Oracle Exadata for SAP

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/ora

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Worlds Most Popular Database

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#1 in RDBMS market share

#1 for enterprise applications
#1 for data warehousing
#1 for SAP applications
#1 for SAP Business Warehouse

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Oracle Development for SAP Team

Located at SAP HQ in Walldorf, Germany
Long-established working relationship
Enables technology transfers between Oracle and SAP
Optimization of SAP products for Oracle technology
Implementation & testing new Oracle products on SAP

Worldwide customer & pilot support

Walldorf
Palo Alto
Tokyo

SAP is Oracles largest reseller

Multi year Partners agreements in place

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Enabling SAP Applications

Years of continuous Oracle innovation
Oracle Exalogic
Oracle Exadata
Oracle Linux

Oracle Database 11g

2011
2010

2009

Oracle Database 10g

2007
2006

Automatic Storage Management

Real Application Testing
OLTP Compression

Oracle Database Vault

Transparent Data Encryption

Read-only table compression

Partitioning

2003 Real Application Clusters

1998 First SAP/BW release on Oracle
1992
First SAP/R3 release on Oracle

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Oracle9i Database

Why SAP Customers Choose Oracle

Highest Quality of Service for Business Users

Best
Performance
& Scalability

Best
Deployment
Flexibility

Best
Availability
& Reliability

Best
Support for
Very Large DBs

Best
Database
Security

Best
Database
Manageability

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SAP Customers Rely on Oracle

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Why Oracle Exadata?

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Oracle Exadata Database Machine

One architecture for

Online Transaction Processing

Data Warehousing
Database Consolidation

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Oracle Exadata Database Machine

One architecture for

SAP ERP 6.0

SAP Business Warehouse
Database Consolidation

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Extreme Performance Platform

Ideal for Consolidating SAP Application Databases

Database Server Pool
Oracle Database 11g Release 2
Oracle Real Application Clusters
Automatic Storage Management

Storage Server Pool

Up to 336 TB disk
5 TB flash storage
Oracle Exadata Storage Software

InfiniBand Network
40 Gb/sec redundant switches

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Intelligent Storage Innovations

Oracle Exadata Storage Software
Smart Scans
Offload query processing
Scale-out storage

Hybrid Columnar Compression1)

Efficient compression increases effective
storage capacity and increases user data
scan bandwidths by a factor of up to 10X

Uncompressed

Smart Flash Cache

Accelerates I/Os up to 30x
Doubles data scan rate

primary backup

Benefits
Multiply

test
standby

devt

Compressed
1) Hybrid Columnar Compression can be used after SAP approval
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Exadata Smart Flash Cache

Fastest Flash with Best Database Integration
Exadata has 5 TB of PCI flash
Flash PCI cards avoid disk controller bottlenecks
Store up to 15 TB using Advanced compression

Intelligently manages flash storage

Smart Flash Cache holds hot data
Gives speed of flash, cost of disk

Exadata flash cache achieves:

Over 1.5 million IO/sec from SQL (8K)
Sub-millisecond response times

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Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud X2-2

Integrated Compute, I/O, Networking and Storage

Integrated Storage
Shared storage for applications
Clustered for HA
40 TB SAS disk
4 TB read cache
72 GB write cache
InfiniBand I/O Fabric and 10GbE/GbE

40 Gb/sec links
10 Gigabit Ethernet
connectivity to datacenter

Compute Nodes
30 x86 compute nodes
360 Xeon cores (2.93 GHz)
2.8 TB DRAM
960 GB SSD

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Standardized Configuration
Deploy in days not months
All Database Machines are the same
Delivered tested and ready-to-run
Highly optimized
Highly supportable
No unique configuration issues

Runs existing OLTP and DW applications

Over 30 years of Oracle Database capabilities
Ready
to-Run

Leverages Oracle ecosystem

Skills, knowledge base, people, partners

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Consolidating Databases on Exadata

Serves as farm/cloud for databases
HR

CRM

SAP
BW

Lowers costs

Extreme performance for complex mix of

OLTP, DW, batch & reporting workloads
Increases utilization

SAP ERP

Automated I/O and CPU resource

management isolates workloads
Reduces management

Supply
Chain

Data Mart

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Workload Resource Management

For mixed Workloads and Multi-Databases

HR

CRM

SAP
BW

Ensure databases get correct amount of

I/O and CPU resources
ERP:
BW:

33% of resources
67% of resources

Ensure ERP tasks get correct resources

SAP ERP
Supply
Chain

Data Mart

Interactive gets priority before Batch

Ensure BW tasks get correct resources

Reporting: 70% of resources
ETL:
30% of resources

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SAP Customer Case Study

Business Background
European B-2-B stationery and office supply retailer
Operates in 30+ countries
30% growth expected within next 4 years

Challenges
Long-running invoicing batch run times
Cost and effort to administer large number of SAP databases
New B-2-B process couldnt be supported on current system

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Customers Requirements
Goals
Expose real SAP workloads to an Exadata environment
Measure performance increase (throughput & response times)
Show how Oracle technology can help minimize the impact of
hardware and software failures for the business

Conditions
Use standardized Oracle Exadata configuration
No manual tuning or configuration changes
All tests administered by customer's staff

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Conducting Proof of Concept

at Oracle Solution Centre in UK
Preparation
Installation of the entire IT infrastructure for SAP
Upgrade 6.5 TB data from Oracle Database 10g to Exadata
Generate simulation of online users in a web shop
Generate batch job load for invoicing

Execution Environment
Oracle Exadata Database Machine X2-2 Half-Rack
5 x Sun Blade 6270 M2 running Solaris10 for Application Tier
All tests administered by customer's staff

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Results from Proof of Concept

Faster performance out-of-the-box
Online User Activity
Simulated over 6,000 concurrent users
Response times of ~0.9s with 17% CPU utilization across 4 nodes
Unable to saturate system

Batch Job Results

Simulated over 900 batch jobs running in parallel
Reduced batch run times by 2/3rds (11:30 to 3:45 hours)
Only 2 Database Server nodes used for batch jobs

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Complete Family Of Database Machines

From quarter-rack to multi-rack configurations
Oracle Exadata X2-2

Oracle Exadata X2-8

2 to 8 (12 core) database nodes

2 (64 core) database nodes

Quarter
Field
U

Half

pgra
deab
le

Full, Multi-Rack
Full-Rack

Multi-Rack

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Exadata Storage Expansion Rack

Big Data for less
Pre-built storage-only rack
Connects to anyExadata Database Machine
For applications that need more space but
not more compute

On-disk backups (27 TB/hour)

Historical or archive data
File data, LOBs, XML data, documents
Images, and other large unstructured data

Attractive pricing ( ~ $7,000 per TB )

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Oracle Exalogic and Oracle Exadata

Easiest Path to Extreme Performance

SOA
E20
IDM

Custom
App.

SAP BW
Data

SAP ERP
App.

InfiniBand

SAP ERP
Data

SOA

Dehydration
Dehydration

Java
EE
App.

Data
Warehouse

SAP BW
App.

Exalogic

Data
Mart

Exadata

Application Tier

Database Tier

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Oracle Exadata for SAP

A major leap in performance, capacity and value

Redundant, secure, scale-out architecture

Eliminate systems integration trial-and-error
Run existing SAP databases unchanged
Utilize existing personnel, skills, Oracle licenses
Improve performance of SAP applications
Consolidate platforms, databases, power and cooling

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For More Information

oracle.com/sap
oracle.com/exadata
sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/ora

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