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IBM / ORACLE Joint Solution Center | Workshop © 2003 JSC

Session November 15th-19th 2004 / Montpellier (France)

Implementing 10g RAC on IBM eServer pSeries running AIX 5L

Frederic MICHIARA – Oracle – EMEA JSCThierry PLUMEAU – IBM – EMEA JSC



zSeries 140,000 Mips 150 Terabytes

pSeries 10 Teraflops 55 Terabytes

iSeries85,000 CPW,

15 servers34 Terabytes

xSeries 200 serversIncluding IA64, AMD

Opteron & BladeCenter technology

TotalStorage40 ESS, 10 SAN Directors,

10 SAN Switches, 12 SVCs

50 Terabytes FAStT &1300 fibre channel ports,

including FICON

Latest Technologies

Missions Benchmark and proof of concept activity Briefing Education Technical Support Porting & Testing ServicesPeople A unique IBM investment in EMEA Skill set: 200 professionals (150 IT Specialists & 30 IT Architects) eServer & TotalStorage infrastructure:

• ALL Platforms• ALL Models• ALWAYS the latest technology*

The environment 4 machine rooms 7 briefing rooms (from 12 to 150 seats) 11 education rooms 18 benchmarking rooms 1 TotalStorage lab5,000+ visitors per year 25% of the top 500 clients each year

The EMEA Oracle/IBM Joint Solutions CenterFully integrated within the IBM Products and Solutions Support Center



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Interface withOracle and IBM Support Teams

Architecture validations,

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Technologies & Solutions Awareness

Hands-ontraining

Performance&

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Pre-sales Assistance



EMEA ORACLE/IBMJoint Solutions Center

Pre-sales Technical SupportDaily activity

By email, phone

Sizing, Archi. Validation,Certifications.

Pre-sales Technical SupportDaily activity

By email, phone

Sizing, Archi. Validation,Certifications.

Customer Briefings

in Montpellier or onsiteFace to Face / Groups

Customer Briefings

in Montpellier or onsiteFace to Face / Groups

Trainings / Workshops

in Montpellierand remotly

Trainings / Workshops

in Montpellierand remotly

Technical Papers / Tests

based on Oracle/IBM products

Technical Papers / Tests

based on Oracle/IBM products

60 % E-Business Suite / 40 % RDBMS projects 60 % E-Business Suite / 40 % RDBMS projects

# of projects : 70 % pSeries/AIX, 20 % xSeries/Linux, 10 % zSeries/LinuxiSeries Emerging

# of projects : 70 % pSeries/AIX, 20 % xSeries/Linux, 10 % zSeries/LinuxiSeries Emerging

2004 Global activity overview

Support missionsin Montpellier + +

Support missionsin Montpellier + +

Interface with Oracle/IBM/ISV

local organizations

Interface with Oracle/IBM/ISV

local organizations

Pre-sales activity Education activity

Post sales support

Local & Global Alliance

relationship



Montpellier: a Global Oracle activity within the IBM teams

Unix servers (pSeries)

Intel processor-based servers (xSeries)

Midrange servers (iSeries)

Customer Benchmark center : 1-2 Oracle / weekCustomer Briefing center : 2 Oracle briefing / monthISV support center : PoC – DB oriented + 9iRACEducation Center : 6 Oracle Workshops / year

Linux support center : Oracle Certification, ISV support Education center : 5 workshops / year Customer benchmark center : 2 Oracle bench / month

iSeries benchmark and support center

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EMEA Oracle/IBM JSC

Mainframe servers (zSeries) New Technology Center : Pre-sales groupzLinux support center : zLt offering + ISV centerzSeries benchmark center : 2 or 3 Oracle bench/ year

zOSzlinux

Storage groupStorage support center : Oracle technical papers ( getting the best.., MAN, PPRC test..Permanent Oracle demo available…

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EMEA and WW relationships

Technical IBM and Oracle teams

Sales IBM and Oracle local teams

Oracle and IBM Alliance Managers

IBM and Oracle partners

I.T.S : projectsFTSS : awareness + projects Customer Sales representative : projectsPre-sales teams : awarness + projects

Germany, UK, France, Switzerland : Both A.MOracle Africa : Oracle OkCEMA : IBM OKSpain, Italy, Austria : Oracle or IBM contacts

IBM BCS

Contact with local teams : ProjectsContact with EMEA BCS Organization :

Techline : Sizings and certificationsSupport teams : Educ, CritSit, 2nd level of support

EMEA PTS : Technology & ISV oriented

Projects : Sizings and validation projectsEvents , Briefings with and for Technical tests : PoC, benchmarks

IBM and Oracle WW teams

Competency centers : ICC and JCC + IBM linux competency center

Relationship with the Partner Technical Services Group

Products Line Managers (Oracle and IBM)



The EMEA Oracle/IBM Joint Solutions Center : a joint team

Thierry PlumeauIBM pSeries IT specialist

Paul Bramy (Oracle)

Oracle Coordinator

Frederic MichiaraOracle pre-sales

Alain AtgeIBM zSeries IT Specialist

Alain BenhaïmIBM Coordinator

Fabienne Lepetit Oracle support

Marc Tu Duy KhiemIBM xSeries IT Specialist

Opened in June 1998 A technical focal point in the Oracle/IBM partnership

Pre-sales oriented In synergy with the Oracle and IBM teams … And field driven … !



The EMEA Oracle/IBM Joint Solutions CenterA Short History in numbers

Activity 1998 2003

Sizing ( e-business suite) 45

400+Architecture validation 45

Briefings and demos 20 30

Proof of concept 10 10

Deliverables (cookbooks, …) 10 10

Workshops 4 12

Technical events & Sales events 0 6

Certifications & Standard Benchmarks 0 3

ISV Validation (RAC & Linux mostly) 0 6

Critical Situations (post-sales) 0 10



xSeries WW Benchmark (OASB)

Technical Workshops

Customer sizings and validation architectures

ISV benchmark

2nd level of support on Customer benchmarks

zSeries WW Benchmark (OASB)

Technical Workshops

Customer sizings and validation architectures

ISV benchmark

Oracle demonstration including Oracle RAC

pSeries and iSeries WW demonstration

First customer benchmarks

Prospect requests

Oracle on Linux at the EMEA Oracle/IBM Joint Solutions Center (JSC)



New Offers : remote Technical workshops

Montpellier Center (France) San Mateo Classroom

(USA)

FasTt 500

p690 p690

PCs



Integrating 9iRAC in Customer Production environment (Switzerland)

Project objective:Implementing 9iRAC in the current 11i environmentsMinimize the Batch impact on the database tier Secure the production environment

Softwares:AIX 5L (5.1 ml03) 64 bitsOracle e-business suite11.5.8HACMP + GPFSOracle 9iR2 9.2.0.2

Hardware:Temporary Montpellier servers3 LPAR of a p690 (1.1 Ghz)Target architecture3 Servers : 1 Application tier + 2 Database tiers

Purpose of the test:Reproduce the current production environmentInstall 9iRAC and move the DB on raw devicesTests the new features on environment

Montpellier involvementDeliver Hardware, software resourcesDeliver Human skills Skill transfert to the customer

Current Customer environment

Montpellier environment

ESS4 way p690

4 way p690

4 way p690

New Customer environment



ESS 800 - 6.6TB

pSeries zSeriesxSeries

AIX 5.2 AIX 5.2 AIX 5.2 Linux LinuxLinux Linux Linux Linux

GPFS 2.1 OCFSS

Raw DevicesSwitch SAN

9iRAC 9iRAC9iRAC

Appl Java

Appl O

C4J

SuseSLSE8

SuseSLSE8

SuseSLSE8

SuseSLSE8

The Oracle offering on IBM

HACMP/ES 4.5

zVM

OracleAgent

OEM Console

SuseSLSE7

SuseSLSE7



Attendee list / Session November 15th – 19th / Montpellier

Main teachers : Frederic Michiara ( Oracle), Thierry Plumeau (IBM),

10 attendees :

- Youssef AKHAMLICH, France (IBM)

- Patrick BROSNAN, UK (Ifield Computer Consultant)

- Vincent CUFFE, UK (Oracle)

- Saty DESAI, USA (Oracle)

- Mirko DINARICH, Switzerland (Oracle)

- Vyacheslav KOCHEPASOV, Russia (IBM)

- Philippe LEVASSEUR, France (Oracle)

- Miroslav LORENC, Czech Republic (Oracle)

- Helmut PLETZER, Germany (Oracle)

- Pascal VERDET, France (IBM)



Workshop Agenda

Monday (2pm – 6pm)- Welcome- Infrastructure- Oracle 10g RAC on AIX : Concepts- Prerequisites - Setup OS (LAB)

Tuesday (9:30am - 6pm)- CRS Installation- Oracle 10g Installation- Lunch- VIP- ASM Database Creation- GPFS / Cluster implementation- GPFS Database Creation



Workshop Agenda

Wednesday (9:30am – 6pm)- Pachset implementation- TAF- Lunch- Adding a node to an existing cluster

Thursday (9:30am - 6pm)- Swingbench- Grid Control implementation- Lunch



Workshop Agenda

Friday (9:30am – 12am)- Full architecture test- Closing session



Workshop Infrastruture

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Group Infrastructure

LPAR2WAY6GB

DBSx1

LPAR2WAY6GB

DBSx2

32-WAY p690

FasTt 500

Private networkInterconnect RAC & GPFS

Client network

25 GB

Internal disks210 GB

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SAN

2 x 8 GB GPFS Data2 x 8 GB ASM Data2 x 200MB

OCR & Voting



Workshop IP address : Server Part

Group 1 : dbs11, dbs12- 10.2.12.1 alias dbs11- 10.2.12.2 alias dbs12 - 10.2.12.101 alias dbs11_vip- 10.2.12.102 alias dbs12_vip- 10.10.12.1 alias dbs11_gpfs- 10.10.12.2 alias dbs12_gpfs

Group 2 : dbs21, dbs22- 10.2.12.3 alias dbs21- 10.2.12.4 alias dbs22 - 10.2.12.103 alias dbs21_vip- 10.2.12.104 alias dbs22_vip- 10.10.12.3 alias dbs21_gpfs- 10.10.12.4 alias dbs22_gpfs



EMEA Oracle/IBM Joint Solutions Center

Address : Compagnie IBM FranceRue de la Vieille PosteBP 1021 - 34006 Montpellier Cedex

FRANCEEmail :

[email protected] : +33 4 67 34 67 49Fax : +33 4 67 34 64 77

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