[Oct. 27, 2008 Update: The latest version of this popular presentation from OpenWorld 2008 is now available for download. For links to the latest version, see this article.]
Every year at OpenWorld, Bret Fuller discusses how Oracle consolidated over 70 individual E-Business Suite instances into a single instance serving all global operations. The statistics for Oracle's own Global Single Instance keep rising impressively every year:
Bret's presentation this year covers:
- The business metrics before and after the consolidation
- Savings estimates and a discussion of business benefits
- Oracle's Global Single Instance architecture, including a glimpse of the off-site production and disaster-recovery setups in our Austin and Colorado Springs data centers
- Before and after hardware comparisons
- Tips on project management best practices
- Detailed view of the change management processes around the Global Single Instance
- Critical success factors and tips
- Oracle Case Study: Global Operations with Oracle E-Business Suite (PDF, 675K)
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Comments (11)
Hi, Kevin,Slides 29 to 31 show the detailed logical architectures. Both the production and disaster recovery data centers have RAC-based databases.Regards,Steven
Posted by Steven Chan | November 30, 2006 2:51 PM
Posted on November 30, 2006 14:51
Uh, where is the Linux RAC?
Posted by Kevin Closson | November 30, 2006 4:43 PM
Posted on November 30, 2006 16:43
Right, but Larry says Oracle runs their entire business on Linux so I would have expected some large node count cluster of Linux servers. To replace that degree of Starfire gear I should thinkg a 16 node cluster (or so) would be required?
Posted by Kevin Closson | November 30, 2006 7:17 PM
Posted on November 30, 2006 19:17
A 6:1 ratio of Sets of books to Operating Units?
Posted by François Gendron | December 1, 2006 8:57 AM
Posted on December 1, 2006 08:57
Nice blog, Kevin. You've got a great deal of interesting material there.Our Global Single Instance's middle-tier runs on commodity Linux servers from Dell.Our database servers for the Global Single Instance run on four Sun Solaris 25K SMP servers -- each with 36 x 1.2 GHz CPUs and 144 GB of RAM.Regards,Steven
Posted by Steven Chan | December 4, 2006 3:12 PM
Posted on December 4, 2006 15:12
Fancois,Apparently so. I don't have much visibility into that side of our operations, so I've passed your question on internally. I'll post an update here if something comes back on this.Regards,Steven
Posted by Steven Chan | December 4, 2006 3:27 PM
Posted on December 4, 2006 15:27
I think a lot of people would like to know if the 4 node E25K cluster (RAC) is using ASM.
Posted by Kevin Closson | December 4, 2006 5:19 PM
Posted on December 4, 2006 17:19
Kevin,Our AppsIT group sent me the following reply to your questions:<snip>1) Our environments, GSI included, are currently not configured using ASM. We however do have plans to use ASM for GSI and other environments. As such, ASM can be implemented using existing infrastructure. The additional requirement with ASM is using RMAN for backup which Oracle and the our team does have the expertise but needs to continue building up the infrastructure requirements.2) [For our database migration to Linux] we will start on this next calendar year as part of migrating a number of databases, including GSI, to Linux.</snip>Regards,Steven
Posted by Steven Chan | December 6, 2006 9:45 AM
Posted on December 6, 2006 09:45
Thanks for the update, Steve
Posted by Kevin Closson | December 8, 2006 2:10 PM
Posted on December 8, 2006 14:10
Kevin,
Has Oracle migrated its Global Operations Data Center environment to Linux, if yes what is the current system configuration that replaced the 4 - E25K's?
Thank You
Cyrus
Posted by Cyrus Arsenault | August 13, 2008 5:27 AM
Posted on August 13, 2008 05:27
Cyrus,
Our internal EBS implementation is still using SMP servers on the database tier. For details, see this latest update to the Applications IT's OpenWorld presentation about EBS 12:
Case Study Redux: Oracle's Own Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 Upgrade (OpenWorld 2008 Recap) - http://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/2008/10/case_study_redux_oracles_own_ebs12_upgrade.html
Regards,
Steven
Posted by Steven Chan | October 27, 2008 11:09 AM
Posted on October 27, 2008 11:09