Oracle Optimized Solution for SAP Session


Oracle Optimized Solution for SAPSession #4088Ken Kutzer, Christoph Brune, Victor Galis


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Agenda

Oracle Optimized Solution for SAP

Solution Architecture

Real World Results

Q and A


Oracle and SAP Partnership

Business partners for 20+ years SAP is the largest Oracle database reseller SAP expertise in Oracle

– SAP Competency Center in Walldorf Germany

– SAP architects in presales organization

– Oracle Solution Center SAP capacity planning and customer proof-of-concept testing

– Oracle Advanced Customer Services and Consulting for SAP

For the Benefit of our Mutual Customers

Database Market Share for SAP

Oracle

All Others


Joint Technical Efforts

Joint engineering work– Integration, version alignment, patching

Certification of Engineered Systems, software products and hardware products

Conduct high performance benchmarking Joint customer support

– Dedicated SAP experts Oracle support organization

– Escalation path from SAP to Oracle or Oracle to SAP as appropriate

For the Benefit of our Mutual Customers


Typical SAP Deployment Spread across multiple tiers of

hardware Separate DEV, QAS, and PRD Multiple SAP environments

Infrastructure Challenges for SAP

Resulting In System sprawl Complexity Difficult to manage availability

and performance


Improving SAP EnvironmentsIntegration, Service and Support Managed by Customer

vs.

Traditional Approach Oracle Approach


Traditional SAP Landscape DeploymentSprawl Develops Over Time

DEV

QAS

PRD

DEV

DEV

QAS

PRD

QAS

PRD

DEV

QAS

PRD

SAP ECC

SAP HR

SAP PLM

SAP SCM

Employees

Partners

Vendors

Customers

StorageSystems

Employees

Partners

Vendors

Customers

SAP ECC

SAP PLM

SAP SCM

SAP HR


Management FrameworkUnified Apps to Disk Management

UnifiedManagement

Synchronized Update of All Components

Telemetry


Best performance

• Run queries up to 7x faster

• Perform data loads 4x faster

Rapid deployment

• 4x faster to time to production

Reduce risk

• Full SAP and database High Availability

• Pre-built, optimized, and validated architecture for SAP

Oracle Optimized Solution for SAPConsolidation and Simplification for SAP Environments

See substantiation slides

SAP

Oracle SolarisOracle Solaris Zones

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Oracle Database

Oracle Solaris

SPARC SuperCluster


Overview of SPARC SuperCluster


ORACLE SPARC SUPERCLUSTER SUPPORTED BY SAP


SPARC SuperCluster Support for SAP

SAP NetWeaver 6.4 or 7.0+; JAVA and ABAP Applications

SAP Note 1693680: Running SAP Software on Oracle SPARC

SuperCluster

SAP Note 1696570: Oracle

SPARC SuperCluster:

Patches for 11.2.0.3

SAP Support Since March 2012


Oracle SPARC SuperClusterOracle Optimized Solution for SAP

Engineered System for database and application consolidation

Integrated High Availability Optimized to run complex multi-tier SAP

environments Ideal platform for the deployment of Oracle

Optimized Solutions Half rack, full rack and multiple rack configurations


Integrated Virtualization Enables Consolidation

Oracle Solaris Zones and Oracle VM Server for SPARC

High Availability of SAP Central Services and Applications

Oracle Solaris Cluster

Leading Data Management and Performance

Oracle Database and Real Application Clusters

Complete ManagementOracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center and Enterprise Manager

Grid Control

+

Ultimate Reliability and Performance

Oracle Solaris

SuperCluster Software and Advantages for SAP


Benefits for SAP Workloads

Oracle Exadata Storage Servers – Accelerate data intensive SAP workloads for example queries, reporting, batch jobs

Oracle SPARC T4-4 Nodes – High performance, 1TB memory footprint ensures efficient operation of SAP and Oracle RAC environments

Oracle ZFS 7320 Storage Appliances – High performance, redundant shares for SAP binaries, configuration and log files

Oracle QDR Infiniband Networking – High performance interconnect network for node to node and node to storage traffic


Solution Architecture Overview

SAP runs in General Purpose domain HA for SAP Central Services and

Application Instances via Oracle Solaris Cluster

Exadata Storage/RAC for database scaling and HA

ZFS Storage Appliance for shared SAP binaries, configuration and other log files

IB for ultra low latency interconnect

InfiniBand Network

10 GbE Data Center Network

SPARC SuperCluster

Node 1

GP Domain

DB Domain

Oracle Solaris 10

Oracle Solaris 11

Node 4

GP Domain

DB Domain

Oracle Solaris 10

Oracle Solaris 11

Node 2

GP Domain

DB Domain

Oracle Solaris 10

Oracle Solaris 11

Node 3

GP Domain

DB Domain

Oracle Solaris 10

Oracle Solaris 11

Oracle Exadata Storage Servers


100’s of Components 1 Machine1000’s of Hours 1 Day

Cut Deployment Times by up to

4x

High AvailabilityBuilt in

99.999% Uptime

Accelerate and Simplify SAP DeploymentsEasy, Predictable, Just Works


SPARC SuperCluster Testing with SAP

Oracle - Santa Clara (primary SuperCluster development center)

– Experts for SuperCluster, Oracle Solaris Cluster, Oracle Database, SAP, Benchmarking

– Large scale testing and modeling

Oracle Competency Center – Walldorf– SAP expertise and center for engineering collaboration with SAP

– Ongoing SAP testing of new releases and features

Same expert team driving work at both sites

Global Engineering Cooperation


Node 4

GP Domain

DB Domain

Solaris 11

RAC 11g R2

Solaris 10

Node 3

GP Domain

DB Domain

Solaris 11

RAC 11g R2

Solaris 10

Node 2

GP Domain

DB Domain

Solaris 11

RAC 11g R2

Solaris 10

Node 1

GP Domain

DB Domain

Solaris 11

RAC 11g R2

Solaris 10

Test case: Failure of the T4-4 server running the Primary Application server

SCS ERS

PRI APPPRI APP

ERS

APP D56

APP D52

High Availability/Failover Test #5

APP D51APP D55

APP D52

APP D53APP D57

APP D54APP D58

APP D56

Failed-over Instance

Fail-over

Zone Cluster

App Instance


High Availability/Failover Test #5 ResultsFailure of the T4-4 server running the Primary Application server

General Purpose Domain FailureTask Time

Failure detection 11 seconds

Replicated Enqueue Server Recovery 20 seconds

Primary App Server Recovery 1 min 26 seconds

App Servers Recovery 1 min 35 seconds

Database Domain FailureTask Time

Failure detection 61 seconds

Recovery 19 seconds


Key SuperCluster Technology Advantages

Oracle Real Application Clusters– Delivered leading SAP SD benchmark: 180K users, 1M SAPS*

Exadata Storage Servers– Proven technology that reduces database response times

InfiniBand “backplane” – connection between nodes and Exadata– Very low latency, 40 Gb/sec connections improves performance

Oracle Solaris Zones– Virtualization technology for optimal SAP consolidation

Oracle Solaris Cluster– Provides High Availability for SAP Central Services and optionally for application servers

*Results as of September 1, 2012. Source: SAP, www.sap.com/benchmark, the SAP SD-Parallel standard application benchmark performed on September 5, 2011, by Oracle: 180,000 SAP SD-Parallel benchmark users, 1,016,380 SAPS, Server configuration: 8 Sun Fire X4800 servers each with 8 processors/80 cores/160 threads, Intel Xeon Processor E7-8870, 2.40 GHz, Solaris 10 operating system, Oracle Database 11g Release 2 with Oracle Real Application Clusters, and SAP enhancement package 4 for SAP ERP 6.0. Certification Number: 2011037


Deploying SAP on SPARC SuperCluster


Solution Architecture Overview

SAP runs in General Purpose domain HA for SAP Central Services and

Application Instances via Oracle Solaris Cluster

Exadata Storage/RAC for database scaling and HA

ZFS Storage Appliance for shared SAP binaries, configuration and other log files

IB for ultra low latency interconnect

InfiniBand Network


SPARC SuperCluster

Node 1

GP Domain

DB Domain

Oracle Solaris 10

Oracle Solaris 11

Node 4

GP Domain

DB Domain

Oracle Solaris 10

Oracle Solaris 11

Node 2

GP Domain

DB Domain

Oracle Solaris 10

Oracle Solaris 11

Node 3

GP Domain

DB Domain

Oracle Solaris 10

Oracle Solaris 11

Oracle Exadata Storage Servers


Architecture Example: Large Production

High Performance Java and ABAP

applications supported Clustered for HA

– 11gR2 RAC in DB domains

– Oracle Solaris Cluster zone clusters in GP domains for Central Services, Primary App Server, SAP Solution Manager, App Servers (Optional)

Node 2

GP Domain

DB Domain

Solaris 10

Node 1

GP Domain

DB Domain

Solaris 10

Node 3

GP Domain

DB Domain

Solaris 10

Node 4

GP Domain

DB Domain

Solaris 10

SPARC SuperCluster

Solaris 11

RAC 11g R2

Solaris 11

RAC 11g R2

Solaris 11

RAC 11g R2

Solaris 11

RAC 11g R2

PRI APP SAP Sol Mgr

CRM CRM CRM HR

SCS ERS

SCM SCM ECC ECC


Results from Customer Testing


Oracle Solution Center

What We Do– Performance Testing and Proof of Concept– Architecture & Design of Total Customer

Landscape– Applications in Cloud

Hardware, Apps & Tech in Action

• Customer Impact– Reduce Deployment Life-Cycle– Reduce Risk – Going Live– Strengthened Commitment to

Customer Success


Oracle Solution Center Global Presence

*Global Oracle Solution Center

**Authorized Partner Oracle Solution Centers

United States/Canada• Santa Clara, CA*• Broomfield, CO• Reston, VA• Atlanta, GA

Latin and South America• Mexico City, Mexico• Sao Paulo, Brazil

Asia Pacific• Beijing, China• Sydney, Australia• Tokyo, Japan

Europe, Middle East and Africa• Edinburgh, UK• Walldorf, Germany• Reading, UK• Elion, Estonia**• Inserve, Sweden**• ArrowECS, Finland**• Avnet, UK**• UAE, Tech Access**• WorkGroup IT, SA**• KSA, Tech Access**


Large Manufacturing and Retail CompanyCOMPANY OVERVIEW

– Premier global retailer using SAP with Oracle Database

SPARC SUPERCLUSTER BENEFITS

– Consolidate and centrally manage SAP application environment on a single system

– Leverage virtualization to customize domain configurations to specific application workloads

– Rapid deployment and configuration of application infrastructure

SOLUTION

– Oracle SPARC SuperCluster

SAP applications running in Oracle Solaris 10 domains

High Availability of SAP Central Services through Oracle Solaris Cluster

High performance database through Exadata Storage Servers and Oracle Database

– Legacy environment – Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000, EMC2 DMX SAN storage

PERFORMANCE RESULTS

– Data warehouse

4x faster orders loading time

2x-7x faster query times (Microstrategy front end)

– Batch workload - SAP Controlling Profitability Analysis

2x faster to prepare initial data

2x faster to populate tables

– OLTP

30% faster response times

Data WarehouseQueries

Completion Times as % of Original

SAP OrdersLoading

SAP CO.PA Batch Times

SPARC M9000 and EMC

SPARC SuperCluster


Large U.S Government Agency

Complete SAP setup and migration 1 week/16 man-days 8 man-days – App tier with HA

– 2 man-days – move app tier

– 6 man-days – Oracle Solaris Cluster setup for SAP

8 man-days – Database with HA– Oracle Database setup, Oracle RAC setup and

data migration

– O2O migration 25% DB reduction mainly due to DB reorganization

Performance Evaluation – Rapid Setup and Migration

Existing Environment 1.2 TB database SAP App Tier, Central

Services

−Solaris 10 Zones

−SPARC M5000


Large U.S Government Agency (continued)

Queries: 4x to 285x Faster (Query table CDHDR)

Heavy I/O Load Test: 4x Faster– Update System Statistics Script

Generates stats on system and database

Reads all 73,000 database tables Creates stats figures to be used

by optimizer

Performance Evaluation – Test Results

Existing SuperCluster0

50

100

150

200

250

Completion TimeUpdate System Statistics Results

(seconds)


Large Oil and Natural Gas Explorer

Customer goals Increase system capabilities to enable

– Consolidation of SAP systems

– Increased analysis workload

Additional goals - reducing costs to operate and modernize systems

Evaluated performance and best practices in three areas

1. Performance of customer specific tests

2. Comparison of backup performance with methods and options

Performance Proof of Concept Project


Large Oil and Natural Gas ExplorerPOC Configuration

InfiniBand Network


SPARC SuperCluster

Node 1

GP Domain

DB Domain

Oracle Solaris 10

Oracle Solaris 11

Node 2

GP Domain

DB Domain

Oracle Solaris 10

Oracle Solaris 11

6 Oracle Exadata Storage Servers

CI

APP2APP1

7420

X4500

10+ TB total customer data9.6 TB DB

Used 2 T4-4 Servers configuration D:Solaris 11 DB domain

- 2 T4 processors and 512GB Solaris 10 GP domain

- 2 T4 processors and 512GBSAP ECC System:

2 Application Servers: APP1, APP2 - Solaris Zones in Solaris 10 GP domainCentral Instance: CI - Solaris Zone, Solaris 10 GP domain2 RAC Instances : - Solaris 11 DB domains6 Storage Cells – 2 ASM Disk Groups: DATA and RECO



Copy DB files and SAP system image from Customer Storage to x4500 Transit X4500 from customer to OSC Copy x4500 data to internal ZFSSA Start Oracle DB in new home from Solaris 10 domain Upgrade Oracle DB 11.2.0.2 -> 11.2.0.3 Migrate DB to ASM and RAC (*) Create DB Services for Each App Server (*) Adjust SAP App Servers to DB services (*) Backup, Run Test, Restore, …

- * Tested on Oracle Optimized Solution for SAP

Performance POC Steps



2.6x performance improvements over best in house results– Custom test used for performance testing

– In house testing included mix of SPARC and x64

Customer remarks:– “To maintain 1ms for heavy load is remarkable!”

– “Wow … What a great run!”

Tests were run both with and without Oracle RAC enabled – Oracle RAC configuration showed a 19% performance advantage

Performance Test Results



Method Time (HH:MM)

Rate (TB/hr.)

Data Set Size (TB)

Single Step Process

Rman from external X4500 directly to ASM groups 91:00 0.11 9.6

Two Step Process

Copy from external X4500 to SuperCluster internal ZFSSA 09:06 1:05 9.6

Rman from internal ZFSSA to ASM groups 03:30 2.74 9.6

Total Time - 12:36

Best NFS Performance Achieved Inside SPARC SuperCluster

Optimized Solution tunings for NFS over InfiniBand delivered strong performance gains



RMAN Backup Target ZFS Comp.

RMAN Comp.

Time (hh:mm) TB/h Data

(TB)

SuperCluster internal ZFS appliance 05:30 1.7 9.6

SuperCluster internal ZFS appliance X 02:22 4.2 2.5

External ZFS appliance (larger system) X 01:21 7.4 2.5

SuperCluster internal ZFS appliance X 01:13 8.0 1.9

External ZFS appliance (larger system) X 00:49 11.8 1.9

12 TB/hr. Backup for SAP Database SPARC SuperCluster

RMAN Compression, with high performance backup target reduced disk-to-disk backup window


Current SAP Customer on SSCAtivas – Brazil – MSP SAP Consolidation

MSP – Managed Service Provider

Deploy Mission Critical Applications for

Customers

Currently migrating first customer from

HP Integrity Servers

Plan to Reduce Complexity of

Infrastructure for Customers


Learn More

oracle.com/sap and oracle.com/supercluster

oracle.com/goto/optimizedsolutionsap

Questions?


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