Oracle E-Business Suite Performance and Scalability

Oracle E-Business Suite:
Advanced Configurations
Santiago Bastidas, Principal Product Manager
Elke Phelps Sr Principal Product Manager
Phelps, Sr.


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Program
Agenda
Performance, Scalability and High Availability
Disaster Recovery
Security
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Business Intelligence and Reporting
Systems Management
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External Integrations


Performance, Scalability and
High Availability


E-Business Suite Load Balancing

Application Tier
Multiple
- DNS based
DNS-based Application
- HTTP Layer Nodes
- OC4J
- Forms Metric Server
- Parallel Concurrent Processing
Multiple
Database Tier Database
- R l A li ti Cl t
Real Application Clusters Nodes
N d
(RAC)


Case Study
E Business
E-Business Suite DNS-Based Load-Balancing
DNS Based Load Balancing
Q: IP for http://mycompany.intranet.com/
Users query DNS LBR for IP
address of URL
DNS LBR supplies different IP
addresses to different users
DNS LBR
depending on l d of a given node
d di load f i d
Vendor-dependent: heartbeat
checks against nodes, A: 10.10.10.10

sophisticated algorithms for load-
balancing
10.10.10.10 10.10.10.20 10.10.10.30


Case Study
E Business
E-Business Suite HTTP Load Balancing

Users navigate to Web Entry Point http://mycompany.intranet.com

HTTP Layer LBR routes all
subsequent traffic for a specific
user to a specific Web Node HTTP Layer LBR
LBR must support persistent
t t i t t
session connections
LBRs may use heartbeat checks
for node death detection & restart,
and sophisticated algorithms for
load-balancing Web Web Web
Node 1 Node
N d 2 Node
N d 3


Case Study
E Business
E-Business Suite Virtual and Physical Load Balancing

Ideal resources for spikes: easy http://mycompany.intranet.com
to provision, remove reallocate
provision remove,
Virtual machines integrate
transparently with physical HTTP Layer LBR
machines
hi
VM’s can run on fixed hardware,
private clouds, public clouds

Web Virtual Virtual Web
Node 1 Web Node
W bN d 1 Node
N d 3


E-Business Suite and Real Application Clusters
Application Servers
Allows multiple database servers to
access the same data in parallel
Improves scalability & fault-tolerance
Supports Automatic Storage
Management (ASM) Cluster Ready
(ASM),
Services (CRS), Parallel Concurrent
Processing (PCP)
Provides easier access for clients RAC Node 1 RAC Node 2
with 11gR2 Single Client Access
Shared
Name (SC )
a e (SCAN) File System
Fil S t


Engineered Systems I The Family

Exadata Exalogic Database Exalytics Big Data SPARC
Database Elastic Cloud Appliance Appliance SuperCluster
Machine

• Expedited time to value • Reduced change management risk
• Easier to manage and upgrade • One-stop support
One-
• Lower cost of ownership • Extreme performance


Exadata X2-2 Architecture
A complete solution: compute storage networking
compute, storage,

• Database Grid
– 8x 2-socket Intel EP 96GB RAM or 2x 8-socket Intel EX 4TB RAM
– Oracle Linux or Solaris 11
– Oracle Database 11g, ASM, RAC
– 10 Gb and 1Gb Ethernet (to data center)
• Storage Grid
– Intel-based storage servers
– Up to 504 terabytes raw disk per rack
– 5.3 terabytes Flash storage per rack
– Exadata Storage Server Software
• InfiniBand Network
– Internal unified connectivity ( 40 Gb/sec )


Exadata Storage Expansion Racks
Expand Database Machine Storage Capacity Online

Quarter Rack
Quarter Rack Half Rack
Half Rack Full Rack
Full Rack Multi-rack
Multi-Rack

48 CPU Cores 108 CPU Cores 216 CPU Cores 8+ Racks
96 TB Disk 216 TB Disk 432 TB Disk InfiniBand Connected
1.5 TB Flash 3.4 TB Flash 6.75 TB Flash


How Exadata Features Improve Performance

Smart Flash Cache
– Uses flash for physical I/O
Smart Flash Log +
– Uses flash to improve log I/O latency
as p o e og /O ate cy
Smart Scan
– Runs portions of a database query in storage
IO R
Resource M
Manager (IORM)
– Prioritizes I/O bandwidth based on database or workload within a database


Exalogic X2-2 Architecture
Complete,
Complete Integrated
Compute Power
• 3.06 GHz Xeon processors
p
• 1333MHz DRAM, RAID SSD Disks
• Redundant InfiniBand, Power, Management
Internal I/O Fabric and Data Center Connectivity
• 40 Gb/sec internal I/O backplane
• 10 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity to datacenter
Integrated Storage
• Shared storage for applications
• Clustered for HA
• 60 TB SAS disk
• 4 TB read cache,73 GB write cache
EL X2-2


Exalogic X2-2 I Seamless Scalability

Eighth Rack
Eighth Rack Quarter Rack
Quarter Rack Half Rack
Half Rack Full Rack
Full Rack Multi-rack
Multi-Rack
4 Nodes 8 Nodes 16 Nodes 30 Nodes 240+ Nodes
384 GB RAM 768 GB RAM 1.5 TB RAM 2.8 TB RAM 23+ TB RAM
800 GB SSD 1.6 TB SSD 3.2 TB SSD 6 TB SSD 48+ TB SSD
60 TB NAS 60 TB NAS 60 TB NAS 60 TB NAS 480+ TB NAS


E-Business Suite on Exastack
Faster Response:
– 3x For O2C Forms transactions
– 8x For Self Service transactions
– Higher productivity for Online users

Users per Core:
– Twice as much additional users per core
core.
– Headroom for additional loads.

Higher through-put
– Push more transactions through a single Exa*
Exa
core.

Linear Scaling
Exalogic and Exadata
– Support very large deployments with ease
Standard h d
St d d hardware


Related Sessions

Wednesday
CON9047 - Efficiently Scaling Oracle E-Business Suite on
Moscone West
5:00 pm Oracle Exadata and Oracle Exalogic
2016
Isam Alyousfi, Nishit Rao


Advanced Compression 11g Database Option

• Table Compression Advisor *
• Reduces table sizes
• Reduces network bandwidth
overhead
• Improves performance of
concurrent programs
• Improves backup performance

* http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/compression/compression-advisor.html


Advanced Compression 11g Database Option
Results: Oracle’s Use of Advanced Compression
Oracle s

Average o e a sto age sa gs 3x
e age overall storage savings 3
Table compression 4x
Index compression 2x
LOB compression 2.3x

231 TB of total storage
savings across primary,
i i Payroll,
Payroll Order to Cash AP/AR batch flows
Cash, flows,
standby, test, dev and Self-Service flows run without regression
backup instances Queries involving full table scans are faster


Database Partitioning Option

Keep legacy data for historical
business analytics
Break large tables into smaller
partitions
Optimize long-running queries &
reports
Can be used with Information
Lifecycle Management (ILM)
solutions


Disaster Recovery


Disaster Recovery

Catastrophic site failures

Operational failover (not just tape backups)

Planned outages may also benefit from the infrastructure
g y

Operational priorities must be reviewed

Potentially
P t ti ll expensive
i


Maximum Availability Architecture
E Business
E-Business Suite High Availability Features

Web
Application
A li ti Forms
Multiple
M lti l
Application
Tier Concurrent Nodes
Processingg

Multiple
Database
Database Database
Tier Nodes


E Business
E-Business Suite Disaster Recovery

Primary Site Disaster Recovery Site
Multiple Web, Forms, Concurrent Processing Nodes
p , , g Multiple Web, Forms, Concurrent Processing Nodes
p , , g

Disk Synchronization

Oracle Data Guard

Oracle Real Application Clusters Oracle Real Application Clusters


E Business

Multiple Web, Forms, Concurrent Processing Nodes
p , , g Multiple Web, Forms, Concurrent Processing Nodes
p , , g


Oracle Data Guard

Oracle Exadata Oracle Exadata


E Business


Oracle Exalogic
g Oracle Exalogic
g

Oracle Data Guard

Oracle Exadata Oracle Exadata


Case Study
Active Passive E Business
Active-Passive E-Business Suite Disaster Recovery

User

Primary Site Disaster Recovery
HTTP LBR HTTP LBR

Application Servers Application Servers
DNS LBR

Oracle Data Guard

Oracle R l A li ti
O l Real Application Clusters
Cl t Oracle R l A li ti
Cl t


Case Study
Active Passive E Business
Active-Passive E-Business Suite Disaster Recovery

User

Primary Site Disaster Recovery
HTTP LBR HTTP LBR

Application Servers Application Servers
DNS LBR

In the event of a disaster,
users are rerouted to
disaster recovery site

Oracle R l A li ti
Cl t Oracle R l A li ti
Cl t


Disaster Recovery Project Delivery

Work closely with users, stakeholders, executive sponsors
Prioritize disaster recovery needs carefully
- Mirrored production environment (scale and scope)
- Reduced scale (such as fewer web nodes)
- Reduced in scope (
p (such as support internal employees but not external users)
pp p y )
- Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
Research options, check references
Work ith l tf
W k with platform hardware vendors, experienced consultants and partners
h d d i d lt t d t
Deploy proof-of-concept testbeds
Test thoroughly


Security


Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
DMZ
Perimeter network
Company Intranet
Single or multi-segment HTTP LBR

DMZ-based servers have restricted
responsibilities
p Application Servers

Security breaches remain contained
within DMZ
Less Protected
Zone
Oracle Real Application Clusters
Protected
Zone


Reverse Proxy Server
External
Makes requests to the web server on Users
behalf of the client
Allows use of standard ports (80, 443) Reverse
on external side; higher ports internally Proxy
Server
S
Filters requests to web server via rules
Allows for co e cac g (op o a )
o s o content caching (optional)
EBS
Application
Server


Case Study
Corporate
Load Balancing, DMZs and Reverse proxy
Balancing Intranet
DMZ 2 Internal Users

HTTP LBR
External
DMZ 1 EBS App Server

EBS App Server EBS App Server

External
Internet HTTP EBS App Server
pp
Reverse LBR
External Proxy Secure
Users VLAN
Firewall Firewall Firewall
EBS Database
Server


Defense in Depth
Securing Securing Securing Securing
Authentication Authorization Data in Flight Copies

Procurement

HR
Finance

• Strong user • Role Based Access • SSL encryption for • Transparent Data
authentication • Virtual Private Database EBS clients Encryption
• Smartcards / CAC •D t b
Database V lt
Vault • ANO encryption for • Data Masking in
• Biometrics database traffic cloned databases
• Digital signatures
• Credit card encryption


E-Business Suite & Identity Management

E-Business Suite has a built-in security model,
handling authentication and authorization EBS

Other options:
– Authenticate users with Oracle Access Manager
g Access
(OAM 11g or OAM 10g) and manage users with Manager 11g
Oracle Internet Directory (OID)
– Authenticate users with third-party authentication
p y
Third-Party
Thi d P t
tools via Oracle Access Manager SSO
– Integrate with third-party LDAP directories via
OID


Enable Single Sign-On with Oracle Access Manager

EBS Oracle
AccessGate Internet
Directory
E-Business
Suite

WebGate Oracle
Access
Manager


Third-Party Single Sign-On Integration
Third-Party
Third-Party LDAP Oracle
SSO Internet
Directory
EBS
Database
(FND_USER)
End
User
Oracle
Access
Manager *
EBS Application Server /
EBS AccessGate


Related Sessions

Thursday
CON9020 - Integrating Oracle E-Business Suite with Oracle
Moscone West
12:45 pm Identity Management Solutions
2016
Sunil Ghosh, Elke Phelps


Oracle Database Vault
Privileged Account Controls

Application

Procurement
Application DBA
HR
select * from DBA
Finance finance.customers

Enforce least privilege and p
p g prevent DBA access to apps data
pp
Enforce who, where, when, and how data can be accessed using rules and factors
Securely enable applications consolidation and outsourcing / off-shoring
Default realm for E Business Suite is available – use it as is or choose a subset
E-Business as-is


Oracle Audit Vault
Audit Database Activity Real Time

! Alerts
HR Data
Built-in
Built in
CRM Data Reports
Audit
ERP Data Data Custom
Reports
Databases Policies Auditor
Consolidate database audit trail into secure centralized repository
Detect and alert on suspicious activities including privileged users
activities,
Out-of-the box compliance reports for SOX, PCI, and other regulations
E.g., privileged user audit, entitlements, failed logins, regulated data changes
Integrates with E-Business Suite security system


Transparent Data Encryption

Benefits

Encrypt data at rest
Decrypt data on-the-fly while E-
Business Suite is running
Encrypt tablespaces or
individual columns
Store keys in O l W ll t
St k i Oracle Wallet
Manager


Data Masking
Production Non-Production
LAST_NAME SSN SALARY LAST_NAME SSN SALARY

AGUILAR 203-33-3234
203 33 3234 40,000
40 000 ANSKEKSL 111—23-1111 60,000
60 000

BENSON 323-22-2943 60,000 BKJHHEIEDK 222-34-1345 40,000

What Why
The act of anonymizing customer, To protect confidential data in non-
financial, or company-confidential data to production environments when the data is
create new, legible data that retains the
, g shared with non-production users without
data's properties, such as its width, type, revealing sensitive information
and format
How: - Enterprise Manager Data Masking Pack
- E-Business Suite masking template (available now)


Additional Database Options

• Advanced Networking Option (ANO)

• SecureFiles

• Vi t l P i t D t b
Virtual Private Database (VPD)

• Oracle Label Security (OLS)


Related Sessions

Thursday
CON9031 - The Top 10 Things You Can Do to Secure Your
Moscone West
2:15 pm Oracle E Business Suite Instance
E-Business
2018
Eric Bing, Erik Graversen


Business Intelligence and
Reporting


Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition
Enables Flexibility, Extensibility Standardization
Flexibility Extensibility,

Data Ad-hoc Interactive Essbase Reporting & Proactive Disconnected MS Office
Integration Analysis Dashboards Analytics Publishing Detection & Mobile & Outlook
and Alerts Analytics Integration

Common Enterprise Information Model
Integrated Security, User Management, Personalization
Multidimensional Calculation and Integration Engine
Intelligent Request Generation and Optimized Data Access Services

Oracle, JD Edwards, Files Excel Business
OLTP & ODS Data Warehouse Process
Data Mart Essbase Siebel, P
Si b l PeopleSoft,
l S ft XML
Systems
Custom Apps


Oracle Business Intelligence Applications
Interactive Reporting & Ad-hoc Proactive Disconnected MS Office Web
Dashboards Publishing Analysis Detection Analytics Plug-in Services
and Alerts

Service & Order Supply
Sales Contact Management Financials Human
Marketing Chain Resources
Center & Fulfillment
Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Applications
Common Enterprise Information Model
Oracle Business Intelligence Server

Other Datasources
Packaged IVR, ACD, CTI
Universal
ETL Maps Adapters Hyperion
MS Excel
ORACLE APPLICATIONS Oracle Business Analytics Syndicated
Warehouse Schema


Oracle BI Applications 7.9.6.3

Full suite of CRM and ERP Analytics offerings
– Support for Siebel, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, E-Business Suite
pp p
– E-Business Suite now certified at 12.1.3 level
Built for and certified with OBIEE 11.1.1.5
– Adopts 11g presentation features
Presentation hierarchies, master-detail linking, cascading prompts
hierarchies master detail linking
– Adopts 11g security model
Role-based, not group-based
– Unlock new capabilities for BI Apps customers
Geospatial, scorecard, mobile support, systems management
New extension pack introduces new modules
– Oracle Manufacturing Analytics
– Oracle Enterprise Asset Management Analytics


Oracle Discoverer

Access APPS_MODE End-User Layer via Business Intelligence System
Discoverer workbooks secured by Applications responsibilities
y pp p
Discoverer 11g End-User Layer resides in E-Business Suite database
Run Discoverer on separate cluster for enhanced scalability, wide deployment

Discoverer

User E-Business Suite
End-User Layer


Active Data Guard

Offload reporting to Active Data
Guard instance
Works for read-only EBS reports
– Test mode in primary makes it
possible to determine whether a
report
will run successfully on standby
Available as a patch
on top of 12.1.3


Using Golden Gate with E-Business Suite
g

Certified Scenarios UNIDIRECTIONAL
Reporting Instance

Unidirectional: From EBS to a
reporting instance
Broadcast: From EBS to
multiple external databases BROADCAST CONSOLIDATION
Data Distribution Data Warehouse
Consolidation: From several
data sources incl. EBS to a data
warehouse
Note 1112325.1


Systems Management


Virtualization

Deploy EBS environments in hours, not days
Use EBS VM templates for production and test beds
Configure multiple VM nodes with EBS Virtualization Kit
Maximize your server utilization
Dynamically migrate between nodes based on free capacity
Consolidate VMs onto fewest servers
Expand to more servers automatically when load increases
Increase high-availability
Support live migration on failover between EBS application tier nodes
Automatically restart VMs on server or VM failure


Oracle Virtualization Architecture
Server P l
S Pool Oracle VM Manager
• Pool resources • Browser-based
• Load-balance • Java server
VM VM VM VM
• Migrate • Scalable & Available
• A t F il
Auto-Failover
Server Pool

Oracle VM Manager

Oracle VM Servers
XE, SE, EE or RAC
Database

Oracle VM Servers Shared Storage Pool Options
• Hold guest VMs • NAS/NFS
• Linux, Solaris, • SAN
Windows • iSCSI


E-Business Suite Oracle VM Templates

Self-contained images

EBS 12.1.3 Vision Demo
Database tier
EBS 12.1.3 Production
12 1 3
Database tier
EBS 12.X Application Server
tier – any EBS 12 release
Notes 986690.1, 677681.1


Application Management Pack 12.1 for E-Business Suite
Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Plug-in
Plug in

Manage EBS environments centrally
Validate configurations, identify missing patches
Deploy setups automatically
Monitor concurrent requests, workflows, users
Automate cloning and hot backups
Apply and track patches automatically
Package & deploy your customizations
Create standards compliant patches
standards-compliant
Automatically deploy them with Oracle patches


External Integrations


E-Business Suite Integration Tools & Technologies
Oracle E-Business Suite

Concurrent
PLSQL Business XML Gateway Integrated SOA
Program
Workflow Event Gateway
System E Commerce
E-Commerce (Web Services)
Java Open Interface
Gateway

Integration Data-Centric Process-Centric Event-Driven B2B Integration through
through Native Integration Integration Integration Integration Web services
Interfaces

Oracle SOA Suite
Oracle Data E-Business
E Business
Integrator BPEL CEP B2B
Suite Adapter


E-Business Suite SOA Enablement
Integration Repository
Search and view available interfaces
E-Business Suite Integration Points by product family, standard, or
• Web Services • Business Events interface type
i t f t
• Public Java & PL/SQL APIs • Batch Interfaces
Hosted for 11.5.10:
http://irep.oracle.com
http://irep oracle com

Shipped with Release 12 –
automatically matches the patch
level at your own site

Supports custom service interfaces


Oracle E-Business Suite Integration
Business Integration Technologies

Web Services

Integrated SOA Gateway EBS Adapter

PL/SQL Interface Concurrent
APIs Tables Programs
XML Gateway
Interface
BSO Java APIs
Views eCommerce Gateway

Business Event System

Oracle Workflow


E-Business Suite Adapter
Integration Solution Overview
Oracle SOA Suite
PL/SQL API, Views,

tory
Business Events

Integratio Reposit
BPEL PM BAM

XML & eCommerce
Gateway EBS

on
Adapter ESB B2B
Open Interface Table &
Concurrent Programs

Leverages Integration Repository Application Context Ready
Secured and Trusted Connection Transaction Support
Function Security Enabled Customization Support


Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA
Gateway
Std WS Client
Apache Axis
Logistics External Web
Service Service BPEL PM / OSB

Provide Services
HRMS SCM
Consume Services Service Service
Integrated SOA Gateway


Fusion Middleware, SOA Suite


Application Integration Architecture
Direct Integrations
Di t I t ti
Manage. Pre-built
Process Integration Packs integrations to support data
flows between systems
• Loosely coupled composite Direct
business processes Process Integration Packs
Integrations
Optimize. Pre-built composite
Foundation Pack business processes across
• Comprehensive process enterprise Applications
composition framework
Foundation Pack
Standardize. C
St d di Common Obj t
Object
and Shared Service Library with
supporting SOA programming
model and best practice
implementation methods


Application Integration Architecture

AIA Foundation pack with pre-built
PIP (Process Integration Packs) and
CBPs (Composite Business
Processes).
Based on SOA
Standards compliance
Multiple integration styles
Application agnostic Shared
Services inventory


Oracle Web Center
Build websites, collaborative and composite applications in Web Center
Add EBS R12 portlets via WSRP 1.0 / JSR-168
Pull data from PSFT, Siebel, JDE, and social computing services
Display data in EBS portlets based on EBS responsibilities

Social
E-Business Computing
Suite

Dashboards

Web
PeopleSoft
Center
Mashups


Related Sessions

Thursday
CON8716 - Web Services and SOA Integration Options for
Moscone West
11:15 am Oracle E Business Suite
E-Business
2016
Rekha Ayothi, Veshaal Singh


Q&
Q&A


E-Business Suite Technology Stack Blog
gy g

blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan

• Direct from EBS Development
• Latest news
• Certification announcements
• Primers, FAQs, tips
• Desupport reminders
• Latest upgrade recommendations
• Statements of Direction
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