Oracle on EBusiness Suite Case Study in detail

Nice detailed case study of running Oracle EBusiness Suite on AWS:
http://www.bluegecko.net/download/sage-manufacturing-on-ec2-case-study.pdf

Oracle EBusiness Suite Case Study

Imperia & Monferrina moved Oracle EBusiness to AWS:
 “By hosting Oracle eBusiness Suite on AWS, we reduced capital expenses by 50 percent, and operating expenses by 15 percent.”

http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/imperia-monferrina/

Running Oracle EBusiness Suite on AWS

A common question for Oracle EBusiness Suite users or potential users is 'Where do I get started?'.  Here is some information to help with:

1. Where not to start :
• Don't use video as the AMIs don't exist : 
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7asomw97TU
• Dont' use these AMIs as the don't work properly:
• https://aws.amazon.com/amis/oracle-e-business-suite-12-1-3-app-tier-64-bit
• https://aws.amazon.com/amis/oracle-e-business-suite-12-1-3-database-64-bit-ovm
2. It is best to create your own AMI or using an existing Linux AMI:
• Creating your own AMI : http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/creating-an-ami.html
• You can use any version of Linux from Oracle or other vendors that you wish.  One of the most popular Linux AMIs used is:
• https://aws.amazon.com/amis/oracle-enterprise-linux-5-5-64-bit
3. Instructions for installing Oracle EBusiness Suite vision demo
• http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E18727_01/doc.121/e12842/toc.htm
4. Creating you own AMI 'gold imagine' 
• This can be done by performing a snapshot of EC2 instance (or instances) once you have the Oracle EBusiness Suite up and running:
• http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/datacenter/how-to-create-a-new-ami-from-a-snapshot-and-launch-a-new-vm/5349
5. CloudFormation : You will want to use CloudFormation templates to automate the process of configuring the security groups, VPC, and the EC2 instances required:
• http://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/
6. Test drives : The Oracle EBusiness Suite test drive labs are a great place to start:
• http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/global-solution-providers/oracle/labs/#Oracle_Applications

Oracle EBusiness Suite on AWS public success stories

1. Advanced Innovations hosts their entire Oracle Applications and technology platform on Amazon EC2. SOA Suite, WebCentre, Beehive, Ebusiness etc.http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/advanced-innovations/

2. KPIT Cummins runs their Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1.3 environments on Amazon EC2/OVM. They have benefitted from the reduced complexity of AWS infrastructure at a click. http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/kpit-cummins/

3.Blue Gecko deployed SAGE Manufacturing’s dev, test, DR and production Oracle E-Business Suite environments on Amazon EC2 http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/sage/

4.Faced with these stringent infrastructure requirements, Sogeti utilizes Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide cloud-based infrastructure for its EBusiness Suite DR plan, in conjunction with the Oracle Data Guard data replication mechanism. http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/Sogeti/

Getting started with Oracle EBusiness Suite on AWS

Here are the links to get you started with Oracle EBusiness Suite on AWS (EC2 only, RDS not supported):

1. Oracle on AWS FAQ - 

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/cloud/faq-098970.html

2. Landing page on AWS - 

http://aws.amazon.com/oracle/

3. Oracle Amazon Machine Imagines - 

There are Oracle Enterprise Linux, Database and WebLogic AMIs on the AWS web site but you are best to create your own AMI with the OS of your choice and install EBusiness Suite on this base instance.https://aws.amazon.com/amis?ami_provider_id=4&selection=ami_provider_id . You can find the latest OEL AMIs, for OEL 5.9 and 6.4, at the bottom of this web page: http://aws.amazon.com/oracle/  

4. EC2 Instances available - 

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/

5. EC2

Pricing - http://aws.amazon.com/pricing/ec2/

6. Pricing calculator - 

http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html

Key Considerations:

1. Oracle licensing : You bring your own license.  You can not buy a license from AWS. Your Oracle license that you bring or purchase from Oracle can be an Oracle ULA, ELA, or perpetual licenses.  More on licensing can be found here: 

http://cloudconclave.blogspot.com/2013/01/oracle-licensing-on-aws.html

2. The bulk of the AWS cost is composed of EC2 compute, storage (EBS and S3) and network (data transfer out). The pricing calculator above can give you an estimate of AWS cost.

3. Oracle support on AWS : 

 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/cloud/faq-098970.html#support

Oracle EBusiness Suite sizing

Here is some public information for sizing of Oracle EBusiness Suite.

The Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1 requires at least 2GB of 3GB would be better and 4GB even better: http://gerardnico.com/wiki/ebs/installation

The installation recommended the minimum of 6 GB memory for Ebusiness Suite 12.1.3 according to Oracle documention: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B53825_08/current/acrobat/121upgrade.pdf.  For the upgrade test used in this example, a machine for the middle tier/application had 4 CPUs.    The database tier upgrade example in this document used a 24 CPU machine.

Here is some other sizing information that can help
1.  https://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/entry/ebs_sizing_primer   
2. http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/benchmark/apps-benchmark/index.html - all results http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/benchmark/apps-benchmark/results-166922.html

        Go directly to report results for this benchmark : http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/benchmark/apps-benchmark/hp-dl585-2100-16-core-166452.pdf

Database Tier:
Hewlett-Packard® ProLiant® DL585 G5 server equipped with 4 x 2.7 GHz Quad-Core AMD® Opteron™ 8384 processors.

128 GB of memory
Applications Tier:
3 x Hewlett- Packard® BL685c server blades. Each server equipped with 4 x 3.0 GHz Dual-Core AMD® Opteron® 8222 processors.

32 GB of memory

Online: 2,100 Users
Batch: 50,000 Order Lines
10,000 Payroll Employees

Be aware that Oracle E-Business Fusion Applications require a minimum of 128 GB of memory. http://onlineappsdba.com/index.php/2011/11/02/fusion-applications-128-gb-memory-and-500-gb-disk-space-are-you-ready/