FTP to Oracle Database Machine;

completed import by 3:00 PM (approximately 6

hours)

• Completed post-import configuration on Saturday

by 6:00 PM (approximately 3 hours)

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The Questions

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E-Business Suite on ExadataDemo

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