1 / 21

SAP R/3 on RAC at Colgate Palmolive

Session id: 40042. SAP R/3 on RAC at Colgate Palmolive. Arthur Fleiss Jan Klokkers Architect Sr. Director SAP Development Colgate Palmolive Oracle Corporation. Topics. SAP-RAC Scenarios Cluster Filesystem SAP-RAC Scalability

yeriel
Download Presentation

SAP R/3 on RAC at Colgate Palmolive

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Session id: 40042 SAP R/3 on RAC at Colgate Palmolive Arthur Fleiss Jan Klokkers Architect Sr. Director SAP Development Colgate Palmolive Oracle Corporation

  2. Topics • SAP-RAC Scenarios • Cluster Filesystem • SAP-RAC Scalability • SAP-RAC Technical Architecture • SAP-RAC at Colgate-Palmolive

  3. SAP Scenario – mySAP Setup with RAC Presentation Multiple SAP Application Servers Multiple RAC Database Instances

  4. SAP R/3System 2 Oracle RACInstance 2 SAP CRMSystem Oracle RACInstance 3 SAP Scenarios – MCOD with RAC SAP R/3System 1 Oracle RACInstance 1

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. SAP R/3 Scalability with RAC 82% Scalability/Box SAP R/3 4.6C Parallel Three Tier SD Benchmark on RAC 12,000 # Users 6580 3640

  8. Central Instance (ENQ, MSG-Server) SAP R/3 Dialog Instance(s) SAP R/3 Dialog Instance(s) SAP R/3 Dialog Instance(s) SAP R/3 on Cluster - Architecture Node 1 Node 2 Cluster File System Oracle Instance 1 SID Listener

  9. Node 1 Oracle Instance 1 SID Oracle Instance 2 SID DOWN ! Listener 2 Listener 1 Central Instance (ENQ, MSG-Server) Central Instance (Automatic failover with Replicated Enqueue) SAP R/3 Dialog Instance SAP R/3 Dialog Instance(s) SAP R/3 Dialog Instance(s) Automatic with Transparent Application Failover SAP R/3 with RAC - Architecture Node 2 Cluster File System SAP R/3 Dialog Instance(s)

  10. Company Overview • Colgate 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.

  11. Company Profile 2001 Sales by Region Europe Latin America 20% 27% Hills 12% Asia / North America Africa 25% 16%

  12. OVERVIEW • Project team • Environment • Results • Plans

  13. Project Team • Colgate • 1 DBA , 1 Sysadmin • Oracle • IBM • SAP

  14. Upgrade Path 0- SAP HR 4.6C / 4.6D kernel – 36 countries 1- Solaris 2.6 – Oracle 8.1 2- Upgrade in place to Oracle 9.2 3- 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

  15. CABLETRON SSR GB-GPFS IBM 44P ORACLE&SAP MCDATA 6064 IBM ESS F20 100mb RAC IBM 44P ORACLE&SAP CABLETRON SSR IBM 44P ORACLE&SAP 10mb end-user CABLETRON SS6000 IBM S85 SAP only ENVIRONMENT

  16. Results 1- Implementation was not difficult 2- No show-stoppers 3- Performance is good( low single %) 4- No surprises during destructive testing

  17. 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

  18. Reminder – please complete the OracleWorld online session surveyThank you.

  19. Q & Q U E S T I O N S A N S W E R S A

More Related