2. Virtualization and Cloud Deployments of Oracle E-Business Suite
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Virtualization and Cloud Deployments of Oracle E-Business Suite
Ivo Dujmović, Director, Applications Development

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4. Program Agenda Why Clouds Matter to You
Oracle Cloud and Virtualization Technology
E-Business Suite Cloud Capabilities
Your Cloud Action Plan

5. Why Clouds Matter to You
Improve hardware utilization
Speed-up provisioning
Energize end-user satisfaction
Increase IT productivity
Or take the benefits as savings…

6. Hardware (Mis)Utilization
Problem Identification
Business workloads have diverse and variable characteristics
Need to size resources for spikes
Thursday-night spikes
Quarter-close spikes
Worst-case scenarios
Spike synchronization unknown
Resulting Problem: Low hardware utilization rates
Lets examine the hardware utilization problem.
The Real world is not like a lab – it has brings asynchronous peaky workloads
This Business Requirement results in the IT department Sizing Resources for Spikes
Thursday night spikes – for consultants entering timesheets
Quarter close spikes – we all know how antsy the C suite gets if the results are not yet available
Worst case scenarios – the paranoid are amongst us, so we plan…
The Problem with all these good plans is: lots of hardware with Low utilization rates.
After all, this is the situation which prompted Amazon to come up with their EC2 public cloud.

7. Hardware (Mis)Utilization
Problem: Low hardware utilization rates
Solution: Elastic capacity through virtualization
Use physical hardware for virtual machines only when the resources are needed
Add 40 middle tiers for 4 hours on Thursdays
Recognize and respond to unexpected spikes in minutes
Utilization of hardware: from 20-30% to 60-70%
Solution: Elasticity of Capacity through virtualization
Add 20 middle tiers for 4 hours on Thursday – this is a real example folks.
Increase utilization rates by using physical hardware for virtual machines which actually need resources at that moment in time
Utilization of hardware: 20-30% -> 60-70%
We’ve mentioned this concept of unlocking more hardware

8. Top Use Cases for Virtualized Environments
SI’s implementation / development environments
Pre-configured starter environments to jump start implementations
Usage profile:12 hours/day from US, 12 hours/day from India
Desired availability: immediate
Length of usage: months
Short-term disposable test environment
Desired availability: within 1 week
Length of usage: 6-10 weeks
These features are all nice and great, but what are the real customer use cases.
The first category jumped from 3rd place to first just due to the large volume of adoption by System Integrators. They prepackage industry-specific implementation starter environments to jump start their projects.
In addition location distribution of participants allows for time slicing of resources: 12 hours/day from US, 12 hours/day from India .
The second use case involves that infrequent patching exercise – a short-term disposable test environment is usually needed for 6-10 weeks, but its availability can be under time pressure from the business.
With all the extra time your IT staff will have, you will use lots the next kind: Proof-of-concept environments
The desired availability can be within 1 hour, since the boss wants to showcase that new solution.
Finally off-site Backup and/or Disaster Recovery can be done with vm copies at secondary site or in a public cloud.

9. Top Use Cases for Virtualized Environments
Proof-of-concept environments
Desired availability: within 1 hour
Length of usage: 2 days – 2 weeks
Backup and Disaster Recovery
Off-site or in cloud
Usage profile: daily (or more frequent) backup of whole machine
Desired availability: immediate
Length of usage: days – weeks – months
These features are all nice and great, but what are the real customer use cases.
The first category jumped from 3rd place to first just due to the large volume of adoption by System Integrators. They prepackage industry-specific implementation starter environments to jump start their projects.
In addition location distribution of participants allows for time slicing of resources: 12 hours/day from US, 12 hours/day from India .
The second use case involves that infrequent patching exercise – a short-term disposable test environment is usually needed for 6-10 weeks, but its availability can be under time pressure from the business.
With all the extra time your IT staff will have, you will use lots the next kind: Proof-of-concept environments
The desired availability can be within 1 hour, since the boss wants to showcase that new solution.
Finally off-site Backup and/or Disaster Recovery can be done with vm copies at secondary site or in a public cloud.

10. Program Agenda Why Clouds Matter to You
Oracle Cloud and Virtualization Technology
E-Business Suite Cloud Capabilities
Your Cloud Action Plan

11. Why the Virtualization Choice Matters
It’s Increasingly About Application Knowledge
The goal is not “virtualization” itself
Virtualization must enable the entire stack to be..
Easier to DEPLOY
Easier to MANAGE
Easier to SUPPORT
Doing this well means VMs can no longer be “black- boxes” to the virtualization and management
Integration of application & virtualization becoming critical to derive maximum efficiency

12. Application Aware Virtualization
Full Stack Data Center Virtualization
Most comprehensive
Fully tested with applications
Designed for full stack deployments
Integrated, full stack management
Integrated support
Beyond consolidation … complete

13. Oracle VM Server Virtualization Products
Virtualization solution for both Oracle and non-Oracle applications
The only server virtualization software supported and certified for all Oracle software
Free to download
Enterprise-quality support
Real-world deployment testing
Risk-free virtualization

14. Virtualization and Storage
Economies of Virtualization
Unused VM’s CPU, memory, network are free
Storage costs, whether used or not
Minimize unused storage costs
Most virtual environments are highly similar
Use shared storage for binaries
Use file systems with block-level normalization for dbf’s
For example, ZFS does not duplicate identical blocks
This separation of spirit and body, of virtual machine from the hardware machine, the ability to assign workloads to physical resources when they are needed, provides for better management of the pool of hardware resources you have in house, or hardware resources you rent by the minute from your public cloud provider.
But what about storage, you might rightly ask? All these new additional environments, their images need to be stored somewhere even if the virtual machines are off. That is correct, and that is where we recommend the use of deduplication storage technologies like our ZFS. Of course, if you really need additional storage, you can get our Oracle-tuned storage.

15. Oracle VM Manager Virtualization Management: Included
Centralized, web browser-based console
Advanced virtualization management for x86/x64 environments including
VM Live Migration
HA / auto-restart
Load balancing…
Available stand-alone or as an integrated Enterprise Manager Pack

16. NEW! Advanced Policy Management of VMs
Server
Pool 1
NEW! Dynamic Resource Scheduling (DRS)
Live Migrate VMs based on server load
Dynamically managed quality of service
Server
Pool 1
Utilization
Consumption
Server
Pool 1 !
3.0
Enhancements in Oracle VM 3 include the following:
• Dynamic Resource Scheduling (DRS) for capacity management. DRS provides real-time monitoring of Oracle VM Server utilization with the goal to rebalance a server pool to provide consistent resources to the running virtual machines. DRS migrates load away from heavily loaded Oracle VM Servers to servers running lighter loads.
• Dynamic Power Management (DPM) to optimize server pool for minimum power consumption. DPM complements DRS to reduce the servers in the pool when there are periods of low resource utilization. It can automatically add capacity as needed when resource utilization ramps up.
H.A. Auto-restart
Automatically restart VM(s) on Server- or VM failure
True clusterware logic for reliable failure detection
Triggers even if Oracle VM Manager is unavailable
NEW! Dynamic Power Management (DPM)
Automatically power-off under-utilized servers
Consolidate VMs onto fewest servers
Reverse the process when load increases 16

17. E-Business Suite Virtualization Templates

18. Full Stack Management Oracle Enterprise Manager Virtualize Test
Provision
Configure
Oracle Enterprise Manager
Integrated
Full Stack
Life-cycle
Management
Deploy
Monitor
Change & Patch

19. Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Capabilities
Full stack is being managed
Holistic provisioning of whole system OS
Technology: database, middleware
Applications
Multiple VM’s
Resource usage monitoring and chargeback
Elastic resource management

20. Program Agenda Why Clouds Matter to You
Oracle Cloud and Virtualization Technology
E-Business Suite Cloud Capabilities
Your Cloud Action Plan

21. Select E-Business Suite Cloud Capabilities
E-Business Suite Oracle VM Templates
Release12 Sparse Middle Tier Oracle VM Template
Virtualization Kit
Elastic Software Architecture
Capacity Redistribution
High Availability and Disaster Recovery

22. E-Business Suite Virtualization Templates
Self-contained EBS 12 system in two Oracle VM images
EBS Prod or Vision Database tier (OEL DB)
EBS Application Server tier (OEL 5)
32-bit and 64-bit
Other Published Templates
EBS Vision Demo Database tier (OEL5.3, DB)
EBS Application Server tier (OEL 5.3)

23. Certified Operating Systems
Linux x86 32-bit
CU2 with 11i.ATG_PF.H.RUP5 (Patch ) or later
(RUP2) or later (including 12.1)
Linux 64-bit – Oracle Enterprise Linux 4 on x86-64
or later (including 12.1)
Linux 64-bit – Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 on x86-64
or later (including 12.1)
Windows Server 2003 (32-bit) with PV driver v1.0.8 or higher
See Notes /

24. Release 12 Sparse Templates
Sparse R12.x Mid-Tier Template
Compact: template <2GB, VM only 8GB on disk
Re-uses an existing shared file system
Works with any R12 code level
Minimizes number of templates in library
Expands existing physical or virtual environments
Creates hybrid physical/virtual environments
Clones existing mid-tiers with minimal overhead

25. Oracle VM E-Business Suite Virtualization Kit
Create an Oracle VM template from your existing E- Business Suite instance
Create new E-Business Suite instances using the Oracle VM template
How? Use Virtualization Kit scripts to:
Bootstrap individual virtual machines, such as network setup
Initialize an E-Business Suite node configuration, such as instance name
Integrate E-Business Suite software running across different virtual machines
Lets assume you have
Cloning an E-Business Suite instance into blank (OS-only) Oracle VM and then saving it as template is not good enough. You need cleanup scripts for preparing the E-Business Suite for VM templatization

26. Elastic Software Architecture
Elastic = instance scale adjustments in real time
Recognize resource bottlenecks
Default extendable rules
Add resources to starved parts of the system
More JVM’s, more Forms middle tiers, more batch nodes
Consume the extra resources
Oracle E-Business Suite software architecture capability

27. Capacity Redistribution
Live migration of application tier between nodes!
Conventional application tier failures logout all users on a failed node
End-user sessions on one virtual node in a VM server pool can be migrated to a different node… transparently

28. HA with Virtualization & DR with the Cloud
On demand, transparent re-provisioning
Bringing amazing HA features to everyday hardware
Live Migration of Oracle VM virtual machines
Covers all processes: database, app/web server, CP
Covers all nodes: no sacrifices due to expense
Re-provisioning to off-site target location
Copy running VM’s to DR site
If some data loss is acceptable, focus on machine instead of data
Transformational dynamic of virtualization: instead of paying $$$ for specialized hardware with failover, now you can get that behavior on ordinary hardware.
The key Virtualization feature delivering this is the on demand, transparent re-provisioning.
Bringing amazing HA features to everyday hardware
Live Migration of OracleVM virtual machines
Covers all processes: database, app/web server, CP
Covers all nodes: no sacrifices due to expense
Re-provisioning to off-site target location
Copy running VM’s to DR site
If some data loss is acceptable, focus on machine instead of data

29. E-Business Suite Cloud Capabilities
More
Performance
Security
Ecosystem Integration
Private and Public Clouds
Provisioning, Usage Chargeback
Exalogic Elastic Cloud

30. E-Business Suite on Oracle VM Performance
Partnered with IBM on performance benchmark
Tested EBS on Oracle VM 2.2
Ran batch and online workloads on Oracle VM and standalone / on bare hardware
Payroll batch load
Select online transactions (AR, INV, FA, GL)

31. E-Business Suite on Oracle VM Performance
Great Results
Response time and duration of runs essentially the same
Negligible CPU overhead, minimal memory requirement
Maximum spikes of 2% to 3% of 1 shared CPU core
0.5 GB of memory dedicated to OVS
Similar to results observed with JDE on Oracle VM by IBM/Oracle

32. Security for Oracle VM Templates
Centralized OS hardening
JEOS
Configurations
Preserve best security practices
Across the stack
Centralized implementation and management
Optimal use of security resources
In depth focus on templates instead of reviewing individual machines

33. Ecosystem Integration
Capture all ecosystem VM’s
Existing advanced configurations for automated reintegration of E-Business Suite and its ecosystem
Future: E-Business Suite assemblies with external ecosystems

34. Fast Self-Service Provisioning
First time boot and configuration of Virtual Machines for an two node environment takes 30 minutes
“Warmed up” VM’s turn-on in 2-3 minutes
Simple provisioning apps administer and automate the provisioning approval workflow
Oracle Private Cloud in Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c
First time boot of Virtual Machines for an 2 node WebServer-Database E-Business suite environment takes 30minutes.
“Warmed up” VM’s turn-on in just enough time to go get a cup of coffee.

35. Chargeback in Clouds
Goal: efficient and prioritized usage of resources
Enabled by clear accounting of hardware usage
Physical resource groups, e.g. this hw serves this pool
Resource allocation groups, e.g. this pool serves this org
Internal chargeback for actual usage, e.g. these projects used the resources
First time boot of Virtual Machines for an 2 node WebServer-Database E-Business suite environment takes 30minutes.
“Warmed up” VM’s turn-on in just enough time to go get a cup of coffee.

36. Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud
Performance, reliability, and simplicity
Java EE Performance improved up to 10x
Foundation for Mission Critical Cloud
Easy-to-own Engineered System
Certified with E-Business Suite
Eliminate the need for multiple Applications tiers
Copyright © 2011 Oracle Corporation - Proprietary and Confidential

37. Program Agenda Why Clouds Matter to You
Oracle Cloud and Virtualization Technology
E-Business Suite Cloud Capabilities
Your Cloud Action Plan

38. Your Cloud Action Plan Seven Easy Steps to Unlock Cloud Savings
Setup Oracle Virtual Server
Experiment with delivered templates
“Templatize” your E-Business Suite instance
Refine your template
Add virtual nodes to your dev / test instances
Experiment with cloud provisioning and chargeback
Move your production instance into your cloud

39. Private Clouds Extract More Value
From Existing Computing Resources
IT Departments can
Get more virtual hardware out of your hardware
Free up administrators’ time
Enjoy more budget flexibility
End users can
Get environment requests fulfilled faster
Use more environments
Enjoy simpler provisioning tools
How to extract value from your existing computing investments through virtualization and Cloud computing. Chances are you are either a staff member of the IT Department, or an end-user of business applications, or both. In any case, here is an overview of the key benefits for you…
With virtualization & clouds
IT Departments can
Use more hardware – without paying a dime, get greater resource usage flexibility
Increase team productivity – use the new found time for higher value-add projects
Enjoy greater budget flexibility – with operating budgets instead of capital expenditures
End users can
Get environment requests fulfilled in minutes – your competitors who can do this have invested a lot to achieve this
Use more environments
Enjoy simplified self-service interaction with IT
Last, but absolutely not least: Do all this Today and For Free

40. When to Use Public Clouds
If you lack available internal resources, but want to explore immediately
Largest obstacles to public cloud usage
Security approvals
Time to transfer sanitized database
Institutional comfort
Amazon’s Virtual Private Cloud will allow for your virtual machine to migrate from internal to external hardware

41. 2009 Annual Stockholder Meeting
9/18/2018
Full Oracle Software Stack Certified and Supported on Oracle VM within Amazon EC2
Amazon EC2 supports Oracle VM
Fully certified and supported: Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Applications
Oracle license portability
Oracle Unbreakable Linux support and Amazon Premium Support
Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) based on Oracle VM Templates
Certified & supported
Copyright 2009 Oracle Corporation

42. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
Customer’s isolated AWS resources
Subnets
Secure VPN Connection over the Internet
Router
VPN Gateway
Amazon Web Services
Cloud
Customer’s Network

43. Using Oracle VM Templates with AWS EC2 Environments Backed with Oracle VM
Support and licensing almost identical
Oracle products deployed on Oracle VM
On-premise: customers’ physical hardware
AWS EC2-on-OracleVM: Amazon’s physical hardware
Main differences:
Rapid provisioning and operational costing of AWS
Products licensed on processor based metrics might require hard partitioning
See cloud licensing policy document for details and exceptions

44. Program Agenda Why Clouds Matter to You
Oracle Cloud and Virtualization Technology
E-Business Suite Cloud Capabilities
Your Cloud Action Plan

45. Q&A