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November 12, 2009
Running E-Business Suite on Exadata V2
[December 28 2009 update: E-Business Suite Release 12 is now certified on 11gR2 Database, and can therefore run on Exadata V2.]
The Exadata Database Machine Version 2 was released at OpenWorld 2009 to great fanfare. Since its unveiling, I've been getting a steady stream of questions from E-Business Suite customers who are intrigued by Exadata V2's potential.
All 11gR2 Database Applications are Compatible
The E-Business Suite and other OLTP applications will run on the Exadata V2 system if they're certified with the 11gR2 Database on Linux.
Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i is certified on the 11gR2 database, so it can run on Exadata V2 today.
We're working on certifying Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 on the
11gR2 Database right now. As soon as that certification is completed,
Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 customers will be able to run on
Exadata V2.
Apps Benchmarks are Coming Soon
As you
can probably imagine, our Applications Performance Group was very
excited to get access to one of these amazing machines. They're
working on a detailed set of performance benchmarks for the E-Business
Suite on this hardware right now.
Oracle's Revenue Recognition
rules prohibit me from discussing dates for either the R12+11gR2
Database certification or these benchmarks. You're welcome to monitor
or subscribe to this blog for updates, which I'll post as soon as soon
as they're available.
Related Articles
- 11gR2 Database Certified with E-Business Suite 12
- 11gR2 Database Certified with E-Business Suite 11i
- Tuning All Layers of the Oracle E-Business Suite (OpenWorld 2008 Recap)
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Comments ( 25 )
Hi Steven,
My customer is considering Exadata v2 for their DB server of their 11i EBS environment and very interested to know how Oracle is going to benchmark the performance (e.g. what concurrent jobs we will be comparing... etc).
If possible, please share our methodoloy of current benchmarking projects. Thanks.
Nancy
Our company is also interested in seeing how well EBS release 12 would work on Exadata machines. Do you have any estimates on when the benchmarking data may be available to us?
Thanks!
Barry
Hello, Barry,
Soon, we hope. We are all very excited about the Exadata V2 platform and are as eager as you to see the results of our formal benchmarks. Our Applications Performance Group are making good progress on this, and are working in parallel with the Exadata team, which is comparing the performance of the E-Business Suite on Exadata V1 to Exadata V2.
I'll be sure to post an announcement about those benchmarks here. Stay tuned.
Regards,
Steven
Hello Steven,
Do you have any estimates on when the benchmarking data may be available to us?
Thanks,
Christine
Hello, Christine,
Not yet, but the team is making good progress with them. Stay tuned -- they're coming.
Regards,
Steven
Steven,
A reminder on the request for the benchmark figures.
Please publish them as soon as they are ready.
Thanks.
Hemant K Chitale
Hemant,
They're not available yet, but I'll post an announcement here as soon as they're released.
Regards,
Steven
Can the application tier of 12.1.1 be installed on Exadata?
Are there any installation instructions or best practice documentation for installing 12.1.1 on Exadata?
Hi, Bob,
No, the EBS application tier cannot be installed on Exadata. From the Exadata product page (http://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/exadata/index.html):
"Oracle Exadata: The World's First OLTP Database Machine... Oracle Exadata Storage Servers combine Oracle's smart storage software and Oracle's industry-standard Sun hardware to deliver the industry's highest database storage performance."
As you can see from the linked materials, this server is strictly focussed on the database tier.
Regards,
Steven
Hi Steven,
Are the EBS 11i benchmarks available now? One of my customers is very keen to look at Exadata for their EBS11i consolidation. However, they need to be assured of the performance of this machine. If available, where can I find it?
Regards,
Anup
Hi, Anup,
Not yet. I'll post an update on this blog when they're available.
Regards,
Steven
Not yet. I'll post an update on this blog as soon as they're available.
Regards,
Steven
What is the status of Oracle's internal project of migrating from Sun SPARC hardware to Exadata for the Global Single Instance?
I think the migration completed successfully, but I'll check on the status of this and post an update.
Regards,
Steven
An update to Exadata is still in the works, but specific migration plans haven't been locked down yet.
Regards,
Steven
Hi Steven,
We have a customer need to migrate thier eBS environmnet DB &Apps tiers
(Sun O/S /R12.0.6 with db 10.2.0.6) to Exadata.
I knew that Exadata is only certified with eBS Database node , but not with Apps Tiers.
But, what about Exalogic certification with eBS Apps tiers (Conc , Admin & Web forms) ?
Is there any notes/documents for how to migrate eBS to Exalogic.
I found this URL document , but it does not have migration details
http://www.oracle.com/us/products/middleware/app-consolidation-exalogic-395610.pdf
Regards
Ahmed
Hi, Ahmed,
There is no Exalogic-specific documentation to migrate to Exalogic. It is a standard Oracle Enterprise Linux system and all of the same installation/cloning steps in our existing documentation for middle-tier configurations apply.
Regards,
Steven
Putting EBS apps tier on Exadata servers is slightly akin to buying a Ferarri and putting a trailer on it. It makes no economic sense to waste those massivly expensive Exadata CPU cycles for what could be achieved with cheap commodity servers. Not withstanding that, I gather also don't recommend putting ANYTHING other than databases on there. Thats why they call it a Database Machine!
Hi Steven,
Any performance benchmark on exadata for 11i or r12 would be good to have to move to exadata(our customer is looking to move). Please post as soon as available. thanks.
Thank you.
Hi, Guest,
Our Applications Performance Group is still working on this. I'll post more information about these benchmarks as soon as they're available.
Regards,
Steven
Hi Stephen,
How about to install E-Biz 12.1.3 application and 10g database on single Exalogic node by using Oracle VM for production system?Is that recomended to install database and application on same node of Exalogic using Oracle VM for production systems?
Hi, Fahad,
Exalogic systems are tuned to provide performance optimizations for Fusion Middleware. I don't think that there's anything that prevents you from installing Oracle VM on an Exalogic Server, and then installing whatever you want within Oracle VM.
Doing so may not be the best use of your premium Exalogic servers, though.
If you want to go with this, you should check that your Exalogic server meets the Oracle VM prerequisites. You can check My Oracle Support > Certifications for that information, or log a Service Request against Oracle VM.
Regards,
Steven
My customer is considering Exadata v2 for their DB server of their R12.1.3 EBS environment
11.2.0.3.0 is the dbase version.
Could you please confirm 12.1.3 will work with Exadata instead of RAC
Hello, Guest,
As stated in the article above, we do not certify the E-Business Suite on Exadata (or other specific server models). We certify the E-Business Suite with specific database releases. As long as a particular combination is certified, you can run that combination on Exadata.
EBS 12.1.3 is certified on Database 11.2.0.3. See:
https://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/entry/11gr2_11_2_0_3
That said, you should plan on using either Database 11.2.0.4 or 12.1.0.2 to ensure that you can get new patches for your configuration.
Regards,
Steven