Oracle OpenWorld AWS Booth Sessions

•Amazon Web Services Booth:  South Exhibition Hall; booth 415

Monday  10:15 : AWS Overview   10:45 : Running Oracle Software on AWS

    11:15 : RDS Oracle Overview     1:15 : Oracle EM on AWS (Oracle OEM team)

  2:00 : RDS Best Practices      2:45 : Oracle Linux on AWS (Oracle Linux team)

  3:30  How are Oracle customers leveraging AWS ? (App Associates)

    4:30 : Siebel on AWS (Enterprise Beacon)

Tuesday  10:15 : Running Oracle Software on AWS  10:45 : RDS Best Practices  

    11:15 : Accenture  1:15 : Oracle Database Advanced Architectures on AWS     2:00 : CRM Cloud in a Box on AWS (Loyalty Methods) 3:30 : AWS Overview  

    4:30  : PeopleSoft on AWS (DLZP Group)

 

Wednesday  10:15 : RDS Oracle for the Enterprise   10:45 : DR on AWS  

  11:15 NetApp Private Storage for AWS   1:15 : Extending your Data Center to Cloud     2:00  : AWS Overview 2:45 : Oracle EM on AWS   3:30 : Smarter Agent’s Cloud   Forklift to AWS (SmartShift)     

Oracle on AWS webinar recordings

Here are the three Oracle on AWS recorded to date:
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2UcCdnNsRc&feature=youtu.be - Smarter Agent, AWS and smartShift Technologies provides an overview of how they fully migrated their customer's, Smarter Agent, Oracle database to AWS to provide a scalable and cost effective hybrid implementation

2. http://youtu.be/XSBND55sghc - Listen to this webinar, presented by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Apps Associates, an AWS Partner Network (APN) Advanced Consulting Partner, to hear how you can leverage the AWS platform to run a centralized OEM 12c environment to free up your administrative resources.

3. http://mfile.akamai.com/23543/wmv/citrixvar.download.akamai.com/23543/www/729/667/988620541967729667/2-988620541967729667-13e6bb61c33.asx

A good introduction to running Oracle databases & applications on Amazon Web Services platform.  Hear the answers to commonly asked questions like: Which Oracle products are available and possible to run on AWS?  What does support, pricing and licensing models look like? How to size Oracle on AWS?

Watch for more webinars after Oracle OpenWorld next week.

AWS @ Oracle OpenWorld 2013 details

Learn everything you need to run Oracle on AWS and talk to solution architects to address any questions you have: http://aws.amazon.com/oracle/

Oracle on AWS at partner event in SF

AWS partner event in downtown SF with an Oracle Solutions on AWS session:
http://awssipartnereventsf-awsemail1.eventbrite.com

Oracle WebLogic and Database on AWS

Presented at reInvent in 2012.  Full session here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1AjAKz73M8

McGraw-Hill success story starts here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=R1AjAKz73M8#t=2617

Oracle WebLogic and RAC on AWS architecture slide:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=R1AjAKz73M8#t=3192

Oracle Enterprise Applications on AWS

In case you missed this webinar:

Come join us and get a good introduction to running Oracle databases & applications on Amazon Web Services platform.  Hear the answers to commonly asked questions like: Which Oracle products are available and possible to run on AWS?  What does support, pricing and licensing models look like? How to size Oracle on AWS?

You can view it here:

http://mfile.akamai.com/23543/wmv/citrixvar.download.akamai.com/23543/www/729/667/988620541967729667/2-988620541967729667-13e6bb61c33.asx The solutions page for AWS and Oracle can be found here: http://aws.amazon.com/oracle/ Many of our partners have hosted test drives for Oracle on AWS, which can be invoked from the portal page below: http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/global-solution-providers/oracle/labs/

EMaaS : Oracle OEM 12c as a Service webinar

Learn how Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control enables you to monitor and manage the complete enterprise application stack, web tier to storage, for both dedicated and cloud-based infrastructure environments.

Join Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Apps Associates, an AWS Partner Network (APN) Advanced Consulting Partner to hear how you can leverage the AWS platform to run a centralized OEM 12c environment to free up your administrative resources.

Register here:

https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&eventid=641039&sessionid=1&key=C3BFA66F187A7E2A5DD0C6865B83A3E6&partnerref=AWSemail_v1&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRow5%2FmYJoDpwmWGd5mht7VzDtPj1OY6hBkuIryWflL6iuNDGZQ7fbSfDAMKHJ52xQ5LH%2FKDdYNF6Q%3D%3D&sourcepage=register

Replay can be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSBND55sghc

Oracle Linux and HVM AMIs

OEL is not supported on cr1.8xlarge. These instances run as HVM-base instances.  All Oracle AMIs are PVM.    For HVM you have to go with Windows, SUSE or RHEL for now. You can spin one of these up and install Oracle DB on them.  There are ways to convert a PV AMI to  HVM AMI, but whether Oracle will support you is another question.   This applies to the other cluster compute instances types as well: CC2 and CG1.  However, it is mostly likely someone wants to run the cr1 instance type as this is the largest memory footprint by far (244 GB).  This size instance is great for in memory databases or large EBusiness Suite/Fustion installations.  

Oracle on AWS partner accreditation

In June, partners will be able to take on line training to get accreditation as an Oracle on AWS partner:
http://aws.amazon.com/partners/overview/partner-training/

Oracle Enterprise Applications on AWS web cast

Oracle Enterprise Applications on AWS Join us for a Webinar on May 3 Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/973888266 Come join us and get a good introduction to running Oracle databases & applications on Amazon Web Services platform.  Hear the answers to commonly asked questions like: Which Oracle products are available and possible to run on AWS?  What does support, pricing and licensing models look like? How to size Oracle on AWS? Title: Oracle Enterprise Applications on AWS Date: Friday, May 3, 2013 Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar. System Requirements PC-based attendees Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server Mac®-based attendees Required: Mac OS® X 10.6 or newer Mobile attendees Required: iPhone®, iPad®, Android™ phone or Android tablet

Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c - Monitoring Essentials test drive lab

App Associates and AWS just announced a new test drive lab.  This test drive lab demonstrates how OEM 12c can be used to monitor and manage on premise Oracle environments in the cloud.

http://awslabs.appsassociates.com/oemdb-registration.php

Oracle WebLogic with AWS Auto Scaling

The question of using Oracle WebLogic with AWS Auto Scaling and propagation of session state is often asked.  Before getting into the details, let's look at the two ways of handling session state at the server layer (using cookies in the browser can be used as well):
1. Session stickiness : session data issue is to send all requests in a user session consistently to the same backend server. 
2. Session in database : Another solution is to keep the per-session data in a database.  Of course, AWS ElastiCache, SimpleDB or DynamoDB, or RDS.

If the session is stored in a database, nothing needs to be done when using Auto Scaling with WebLogic; for obvious reasons.

When sticky sessions is used, nothing needs to be done, but the reason is not so obvious so let's discuss it.

When a request comes into a WebLogic cluster via a load balancer (AWS ELB for example) or through Apache (mod_proxy_balancer plug in) the first time,  WebLogic creates an HTTP session on the primary node and also puts session state on a backup node. (You can provide guidance/control where to put the failure/backup).  If the server goes down that contains the primary WebLogic node, the new primary node will know where the backup session is stored and the session state will automatically get replicated to the new node.  So when AWS Auto Scaling is used there is nothing that needs to be done from an AWS perspective. 

Oracle on AWS costs of Oracle on AWS and licensing management

Here are two common questions in regards to Oracle pricing and licensing on AWS:

1. How can they determine the pricing for an instance launched from an Oracle AMI e.g. https://aws.amazon.com/amis/oracle-database-11g-release-2-11-2-0-1-enterprise-edition-64-bit?

The bottom line: The pricing are the standard EC2, data out traffic, and storage + cost of Oracle licenses (or no cost of Oracle licenses if they have their own)

2. How do they manage BYOL or using unused licenses in practical terms? (afaik they have to BYOL for Oracle on EC2)

The bottom line : It is up to the customer to make sure they are not violating Oracle licensing policies.

Oracle licensing on AWS

In addition to the document on the Oracle web site (http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/cloud-licensing-070579.pdf), this nice explanation of how licensing of Oracle works on AWS:
http://www.bluegecko.net/oracle/oracle-processor-licensing-on-amazon-ec2/. 

Getting Started with WebLogic on AWS

Here are the links to get you started with Oracle WebLogic on AWS/EC2:

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 AMIs on the AWS web site but you are best to create your own AMI with the OS of your choice and install WebLogic on this base instance.https://aws.amazon.com/amis?ami_provider_id=4&selection=ami_provider_id . The AMIs Oracle has posted here are really just to get started.  They are really not even good for demo or POC usage. 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

1. Oracle licensing : You bring your own license.  You can not buy a license from AWS. This can be an     Oracle ULA, ELA, or perpetual licenses. The only support AWS has for AWS compute with Oracle license included is for AWS RDS. For all other, you have to BYOL.  A partner can use OPN licenses for test and development.  OTN licenses are only for trials of 30 days or less.
Oracle on AWS licensing document is here: http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/cloud-licensing-070579.pdf

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 licensing on AWS

Oracle licenses portability and support on AWS is a bit different between Oracle on EC2 and Oracle on RDS.  However, with both models you can Bring Your Own Licenses (BYOL). With RDS, you have the option of BYOL (Bring Your Own License) or License Included.  With Oracle on EC2, you can only BYOL. All Oracle licenses are portable to AWS as indicated here: http://aws.amazon.com/oracle/.   More details on how your Oracle licenses work on AWS can be found here: http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/cloud-licensing-070579.pdf.  The Oracle FAQ has more details on working with Oracle on AWS: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/cloud/faq-098970.html#Oracle_AWS. 

Oracle WebLogic clustering

Active/active high availability with Oracle Weblogic on AWS EC2 can be done with Oracle WebLogic Server clustering.  You must use unicast as multicast is not supported on AWS.

Oracle AMI OS, database or weblogic version not available

Because there are so many permutations of Oracle databases, weblogic servers, and operating systems the Oracle AMIs (https://aws.amazon.com/amis?ami_provider_id=4&page=1&selection=ami_provider_id) can not possible have many of the configurations customers run.  Therefore, it is necessary to create a new AMI with the correct operating system and Oracle software:
We can always create a new one.  This is for a different Linux OS but shows the process (http://www.idevelopment.info/data/AWS/AWS_Tips/AWS_Management/AWS_10.shtml)