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Implementing 10g RAC on IBM eServer pSeries running AIX 5L

Session November 15th-19th 2004 / Montpellier (France)

Frederic MICHIARA – Oracle – EMEA JSC

Thierry PLUMEAU – IBM – EMEA JSC

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The EMEA Oracle/IBM Joint Solutions Center

Fully integrated within the IBM Products and Solutions Support Center

Missions
 Benchmark and proof of concept activity
 Briefing
 Education
 Technical Support
 Porting & Testing Services
People
 A unique IBM investment in EMEA
 Skill set: 200 professionals
(150 IT Specialists & 30 IT Architects)
 eServer & TotalStorage infrastructure: Latest Technologies
• ALL Platforms
• ALL Models zSeries 140,000 Mips 150 Terabytes
• ALWAYS the latest technology* pSeries 10 Teraflops 55 Terabytes
The environment
 4 machine rooms 85,000 CPW,
iSeries 15 servers
34 Terabytes
 7 briefing rooms (from 12 to 150 seats)
 11 education rooms Including IA64, AMD
 18 benchmarking rooms xSeries 200 servers Opteron & BladeCenter
 1 TotalStorage lab technology
5,000+ visitors per year 40 ESS, 10 SAN Directors, 50 Terabytes FAStT &
 25% of the top 500 clients each year
TotalStorage 10 SAN Switches, 1300 fibre channel ports,
12 SVCs including FICON

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The JSC contribution in pre-sales project cycle

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Awareness training Support Teams
Sizings, Functional Tuning
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Pre-sales Assistance

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2004 Global activity overview

Interface with
Oracle/IBM/ISV
EMEA ORACLE/IBM Support missions
in Montpellier + +
local organizations Joint Solutions Center

Local & Global 60 % E-Business Suite / 40 % RDBMS projects Post sales

Alliance support
relationship
# of projects : 70 % pSeries/AIX, 20 % xSeries/Linux, 10 % zSeries/Linux
iSeries Emerging

Pre-sales Technical Support Technical Papers / Tests

Customer Briefings Trainings / Workshops
Daily activity
By email, phone based on
in Montpellier or onsite in Montpellier
Sizing, Archi. Validation, Face to Face / Groups and remotly Oracle/IBM products
Certifications.

Pre-sales activity Education activity

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Montpellier: a Global Oracle activity within the IBM teams

Unix servers (pSeries)

Customer Benchmark center : 1-2 Oracle / week
EMEA Oracle/IBM JSC Customer Briefing center : 2 Oracle briefing / month
ISV support center : PoC – DB oriented + 9iRAC
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Education Center : 6 Oracle Workshops / year

Intel processor-based servers (xSeries)

Linux support center : Oracle Certification, ISV support
Education center : 5 workshops / year
Customer benchmark center : 2 Oracle bench / month

& Mainframe servers (zSeries)

zlinux
New Technology Center : Pre-sales group zOS
zLinux support center : zLt offering + ISV center
zSeries benchmark center : 2 or 3 Oracle bench/ year

Storage group
Storage support center : Oracle technical papers
( getting the best.., MAN, PPRC test.. Pro-active
Permanent Oracle demo available…

Midrange servers (iSeries)

New
iSeries benchmark and support center

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EMEA and WW relationships

Sales IBM and Oracle local teams

I.T.S : projects
FTSS : awareness + projects
Customer Sales representative : projects
Pre-sales teams : awarness + projects

Technical IBM and Oracle teams

Techline : Sizings and certifications
Support teams : Educ, CritSit, 2nd level of support

EMEA PTS : Technology & ISV oriented

Oracle and IBM Alliance Managers

Germany, UK, France, Switzerland : Both A.M

Oracle Africa : Oracle Ok
CEMA : IBM OK
IBM and Oracle WW teams Spain, Italy, Austria : Oracle or IBM contacts

Competency centers : ICC and JCC +

IBM linux competency center IBM BCS
Contact with local teams : Projects
Relationship with the Partner Technical Contact with EMEA BCS Organization :
Services Group
IBM and Oracle partners
Products Line Managers (Oracle and IBM)
Projects : Sizings and validation projects
Events , Briefings with and for
Technical tests : PoC, benchmarks

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The EMEA Oracle/IBM Joint Solutions Center : a joint team

 Thierry Plumeau
IBM pSeries IT specialist

 Opened in June 1998  Paul Bramy (Oracle)

 A technical focal point in the Oracle/IBM partnership Oracle Coordinator

Pre-sales oriented  Frederic Michiara

 In synergy with the Oracle and IBM teams … Oracle pre-sales
 And field driven … !
 Alain Atge
IBM zSeries IT Specialist

 Alain Benhaïm
IBM Coordinator

 Fabienne Lepetit
Oracle support

 Marc Tu Duy Khiem

IBM xSeries IT Specialist

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A Short History in numbers
Activity 1998 2003

Sizing ( e-business suite) 45

400+
Architecture validation 45

Briefings and demos 20 30

Proof of concept 10 10

Deliverables (cookbooks, …) 10 10

Workshops 4 12
Technical events & Sales events 0 6
Certifications & Standard Benchmarks 0 3
ISV Validation (RAC & Linux mostly) 0 6
Critical Situations (post-sales) 0 10

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Oracle on Linux
at the EMEA Oracle/IBM Joint Solutions Center (JSC)
 xSeries
 WW Benchmark (OASB)
 Technical Workshops
 Customer sizings and validation architectures  pSeries and iSeries
 ISV benchmark  WW demonstration
 2nd level of support on Customer benchmarks  First customer benchmarks
 Prospect requests
 zSeries
 WW Benchmark (OASB)
 Technical Workshops
 Customer sizings and validation architectures
 ISV benchmark
 Oracle demonstration including Oracle RAC

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New Offers : remote Technical workshops

FasTt 500

PCs

p690 p690

Montpellier Center (France) San Mateo Classroom

(USA)
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Integrating 9iRAC in Customer Production environment (Switzerland)

Project objective: Current Customer environment
Implementing 9iRAC in the current 11i environments
Minimize the Batch impact on the database tier
Secure the production environment

Softwares:
AIX 5L (5.1 ml03) 64 bits Montpellier environment
Oracle e-business suite11.5.8
HACMP + GPFS
ESS
Oracle 9iR2 9.2.0.2 4 way p690

Hardware: 4 way p690

Temporary Montpellier servers 4 way p690

3 LPAR of a p690 (1.1 Ghz)
Target architecture
3 Servers : 1 Application tier + 2 Database tiers New Customer environment
Purpose of the test:
Reproduce the current production environment
Install 9iRAC and move the DB on raw devices
Tests the new features on environment

Montpellier involvement
Deliver Hardware, software resources
Deliver Human skills
Skill transfert to the customer

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ESS 800 - 6.6TB

Switch SAN
Raw Devices
GPFS 2.1 OCFSS
zVM
Linux Linux Linux Linux
AIX 5.2 AIX 5.2 AIX 5.2 Linux Linux
Suse Suse Suse Suse Suse Suse
HACMP/ES 4.5 SLSE7 SLSE7 SLSE8 SLSE8 SLSE8
SLSE8

Appl OC4J
Appl Java
9iRAC 9iRAC
9iRAC
OracleAgent

pSeries xSeries zSeries

OEM Console

The Oracle offering on IBM

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Attendee list / Session November 15th – 19th / Montpellier

 Main teachers : Frederic Michiara ( Oracle), Thierry Plumeau (IBM),

 10 attendees :
- Youssef AKHAMLICH, France (IBM)
- Patrick BROSNAN, UK (Ifield Computer Consultant)
- Vincent CUFFE, UK (Oracle)
- Saty DESAI, USA (Oracle)
- Mirko DINARICH, Switzerland (Oracle)
- Vyacheslav KOCHEPASOV, Russia (IBM)
- Philippe LEVASSEUR, France (Oracle)
- Miroslav LORENC, Czech Republic (Oracle)
- Helmut PLETZER, Germany (Oracle)
- Pascal VERDET, France (IBM)

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Workshop Agenda

 Monday (2pm – 6pm)

- Welcome
- Infrastructure
- Oracle 10g RAC on AIX : Concepts
- Prerequisites - Setup OS (LAB)

 Tuesday (9:30am - 6pm)

- CRS Installation
- Oracle 10g Installation
- Lunch
- VIP
- ASM Database Creation
- GPFS / Cluster implementation
- GPFS Database Creation

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Workshop Agenda

 Wednesday (9:30am – 6pm)

- Pachset implementation
- TAF
- Lunch
- Adding a node to an existing cluster

 Thursday (9:30am - 6pm)

- Swingbench
- Grid Control implementation
- Lunch

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Workshop Agenda

 Friday (9:30am – 12am)

- Full architecture test
- Closing session

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Workshop Infrastruture
FasTt 500
Internet PCs

10.10.10.200 - 10.10.10.250
IP address range (DHCP)
p690 p690

Computer room Classroom

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Group Infrastructure
FasTt 500
2 x 200MB
OCR & Voting 2 x 8 GB ASM Data 2 x 8 GB GPFS Data

SAN
25 GB

Internal disks Private network

210 GB Interconnect RAC & GPFS
LPAR LPAR
2WAY 2WAY
/oracle 6GB 6GB

DBSx1 DBSx2
/distrib Client network

32-WAY p690

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Workshop IP address : Server Part

 Group 1 : dbs11, dbs12

- 10.2.12.1 alias dbs11
- 10.2.12.2 alias dbs12
- 10.2.12.101 alias dbs11_vip
- 10.2.12.102 alias dbs12_vip
- 10.10.12.1 alias dbs11_gpfs
- 10.10.12.2 alias dbs12_gpfs

 Group 2 : dbs21, dbs22

- 10.2.12.3 alias dbs21
- 10.2.12.4 alias dbs22
- 10.2.12.103 alias dbs21_vip
- 10.2.12.104 alias dbs22_vip
- 10.10.12.3 alias dbs21_gpfs
- 10.10.12.4 alias dbs22_gpfs

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EMEA Oracle/IBM Joint Solutions Center

Address :
Compagnie IBM France
Rue de la Vieille Poste
BP 1021 - 34006 Montpellier Cedex
FRANCE
Email :
oraclibm@fr.ibm.com
Tel : +33 4 67 34 67 49
Fax : +33 4 67 34 64 77

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