Application MAA Best Practices on Oracle Exadata

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1 Application MAA Best Practices on Oracle Exadata Mathew Steinberg Exadata Product Management Raymond Dutcher Maximum Availability Architecture and X-Team Vivek Puri Database Administration The Sherwin Williams Company

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3 Program Agenda Application MAA Best Practices on Oracle Exadata Customer Case Study Sherwin Williams E-Business Suite on Exadata Oracle Applications on Engineered Systems & In Memory Applications Wrap up 3

4 Application MAA Best Practices on Oracle Exadata 4

5 Exadata is Oracle s Strategic Database Platform One integrated system (servers, network, storage) optimized around the Oracle Database Intelligent, scale-out storage offloads database processing; maintains optimal storage hierarchy memory, flash, disk Industry best data compression Superior performance, price-performance, availability, supportability 5

6 Building Blocks of MAA Architecture, Configuration and Operational Practices = Maximize Availability MAA Architecture Configuration Best Practices Operational Best Practices Architecture Enabler Configuration Optimize Operations Maintenance for Stability and Availability 6

7 Maximum Availability Architecture Experience from Thousands of Deployments, Validated in Oracle Labs HA best practices for: Exadata Database Machine Oracle Database Oracle Fusion Middleware Oracle Applications Cloud Control Partner solutions Ref. 7

8 MAA Database Low-Cost, Integrated, Fully Active, High ROI Production Site RAC Scalability Server HA Flashback Human error correction Active Replica Active Data Guard Data Protection, DR Query Offload Automatic Block Repair GoldenGate Active-active Heterogeneous Online Redefinition, Edition-based Redefinition, Data Guard, GoldenGate Minimal downtime maintenance, upgrades, and migrations ASM Volume Management RMAN & Fast Recovery Area On-disk backups Oracle Secure Backup Backup to tape / cloud 8

9 Exadata Backup Destination Options InfiniBand Network Storage Expansion Rack Fastest Backup and Restore ILM Historical Archive Second DATA2 Disk Group Expansion of DATA Ethernet Oracle Secure Backup Admin Server Oracle Secure Backup Media Servers 10GigE or InfiniBand Network Fiber Channel SAN Tape library Offsite Backups Vaulting 10GigE or InfiniBand Network ZFS Storage Appliance Backups of database & non-database files Snapshots Clones 9

10 MAA and Oracle Applications Layered on MAA Best Practices 10

11 Migration Strategies Getting to Exadata Migration Preparation is Essential Simplify and optimize Prepare source and Exadata target Test and test again Pick the Right Migration Method (Best may not be fastest) Source platform and version Database size Availability requirement and other business requirements Fast Network Reduces Migration Time Having a fast network is important for quick migration, but watch out for bottlenecks in other areas. See See MOS for Oracle E Business Suite 11

12 Oracle Resource Management Reliable Service & Optimal Performance in Consolidated Environments Use hugepages for optimal memory management My Oracle Support Note Instance Caging - limit the amount of CPU used by an Oracle instance Database Resource Manager - allocate CPU resources across multiple services that share the same database I/O Resource Manager - allocate I/O bandwidth among databases IORM is unique to Exadata storage Improve OLTP latencies Latest resource management best practices refer to MOS note

13 Essential Exadata Operational Practices Goal: Maximum Stability and Availability Operations 1. Exachk 2. Monitor 3. Testing 4. Patch 13

14 Use Exadata HealthCheck (Exachk) Regularly Contains Critical Alerts and MAA configuration checks Exachk Hardware, Software and MAA checks Validated Exadata MAA configuration best practices MAA score card and review Critical software and patch updates Pre/Post upgrade checks Support for V2, X2, and X3 Exadata families MOS When to run? After initial Oracle Database Machine deployment During times of least load on system Pre and post planned maintenance Grid Infrastructure and at least one database up and running At least every three months as part of regular operational procedures 14

15 Enterprise Manager 12c Exadata Monitoring Exadata as Grid Control Target Integrated view of HW and SW Hardware view Schematic of cells, compute nodes and switches Hardware components alerts Software and System views: Performance, availability, usage by databases, services, clusters Software alerts db, cluster, ASM Topology view of database systems/clusters exachk plug-in 15

16 Testing: Best Protection is a Strong Defense Testing reduces risk and uncertainty 5. Apply on Production Validate Change 4. Apply on Standby 1. Real App Testing/Clone Test DB 3. Functionality, Performance, HA SLAs 2. Upgrade or Patch with fallback Essential Test Requirements and Goals Performance, HA and growth requirements understood Test and prove changes Application functionality, behavior and impact understood Validate repair and recovery Backout plans desired Essential Test Resources (in order of preference) Dedicated Exadata system identical to production Smaller Exadata system or Data Guard standby Non-Exadata system Essential Test Approach Know upgrades work Validate, automate, practice Use MAA outage matrix Execute Data Guard role transitions MAA Best Practices for Oracle Exadata Database Machine (technical white paper) 16

17 Online Patches & Rolling Upgrades MOS Exadata Bundle Patches, Cell Software, OS, Firmware deployed using RAC, GI, Exadata, or HW rolling install Qualified one-off patches can be applied to a running Oracle instance Standby-first patching using Data Guard Redo Apply Rolling database release/patchset upgrades migrations with Data Guard transient logical upgrades or Golden Gate Data Center moves / SAN migration / tech refresh, with minimal downtime via Data Guard / GoldenGate EBS Qualified patches included in Exadata BP, see MOS

18 MAA Summary and Key Takeaways Best protection is a strong defense MAA best practices Health checks and operational best practices Proactive monitoring and management Keep current with patch sets 18

19 The Sherwin-Williams Company Vivek Puri Team Lead, Database Administration September 2013

20 Who We Are Largest Producer of Paint & Coatings in US, among Top 3 worldwide Founded in 1866, Cleveland, OH 2016 is 150 th Anniversary $9.5 billion in sales Business in 120+ Countries 34,000+ employees 4,000+ Company Owned Stores 90 + Manufacturing Facilities Globally

21 Leading Sherwin-Williams Brands

22 SW EBS Footprint Three Regional EBS Application Environments US/Canada (R12.1.3) HR, Benefits (Global Employees Management Systems) Financials (AP,GL, FA) ; Property Management; EAM Latin America (R12.1.3) Financials (AP,AR,GL, FA) ; Property Management; EAM Supply Chain & Manufacturing (OM, OPM, WMS, ASCP); Demantra Asia Pacific (R12.1.3) Financials (AP,AR,GL, FA) Supply Chain & Manufacturing (OM, OPM, WMS, ASCP)

23 SW Adoption of Engineered Systems Where we started.... Challenges (US/Canada EBS Env.)- - Complexity of using Veritas Clusterware with Solaris - Concurrent Tier on DB Servers - Long cloning time (24 hours) & backup time (12 hours) - Poor performance of several business processes - Apps Upgrade to R12 very slow on old hardware

24 SW Adoption of Engineered Systems Where we started.... Objective Replace Hardware along with Apps Upgrade from11i to R12 POV of Exadata at OSC with SW actual EBS data & configuration Evaluated Sun M5000, Dell R910 & Exadata X2-2 in Q for our US/Canada EBS Environment Key Decision Points - Speed to market - Performance - Stability and Manageability with Engineered Architecture - Single vendor for support Acquired Two Exadata machines(x2-2 ¼ & X2-2 ½ ) in May 2011

25 Benefits Faster delivery to meet business needs -Fully configured clustered hardware in 2 weeks Direct performance benefit in R12 upgrade cycle; Upgrade time reduced from ~ 200 hours (old H/W) to 65 hours (including Database platform migration to Exadata) Managed the Application upgrade to R12 in 36 hours, by handling Database Platform migration ahead of schedule

26 Benefits (continued) Key business processes performance increased significantly Depreciation of 1M+ assets Before: hours execution time serially After: 4-5 hours execution time in parallel Direct benefit to the business with significant improvements in the month-end processes Reduced backup and clones dramatically Before: ~12 hours to perform backup and restore of 1 TB DB After: <60 minutes to perform backup and restore of 2 TB DB EBS Cloning time reduced to 6 hours from 24 hours

27 Architecture Highly Available based on MAA Guidelines

28 SW Second Exadata Implementation Objective Add capacity to Latin America EBS environment for EBS implementation in Argentina and Brazil. And add capacity for OBIEE environment. Additional Benefits - Comprehensive Patching Single application testing cycle - Significant performance improvements in Demantra & ASCP planning jobs - Demantra weekend forecasting process time reduced to < 6 hours from 33 hours - Performance improvement in various manufacturing & shipping processes - ASR - Created SR automatically & SW being notified for HW replacement - Reallocate resources to higher value-add activities

29 Performance Improvements for OBIEE - ETL - Avg. 2X - 4X improvements - Reporting - Avg. 4X - 10X improvements Consolidation Platform for Stores Custom Application - Acquired Two Exadata machines (X2-2 ½ rack) in May Database consolidated for key stores POS & AR applications - Other Database consolidation is underway Current Exadata Footprint - One X2-2 ¼ Rack (HP High Performance HDD) - Two X2-2 ½ Rack (HP) - Three X2-2 ½ Rack (HC High Capacity HDD)

30 Architecture Shared DR

31 Lessons Learned - Need to develop strategy for managing Exadata between DBA, Unix, Network & Storage team. Who has root? - ¼ rack, too much space lost for fault tolerance - Do not use Exadata Admin subnet for AppsTier, SW specific - Leverage 10G interface for cloning / backup (if possible) - Understand implications of multiple Networks on host, this was new to SW - EM Cloud Control 12c for monitoring - Periodically run and review Exachk

32 Platinum Services Joined early adopter program June 2012 Platinum Services and ACS resources performed implementation Immediate access to Platinum Services and Oracle Support resources to resolve issues Benefit to SW Saved time ($$) and reduced risk Lessons Learned - Plan Early - Demand on Oracle resources is high - Schedule is a challenge Manage the vendor - Review Upgrade Plans - Monitor Access to Systems Identify ways to minimize impact/downtime Minor Issues encountered unique to SW Network

33 Our Vision - Next Steps Exadata - Primary DB platform for applications requiring highest availability and performance (both OLTP and Decision Support) ZFS Backup Appliance Implementation is underway for DB disk backups; replacing NetApp. Using 10G N/W, move to IB in future Exalogic POV completed; very encouraging results for ERP, ASCP & Demantra processes Strategy is to move to complete Engineered Platform for ERP Planning, Demantra, OBIEE and critical Java/WebLogic Applications Provision and Migrate AsiaPac EBS to Exadata / Exalogic platform Using Exadata with 12c multitenant(pluggable) for non-ebs Databases

34 Oracle Applications on Engineered Systems & In Memory Applications 34

35 Exadata for Oracle Applications Changing the Way You Do Business Engineered Solution Hardware and Software Simulate Large Scale Processes in Real Time Use Full Set of Production Data without Impacting Performance 35

36 In Memory Applications Business Critical Applications run times faster Product In-Memory Applications Cost Management Policy Analytics Next Best Action Project Discovery Financial Position Analyzer Financial Allocations Analyzer Labor Rules and Monitoring Sales Advisor Project Portfolio Management Virtual Close Consumption-Driven Planning Performance-Driven Planning Logistics Command Center Business critical applications and workflows often take hours or days to execute Financial Close, Cost Management, Projections, Planning Oracle In-Memory Applications leverage DRAM and Flash memories to run times faster Transforms batch processes to real time Changes business dynamics Quickly discover growth opportunities Make smarter decisions Reduce corporate costs Accelerate time-consuming workflows 36

37 Oracle In-Memory Sales Advisor New Dynamic Visibility of Profit Information Order Profit View total order profit margin, not just individual lines Calculate historical average profit margin for customer Display chart for the customer s previous orders Display chart for line level profit margin 37

38 Oracle In-Memory Cost Management Scalability, Functionality, and Speed for a Transformation in Processes Transformational Change Fundamental limitations of current solutions No pre-built integrations between cost simulations and margin analysis Linear and textual analytics Solution A single business process flow from cost configuration and simulation through profit & margin analysis One system, optimized for high-performance and delivered as pre-configured Oracle Verification Methodology High performance IMCM Applications 38

39 Wrap Up 39

40 Exadata: More Than a Platform Architecture, Configuration and Operational Practices = Maximize Availability Operational Best Practices Maximum Availability Architecture Resource Management Exadata Disaster Protection Backup Migration and Monitoring 40

41 Benefits to IT Business Benefits Simplify IT Work Faster & Smarter 2-Day Deployment Less Administration Real-Time BI Near Real- Time Batch Deploy in Days Administer with Less Real-Time BI Near Real-Time Batch SUPPORT Standard Configurations Global Scale OLTP Deeper Analytics SUPPORT Consolidate Standardize Internet-Scale OLTP Deeper Analysis 41

42 For More Information Maximum Availability Architecture MAA on Exalogic and Exadata ATG Web Commerce E-Business Suite PeopleSoft Siebel New! search.oracle.com Maximum availability architecture or oracle.com 42

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