® ® Oracle for SAP TECHNOLOGY UPDATE No. 22 Oracle for SAP, May 2013 www.oracle.com/sap Please download current version of the Oracle for SAP Technology Update Nr. 22 www.oracle.com/sap Hardware and Software CONTENTS Engineered to Work Together 3 Editorial 4 Oracle Engineered Systems for SAP 6 Oracle Exadata Database Machine for SAP customers 12 Oracle Exadata Database Machine Start Up Pack for SAP customers 14 Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud certified for SAP NetWeaver 7 18 SPARC SuperCluster optimized solution for SAP customers 20 ATIVAS on SPARC SuperCluster 22 Oracle Database Appliance Certified for SAP customers 24 Oracle VM server for X86 virtualization now available for SAP customers 26 Oracle Exadata for SAP at Lion 30 Oracle Exadata for SAP at Dongfeng 32 Infosys-Oracle Exadata for SAP consolidation solution 34 Atos IT – Oracle Exadata Services for SAP Customers 36 Oracle Exadata for SAP at Shenhua 38 Oracle Exadata for SAP at Koctas 42 SAP customer with Oracle Exadata Database Machine in production 45 Why SAP Customers Deploy Exadata 48 Oracle Exadata for SAP at Glencore 52 Oracle Database 11g Release 2 for SAP 58 Oracle Database Migration Technologies 71 Oracle HA Solutions Certified by SAP for Integration with SAP NetWeaver 72 Oracle Cloud File System for SAP 75 Real Application Testing for SAP customers 78 Oracle Advanced Compression at Indesit 82 Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.0 for SAP at City of Nuremberg 84 Oracle Advanced Compression at ConAgra Foods 89 Oracle RAC and ASM at EDEKA Lunar 92 Oracle Advanced Customer Services (ACS) at AkzoNobel -Triple O 94 Helsana DB2 migration to Oracle Database 96 Oracle Advanced Customer Services (ACS) for SAP 101 Oracle Advanced Customer Services (ACS) at Centrica 1021 Oracle Advanced Customer Services (ACS) O2O-NXP Semiconductors N.V. 104 Oracle Partner - All4it Group 106 Geberit Group - Oracle Data Guard 11g 108 Oracle Sun Collateral Reference List 109 Oracle Partner - IS4IT, SAP on RAC 1111 Oracle Partner - Delta Consulting 112 Oracle DB related Notes for SAP 114 Imprint 115 Oracle provides a complete IT database and infrastructure stack to run SAP applications 3 DEAR SAP CUSTOMER, Hardware and Software Engineered to Work Together. Oracle provides the world’s most complete, open, and integrated technology stack including data­ base, business software, operating systems, servers, and storage. Oracle technologies make SAP applications run better. Oracle Corporation and SAP AG have had an ongoing commitment to our tens of thousands of joint customers for 25 years. Our longstanding reseller and customer support agreements provide enhanced access to Oracle database technology and world class customer support. Oracle’s product strategy provides flexibility and choice across the IT infrastructure. A growing majority of all mid-size to large enterprise SAP Customers in every industry entrust their appli­ cation deployments to the Oracle database. Companies are running SAP applications with Oracle databases on all major operating systems. And SAP Business Suite continues to fully support and optimize for all major databases in the industry, further demonstrating our com­ mitment to openness and innovation without disruption.* Oracle’s engineered systems are optimized to achieve best in class enterprise performance levels that are unmatched in the industry. Faster time to production is achieved by implementing pre-engineered and pre-assembled hardware and software bun­ dles. Single-vendor infrastructure stack simplifies and reduces the costs associated with purchasing, deploying, and supporting IT environments. The Oracle Exadata Database Machine is engineered to consolidate all of your SAP Databases and non-SAP Databases into a private Database Cloud environment. It delivers the highest performance and most available platform for running the private Oracle Database Cloud. Built using industry-standard hardware from Sun, and intelligent database and storage software from Oracle, the Exadata Database Machine delivers extreme performance for all types of database workloads including Online Transaction Processing (e.g. SAP ECC 6.0), Data Warehousing (e.g. SAP BW 7.0 and higher) and consolidation of mixed work­ loads (SAP and non-SAP). Simple and fast to implement, the Exadata Database Machine is ready to tackle your largest and most important database applications – and often run them 10 times faster or even more – deployed by a fast growing number of SAP customers today. Oracle SPARC SuperCluster is the first general-purpose engineered system that combines the computing power of the new SPARC processor, the performance and scalability of Oracle Solaris 11, the optimized database performance of Oracle Exadata storage, and the accelerated middleware processing of the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud on SAP kernel 6.40 and higher. SAP Super Cluster customers are able to mix Solaris 10 and 11 (zones support), can use their existing SAN environment and when needed their older SAP versions. Oracle redefines the economics of enterprise computing with a complete refresh and expansion of its SPARC M5 and T5 server portfolio providing customers the industry’s best value with leading price / performance. Customers can expect fast deployments and reduced risk through tight integration with Oracle Database, middleware, business applications, and supported Oracle Optimized Solutions. The Oracle Database Appliance is a new way to take advantage of the world’s most popular database—Oracle Database 11g — in a single, easy-to-deploy-and-manage system. It’s a complete package of software, server, storage, and networking that’s engineered for simplicity; saving time and money by simplifying deployment, maintenance, and support of database workloads. Oracle Linux 6 is the latest Linux version of Oracle for your SAP infrastructure computing needs. It is fast – delivers best per­ formance for SAP is up to date – brings the latest innovations to customers; is reliable – provides data integrity, better security, and improved application uptime; and is optimized for Oracle Databases under SAP. Oracle VM Server for x86 is a free server virtualization solution that makes SAP and other enterprise applications easier to deploy, manage, and support. The Oracle development teams on site at SAP AG in Walldorf, Germany continue working together with SAP developers to ensure that SAP customers will always have access to the latest optimized Oracle technologies to ensuring performance, reliability and innovation. Oracle Database 12c will support SAP applications. The Oracle for SAP Service & Support team offers Advanced Customer Services (ACS) that includes health checks, workshops, database migrations, performance, tuning and ACS Oracle Solaris Services for SAP Environments, including Assisted Services Engagements (Analysis/-Enhancement and SAP Readiness Service for IT Infrastructure). For more information or to see current and previous editions go to: www.oracle.com/sap We welcome your comments and questions. Please contact us at: [email protected] Sincerely, Gerhard Kuppler Vice President SAP Alliances Oracle Corporation *www36.sap.com/corporate-en/news.epx?PressID=20221 4 ORACLE’S ENGINEERED SYSTEMS FOR SAP: ORACLE INFRASTRUCTURE OPTIMIZES SAP LANDSCAPES SAP landscapes are growing in complexity, with Oracle Exadata Database Machine servers, storage, networking, operating systems, and Designed to deliver extreme performance to data ware­ database and middleware all needing to be ordered, housing, OLTP, and mixed-load database applications, configured, installed, tested, and maintained on an the Oracle Exadata Database Machine is ready to ongoing basis. This can turn SAP deployment and perform out of the box. The system is pre-configured expansion into a lengthy and complex process. In with all necessary software—Oracle Database, Oracle addition, keeping SAP landscapes up to date through Database Real Application Clusters (RAC), Oracle patching, updating software, and adding hardware Grid Infrastructure, and storage servers are pre-cab­ requires a lot of skilled manpower and training. led in racks using Infiniband and Ethernet switches. Oracle’s engineered systems for SAP are designed to The complete Oracle Exadata package arrives pre­ help savy IT managers deploy more services faster on integrated and pre-tested, and can save weeks and a streamlined infrastructure that costs less to run. sometimes months of time to deployment. Oracle’s Engineered Systems for SAP Highly optimized for database use and purpose-built for database consolidation, the core of the Oracle Exa­ For more than 25 years, companies have trusted their data Database Machine is the Oracle Database 11g business-critical SAP environments to state-of-the­ software and Oracle Exadata Storage Servers and art Oracle software. Today, Oracle’s integrated infra­ Software. These storage servers overcome the limita­ structure stack — consisting of servers and storage, tions of conventional storage with a massively-parallel operating systems, database software, middleware, architecture to dramatically increase data bandwidth networking, and built-in virtualization features — is between the database server and storage. In addition, optimized to deliver agility and performance to SAP innovative Exadata technologies, such as Exadata applications. Now this integrated stack is available as Smart Scan, Exadata Smart Flash Cache, accelerate a family of Engineered Systems that are pre-integra­ database processing and speed I/O operations for SAP ted, pre-tested,