2. Turbocharge Your SAP Environment on Oracle SuperCluster [THT11481]
SAP Environments on Oracle SuperCluster
I will give you an overview of the SuperCluster, our most powerful Engineered system,
And how to run SAP environments on it.
Hans-Juergen Denecke - Principal Software Engineer
ISV Engineering Walldorf/Germany

4. Program Agenda Oracle SuperCluster SAP Benchmark World Records
Key SuperCluster Technology Advantages
Virtualization and High Availability
Oracle Optimized Solution for SAP
Architecture Examples
2 SAP Benchmark World Records with our current Engineered systems
4 Key Points:
* Performance
* Virtualization
* High Availability
* Optimized Solution

5. Ideal Virtualization and Consolidation platform for SAP Environments
Oracle's Most Powerful Engineered Systems
World Record Oracle Database and Application Performance & Scalability
SAP Benchmark World Records
Outstanding Affordability and ROI
Oracle’s Hottest Technology
Exadata Storage Servers
Oracle M6 and T5 Microprocessors
Internal ZFS Storage Appliance
Oracle VM and Solaris Virtualization

6. SAP World Records Oracle6
SAP World Records
SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark Results
SPARC T5-8 server delivers the best 8-chip, 2-tier result*
SPARC M6-32 server delivers the best 32-chip, 2-tier result*
40,000 SAP SD users
220,950 SAPS
All
others
Oracle
Oracle Database is the underlying database for the majority of SAP deployments due to Oracle’s tight integration and joint engineering efforts with SAP. Joint Oracle and SAP customers benefit from:
- Joint engineering resulting in tight product integration and alignment, and simplified patching
- Hardware and software certification so you can be assured that each component will work together
- Benchmarking so you know what performance to expect from your integrated system
- Using benchmark findings, Oracle systems are further fine-tuned and improved for maximum performance when running SAP, resulting in state-of-the-art and world-record-breaking performance
- Enhanced joint customer support – support cases can be initiated on either side (Oracle or SAP) and will be escalated as appropriate. Oracle also employs dedicated SAP experts within Oracle’s support organization to further speed time to resolution.
140,000 SAP SD users
793,930 SAPS
*See extra slide

7. Key SuperCluster Technology Advantages
SuperCluster accelerates and secures SAP
Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
Exadata Storage Servers
Proven technology that reduces database response times
InfiniBand “backplane” – connection between nodes and Exadata
Proven security on all hardware and software layers
“ There is nothing more important than securing your data.”
- Larry Ellison, OOW14 Keynote
“Security has been in our blood for a very long time, It’s part of out heritage”
*See extra slide

8. Virtualization and High Availability for SAP instances
Cluster
Options for all use cases - certified by SAP
Oracle VM Server for SPARC for the separation of applications
SAP and non-SAP Apps can be consolidated in different LDOMs
Separation of Production / Development / Q&A
Oracle Solaris Zones for the separation of SAP systems and instances
Two options for High Availability
Oracle Solaris Cluster for HA of all SAP applications and highest flexibility
Oracle SAPCTL for HA of SAP Central Services

9. Oracle Optimized Solutions for SAP
Applications
Best Environment
Full Stack Testing
Documented Best Practices
Engineered Systems
Best-In-Class
Servers and Storage
Storage
Servers
OS & Virtualization
Database
Middleware
Deployment
Tuning
Performance

10. Architecture Examples
SAP Landscape
Oracle Confidential – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted

11. High Availability for Production Landscape
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High Availability for Production Landscape
SAPCTL for High Availability of SAP Central Services
SuperCluster
Node 1
Node 2
Example with Single SAP system
Oracle 11g with RAC in DB domains
SAP Instances in App Domains
No HA Framework
Primary App Server (PAS)
Additional App Servers (AAS)
Central Services in DB Domain
SAPCTL based on Oracle Clusterware
App Domain
App Domain
Solaris 11
Solaris 11
AAS
AAS
AAS
AAS
SPOOL
AAS
PAS
SAP Sol Mgr
DB Domain
DB Domain
SAPCTL
Solaris 11
(A)SCS
ERS
Solaris 11
Oracle RAC
RAC 11g R2
RAC 11g R2

12. Architecture Example: Dev / QA / Production
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Architecture Example: Dev / QA / Production
QA/DEV SuperCluster
Production SuperCluster
One SuperCluster for Prod, One for QA and DEV
Consolidate server sprawl
PROD database on Exadata storage
DEV database may run on ZFS SA
Clustered for HA
11gR2 RAC in DB domains
Oracle Solaris Cluster zone clusters in App domains for Central Services, Primary App Server, SAP Solution Manager, App Servers (optional)
Node 1
Node 2
Node 1
Node 2
GP Domain
GP Domain
GP Domain
GP Domain
Solaris 10
Solaris 10
Solaris 10
Solaris 10
AAS
AAS
AAS
AAS
AAS
AAS
AAS
AAS
AAS
AAS
PAS
SAP Sol Mgr
AAS
AAS
(A)SCS
ERS
PAS
SAP Sol Mgr
DEV
AAS
AAS
AAS
AAS
(A)SCS
ERS
TEST
TRAINING
DB Domain
DB Domain
DB Domain
DB Domain
Solaris 11
Solaris 11
Solaris 11
Solaris 11
QA DB
PRD DB
Oracle
RAC 11g R2
Oracle
RAC 11g R2
Oracle
RAC 11g R2
Oracle
RAC 11g R2

13. Oracle SuperCluster Certification for SAP
SAP Support Since March 2012
SAP NetWeaver 6.4 and 7.x; JAVA and ABAP Applications
SAP Note : Running SAP Software on Oracle SuperCluster
SAP Note : Oracle SuperCluster: Patches for
SAP Note : Exadata : Patches for

14. References SAP page on Oracle.com: http://www.oracle.com/sap
Key SAP Notes for SAP on Oracle Solaris
Key SAP Notes for SAP on Oracle
SAP Community Network – SAP on Oracle

15. Questions? My contact details hans-juergen.denecke@oracle.com
OOW Session CON5925:
Optimizing SAP Performance on Every Tier on Oracle SuperCluster
Monday, 17:15 – 18:00
Hotel Intercontinental
Grand Ballroom
Questions? My contact details
Oracle Confidential – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted

17. Backup Slides
Oracle Confidential – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted

18. Optimizations Across the Development Cycle
Engineered, Tested, and Proven from Apps-to-Disk
Sizing and configuration optimizations
Load/stress tests
Performance, availability, scalability tests
Real world workload tests
Patch regression tests
Fault injection tests
Interoperability
tests
End to end functional
validation
Early
development
Identify
integration opportunities
Full Stack Optimizations
One Engineering Team
1,000s of hours of testing across the stack to reduce risk

19. SAP Performance on SuperCluster
The Shortcomings of SAPS for Infrastructure sizing
Challenge: SAPS is the standard SAP sizing metric. But SAPS is a CPU sizing metric characterizing only the compute requirements of an SAP system and does not allow conclusions about the response characteristics of a database. Real World SAP applications performance is impacted by the whole infrastructure, not just by the CPU.
Finding: SuperCluster responds TWICE as fast as standard architectures with the same SAPS rating running the same workload.
Supporting Customer Observations
Oil & Gas Customer: SAPS for SuperCluster was 1.26X SAPS of existing architecture. Actual tests showed workload on SuperCluster 3X faster than existing architecture.
Retail Manufacturing Customer: SAPS for SuperCluster was 0.95X SAPS of existing architecture. Actual tests showed workload on SuperCluster 1.9X faster than existing architecture.

20. Benchmark Disclosure Statement
2020
Benchmark Disclosure Statement
SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) standard application benchmarks
Copyright 2013, Oracle &/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle & Java are registered trademarks of Oracle &/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) standard application benchmarks, SAP Enhancement package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0 as of 3/26/13: SPARC T5-8 (8 processors, 128 cores, threads, T5, 3.6 GHz), 2 TB main memory, Oracle Solaris 11, Oracle Database 11g Release 2. Cert# SAP, R/3, reg TM of SAP AG in Germany and other countries. More info
Two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) standard application benchmarks, SAP Enhancement package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0 as of 3/26/14: SPARC M6-32 (32 processors, 384 cores, 3072 threads) 140,000 SAP SD users, 32 x 3.6 GHz SPARC M6, 16 TB memory, Oracle Database 11g, Oracle Solaris 11, Cert# SAP, R/3, reg TM of SAP AG in Germany and other countries. More info