SAP R/3 on RAC at Colgate Palmolive

Arthur Fleiss Jan Klokkers

Architect Sr. Director SAP Development

Colgate Palmolive Oracle Corporation

Session id: 40042

Topics

SAP-RAC Scenarios Cluster Filesystem SAP-RAC Scalability SAP-RAC Technical Architecture SAP-RAC at Colgate-Palmolive

SAP Scenario – mySAP Setup with RAC

Presentation Multiple SAPApplication Servers

Multiple RACDatabase Instances

SAP Scenarios – MCOD with RAC

Oracle RAC

Instance 1

Oracle RACInstance 2

SAP R/3System 2

SAP R/3System 1

Oracle RAC

Instance 3

SAP CRMSystem

Technical Highlights – Cluster File System Shared Software Location (Oracle, SAP, others)

– Easier Install and Upgrade Oracle Installer (OUI) is CFS aware No changes for SAP Install and Upgrades

Simplified Database Storage Management– No need to pre-create each Oracle data file– No need to slice disk for each Oracle data file – Easier to increase Oracle data file size

Simplified Administration and Monitoring – No difference from Single Instance

– Single Location for Backup and Archives– Single Location for Configuration Files of Oracle and SAP

Technical Highlights – Cluster File System

Support for vendor Cluster File System (CFS)– Fujitsu Siemens - PrimeCluster– HP Tru64 - TruCluster– IBM AIX – General Parallel File System (GPFS)– Veritas – Database Edition/Advanced Cluster

Oracle Built CFS on Linux and NT

SAP R/3 Scalability with RAC

SingleNode

2 Nodes 4 Nodes0

2,000

4,000

6,000

8,000

10,000

12,000

SingleNode

2 Nodes 4 Nodes

# Users

SAP R/3 4.6C Parallel Three Tier SD Benchmark on RAC

36403640

65806580

12,00012,000

82%Scalability/Box

82%Scalability/Box

SAP R/3 on Cluster - Architecture

ClusterFile System

Oracle Instance 1SID

Listener

Node 1 Node 2

SAP R/3Dialog Instance(s)

SAP R/3Dialog Instance(s)

Central Instance(ENQ, MSG-Server)

SAP R/3Dialog Instance(s)

SAP R/3 with RAC - Architecture

Oracle Instance 1SID

Listener 1

Node 1

SAP R/3Dialog Instance

Central Instance(ENQ, MSG-Server)

Node 2

Listener 2

Oracle Instance 2SID

SAP R/3Dialog Instance(s)

Central Instance(Automatic failover with

Replicated Enqueue)

ClusterFile System

SAP R/3Dialog Instance(s)

Automatic with Transparent Application Failover SAP R/3

Dialog Instance(s)

Company OverviewColgate Palmolive is the worldwide leader in Oral Care, Personal Care, Household Surface Care, Fabric Care and Pet Nutrition Global presence. Operations in over 200 countries around the world. Worldwide revenues of $9+ billion.

Major global brands include Colgate, Palmolive, Mennen, Kolynos, Ajax, Soupline, Fab, Hill’s Science Diet and Hill’s Prescription Diet Pet Foods.

Company Profile 2001 Sales by Region

Asia / Africa

16%

Hills12%

Europe

20%Latin

America27%

North America25%

OVERVIEW

Project team Environment Results Plans

Project Team

Colgate– 1 DBA , 1 Sysadmin

Oracle IBM SAP

Upgrade Path

0- SAP HR 4.6C / 4.6D kernel – 36 countries1- Solaris 2.6 – Oracle 8.12- Upgrade in place to Oracle 9.23- Exp/Imp to Oracle 9.2 on AIX (non clustered)4- Copy to AIX cluster @

- aix 5.1- hacmp 4.4- gpfs 1.5- ssd 1.3

5- Enable Rac

ENVIRONMENT

CABLETRONSSR

CABLETRONSSR

CABLETRONSS6000

IBM 44PORACLE&SAP

IBM 44PORACLE&SAP

IBM 44PORACLE&SAP

IBM S85SAP only

GB-GPFS

100mb RAC

10mb end-user

MCDATA 6064 IBMESSF20

Results

1- Implementation was not difficult

2- No show-stoppers

3- Performance is good( low single %)

4- No surprises during destructive testing

Plans

1- Will implement in 3 tier HR landscape

2- Will test ‘replicated-ENQ’

3- Will evaluate for other R3

4- Will look at consolidating multiple non SAP Db’s onto RAC

5- Will upgrade HR to ‘Enterprise’

6- Upgrade AIX stack

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