Businesses today operate in a highly networked, 24x7 global economy. They cannot afford to be down, and the IT systems supporting today's businesses have to be always available. This is where MAA comes in. The Maximum Availability Architecture provides superior data protection and availability by minimizing or eliminating planned and unplanned downtime at all technology stack layers including hardware and software components. This presentation will introduce the Oracle and IBM technologies we use to achieve MAA and the best practices from the Oracle/IBM Joint Solutions Center of Montpellier and recommendations on how to design, implement and manage an optimum high availability architecture on an Oracle E-Business Suite R12 on IBM Power running AIX context. The goal of MAA is to remove the complexity in designing the optimal high availability architecture for a critical system.
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• Oracle and IBM have worked together for over 30 years and collaborate daily on development, marketing and sales activities.
• IBM maintains a team of engineers onsite at Oracle as well as hundreds of servers and hundreds of Terabytes of storage for development and support.
• Senior IBM and Oracle architects work together to influence technical product direction for each company and are continually looking years ahead when developing future advanced solutions.
• IBM Systems hold benchmark leadership positions for all Oracle applications including EBS, Peoplesoft, JDE and Siebel.
Oracle products “are all supported on AIX 5L and are developed concurrently with Oracle’s base development environment. Additionally, Oracle development uses System p for stress testing of current and future releases of Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)”
Built for you: The Oracle/IBM Joint Solutions Center
The living proof of Oracle and IBM’s desire to work closely together
Ten years of experience
What is the JSC? The Oracle/IBM Joint Solutions Center, created in 1998, is a presales support team, permanently staffed by 6 Oracle + 4 IBMers to contribute to the successful delivery of Oracle/IBM Joint solutions.
What can we do for you? Infrastructure Technical Pre Sales Assistance through the whole project/sales cycle Help me to Convince : Briefings & Conferences (50) Help me to Build : Architecture, Design, Sizing Assistance (200-250) Help me to Demonstrate : Proof-of-Concept, Benchmarks Assistance (50) Help me to Deliver : Publications & Hands-on Workshops (15)
Which Products & Solutions are we covering? Oracle Technologies (Maximum Availability Architecture) & Oracle Applications
(EBS, Siebel and OBI & OWI) on IBM Power , Modular, Mainframe. Entry point to other teams on BRM, iFlex, Retail and others…
DLPAR & SPLPAR are supported by Oracle Virtual IO Servers (VIOs or shared HBAs) and Virtual LAN (VLAN or Shared Network
Card) Certified SMT On/Off (+30% TPM throughput, better response time for queries) AIX 6.1 : Oracle 10g single & RAC only. Oracle 11g & EBS not completed. New features under consideration (LPM – WPAR)
SPLPAR
Agent Agent Agent
Always adjust resource allocation based on business priority
Weeks to MonthsAll systems consist of a pre-built and pre-configured databaseAll systems have Predefined LUNs, Predefined ASM disk groups and tablespaces, Predefined, init.ora setting, Predefined listener, Database Control - Optional : Database in ARCHIVE LOG mode plus pre-defined flashback recovery area, Different high-availability offerings for the hardware, Disk and fabric redundancy
Provides repeatable, balanced building blocks of IBM System p & System Storage supporting Oracle Optimized Warehouse & Reference Configurations for businesses needing to support:
• Up to 30 “power users” (Oracle test suite)• Up to 5TB of customer data (21.7TB Cap.)• Leverage latest POWER6 technology• Scale out to 20 TB and beyond
IBM System p 570• Two 4.7 GHz dual-core POWER6 processors (4 cores)• Up to 32 GB Memory• Up to 8 x 4 Gbps Fiber Channel• Up to 4 x 1 Gb Ethernet• AIX V5.3
Item 1 TB 3 TB 5 TB
p570* $211,112 $244,728 $251,344
SAN* included included included
DS4800* $181,012 $260,004 $436,407
IBM Hardware*
$392,124 $504,732 $687,751
Oracle Software*
$256,200 $256,200 $256,200
Warehouse List Price*
$648,324 $760,932 $943,951
List price / TB*
$648,324 $253,644 $188,790
IBM System Storage SAN 16M-2Up to (3) 16/32 ports, 2 Gb
IBM DS4800 (FC attach)• Up to (8) EXP 810 • Up to 160 Disks configured• Up to Max 224 drive capacity• Up to 46 GB 15K Drives • Up to 5 TB Storage configured• Single 42U Enterprise Rack
New LowPrice / TBOracle Optimized Warehouse for System p570
* All prices are US list prices as of 11/09/07 and provided for information only. Please consult your IBM and Oracle BP or sales representatives for pricing.
Conclusion / Wrap-upOracle Maximum Availability Architecture integrates easily with
IBM Power Performance & Virtualization capabilities, which helps elaborate best of breed architectures.
Oracle/IBM Joint Solutions Center & IBM eTS Team are at your disposal for any Oracle E-Business Suite (or Siebel, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, ...) project : don’t hesitate to solicit us!