Deployment of Oracle E-Business Suite

on VMware Infrastructure

Desmond Chan
Senior Solutions Engineer
VMware, Inc.
Agenda

Introduction
Oracle E-Business Suite Architecture
Virtual Infrastructure
Oracle EBS Deployment on VMware Infrastructure
Gold Image for Application Tier Deployment
Best Practices
Q&A
Oracle E-Business Suite
Architecture
Oracle E-Business Suite Architecture

3-tier architecture
1. Desktop
2. Application
3. Database

Ideal Candidate for Virtualization

Virtual Infrastructure
 Virtual Infrastructure
Enables you to:
> Dynamically map computing resources
to the business

> Lower IT costs through increased

efficiency, flexibility and
responsiveness

> Provision new services and change

the amount of resources dedicated to
a software service
> Treat your data center as a single pool
of processing, storage and networking
power

Virtual infrastructure brings uniformity to your data center

VMware® Infrastructure 3

Virtual Infrastructure Plus

VMware® VirtualCenter:
Management

VMware® VMotion™: Live,
stateful virtual machine migration

VMware® High Availability (HA):
Failover

VMware® Distributed Resource
Scheduler (DRS): Automated
workload balancing
Benefits of Using VMware Infrastructure

Server containment

Rapid provisioning

Change management

Workload balancing

High availability

Business continuity and disaster recovery
Challenge: Server Proliferation
Server Sprawl
Consolidate serve
Increase utilizatio
Reduce hardware

% CPU Busy (8 LCPVs w/HT) 800

Low Utilization High Power Consumption 700

725 MW
600

800
500
700
725 MW
600 400
500
300
400

300
200
200

100 100
104 MW
0
0

Avg. utilization rate/server MegaWatts consumed:

Higher
100 servers Utilization
per year Lower Consumption
Challenge: System Downtime

x
x x x
x
Server fails; applications down High availability
• 87% of downtime is planned
• 13% unplanned failure
Increased uptime
• 1% disasters Simpler disaster recovery
Deployment of Oracle EBS on
VMware Infrastructure 3
Deployment Flow
Virtualize Oracle EBS

Prepare a Create a Install Oracle

VMware virtual EBS
Infrastructure machine environment
environment

Use Gold Image

for Rapid
Provisioning
Create gold Clone virtual
image machine

Enhance
Availability
Configure Configure
VMware High VMware
Availability VMotionTM
 Sample Deployment Environment
Category Software

Infrastructure VMware Infrastructure 3

VirtualCenter Client
on a laptop
Applications Oracle E-Business Suite Ethernet
Release 12
10.6.160.161 10.6.160.163
Guest Operating System Red Hat Enterprise Linux
AS 4.0

Category Hardware ESX Server hosts

VirtualCenter Management on Sun Fire X4600
Server on Sun Fire X4100 M2 Servers
Server Ethernet

ESX Server hosts Sun Fire X4600 M2 servers

VirtualCenter Sun Fire X4100 servers

Management Server

VirtualCenter Client IBM X60 Lenovo laptop

computer SAN
Virtual Disks Installation

Use separate virtual disks for installation of application tier

and database tier

Suggested virtual disk sizes:
40 GB for the application node file system
200 GB for the database node file system

See table for space requirement listing
Node Space Required

Applications node file system (includes AS 28 GB

10.1.2 ORACLE_HOME, AS 10.1.3
ORACLE_HOME, COMMON_TOP,
APPL_TOP and INST_TOP)
Database node file system (Fresh install) 45 GB

Database node file system (Vision Demo 133 GB

database)
Virtual Machine Installation

Virtual machine configuration

Configure number of vCPUs, memory size and number of NIC cards
Add virtual disks of appropriate sizes

Guest operating system installation
Guest operating system candidates:

Oracle Enterprise Linux

Redhat Enterprise Linux

Oracle E-Business Suite Media Pack staging

E.g. on a NFS share (for use as a datastore)
E.g. on a virtual disk (for use in a virtual machine template)

Oracle E-Business Suite installation
Execute Oracle Rapid Install
Oracle Rapid Install

Stage Area Directory Structure

Stage12

startCD oraApps oraDB oraAS oraAppDB

Disk 1 Disk 1 Disk n Disk 1 Disk n Disk 1 Disk n Disk 1 Disk n

Gold Image for Application
Layer Deployment
Gold Image Creation and Cloning

Oracle Rapid Clone
Prepare source system
Run Oracle AutoConfig
Run Oracle adpreclone.pl script
Shutdown source system gracefully
Shutdown database tier (addbctl.sh stop)
Shutdown application tier (adstpall.sh)
Clone source system to a virtual machine template Gold Image
Temporarily remove the virtual disk that contains the database if the template is for
application layer deployment.
Use the virtual machine template to clone a new virtual machine
Configure the clone
Configure the network interfaces
Run Oracle adcfgclone.pl script
Run Oracle adaddnode.pl to add the node to the database
 Oracle Applications Manager

Use Oracle Applications Manager for

Administrative purposes

Validation purposes
Screen shot
Shows two nodes in the EBS environment

One has enabled types Admin,
Database, Concurrent Processing,
Forms, Web

The other has left out Database
Values of Gold Image Cloning

Eliminates the long EBS media staging time

Traditional staging can take many hours, even days

Eliminates installation time
Pre-installed EBS application and database layer(s) eliminates
installation time

Works seamlessly with Oracle Rapid Clone
Run Oracle Rapid Clone on the virtual machine clones as if they
were physical machines

Reduces test cycles
The Gold Image has been tested and its clones do not need further
testing.
Best Practices
Best Practices

Careful planning

Avoid memory over-commitment

Start with 1 or 2 vCPU virtual machines

Use latest processor generation

Avoid running programs in ESX Server console

Leverage the VMware features:
VMware high availability features: VMware® HA & VMware®
VMotion™
VMware virtual machine templates
VMware virtual machine snapshots
VMware NIC teaming
Q&A
Resources
VMware Official Website: www.vmware.com
Oracle Official Website: www.oracle.com
VMware Infrastructure 3 product website:
http://www.vmware.com/products/data_center.html
VMware Infrastructure 3 download website:
http://www.vmware.com/download/vi/eval.html
VMware support website
http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/
VMware Best Practices Papers
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsmp_best_practices.pdf
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi_performance_tuning.pdf
VMware Products
http://www.vmware.com/products/
VMware – Virtualize Your Oracle Landscape
http://www.vmware.com/partners/virtualize_oracle_landscape.html
Oracle E-Business Suite Website:
http://www.oracle.com/applications/e-business-suite.html
Oracle support website:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/about/index.html
Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 Documentation Library
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B40089_05/current/html/homeset.html
Oracle Applications Installation Guide: Using Rapid Install Release 12
http://download-uk.oracle.com/docs/cd/B34956_01/current/acrobat/120oaig.pdf
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