Exalytics The Fastest Oracle Essbase, Hyperion Planning, & OBIEE Performance Imaginable

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1 Exalytics The Fastest Oracle Essbase, Hyperion Planning, & OBIEE Performance Imaginable Glenn Schwartzberg glennschwartzbergs-essbaseblog.blogspot.com

2 Disclaimer These slides represent the work and opinions of the presenter and do not constitute official positions of Oracle or any other organization. This material has not been peer reviewed and is presented here with the permission of the presenter. This material should not be reproduced without the written permission of interrel Consulting.

3 Meet the Players

4 Source: Oracle Oracle Business Foundation Suite

5 Oracle Business Analytics Common Workspace Interactive Dashboards Report&Publish Adhoc Analysis Alert Mobile&Disconnected MSOffice Search Embedded Performance Management Applications BI Applications Strategy Management Planning & Budgeting ERP Analytics CRM Analytics Industry Analytics Financial Close Profitability Management Single Enterprise Information Model Essbase BI Server Endeca OLTP & ODS Systems Data Warehouse Data Mart OLAP SAP, Oracle, Siebel, PeopleSoft, Custom Excel XML Business Process

6 Oracle BI Server Engine of OBIEE 11G Scalable, efficient query and analysis server Provides integration of many sources Intelligent caching services Calculation and integration engine Intelligent request generation and optimized data access services Three layers Physical Business Model /Mapping Presentation

7 Oracle BI Server 50,000 ft view Federates the data with a virtual schema Virtual schema is created Moving the data virtually Do everything you do in your data warehouse without building the data warehouse physically Combine tables across sources (columns + columns) Combine data in tables sources (rows + rows) Perform transformations Aggregate tables for performance improvements

8 OBIEE Web Client / Analyses Front end to the OBIEE suite Adhoc reporting interface, pivot, charts Point and click Save organize and share Sources data from the OBI Server Used in Dashboards Used to be called Answers

9 Dashboards Part of the OBIEE suite Fully interactive graphical dashboards Real time data across enterprise sources Point and click to create and use Guided analytics intelligent links to aid users in their investigations

10 Mobile Support iphone / ipad Oracle BI and Oracle Business Approvals Native apps available via itunes Windows Mobile, WebOS & Android Standard browser support via HTML and Flash Alerts via txt message

11 Oracle Strategy & Scorecard Management Manage, report and analyze KPIs Leverage BI data Strategy maps, cause and effect maps and more

12 Essbase Multidimensional cubes / MOLAP Multidimensional view of data through dimensions Common grouping or hierarchy of master data Organization, Product, Accounts Aggregates / upper level members are calculated and stored or dynamically calculated upon retrieval really fast Block Storage Option (BSO) Write back any level Powerful Calculation engine Aggregate Storage Option (ASO) 20+ dimensions, Millions of members Write back level zero JAN JAN JAN FEB FEB LA SF PHX LA SF SALES ACTUAL SALES ACTUAL MARGIN BUDGET SALES BUDGET MARGIN ACTUAL WEST L.A. S.F. PHX DEN Actuals Budget Sales Margin Sales Margin

13 Why does analysis hurt so much?

14 Performance Issues in BI? Data movement with ETL Data movement with BI OTLP ODS Spreadsheets Data Warehouse ROLAP MOLAP Cache results What you ve tried when you have performance issues in BI: Tuning Query Analyzer, Profiles, Star Transformation Materialized views Aggregate tables, aggregation persistence Caching Oracle OLAP, cube based materialized views Essbase Exadata - Smart Scan, join filtering, storage indexes (you ll can still do these things even after Exalytics)

15 How OBIEE Handles Queries Presentation Server Webcat Cached Results BI Server Usage Tracking RPD Exadata, Essbase/MOLAP provide big performance improvements (even without exalytics) OTLP/ODS Exadata Spreadsheets Data Warehouse ROLAP Essbase

16 Performance Issues? What you ve tried when you have performance issues in BI Tuning Query Analyzer, Profiles, Star Transformation Materialized views Aggregate tables Caching Oracle OLAP, cube based materialized views Essbase Exadata Smart Scan, join filtering, storage indexes Problems: Multiple tools Multiple environments Configuration Exadata tuned at DB/DW level but not for end user But what about the end user interface to get that data fast?? Here is where Exalytics comes in: Speed of thought visualization In memory data Adapts to end user patterns

17 The Solution

18 February 27, 2012 REDWOOD SHORES, CA, Feb 27 (MARKET WIRE) -- Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) Oracle today announced the availability of Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine, the industry's first high-speed engineered system featuring in-memory business intelligence (BI) software and hardware to deliver extreme performance for analytic and performance management applications.

19 Exalytics: 5 things to remember 1. Really powerful hardware 2. Tuned for analytics 3. Fully integrated system 4. Pretty good price 5. Get it quickly

20 Exalytics In-Memory Machine Oracle BI Foundation Suite TimesTen/Oracle In Memory 12C/Essbase for Exalytics, In Memory Analytics Hardware

21 Really powerful hardware

22 Really Powerful Hardware X3-4 2 Terabytes of RAM 3.6 Terabytes of hard drive 2.4 Terabytes of flash drive 40 CPU cores 4 Intel Xeon E chips High-speed network cards 2x40 Gbps Infiniband 2x10 Gbps ethernet 4x1 Gbps ethernet 3d/exalytics/index.html

23 Really Powerful Hardware X4-4 Announced Open World 2014 Replaces X3-4 Four Intel Xeon E v2 processors 15 adjustable CPU cores each = 60 cores 2 TB of RAM (upgradeable to 3 TB) 2.4 TB of flash (upgradeable to 4.8 TB) 7.2 TB of hard drive High-speed network cards 2x40 Gbps Infiniband 2x10 Gbps Ethernet 4x1 Gbps Ethernet 3d/exalytics/index.html

24 Exalytics T5-8 Introduced Sep 12, 2013 First announced at Open World 2013 X = intel Cores T = Solaris Cores Second character = generation of chips Third character number of sockets

25 X3-4 VS T5-8 Component Exalytics X4-4 Exalytics T5-8 CPU cores 60 Intel Cores 128 SPARC T5 Cores Main Memory 2 TB -> 3 TB 4 TB PCIe Flash Storage 2.4 TB -> 4.8 TB 3.2 TB Hard Disk Capacity 7.2 TB 7.2 TB Operating System Oracle Linux Oracle Solaris Endeca Information Discovery Large scale consolidation ZFS file system with snapshot capability

26 In Memory Software for Analytics

27 Purchase includes Tuned for Exalytics BI Foundation Suite Software Oracle Enterprise Linux 64-bit (or Solaris) TimesTen for Exalytics or Oracle 12c inmemory or Essbase ASO OBIEE Essbase Endeca (X2-4 and X3-4) Other software can be installed Planning Financial Reporting EAL 4 HFM HPCM Other Linux Software

28 Essbase Highlights Speed of thought analysis Essbase is now massively parallel Smaller CPU Utilization, improved thread/cache management Some new features are Exalytics only In first releases, only the Essbase Server and Client resided on Exalytics Studio, EAS, Providers Services, etc. should all be on other machine Why? Weblogic server compatibility issues As of today, the following are certified to run on Exalytics Essbase, Oracle HTTP Server, Provider Services, Calculation Manager, EAS, Shared Services, Workspace, Planning, Financial Reporting and Web Analysis Idea you could cluster all your Planning components

29 Oracle BI Foundation Suite Software Included

30 Oracle BI Foundation Suite Part of the Exalytics Purchase: Oracle BI Foundation Suite OBIEE Essbase OSSM Mobile EAL Financial Reporting Does NOT come preinstalled The Exalytics stripe of these products are only supported You will download and install the Exalytics media pack Special configuration settings to leverage Exalytics hardware

31 Pretty good price

32 Pricing High Level Exalytics X2-4 is $135,00 plus software* Exalytics X3-4 is $175,000 plus software* Exalytics X4-4 is $175,000 plus software Exalytics T5-8 is $ 330,00 plus software All pricing is public: *No longer on price list

33 You will likely want more than one Supports both Essbase and BI on the same server but in real life you may want to split Depends on how much data, number of users, processes, etc. Beta testers tested Essbase only on the Exalytics server or OBIEE only on the Exalytics server Test and Production instance Cluster for High Availability Scale to More Users and Applications All of our customers purchased 2-5 Exalytics servers

34 Get it quickly: Ships Faster Than Commodity Hardware

35 Some Real World Benefits / Results

36 Value Add Time to Market Installed quickly Migrate RPDs Can get performance benefits just from the hardware without running Summary Advisor Happy Users Speed of Thought Visualization Automatic movement of data driven by the end user experience and existing BI models Re-purpose resources / reduce consulting Eliminate need for ETL or DB experts Reduce consulting and internal resources to tune data Repurpose FTEs to value added analysis

37 Improved Analytics Performance Performance improvements found up to: 6x Planning cycle time 30x Calculation time 79x Query time Purchases occurring During new server purchases During server refreshes To improve performance

38 Largest health insurer in the country. Fortune 42 company 33+ million members 37,000+ employees About WellPoint

39 WellPoint s Benchmark Hardware IBM Power 595 (9119-FHA) 32 Core 64-Bit Power6 Processers 5.0 GHZ. 4 cores dedicated to Virtual IO. Split into 4 separate LPARS 96 Gigabytes RAM 2 Terabytes EMC Storage AIX 6.1

40 BSO Performance Saw over 2-3X improvement across the board. Serial calculations represented roughly 200,000 lines of calculation script code. BSO data loads weren t tested because the benchmark process didn t have a load over 2 seconds. Export = 2 level WLP Exalytics

41 BSO Performance (Continued) Optimizing data cache and index caches improved performance. As today, must empirically optimize cache settings on a per application basis. Performance could get worse if cache is set too high Calcs Calcs

42 ASO Performance Buffer loads saw a 2X increase. Already loading in memory. Commits and aggs performed 3-4X better Setting the Pending Cache Size Limit improved performance. Set too high and performance went down WLP

43 ASO Query Performance Baseline MDX times from Financial Reporting Server logs. Did not have FR on Exalytics, so we extracted FR MDX from logs to run on Exalytics. MDX Query times had the biggest variability improvement from 2-8X better 95% of our queries are fast, so we looked for large dynamic Hierarchies with lots of formulas for test MDX Report Scripts WLP Exalytics

44 Summary Highlights

45 In Summary

46 Exalytics: 5 things to remember 1. Really powerful hardware 2. Tuned for analytics 3. Fully integrated system 4. Pretty good price 5. Get it quickly

47 Thank You!! Glenn Schwartzberg glennschwartzbergs-essbaseblog.blogspot.com