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Turbocharge Your SAP Environment on Oracle SuperCluster [THT11481]SAP Environments on Oracle SuperCluster

Hans-Juergen Denecke - Principal Software Engineer ISV Engineering Walldorf/Germany

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Program Agenda

Oracle SuperCluster

SAP Benchmark World Records

Key SuperCluster Technology Advantages

Virtualization and High Availability

Oracle Optimized Solution for SAP

Architecture Examples

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Oracle SuperCluster• 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

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Oracle

Allothers

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*

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40,000 SAP SD users 220,950 SAPS

140,000 SAP SD users 793,930 SAPS

*See extra slide

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Key SuperCluster Technology Advantages

• 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

SuperCluster accelerates and secures SAP

*See extra slide

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Virtualization and High Availability for SAP instances 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

Cluster

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Oracle Optimized Solutions for SAPApplications Best Environment Full Stack Testing Documented Best Practices

Engineered Systems

Best-In-Class Servers and Storage

Storage

Servers

OS & Virtualization

Database

Middleware

Applications

Deployment

Tuning

Performance

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Architecture ExamplesSAP Landscape

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High Availability for Production Landscape SAPCTL for High Availability of SAP Central Services

Example with Single SAP systemOracle 11g with RAC in DB domainsSAP Instances in App DomainsNo HA FrameworkPrimary App Server (PAS)Additional App Servers (AAS)Central Services in DB DomainSAPCTL based on Oracle Clusterware

Node 2App Domain

DB Domain

Solaris 11

Node 1App Domain

DB Domain

Solaris 11

SuperCluster

Solaris 11 Solaris 11

PAS SAP Sol Mgr

AAS AAS

AAS

SAPCTL(A)SCS ERS

AAS AAS

SPOOL

OracleRACRAC 11g R2 RAC 11g R2

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Architecture Example: Dev / QA / Production• 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 2GP Domain

Solaris 10

DB DomainSolaris 11

Oracle RAC 11g R2

Node 1GP Domain

Solaris 10

DB DomainSolaris 11

Oracle RAC 11g R2

Node 2GP Domain

Solaris 10

DB DomainSolaris 11

Oracle RAC 11g R2

Node 1GP Domain

Solaris 10

DB DomainSolaris 11

Oracle RAC 11g R2

Production SuperClusterQA/DEV SuperCluster

DEV

SAP Sol Mgr

AAS

AAS

ERS

PAS

AAS

AAS

(A)SCS

AASAAS

PRDDB

AAS

AAS

AAS

AAS

AAS

AAS

PAS SAP Sol Mgr

(A)SCS ERS

QADB

AAS

AAS

TEST

AAS

AAS

TRAINING

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Oracle SuperCluster Certification for SAPSAP Support Since March 2012

• SAP NetWeaver 6.4 and 7.x; JAVA and ABAP Applications• SAP Note 1693680: Running SAP Software on Oracle SuperCluster• SAP Note 1696570: Oracle SuperCluster: Patches for 11.2.0.3• SAP Note 1974327: Exadata 11.2.0: Patches for 11.2.0.4

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References

• SAP page on Oracle.com: http://www.oracle.com/sap

• Key SAP Notes for SAP on Oracle Solaris http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-23511

• Key SAP Notes for SAP on Oraclehttp://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-8664

• SAP Community Network – SAP on Oraclehttp://scn.sap.com/community/oracle

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Questions?

My contact detailshans-juergen.denecke@oracle.com

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OOW Session CON5925:Optimizing SAP Performance on Every Tier on Oracle SuperClusterMonday, 17:15 – 18:00Hotel Intercontinental Grand Ballroom

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Engineered, Tested, and Proven from Apps-to-DiskOptimizations Across the Development Cycle

1,000s of hours of testing across the stack to reduce risk

Sizing and configuration optimizations

Load/stress tests

Performance, availability,

scalability tests

Real world workload tests

Patch regression tests

Faultinjection

tests

Interoperability tests

End to end functional validation

Early development

tests

Identify integration

opportunities

Full Stack OptimizationsOne Engineering Team

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SAP Performance on SuperClusterThe 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.

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Benchmark Disclosure StatementSAP 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, 1024 threads, T5, 3.6 GHz), 2 TB main memory, Oracle Solaris 11, Oracle Database 11g Release 2. Cert# 2013008. SAP, R/3, reg TM of SAP AG in Germany and other countries. More info www.sap.com/benchmark

• 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# 2014008.SAP, R/3, reg TM of SAP AG in Germany and other countries. More info www.sap.com

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