Using oracle cloud to speed up e business suite 12.2 upgrade

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Using Oracle Cloud to
Speed Up E-Business Suite
12.2 Upgrade
21-Feb-2018
Vasu Balla
Principal Consultant
Pythain
@r12dba

Agenda
• Oracle Cloud Fundamentals
• Deploying EBS on Oracle Cloud
• Overview of EBS Upgrade to R12.2
• How Oracle Cloud Helps ?

About Me
Vasu Balla
–15 Years of Apps DBA Experience
–Principal Consultant with Pythian
–Oracle EBS ATG CAB Member
–Based out of Ottawa, Canada
–@r12dba

ABOUT PYTHIAN
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help companies adopt and
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Systems currently
managed by Pythian
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in 35 countries
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Oracle Cloud Offerings
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
–Formerly Oracle Bare Metal Cloud
–Uses KVM technology
–Provides both VMs and Bare Metal
–Better Network Infra & Security
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic
–Former Oracle Public Cloud
–Xen VM Based
–Provides only VMs

OCI vs OCI Classic
• EBS Automation is not yet complete on OCI
– Lot of good features in pipeline
• OCI only has 2 DC locations in North America
• OCI is better in security aspect
– Uses Private/Public Keys to authenticate
– Can create multiple subnets in OCI

EBS on Oracle Cloud
• Middle Tier
– IaaS (VM)
• Database
– IaaS (VM or BareMetal ) or DBcS (RAC Support)
• Load balancer
– Oracle Traffic Director (classic) , LBaaS ( new)
• EBS Provisioning VM (classic)
– EBS Cloud Admin Tool (CLI Based )
– UI Based Admin Tool in works
– Prov Tool is now shipped via Edelivery
• EBS Developer VM
– JDeveloper, Forms & Reports

EBS Deployment Options Oracle Cloud

How Oracle Cloud can help ?
• Demo instances
–Fire up Vision instance in matter of 30 mins
• POC Upgrade
–Start testing the upgrade process by provisioning
few VMs on Oracle Cloud
–Don’t have to wait for budget to get new servers

R12 Upgrade Overview 11i to R12.2
• Apply all 11i prereq patches
• Clone DB to new server
• Upgrade DB to 12c if required
• Install 12.2.0 FS & Consolidated Upgrade Patch
• Run 12.2.0 Upgrade Driver
• Enable Online Patching
• Install 12.2.7 RUP patch
• Configure Additional Middle Tiers & Load balancer
• Configure Workflow Mailer & Single Signon Integrations

• Clone DB to new server
–Use Remote Clone Util to clone DB to VM on oracle
cloud
–Delivered via patch 22336899
–Use the utility to backup Oracle DB to Storage cloud
–Use provisioning tool to create the DB

• Upgrade DB to 12c if required
–Use DBcS upgrade feature to upgrade from 11.2.0.4
to 12.1.0.2
–Applies all required one-off patches for you

• Install 12.2.0 FS & Consolidated Upgrade Patch
–No prebuilt 1220 image available yet
–Do fresh install from media during first run
–Take snapshot of the VM after the install
–Use the snapshot to create VMs during subsequent
Upgrade Runs

• Run 12.2.0 Upgrade Driver
–Add additional CPU to the server to speed up the
upgrade driver
–Incase of patch issues, easily restore backup
snapshot and start over

• Enable Online Patching
–Take a storage snapshot of the VMs before starting
the online patching
–Helps in restore quickly incase of issues
–Extra CPUs can help as well in speeding up

• Install 12.2.7 RUP patch
–Use Oracle supplied 12.2.7 VM images to build
fresh VM instead of installing patch
–Detach 1227 volumes from this VM and attach to
your VM
–Run the patch with nocopy & nogen options
–Add extra CPU to DB node to speed up patching
–Take post patch snapshot as a fallback point incase
of post upgrade step issues

• Configure Additional Middle Tiers & Load balancer
–Use EBS Provisioning tool, easy menu driven tool,
to Add additional middle tiers to existing instance
–Comes with EBS Provisioning VM on Classic
–Oracle keeping updating this tool monthly with
additional features
–Web UI in the roadmap

• Configure Workflow Mailer & Single Signon
Integrations
–EBS Provisioning Tool has option to configure
workflow mailer
–And Oracle OAM/OID single sign-on integration

References
• Create VM from snapshot
– https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/iaas/compute-iaas-cloud/stcsg/cloning-
instance-using-instance-snapshots.html
• Resize/Reshape Instance
– https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/iaas/compute-iaas-cloud/stcsg/updating-
instance.html
• Upgrade 11g DB to 12c DBcS
– http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/tutorials/obe/cloud/dbaas/obe
_dbaas_upgrading_11gr2_onpremise_to_12c_cloud/obe_dbaas_upgrading
_11gr2_onpremise_to_12c_cloud.html
• Getting Started with Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle Cloud
(Doc ID 2066260.1)

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balla@pythian.com
@r12dba

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