sap r/3 on rac at colgate palmolive arthur fleiss jan klokkers architect sr. director sap...
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SAP R/3 on RAC at Colgate Palmolive
Arthur Fleiss Jan Klokkers
Architect Sr. Director SAP Development
Colgate Palmolive Oracle Corporation
Session id: 40042
Topics
SAP-RAC Scenarios Cluster Filesystem SAP-RAC Scalability SAP-RAC Technical Architecture SAP-RAC at Colgate-Palmolive
SAP Scenario – mySAP Setup with RAC
Presentation Multiple SAPApplication Servers
Multiple RACDatabase Instances
SAP Scenarios – MCOD with RAC
Oracle RAC
Instance 1
Oracle RACInstance 2
SAP R/3System 2
SAP R/3System 1
Oracle RAC
Instance 3
SAP CRMSystem
Technical Highlights – Cluster File System Shared Software Location (Oracle, SAP, others)
– Easier Install and Upgrade Oracle Installer (OUI) is CFS aware No changes for SAP Install and Upgrades
Simplified Database Storage Management– No need to pre-create each Oracle data file– No need to slice disk for each Oracle data file – Easier to increase Oracle data file size
Simplified Administration and Monitoring – No difference from Single Instance
– Single Location for Backup and Archives– Single Location for Configuration Files of Oracle and SAP
Technical Highlights – Cluster File System
Support for vendor Cluster File System (CFS)– Fujitsu Siemens - PrimeCluster– HP Tru64 - TruCluster– IBM AIX – General Parallel File System (GPFS)– Veritas – Database Edition/Advanced Cluster
Oracle Built CFS on Linux and NT
SAP R/3 Scalability with RAC
SingleNode
2 Nodes 4 Nodes0
2,000
4,000
6,000
8,000
10,000
12,000
SingleNode
2 Nodes 4 Nodes
# Users
SAP R/3 4.6C Parallel Three Tier SD Benchmark on RAC
36403640
65806580
12,00012,000
82%Scalability/Box
82%Scalability/Box
SAP R/3 on Cluster - Architecture
ClusterFile System
Oracle Instance 1SID
Listener
Node 1 Node 2
SAP R/3Dialog Instance(s)
SAP R/3Dialog Instance(s)
Central Instance(ENQ, MSG-Server)
SAP R/3Dialog Instance(s)
SAP R/3 with RAC - Architecture
Oracle Instance 1SID
Listener 1
Node 1
SAP R/3Dialog Instance
Central Instance(ENQ, MSG-Server)
Node 2
Listener 2
Oracle Instance 2SID
SAP R/3Dialog Instance(s)
Central Instance(Automatic failover with
Replicated Enqueue)
ClusterFile System
SAP R/3Dialog Instance(s)
Automatic with Transparent Application Failover SAP R/3
Dialog Instance(s)
Company OverviewColgate Palmolive is the worldwide leader in Oral Care, Personal Care, Household Surface Care, Fabric Care and Pet Nutrition Global presence. Operations in over 200 countries around the world. Worldwide revenues of $9+ billion.
Major global brands include Colgate, Palmolive, Mennen, Kolynos, Ajax, Soupline, Fab, Hill’s Science Diet and Hill’s Prescription Diet Pet Foods.
Company Profile 2001 Sales by Region
Asia / Africa
16%
Hills12%
Europe
20%Latin
America27%
North America25%
OVERVIEW
Project team Environment Results Plans
Project Team
Colgate– 1 DBA , 1 Sysadmin
Oracle IBM SAP
Upgrade Path
0- SAP HR 4.6C / 4.6D kernel – 36 countries1- Solaris 2.6 – Oracle 8.12- Upgrade in place to Oracle 9.23- Exp/Imp to Oracle 9.2 on AIX (non clustered)4- Copy to AIX cluster @
- aix 5.1- hacmp 4.4- gpfs 1.5- ssd 1.3
5- Enable Rac
ENVIRONMENT
CABLETRONSSR
CABLETRONSSR
CABLETRONSS6000
IBM 44PORACLE&SAP
IBM 44PORACLE&SAP
IBM 44PORACLE&SAP
IBM S85SAP only
GB-GPFS
100mb RAC
10mb end-user
MCDATA 6064 IBMESSF20
Results
1- Implementation was not difficult
2- No show-stoppers
3- Performance is good( low single %)
4- No surprises during destructive testing
Plans
1- Will implement in 3 tier HR landscape
2- Will test ‘replicated-ENQ’
3- Will evaluate for other R3
4- Will look at consolidating multiple non SAP Db’s onto RAC
5- Will upgrade HR to ‘Enterprise’
6- Upgrade AIX stack
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