Turbocharge Your SAP Environment on Oracle SuperCluster [THT11481] SAP Environments on Oracle SuperCluster I will give you an overview of the SuperCluster, our most powerful Engineered system, And how to run SAP environments on it. Hans-Juergen Denecke - Principal Software Engineer ISV Engineering Walldorf/Germany

Program Agenda Oracle SuperCluster SAP Benchmark World Records Key SuperCluster Technology Advantages Virtualization and High Availability Oracle Optimized Solution for SAP Architecture Examples 2 SAP Benchmark World Records with our current Engineered systems 4 Key Points: * Performance * Virtualization * High Availability * Optimized Solution

Ideal Virtualization and Consolidation platform for SAP Environments Oracle's Most Powerful Engineered Systems World Record Oracle Database and Application Performance & Scalability SAP Benchmark World Records Outstanding Affordability and ROI Oracle’s Hottest Technology Exadata Storage Servers Oracle M6 and T5 Microprocessors Internal ZFS Storage Appliance Oracle VM and Solaris Virtualization

SAP World Records Oracle 6 SAP World Records SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark Results SPARC T5-8 server delivers the best 8-chip, 2-tier result* SPARC M6-32 server delivers the best 32-chip, 2-tier result* 40,000 SAP SD users 220,950 SAPS All others Oracle Oracle Database is the underlying database for the majority of SAP deployments due to Oracle’s tight integration and joint engineering efforts with SAP. Joint Oracle and SAP customers benefit from: - Joint engineering resulting in tight product integration and alignment, and simplified patching - Hardware and software certification so you can be assured that each component will work together - Benchmarking so you know what performance to expect from your integrated system - Using benchmark findings, Oracle systems are further fine-tuned and improved for maximum performance when running SAP, resulting in state-of-the-art and world-record-breaking performance - Enhanced joint customer support – support cases can be initiated on either side (Oracle or SAP) and will be escalated as appropriate. Oracle also employs dedicated SAP experts within Oracle’s support organization to further speed time to resolution. 140,000 SAP SD users 793,930 SAPS *See extra slide

Key SuperCluster Technology Advantages SuperCluster accelerates and secures SAP Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) Exadata Storage Servers Proven technology that reduces database response times InfiniBand “backplane” – connection between nodes and Exadata Proven security on all hardware and software layers “ There is nothing more important than securing your data.” - Larry Ellison, OOW14 Keynote “Security has been in our blood for a very long time, It’s part of out heritage” *See extra slide

Virtualization and High Availability for SAP instances Cluster Options for all use cases - certified by SAP Oracle VM Server for SPARC for the separation of applications SAP and non-SAP Apps can be consolidated in different LDOMs Separation of Production / Development / Q&A Oracle Solaris Zones for the separation of SAP systems and instances Two options for High Availability Oracle Solaris Cluster for HA of all SAP applications and highest flexibility Oracle SAPCTL for HA of SAP Central Services

Oracle Optimized Solutions for SAP Applications Best Environment Full Stack Testing Documented Best Practices Engineered Systems Best-In-Class Servers and Storage Storage Servers OS & Virtualization Database Middleware Deployment Tuning Performance

Architecture Examples SAP Landscape Oracle Confidential – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted

High Availability for Production Landscape 1111 High Availability for Production Landscape SAPCTL for High Availability of SAP Central Services SuperCluster Node 1 Node 2 Example with Single SAP system Oracle 11g with RAC in DB domains SAP Instances in App Domains No HA Framework Primary App Server (PAS) Additional App Servers (AAS) Central Services in DB Domain SAPCTL based on Oracle Clusterware App Domain App Domain Solaris 11 Solaris 11 AAS AAS AAS AAS SPOOL AAS PAS SAP Sol Mgr DB Domain DB Domain SAPCTL Solaris 11 (A)SCS ERS Solaris 11 Oracle RAC RAC 11g R2 RAC 11g R2

Architecture Example: Dev / QA / Production 1212 Architecture Example: Dev / QA / Production QA/DEV SuperCluster Production SuperCluster One SuperCluster for Prod, One for QA and DEV Consolidate server sprawl PROD database on Exadata storage DEV database may run on ZFS SA Clustered for HA 11gR2 RAC in DB domains Oracle Solaris Cluster zone clusters in App domains for Central Services, Primary App Server, SAP Solution Manager, App Servers (optional) Node 1 Node 2 Node 1 Node 2 GP Domain GP Domain GP Domain GP Domain Solaris 10 Solaris 10 Solaris 10 Solaris 10 AAS AAS AAS AAS AAS AAS AAS AAS AAS AAS PAS SAP Sol Mgr AAS AAS (A)SCS ERS PAS SAP Sol Mgr DEV AAS AAS AAS AAS (A)SCS ERS TEST TRAINING DB Domain DB Domain DB Domain DB Domain Solaris 11 Solaris 11 Solaris 11 Solaris 11 QA DB PRD DB Oracle RAC 11g R2 Oracle RAC 11g R2 Oracle RAC 11g R2 Oracle RAC 11g R2

Oracle SuperCluster Certification for SAP SAP Support Since March 2012 SAP NetWeaver 6.4 and 7.x; JAVA and ABAP Applications SAP Note 1693680: Running SAP Software on Oracle SuperCluster SAP Note 1696570: Oracle SuperCluster: Patches for 11.2.0.3 SAP Note 1974327: Exadata 11.2.0: Patches for 11.2.0.4

References SAP page on Oracle.com: http://www.oracle.com/sap Key SAP Notes for SAP on Oracle Solaris http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-23511 Key SAP Notes for SAP on Oracle http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-8664 SAP Community Network – SAP on Oracle http://scn.sap.com/community/oracle

Questions? My contact details hans-juergen.denecke@oracle.com OOW Session CON5925: Optimizing SAP Performance on Every Tier on Oracle SuperCluster Monday, 17:15 – 18:00 Hotel Intercontinental Grand Ballroom Questions? My contact details hans-juergen.denecke@oracle.com Oracle Confidential – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted

Backup Slides Oracle Confidential – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted

Optimizations Across the Development Cycle Engineered, Tested, and Proven from Apps-to-Disk Sizing and configuration optimizations Load/stress tests Performance, availability, scalability tests Real world workload tests Patch regression tests Fault injection tests Interoperability tests End to end functional validation Early development Identify integration opportunities Full Stack Optimizations One Engineering Team 1,000s of hours of testing across the stack to reduce risk

SAP Performance on SuperCluster The Shortcomings of SAPS for Infrastructure sizing Challenge: SAPS is the standard SAP sizing metric. But SAPS is a CPU sizing metric characterizing only the compute requirements of an SAP system and does not allow conclusions about the response characteristics of a database. Real World SAP applications performance is impacted by the whole infrastructure, not just by the CPU. Finding: SuperCluster responds TWICE as fast as standard architectures with the same SAPS rating running the same workload. Supporting Customer Observations Oil & Gas Customer: SAPS for SuperCluster was 1.26X SAPS of existing architecture. Actual tests showed workload on SuperCluster 3X faster than existing architecture. Retail Manufacturing Customer: SAPS for SuperCluster was 0.95X SAPS of existing architecture. Actual tests showed workload on SuperCluster 1.9X faster than existing architecture.

Benchmark Disclosure Statement 2020 Benchmark Disclosure Statement SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) standard application benchmarks Copyright 2013, Oracle &/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle & Java are registered trademarks of Oracle &/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) standard application benchmarks, SAP Enhancement package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0 as of 3/26/13: SPARC T5-8 (8 processors, 128 cores, 1024 threads, T5, 3.6 GHz), 2 TB main memory, Oracle Solaris 11, Oracle Database 11g Release 2. Cert# 2013008. SAP, R/3, reg TM of SAP AG in Germany and other countries. More info www.sap.com/benchmark Two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) standard application benchmarks, SAP Enhancement package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0 as of 3/26/14: SPARC M6-32 (32 processors, 384 cores, 3072 threads) 140,000 SAP SD users, 32 x 3.6 GHz SPARC M6, 16 TB memory, Oracle Database 11g, Oracle Solaris 11, Cert# 2014008. SAP, R/3, reg TM of SAP AG in Germany and other countries. More info www.sap.com