Maximum Availability Architecture: Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12

I’m highlighting OpenWorld 2008 presentations that cover some of the most popular E-Business Suite technology stack topics. A catalog of all of the Applications Technology track sessions with links to the presentations is available here:

• OpenWorld 2008 Session Catalog: E-Business Suite Applications Technology Track

Humana’s recent OpenWorld case study gives a customer-centric view of how they implemented a high-availability architecture for their
E-Business Suite environment.  Lyn Pratt and Richard Exley from Oracle’s Server Technologies MAA Group and Metin Yilmaz from Oracle Support complemented that case study with a discussion of the various options for ensuring high availability and business
continuity via a disaster recover site for your E-Business Suite environment:

• Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA): Oracle Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 (PDF, 1.6 MB)

Lyn, Richard, and Metin covered the following topics in their session:

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  Maximum Availability Architecture for the E-Business Suite – target architecture
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  MAA technologies for the database tier:
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    Real Application Clusters & Clusterware (RAC)
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    Automatic Storage Management (ASM)
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    Flashback
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    Recovery Manager & Oracle Secure Backup
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    Oracle Data Guard
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    Transitioning to RAC and ASM
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  Application High Availability (HA) features
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    Hardware load-balancers
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    Multiple web servers
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    Multiple Forms servers
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    Parallel Concurrent Processing
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  E-Business Suite Disaster Recover
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    Detailed walkthrough of the setup for an E-Business Suite disaster recovery site
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    Creation of the standby site
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    Prepartion on the primary site
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    Cloning and configuring the database software
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    Cloning and configuring application software
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    Creating the physical standby database
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    Procedures for switching over to the disaster recovery instance
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    Procedures for a failover scenario
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    Procedures for standby testing using flashback
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    Automating switchover and failover
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    Walkthrough of example configuration using HP and F5 hardware
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    New database features and potential application in E-Business Suite environments
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      Secure File System (SFS)
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      Streams Extended Datatype Support (EDS)

References

• Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) website

Related Articles

• Humana Case Study: Implementing a Highly Available Oracle E-Business Suite Architecture (OpenWorld 2008 Recap)
• Case Study Redux: Oracle’s Own Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 Upgrade (OpenWorld 2008 Recap)
• Comparing Oracle Data Guard vs. Active Data Guard for EBS Environments
• Maximum Availability Architectures and the E-Business Suite