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Oracle E-Business Suite Real Application Clusters (RAC) on VMware Cloud on AWS Software Defined Data Center (SDDC)
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www.appsassociates.com
Some of the advantages of this configuration are:
• High Availability
- Protection from single instance failures
- Protection from single server failures
• Scalability (horizontal at both tiers)
• Load Management (e.g. dedicated nodes for concurrent managers)
• Unchanged operational processes and procedures
Oracle E-Business Suite RAC on VMware Cloud sample architectureApps Associates has deployed Oracle E-Business Suite RAC on VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC and designed the
following environment
Overview:Data drives business in the modern world. Data plays a key role in any department in any organization e.g.
Finance, HR, R&D, Sales etc. Oracle Real Applications Clusters (RAC) helps to achieve a high availability solution
for the data residing in a database where downtime for the Database or the server this Database is instantiated is
unacceptable. Oracle Database on a RAC configuration will allow multiple Oracle instances running on separate
servers to access the same database in shared storage. Oracle RAC uses Oracle Clusterware as the underlying
software to bind the Database servers in a cluster.
Each instance in an Oracle RAC has its own System Global Area (SGA). If one server instance requires data that is
currently cached in the buffer cache of another server instance in the SGA, the cached data will be accessed across
the instances using a private connect between the instances. The private connect helps to keep the data synchro-
nized across the instances.
Oracle RAC provides High Availability that is the foundation of Oracle’s Maximum Availability Architecture
(MAA).
VMware Cloud has made it easy to run mission critical RAC workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Software
Defined Data Center (SDDC), using the same tools that companies have been accustomed to using on-premises for
many years.
The initial VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC offering requires a minimum of four (4) cluster nodes with more configu-
rations to be available in the near future.
For more information about VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC visit: https://cloud.vmware.com/vmc-aws
Oracle E-Business Suite RAC on VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC advantages:In Oracle E-Business Suite it is standard procedure to deploy applications across multiple servers to distribute the
load and achieve high availability. This approach will avoid single points of failure from impacting the applica-
tion’s availability to users. Multiple Application Middle Tiers in conjunction with the now available Oracle Data-
base RAC alongside VMware cloud on AWS SDDC will enable customers to run Oracle E-Business Suite on cloud
infrastructure in a more reliable way. Customers will be able to meet stringent high availability requirements with
no impact from a single point of failure on VMware’s well known and proven technology.
Oracle E-Business Suite Real Application Clusters (RAC) onVMware Cloud on AWS Software Defined Data Center (SDDC)
Oracle E-Business RAC on VMware Cloud High-level Installation stepsInstall Operating System Pre-requisites
1. Create OS Users, OS Groups
2. Setup user equivalence between all the database nodes
3. Configure NTP between all the database nodes
4. Configure shared storage
Login into VMWare vCenter client and create shared storage
https://vcenter.sddc-54-190-221-25.vmc.vmware.com/vsphere-client
Make sure all the DB Nodes participated in the Clusterware node configuration and click Next
Review the summary and click Install
Oracle RAC Database:Oracle Database with RAC will allow multiple instances running on different servers to access the same database
stored in shared storage. This provides High Availability at the database layer. If one database node fails, the appli-
cation will stay up and running on the other available database nodes.
Oracle E-Business Suite:Oracle E-Business Suite is an integrated set of business applications such as enterprise resource planning (ERP),
customer relationship management (CRM), and supply-chain management (SCM).
SummaryVMware Cloud AWS SDDC is an elegant and reliable solution to High Availability requirements for complex
mission critical systems using various Oracle technologies, such as Oracle E-Business Suite deployed on a RAC
Database.
Oracle E-Business Suite RAC deployed on VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC will benefit from the advantages of high
availability, scalability, operational procedures and improved performance.
VMware Cloud will allow companies to run v-Sphere based cloud environments integrating vSAN, NSX, vCenter,
furthermore the VMware Hybrid Cloud Extension provides bi-directional migrations between on-premise and the
cloud.
SourceVMware Cloud https://aws.amazon.com/vmware/features/
RAC at VMware Cloud https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/virtualizing-oracle-rac-with-vmware-cloud-on-aws/
Oracle MAA http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/availability/maa-reference-architectures-2244929.pdf
Select Sharing as Multi-writer
Select Disk Provisioning as “Thick provision eager zeroed”
Select Virtual Device Node accordingly and click on OK
On the second node:
Make sure the installation on DB Node has completed successfully
Make sure the installation on application server has completed successfully.
The screen capture below shows the Database and Application Nodes which Oracle E-Business suite is using.
Technology considerations for E-Business Suite RAC Installation on VMware Cloud on AWS SDDCOracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM):Use Oracle ASM for database store which reduces the administrative overhead for managing database storage by
consolidating data storage into a small number of disk groups which also improves I/O performance.
Oracle Clusterware:Oracle Clusterware is the cluster software required to run the Real Application Clusters (RAC) option for Oracle
Databases. It provides the clustering services at the operating system level that enable Oracle Database software to
run in clustering mode.
Click on the second server -- > right click Click on Edit Settings
Select Existing Hard Disk as New Device and click on Add
Select the vmdk which you want to share to the second RAC node and click on OK.
Once raw disks are created, create partitions using fdisk commands and create ASM disks
5. Create ASM disks
6. Scan and mount ASM disks
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Some of the advantages of this configuration are:
• High Availability
- Protection from single instance failures
- Protection from single server failures
• Scalability (horizontal at both tiers)
• Load Management (e.g. dedicated nodes for concurrent managers)
• Unchanged operational processes and procedures
Oracle E-Business Suite RAC on VMware Cloud sample architectureApps Associates has deployed Oracle E-Business Suite RAC on VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC and designed the
following environment
Overview:Data drives business in the modern world. Data plays a key role in any department in any organization e.g.
Finance, HR, R&D, Sales etc. Oracle Real Applications Clusters (RAC) helps to achieve a high availability solution
for the data residing in a database where downtime for the Database or the server this Database is instantiated is
unacceptable. Oracle Database on a RAC configuration will allow multiple Oracle instances running on separate
servers to access the same database in shared storage. Oracle RAC uses Oracle Clusterware as the underlying
software to bind the Database servers in a cluster.
Each instance in an Oracle RAC has its own System Global Area (SGA). If one server instance requires data that is
currently cached in the buffer cache of another server instance in the SGA, the cached data will be accessed across
the instances using a private connect between the instances. The private connect helps to keep the data synchro-
nized across the instances.
Oracle RAC provides High Availability that is the foundation of Oracle’s Maximum Availability Architecture
(MAA).
VMware Cloud has made it easy to run mission critical RAC workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Software
Defined Data Center (SDDC), using the same tools that companies have been accustomed to using on-premises for
many years.
The initial VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC offering requires a minimum of four (4) cluster nodes with more configu-
rations to be available in the near future.
For more information about VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC visit: https://cloud.vmware.com/vmc-aws
Oracle E-Business Suite RAC on VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC advantages:In Oracle E-Business Suite it is standard procedure to deploy applications across multiple servers to distribute the
load and achieve high availability. This approach will avoid single points of failure from impacting the applica-
tion’s availability to users. Multiple Application Middle Tiers in conjunction with the now available Oracle Data-
base RAC alongside VMware cloud on AWS SDDC will enable customers to run Oracle E-Business Suite on cloud
infrastructure in a more reliable way. Customers will be able to meet stringent high availability requirements with
no impact from a single point of failure on VMware’s well known and proven technology.
Oracle E-Business RAC on VMware Cloud High-level Installation stepsInstall Operating System Pre-requisites
1. Create OS Users, OS Groups
2. Setup user equivalence between all the database nodes
3. Configure NTP between all the database nodes
4. Configure shared storage
Login into VMWare vCenter client and create shared storage
https://vcenter.sddc-54-190-221-25.vmc.vmware.com/vsphere-client
Make sure all the DB Nodes participated in the Clusterware node configuration and click Next
Review the summary and click Install
Oracle RAC Database:Oracle Database with RAC will allow multiple instances running on different servers to access the same database
stored in shared storage. This provides High Availability at the database layer. If one database node fails, the appli-
cation will stay up and running on the other available database nodes.
Oracle E-Business Suite:Oracle E-Business Suite is an integrated set of business applications such as enterprise resource planning (ERP),
customer relationship management (CRM), and supply-chain management (SCM).
SummaryVMware Cloud AWS SDDC is an elegant and reliable solution to High Availability requirements for complex
mission critical systems using various Oracle technologies, such as Oracle E-Business Suite deployed on a RAC
Database.
Oracle E-Business Suite RAC deployed on VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC will benefit from the advantages of high
availability, scalability, operational procedures and improved performance.
VMware Cloud will allow companies to run v-Sphere based cloud environments integrating vSAN, NSX, vCenter,
furthermore the VMware Hybrid Cloud Extension provides bi-directional migrations between on-premise and the
cloud.
SourceVMware Cloud https://aws.amazon.com/vmware/features/
RAC at VMware Cloud https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/virtualizing-oracle-rac-with-vmware-cloud-on-aws/
Oracle MAA http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/availability/maa-reference-architectures-2244929.pdf
Select Sharing as Multi-writer
Select Disk Provisioning as “Thick provision eager zeroed”
Select Virtual Device Node accordingly and click on OK
On the second node:
Make sure the installation on DB Node has completed successfully
Make sure the installation on application server has completed successfully.
The screen capture below shows the Database and Application Nodes which Oracle E-Business suite is using.
Technology considerations for E-Business Suite RAC Installation on VMware Cloud on AWS SDDCOracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM):Use Oracle ASM for database store which reduces the administrative overhead for managing database storage by
consolidating data storage into a small number of disk groups which also improves I/O performance.
Oracle Clusterware:Oracle Clusterware is the cluster software required to run the Real Application Clusters (RAC) option for Oracle
Databases. It provides the clustering services at the operating system level that enable Oracle Database software to
run in clustering mode.
Click on the second server -- > right click Click on Edit Settings
Select Existing Hard Disk as New Device and click on Add
Select the vmdk which you want to share to the second RAC node and click on OK.
Once raw disks are created, create partitions using fdisk commands and create ASM disks
5. Create ASM disks
6. Scan and mount ASM disks
End users
Load Balancer
ApplicationServer Cluster
App Server 1 App Server 1
RAC Node 1
SAN SwitchSAN Storage
Oracle RAC
RAC Node 2
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Some of the advantages of this configuration are:
• High Availability
- Protection from single instance failures
- Protection from single server failures
• Scalability (horizontal at both tiers)
• Load Management (e.g. dedicated nodes for concurrent managers)
• Unchanged operational processes and procedures
Oracle E-Business Suite RAC on VMware Cloud sample architectureApps Associates has deployed Oracle E-Business Suite RAC on VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC and designed the
following environment
Overview:Data drives business in the modern world. Data plays a key role in any department in any organization e.g.
Finance, HR, R&D, Sales etc. Oracle Real Applications Clusters (RAC) helps to achieve a high availability solution
for the data residing in a database where downtime for the Database or the server this Database is instantiated is
unacceptable. Oracle Database on a RAC configuration will allow multiple Oracle instances running on separate
servers to access the same database in shared storage. Oracle RAC uses Oracle Clusterware as the underlying
software to bind the Database servers in a cluster.
Each instance in an Oracle RAC has its own System Global Area (SGA). If one server instance requires data that is
currently cached in the buffer cache of another server instance in the SGA, the cached data will be accessed across
the instances using a private connect between the instances. The private connect helps to keep the data synchro-
nized across the instances.
Oracle RAC provides High Availability that is the foundation of Oracle’s Maximum Availability Architecture
(MAA).
VMware Cloud has made it easy to run mission critical RAC workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Software
Defined Data Center (SDDC), using the same tools that companies have been accustomed to using on-premises for
many years.
The initial VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC offering requires a minimum of four (4) cluster nodes with more configu-
rations to be available in the near future.
For more information about VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC visit: https://cloud.vmware.com/vmc-aws
Oracle E-Business Suite RAC on VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC advantages:In Oracle E-Business Suite it is standard procedure to deploy applications across multiple servers to distribute the
load and achieve high availability. This approach will avoid single points of failure from impacting the applica-
tion’s availability to users. Multiple Application Middle Tiers in conjunction with the now available Oracle Data-
base RAC alongside VMware cloud on AWS SDDC will enable customers to run Oracle E-Business Suite on cloud
infrastructure in a more reliable way. Customers will be able to meet stringent high availability requirements with
no impact from a single point of failure on VMware’s well known and proven technology.
Oracle E-Business RAC on VMware Cloud High-level Installation stepsInstall Operating System Pre-requisites
1. Create OS Users, OS Groups
2. Setup user equivalence between all the database nodes
3. Configure NTP between all the database nodes
4. Configure shared storage
Login into VMWare vCenter client and create shared storage
https://vcenter.sddc-54-190-221-25.vmc.vmware.com/vsphere-client
Make sure all the DB Nodes participated in the Clusterware node configuration and click Next
Review the summary and click Install
Oracle RAC Database:Oracle Database with RAC will allow multiple instances running on different servers to access the same database
stored in shared storage. This provides High Availability at the database layer. If one database node fails, the appli-
cation will stay up and running on the other available database nodes.
Oracle E-Business Suite:Oracle E-Business Suite is an integrated set of business applications such as enterprise resource planning (ERP),
customer relationship management (CRM), and supply-chain management (SCM).
SummaryVMware Cloud AWS SDDC is an elegant and reliable solution to High Availability requirements for complex
mission critical systems using various Oracle technologies, such as Oracle E-Business Suite deployed on a RAC
Database.
Oracle E-Business Suite RAC deployed on VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC will benefit from the advantages of high
availability, scalability, operational procedures and improved performance.
VMware Cloud will allow companies to run v-Sphere based cloud environments integrating vSAN, NSX, vCenter,
furthermore the VMware Hybrid Cloud Extension provides bi-directional migrations between on-premise and the
cloud.
SourceVMware Cloud https://aws.amazon.com/vmware/features/
RAC at VMware Cloud https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/virtualizing-oracle-rac-with-vmware-cloud-on-aws/
Oracle MAA http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/availability/maa-reference-architectures-2244929.pdf
Select Sharing as Multi-writer
Select Disk Provisioning as “Thick provision eager zeroed”
Select Virtual Device Node accordingly and click on OK
On the second node:
Make sure the installation on DB Node has completed successfully
Make sure the installation on application server has completed successfully.
The screen capture below shows the Database and Application Nodes which Oracle E-Business suite is using.
Technology considerations for E-Business Suite RAC Installation on VMware Cloud on AWS SDDCOracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM):Use Oracle ASM for database store which reduces the administrative overhead for managing database storage by
consolidating data storage into a small number of disk groups which also improves I/O performance.
Oracle Clusterware:Oracle Clusterware is the cluster software required to run the Real Application Clusters (RAC) option for Oracle
Databases. It provides the clustering services at the operating system level that enable Oracle Database software to
run in clustering mode.
Click on the second server -- > right click Click on Edit Settings
Select Existing Hard Disk as New Device and click on Add
Select the vmdk which you want to share to the second RAC node and click on OK.
Once raw disks are created, create partitions using fdisk commands and create ASM disks
5. Create ASM disks
6. Scan and mount ASM disks
VMware Cloud Architecture
APP APP APP APP APP APP
Traditional Cloud Native
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Some of the advantages of this configuration are:
• High Availability
- Protection from single instance failures
- Protection from single server failures
• Scalability (horizontal at both tiers)
• Load Management (e.g. dedicated nodes for concurrent managers)
• Unchanged operational processes and procedures
Oracle E-Business Suite RAC on VMware Cloud sample architectureApps Associates has deployed Oracle E-Business Suite RAC on VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC and designed the
following environment
Overview:Data drives business in the modern world. Data plays a key role in any department in any organization e.g.
Finance, HR, R&D, Sales etc. Oracle Real Applications Clusters (RAC) helps to achieve a high availability solution
for the data residing in a database where downtime for the Database or the server this Database is instantiated is
unacceptable. Oracle Database on a RAC configuration will allow multiple Oracle instances running on separate
servers to access the same database in shared storage. Oracle RAC uses Oracle Clusterware as the underlying
software to bind the Database servers in a cluster.
Each instance in an Oracle RAC has its own System Global Area (SGA). If one server instance requires data that is
currently cached in the buffer cache of another server instance in the SGA, the cached data will be accessed across
the instances using a private connect between the instances. The private connect helps to keep the data synchro-
nized across the instances.
Oracle RAC provides High Availability that is the foundation of Oracle’s Maximum Availability Architecture
(MAA).
VMware Cloud has made it easy to run mission critical RAC workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Software
Defined Data Center (SDDC), using the same tools that companies have been accustomed to using on-premises for
many years.
The initial VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC offering requires a minimum of four (4) cluster nodes with more configu-
rations to be available in the near future.
For more information about VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC visit: https://cloud.vmware.com/vmc-aws
Oracle E-Business Suite RAC on VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC advantages:In Oracle E-Business Suite it is standard procedure to deploy applications across multiple servers to distribute the
load and achieve high availability. This approach will avoid single points of failure from impacting the applica-
tion’s availability to users. Multiple Application Middle Tiers in conjunction with the now available Oracle Data-
base RAC alongside VMware cloud on AWS SDDC will enable customers to run Oracle E-Business Suite on cloud
infrastructure in a more reliable way. Customers will be able to meet stringent high availability requirements with
no impact from a single point of failure on VMware’s well known and proven technology.
Oracle E-Business RAC on VMware Cloud High-level Installation stepsInstall Operating System Pre-requisites
1. Create OS Users, OS Groups
2. Setup user equivalence between all the database nodes
3. Configure NTP between all the database nodes
4. Configure shared storage
Login into VMWare vCenter client and create shared storage
https://vcenter.sddc-54-190-221-25.vmc.vmware.com/vsphere-client
Make sure all the DB Nodes participated in the Clusterware node configuration and click Next
Review the summary and click Install
Oracle RAC Database:Oracle Database with RAC will allow multiple instances running on different servers to access the same database
stored in shared storage. This provides High Availability at the database layer. If one database node fails, the appli-
cation will stay up and running on the other available database nodes.
Oracle E-Business Suite:Oracle E-Business Suite is an integrated set of business applications such as enterprise resource planning (ERP),
customer relationship management (CRM), and supply-chain management (SCM).
SummaryVMware Cloud AWS SDDC is an elegant and reliable solution to High Availability requirements for complex
mission critical systems using various Oracle technologies, such as Oracle E-Business Suite deployed on a RAC
Database.
Oracle E-Business Suite RAC deployed on VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC will benefit from the advantages of high
availability, scalability, operational procedures and improved performance.
VMware Cloud will allow companies to run v-Sphere based cloud environments integrating vSAN, NSX, vCenter,
furthermore the VMware Hybrid Cloud Extension provides bi-directional migrations between on-premise and the
cloud.
SourceVMware Cloud https://aws.amazon.com/vmware/features/
RAC at VMware Cloud https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/virtualizing-oracle-rac-with-vmware-cloud-on-aws/
Oracle MAA http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/availability/maa-reference-architectures-2244929.pdf
Select Sharing as Multi-writer
Select Disk Provisioning as “Thick provision eager zeroed”
Select Virtual Device Node accordingly and click on OK
On the second node:
Make sure the installation on DB Node has completed successfully
Make sure the installation on application server has completed successfully.
The screen capture below shows the Database and Application Nodes which Oracle E-Business suite is using.
Technology considerations for E-Business Suite RAC Installation on VMware Cloud on AWS SDDCOracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM):Use Oracle ASM for database store which reduces the administrative overhead for managing database storage by
consolidating data storage into a small number of disk groups which also improves I/O performance.
Oracle Clusterware:Oracle Clusterware is the cluster software required to run the Real Application Clusters (RAC) option for Oracle
Databases. It provides the clustering services at the operating system level that enable Oracle Database software to
run in clustering mode.
Click on the second server -- > right click Click on Edit Settings
Select Existing Hard Disk as New Device and click on Add
Select the vmdk which you want to share to the second RAC node and click on OK.
Once raw disks are created, create partitions using fdisk commands and create ASM disks
5. Create ASM disks
6. Scan and mount ASM disks
Page | 5 © Copyright 2018, Apps Associates LLC. All rights reserved.
www.appsassociates.com
Some of the advantages of this configuration are:
• High Availability
- Protection from single instance failures
- Protection from single server failures
• Scalability (horizontal at both tiers)
• Load Management (e.g. dedicated nodes for concurrent managers)
• Unchanged operational processes and procedures
Oracle E-Business Suite RAC on VMware Cloud sample architectureApps Associates has deployed Oracle E-Business Suite RAC on VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC and designed the
following environment
Overview:Data drives business in the modern world. Data plays a key role in any department in any organization e.g.
Finance, HR, R&D, Sales etc. Oracle Real Applications Clusters (RAC) helps to achieve a high availability solution
for the data residing in a database where downtime for the Database or the server this Database is instantiated is
unacceptable. Oracle Database on a RAC configuration will allow multiple Oracle instances running on separate
servers to access the same database in shared storage. Oracle RAC uses Oracle Clusterware as the underlying
software to bind the Database servers in a cluster.
Each instance in an Oracle RAC has its own System Global Area (SGA). If one server instance requires data that is
currently cached in the buffer cache of another server instance in the SGA, the cached data will be accessed across
the instances using a private connect between the instances. The private connect helps to keep the data synchro-
nized across the instances.
Oracle RAC provides High Availability that is the foundation of Oracle’s Maximum Availability Architecture
(MAA).
VMware Cloud has made it easy to run mission critical RAC workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Software
Defined Data Center (SDDC), using the same tools that companies have been accustomed to using on-premises for
many years.
The initial VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC offering requires a minimum of four (4) cluster nodes with more configu-
rations to be available in the near future.
For more information about VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC visit: https://cloud.vmware.com/vmc-aws
Oracle E-Business Suite RAC on VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC advantages:In Oracle E-Business Suite it is standard procedure to deploy applications across multiple servers to distribute the
load and achieve high availability. This approach will avoid single points of failure from impacting the applica-
tion’s availability to users. Multiple Application Middle Tiers in conjunction with the now available Oracle Data-
base RAC alongside VMware cloud on AWS SDDC will enable customers to run Oracle E-Business Suite on cloud
infrastructure in a more reliable way. Customers will be able to meet stringent high availability requirements with
no impact from a single point of failure on VMware’s well known and proven technology.
Oracle E-Business RAC on VMware Cloud High-level Installation stepsInstall Operating System Pre-requisites
1. Create OS Users, OS Groups
2. Setup user equivalence between all the database nodes
3. Configure NTP between all the database nodes
4. Configure shared storage
Login into VMWare vCenter client and create shared storage
https://vcenter.sddc-54-190-221-25.vmc.vmware.com/vsphere-client
Make sure all the DB Nodes participated in the Clusterware node configuration and click Next
Review the summary and click Install
Oracle RAC Database:Oracle Database with RAC will allow multiple instances running on different servers to access the same database
stored in shared storage. This provides High Availability at the database layer. If one database node fails, the appli-
cation will stay up and running on the other available database nodes.
Oracle E-Business Suite:Oracle E-Business Suite is an integrated set of business applications such as enterprise resource planning (ERP),
customer relationship management (CRM), and supply-chain management (SCM).
SummaryVMware Cloud AWS SDDC is an elegant and reliable solution to High Availability requirements for complex
mission critical systems using various Oracle technologies, such as Oracle E-Business Suite deployed on a RAC
Database.
Oracle E-Business Suite RAC deployed on VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC will benefit from the advantages of high
availability, scalability, operational procedures and improved performance.
VMware Cloud will allow companies to run v-Sphere based cloud environments integrating vSAN, NSX, vCenter,
furthermore the VMware Hybrid Cloud Extension provides bi-directional migrations between on-premise and the
cloud.
SourceVMware Cloud https://aws.amazon.com/vmware/features/
RAC at VMware Cloud https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/virtualizing-oracle-rac-with-vmware-cloud-on-aws/
Oracle MAA http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/availability/maa-reference-architectures-2244929.pdf
Select Sharing as Multi-writer
Select Disk Provisioning as “Thick provision eager zeroed”
Select Virtual Device Node accordingly and click on OK
On the second node:
Make sure the installation on DB Node has completed successfully
Make sure the installation on application server has completed successfully.
The screen capture below shows the Database and Application Nodes which Oracle E-Business suite is using.
Technology considerations for E-Business Suite RAC Installation on VMware Cloud on AWS SDDCOracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM):Use Oracle ASM for database store which reduces the administrative overhead for managing database storage by
consolidating data storage into a small number of disk groups which also improves I/O performance.
Oracle Clusterware:Oracle Clusterware is the cluster software required to run the Real Application Clusters (RAC) option for Oracle
Databases. It provides the clustering services at the operating system level that enable Oracle Database software to
run in clustering mode.
Click on the second server -- > right click Click on Edit Settings
Select Existing Hard Disk as New Device and click on Add
Select the vmdk which you want to share to the second RAC node and click on OK.
Once raw disks are created, create partitions using fdisk commands and create ASM disks
5. Create ASM disks
6. Scan and mount ASM disks
Oracle Clusterware Installation
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Some of the advantages of this configuration are:
• High Availability
- Protection from single instance failures
- Protection from single server failures
• Scalability (horizontal at both tiers)
• Load Management (e.g. dedicated nodes for concurrent managers)
• Unchanged operational processes and procedures
Oracle E-Business Suite RAC on VMware Cloud sample architectureApps Associates has deployed Oracle E-Business Suite RAC on VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC and designed the
following environment
Overview:Data drives business in the modern world. Data plays a key role in any department in any organization e.g.
Finance, HR, R&D, Sales etc. Oracle Real Applications Clusters (RAC) helps to achieve a high availability solution
for the data residing in a database where downtime for the Database or the server this Database is instantiated is
unacceptable. Oracle Database on a RAC configuration will allow multiple Oracle instances running on separate
servers to access the same database in shared storage. Oracle RAC uses Oracle Clusterware as the underlying
software to bind the Database servers in a cluster.
Each instance in an Oracle RAC has its own System Global Area (SGA). If one server instance requires data that is
currently cached in the buffer cache of another server instance in the SGA, the cached data will be accessed across
the instances using a private connect between the instances. The private connect helps to keep the data synchro-
nized across the instances.
Oracle RAC provides High Availability that is the foundation of Oracle’s Maximum Availability Architecture
(MAA).
VMware Cloud has made it easy to run mission critical RAC workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Software
Defined Data Center (SDDC), using the same tools that companies have been accustomed to using on-premises for
many years.
The initial VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC offering requires a minimum of four (4) cluster nodes with more configu-
rations to be available in the near future.
For more information about VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC visit: https://cloud.vmware.com/vmc-aws
Oracle E-Business Suite RAC on VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC advantages:In Oracle E-Business Suite it is standard procedure to deploy applications across multiple servers to distribute the
load and achieve high availability. This approach will avoid single points of failure from impacting the applica-
tion’s availability to users. Multiple Application Middle Tiers in conjunction with the now available Oracle Data-
base RAC alongside VMware cloud on AWS SDDC will enable customers to run Oracle E-Business Suite on cloud
infrastructure in a more reliable way. Customers will be able to meet stringent high availability requirements with
no impact from a single point of failure on VMware’s well known and proven technology.
Oracle E-Business RAC on VMware Cloud High-level Installation stepsInstall Operating System Pre-requisites
1. Create OS Users, OS Groups
2. Setup user equivalence between all the database nodes
3. Configure NTP between all the database nodes
4. Configure shared storage
Login into VMWare vCenter client and create shared storage
https://vcenter.sddc-54-190-221-25.vmc.vmware.com/vsphere-client
Make sure all the DB Nodes participated in the Clusterware node configuration and click Next
Review the summary and click Install
Oracle RAC Database:Oracle Database with RAC will allow multiple instances running on different servers to access the same database
stored in shared storage. This provides High Availability at the database layer. If one database node fails, the appli-
cation will stay up and running on the other available database nodes.
Oracle E-Business Suite:Oracle E-Business Suite is an integrated set of business applications such as enterprise resource planning (ERP),
customer relationship management (CRM), and supply-chain management (SCM).
SummaryVMware Cloud AWS SDDC is an elegant and reliable solution to High Availability requirements for complex
mission critical systems using various Oracle technologies, such as Oracle E-Business Suite deployed on a RAC
Database.
Oracle E-Business Suite RAC deployed on VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC will benefit from the advantages of high
availability, scalability, operational procedures and improved performance.
VMware Cloud will allow companies to run v-Sphere based cloud environments integrating vSAN, NSX, vCenter,
furthermore the VMware Hybrid Cloud Extension provides bi-directional migrations between on-premise and the
cloud.
SourceVMware Cloud https://aws.amazon.com/vmware/features/
RAC at VMware Cloud https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/virtualizing-oracle-rac-with-vmware-cloud-on-aws/
Oracle MAA http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/availability/maa-reference-architectures-2244929.pdf
Select Sharing as Multi-writer
Select Disk Provisioning as “Thick provision eager zeroed”
Select Virtual Device Node accordingly and click on OK
On the second node:
Make sure the installation on DB Node has completed successfully
Make sure the installation on application server has completed successfully.
The screen capture below shows the Database and Application Nodes which Oracle E-Business suite is using.
Technology considerations for E-Business Suite RAC Installation on VMware Cloud on AWS SDDCOracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM):Use Oracle ASM for database store which reduces the administrative overhead for managing database storage by
consolidating data storage into a small number of disk groups which also improves I/O performance.
Oracle Clusterware:Oracle Clusterware is the cluster software required to run the Real Application Clusters (RAC) option for Oracle
Databases. It provides the clustering services at the operating system level that enable Oracle Database software to
run in clustering mode.
Click on the second server -- > right click Click on Edit Settings
Select Existing Hard Disk as New Device and click on Add
Select the vmdk which you want to share to the second RAC node and click on OK.
Once raw disks are created, create partitions using fdisk commands and create ASM disks
5. Create ASM disks
6. Scan and mount ASM disks
Oracle E-Business Suite RAC Installation on VMware Cloud on AWS SDDCInitiate E-Business Suite Installation
Select “Install Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2.0”
Check “RAC” and add all the DB nodes as mentioned in the screen below
Review the system configurations and click on Next
Some of the advantages of this configuration are:
• High Availability
- Protection from single instance failures
- Protection from single server failures
• Scalability (horizontal at both tiers)
• Load Management (e.g. dedicated nodes for concurrent managers)
• Unchanged operational processes and procedures
Oracle E-Business Suite RAC on VMware Cloud sample architectureApps Associates has deployed Oracle E-Business Suite RAC on VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC and designed the
following environment
Overview:Data drives business in the modern world. Data plays a key role in any department in any organization e.g.
Finance, HR, R&D, Sales etc. Oracle Real Applications Clusters (RAC) helps to achieve a high availability solution
for the data residing in a database where downtime for the Database or the server this Database is instantiated is
unacceptable. Oracle Database on a RAC configuration will allow multiple Oracle instances running on separate
servers to access the same database in shared storage. Oracle RAC uses Oracle Clusterware as the underlying
software to bind the Database servers in a cluster.
Each instance in an Oracle RAC has its own System Global Area (SGA). If one server instance requires data that is
currently cached in the buffer cache of another server instance in the SGA, the cached data will be accessed across
the instances using a private connect between the instances. The private connect helps to keep the data synchro-
nized across the instances.
Oracle RAC provides High Availability that is the foundation of Oracle’s Maximum Availability Architecture
(MAA).
VMware Cloud has made it easy to run mission critical RAC workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Software
Defined Data Center (SDDC), using the same tools that companies have been accustomed to using on-premises for
many years.
The initial VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC offering requires a minimum of four (4) cluster nodes with more configu-
rations to be available in the near future.
For more information about VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC visit: https://cloud.vmware.com/vmc-aws
Oracle E-Business Suite RAC on VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC advantages:In Oracle E-Business Suite it is standard procedure to deploy applications across multiple servers to distribute the
load and achieve high availability. This approach will avoid single points of failure from impacting the applica-
tion’s availability to users. Multiple Application Middle Tiers in conjunction with the now available Oracle Data-
base RAC alongside VMware cloud on AWS SDDC will enable customers to run Oracle E-Business Suite on cloud
infrastructure in a more reliable way. Customers will be able to meet stringent high availability requirements with
no impact from a single point of failure on VMware’s well known and proven technology.
Oracle E-Business RAC on VMware Cloud High-level Installation stepsInstall Operating System Pre-requisites
1. Create OS Users, OS Groups
2. Setup user equivalence between all the database nodes
3. Configure NTP between all the database nodes
4. Configure shared storage
Login into VMWare vCenter client and create shared storage
https://vcenter.sddc-54-190-221-25.vmc.vmware.com/vsphere-client
Make sure all the DB Nodes participated in the Clusterware node configuration and click Next
Review the summary and click Install
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Oracle RAC Database:Oracle Database with RAC will allow multiple instances running on different servers to access the same database
stored in shared storage. This provides High Availability at the database layer. If one database node fails, the appli-
cation will stay up and running on the other available database nodes.
Oracle E-Business Suite:Oracle E-Business Suite is an integrated set of business applications such as enterprise resource planning (ERP),
customer relationship management (CRM), and supply-chain management (SCM).
SummaryVMware Cloud AWS SDDC is an elegant and reliable solution to High Availability requirements for complex
mission critical systems using various Oracle technologies, such as Oracle E-Business Suite deployed on a RAC
Database.
Oracle E-Business Suite RAC deployed on VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC will benefit from the advantages of high
availability, scalability, operational procedures and improved performance.
VMware Cloud will allow companies to run v-Sphere based cloud environments integrating vSAN, NSX, vCenter,
furthermore the VMware Hybrid Cloud Extension provides bi-directional migrations between on-premise and the
cloud.
SourceVMware Cloud https://aws.amazon.com/vmware/features/
RAC at VMware Cloud https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/virtualizing-oracle-rac-with-vmware-cloud-on-aws/
Oracle MAA http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/availability/maa-reference-architectures-2244929.pdf
Select Sharing as Multi-writer
Select Disk Provisioning as “Thick provision eager zeroed”
Select Virtual Device Node accordingly and click on OK
On the second node:
Make sure the installation on DB Node has completed successfully
Make sure the installation on application server has completed successfully.
The screen capture below shows the Database and Application Nodes which Oracle E-Business suite is using.
Technology considerations for E-Business Suite RAC Installation on VMware Cloud on AWS SDDCOracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM):Use Oracle ASM for database store which reduces the administrative overhead for managing database storage by
consolidating data storage into a small number of disk groups which also improves I/O performance.
Oracle Clusterware:Oracle Clusterware is the cluster software required to run the Real Application Clusters (RAC) option for Oracle
Databases. It provides the clustering services at the operating system level that enable Oracle Database software to
run in clustering mode.
Click on the second server -- > right click Click on Edit Settings
Select Existing Hard Disk as New Device and click on Add
Select the vmdk which you want to share to the second RAC node and click on OK.
Once raw disks are created, create partitions using fdisk commands and create ASM disks
5. Create ASM disks
6. Scan and mount ASM disks
Some of the advantages of this configuration are:
• High Availability
- Protection from single instance failures
- Protection from single server failures
• Scalability (horizontal at both tiers)
• Load Management (e.g. dedicated nodes for concurrent managers)
• Unchanged operational processes and procedures
Oracle E-Business Suite RAC on VMware Cloud sample architectureApps Associates has deployed Oracle E-Business Suite RAC on VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC and designed the
following environment
Overview:Data drives business in the modern world. Data plays a key role in any department in any organization e.g.
Finance, HR, R&D, Sales etc. Oracle Real Applications Clusters (RAC) helps to achieve a high availability solution
for the data residing in a database where downtime for the Database or the server this Database is instantiated is
unacceptable. Oracle Database on a RAC configuration will allow multiple Oracle instances running on separate
servers to access the same database in shared storage. Oracle RAC uses Oracle Clusterware as the underlying
software to bind the Database servers in a cluster.
Each instance in an Oracle RAC has its own System Global Area (SGA). If one server instance requires data that is
currently cached in the buffer cache of another server instance in the SGA, the cached data will be accessed across
the instances using a private connect between the instances. The private connect helps to keep the data synchro-
nized across the instances.
Oracle RAC provides High Availability that is the foundation of Oracle’s Maximum Availability Architecture
(MAA).
VMware Cloud has made it easy to run mission critical RAC workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Software
Defined Data Center (SDDC), using the same tools that companies have been accustomed to using on-premises for
many years.
The initial VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC offering requires a minimum of four (4) cluster nodes with more configu-
rations to be available in the near future.
For more information about VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC visit: https://cloud.vmware.com/vmc-aws
Oracle E-Business Suite RAC on VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC advantages:In Oracle E-Business Suite it is standard procedure to deploy applications across multiple servers to distribute the
load and achieve high availability. This approach will avoid single points of failure from impacting the applica-
tion’s availability to users. Multiple Application Middle Tiers in conjunction with the now available Oracle Data-
base RAC alongside VMware cloud on AWS SDDC will enable customers to run Oracle E-Business Suite on cloud
infrastructure in a more reliable way. Customers will be able to meet stringent high availability requirements with
no impact from a single point of failure on VMware’s well known and proven technology.
Oracle E-Business RAC on VMware Cloud High-level Installation stepsInstall Operating System Pre-requisites
1. Create OS Users, OS Groups
2. Setup user equivalence between all the database nodes
3. Configure NTP between all the database nodes
4. Configure shared storage
Login into VMWare vCenter client and create shared storage
https://vcenter.sddc-54-190-221-25.vmc.vmware.com/vsphere-client
Make sure all the DB Nodes participated in the Clusterware node configuration and click Next
Review the summary and click Install
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Oracle RAC Database:Oracle Database with RAC will allow multiple instances running on different servers to access the same database
stored in shared storage. This provides High Availability at the database layer. If one database node fails, the appli-
cation will stay up and running on the other available database nodes.
Oracle E-Business Suite:Oracle E-Business Suite is an integrated set of business applications such as enterprise resource planning (ERP),
customer relationship management (CRM), and supply-chain management (SCM).
SummaryVMware Cloud AWS SDDC is an elegant and reliable solution to High Availability requirements for complex
mission critical systems using various Oracle technologies, such as Oracle E-Business Suite deployed on a RAC
Database.
Oracle E-Business Suite RAC deployed on VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC will benefit from the advantages of high
availability, scalability, operational procedures and improved performance.
VMware Cloud will allow companies to run v-Sphere based cloud environments integrating vSAN, NSX, vCenter,
furthermore the VMware Hybrid Cloud Extension provides bi-directional migrations between on-premise and the
cloud.
SourceVMware Cloud https://aws.amazon.com/vmware/features/
RAC at VMware Cloud https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/virtualizing-oracle-rac-with-vmware-cloud-on-aws/
Oracle MAA http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/availability/maa-reference-architectures-2244929.pdf
Select Sharing as Multi-writer
Select Disk Provisioning as “Thick provision eager zeroed”
Select Virtual Device Node accordingly and click on OK
On the second node:
Make sure the installation on DB Node has completed successfully
Make sure the installation on application server has completed successfully.
The screen capture below shows the Database and Application Nodes which Oracle E-Business suite is using.
Technology considerations for E-Business Suite RAC Installation on VMware Cloud on AWS SDDCOracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM):Use Oracle ASM for database store which reduces the administrative overhead for managing database storage by
consolidating data storage into a small number of disk groups which also improves I/O performance.
Oracle Clusterware:Oracle Clusterware is the cluster software required to run the Real Application Clusters (RAC) option for Oracle
Databases. It provides the clustering services at the operating system level that enable Oracle Database software to
run in clustering mode.
Click on the second server -- > right click Click on Edit Settings
Select Existing Hard Disk as New Device and click on Add
Select the vmdk which you want to share to the second RAC node and click on OK.
Once raw disks are created, create partitions using fdisk commands and create ASM disks
5. Create ASM disks
6. Scan and mount ASM disks
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