An Oracle White Paper June Running Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle SuperCluster T5-8

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1 An Oracle White Paper June 2013 Running Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle SuperCluster T5-8

2 Fully Integrated, Complete Hardware and Software Solution Oracle SuperCluster T5-8 provides a highly available, high-performance platform for deploying Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle s integrated suite of global business applications. This fully integrated, single-vendor/single-system solution delivers extreme operating efficiency, faster deployment times with lower risk, and measurable productivity benefits all of which contribute to lower TCO. Line-of-business teams can leverage the engineered system s performance advantage to accelerate and improve business processes and achieve greater business value for their organizations. And from an IT perspective, this single-system solution is simpler to manage, costs less to deploy and maintain, and is scalable to support business growth and changing business requirements. Scalable, Flexible Solution Architecture Oracle SuperCluster T5-8 provides a scalable, flexible platform for running Oracle E-Business Suite solutions (see Figure 1). Based on Oracle s SPARC T5-8 servers, this integrated solution provides the scalability, reliability, and security of Oracle Solaris; built-in virtualization technology for consolidation; the optimized database performance of Oracle Exadata storage; and the accelerated middleware processing of Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud all of which are deployed, managed, and serviced as a single engineered system. Figure 1. Oracle SuperCluster T5-8 provides a scalable, flexible architecture for deploying Oracle E-Business Suite. 1

3 Oracle E-Business Suite applications and Oracle Database 11g run in separate domains on two SPARC T5-8 servers from Oracle, and Oracle Solaris Cluster and Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) provide high availability capabilities across the cluster. The SPARC T5-8 server nodes communicate with Oracle Exadata Storage Servers and Oracle s Sun ZFS Storage Appliance over a high-performance InfiniBand network, and they are connected via 10 GbE to the data center network. Resources are split between the general-purpose and database domains and can be adapted to specific customer configuration requirements. Oracle SuperCluster is available in half-rack (two servers/four processors), full-rack (two servers/eight processors), and multi-rack configurations with storage expansion options to meet the most demanding application requirements. Benefits of Adopting an Integrated Solution Adopting an integrated solution running Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle SuperCluster provides benefits in improved performance, better operating efficiency, decreased deployment risk, and enhanced high availability and disaster recovery. Maximize business results with improved performance. Oracle E-Business Suite deployments currently running on Oracle s SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 can run unchanged on Oracle SuperCluster T5-8 and immediately benefit from the improved performance of the new platform. Leveraging the increased performance of Oracle SuperCluster T5-8 improves user and process productivity, significantly lowers costs, and enables new business opportunities. Batch jobs that once needed to run overnight for performance reasons can be run more frequently, providing greater visibility into current business operations. Performance gains of the Oracle E-Business Suite solution platform can help accelerate financial closing, enable faster and more complete supply chain management, speed payroll processing, and improve user productivity of self-service business applications. Improved performance helps shift the focus to business and process innovation, increases business value, and makes it easier for organizations to achieve strategic business goals. Achieve extreme operating efficiency. Deploying Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle SuperCluster T5-8 delivers extreme operating efficiency and cost savings. Organizations can safely and securely deploy multiple Oracle E-Business Suite environments such as production, development, test, and quality assurance on one Oracle SuperCluster platform, reducing IT cost and complexity. This extreme consolidation, with its ability to easily adjust resources for better utilization as requirements change, can reduce the data center footprint and help eliminate aging infrastructure for substantial cost savings. Decrease deployment risk for lower TCO. Solutions that are faster to deploy begin returning on investments more quickly. The Oracle SuperCluster T5-8 platform is factory-assembled and delivered ready to run reducing the time it takes to deliver new applications and services. Because the entire environment is engineered and tested to work together, there is lower risk associated with implementing complex business solutions. Following documented Oracle E-Business Suite consolidation best practices can make the deployment up to five times faster than traditional, nonintegrated solutions. 2

4 Deploying fully integrated systems eliminates the effort, complexity, and cost of integrating individual components, providing rapid time-to-value and lowering TCO. Standard hardware and software configurations are simpler to support and upgrade. And simplified operation with unified management and patching further reduces ongoing deployment costs. Realize high availability for mission-critical applications. Oracle SuperCluster is designed from the ground up with built-in high availability, making it well suited for deploying mission-critical enterprise applications such as Oracle E-Business Suite. Hardware components in Oracle SuperCluster are configured with no single point of failure. On the software side, the Oracle Solaris operating system s Predictive Self Healing feature and fault management capabilities increase uptime, and there is end-to-end software high availability. Disaster recovery is orders-of-magnitude easier to manage with this integrated, single-vendor solution. Optional use of the advanced clustering technology in Oracle Solaris Cluster provides automatic failure detection and failover of virtual environments and applications across Oracle SuperCluster nodes. And the solution integrates with Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition for support of geographically separated clusters for disaster recovery. Greatly simplified disaster recovery can provide continued operation in minutes, rather than the hours typical of nonintegrated solutions, increasing the business value of Oracle E-Business Suite applications. Best IT Deployment Choice for Oracle E-Business Suite Deploying Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle SuperCluster T5-8 with its fully integrated, optimized, and tested architecture is the best IT deployment strategy. This platform delivers extreme consolidation capabilities with its high performance and scalability; high availability and disaster recovery that is easy to implement and manage; and lowered TCO with decreased effort, cost, and time to deploy complex enterprise-wide business applications. Leverage the performance of the Oracle SuperCluster T5-8 and the cost savings and simplicity of an integrated solution to maximize Oracle E-Business Suite investment value. 3

5 Running Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle SuperCluster T5-8 June 2013, Version 1.0 Oracle Corporation World Headquarters 500 Oracle Parkway Redwood Shores, CA U.S.A. Worldwide Inquiries: Phone: Fax: oracle.com Copyright 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is provided for information purposes only, and the contents hereof are subject to change without notice. This document is not warranted to be error-free, nor subject to any other warranties or conditions, whether expressed orally or implied in law, including implied warranties and conditions of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. We specifically disclaim any liability with respect to this document, and no contractual obligations are formed either directly or indirectly by this document. This document may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, for any purpose, without our prior written permission. Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Intel and Intel Xeon are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation. All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. AMD, Opteron, the AMD logo, and the AMD Opteron logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group. 0113