WebLogic on Oracle Database Appliance: Combining High Availability and Simplicity

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WebLogic on Oracle Database

Appliance:

Combining High Availability

and Simplicity

Frances Zhao-Perez Alexandra Huff

Oracle CAF Product Management Simon Haslam

Technical Director O-box

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Agenda

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What’s new in WebLogic on ODA 12.1.3

WebLogic, Coherence, OTD provisioning on ODA

ODA management

O-box SOA Appliance

Q & A

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WebLogic on Oracle Database Appliance

All-In-One Production Ready Highly Available Solution

For Small to Mid-Sized Projects

• Ordering

• Wizard-driven installation

• Licensing

• Support

• Single vendor

• Full redundancy

• HA: RAC DB and WebLogic Server

• Best-in-class HW/SW

• Virtualized pricing

• Pay-as-you-grow licensing model

• Hours vs weeks to deploy

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Custom Applications, SOA Suite, etc

Oracle Database Appliance with WebLogic and SOA Suite

WebLogic:

SE, EE or Suite

Oracle Database

RAC, RAC One, Single instance options Oracle Grid infrastructure

Virtualization option Oracle Linux

^Appliance_Manager^ODA

runs on OVM on ODAbase

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WebLogic wizard-

driven installer

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What’s New with WebLogic on ODA 12.1.3?

Database 12c – creates new opportunities for WebLogic on ODA WebLogic single instance, including co-location

Admin Server / Single Managed Server / Admin + Managed Server, single VM For cost-sensitive customers or those with lower HA needs

Clusters now optional (except with OTD) Coherence

6 VMs, split across both physical nodes, for HA

Much faster provisioning with new ‘snap’ feature

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Referenceable ODA Customers

Spanning all Geos and Industries

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WebLogic on ODA History and Roadmap

2012 2013 2014 2015

ODA V1 HW

WLS on ODA 2.5

• V1 HW support

• WebLogic 10.3.6 & 12.1.1

• OTD 11.1.1.6.0 template WebLogic configuration

• Domain, DataSource, JMS, Tlog

WLS on ODA 2.9/2.9.1

• X4-2 HW support

• Multi-domains, multi- clusters

• Shared storage

• Silent Provisioning

WLS on ODA 12c

• Single WLS instance provisioning

• WebLogic 12.1.3 template

• Coherence provisioning

• HA/DR set up, EM

management, patching

• ODA 12.1.2.0 feature support

X3-2 HW

WLS on ODA 2.6

• X3-2 HW support

• Support

11.1.1.7.x OTD

• Create CPU pools

• Security

enhancement

X5-2 HW?

Virt on ODA

WLS on ODA 2.7

• WebLogic 12.1.2 template

• ODA 2.7

certification

• OTD optional

X4-2 HW

Cal Year

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Oracle Database Appliance

WebLogic on Oracle Database Appliance

Hardware, virtual Deployment and lifecycle operations

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Built-In Reliability

• 2 x dual-socket Oracle Linux servers

– 48 Intel Xeon processor E5-2697v2 cores – 512 GB main memory

• Up to 36 TB raw disk storage

• 800 GB solid state storage

• Redundant 10-GbE interconnect

• Double-mirroring or triple-mirroring storage redundancy

• Redundant hot-swappable power, cooling, and fans

• Oracle Database 11g and 12c Enterprise Edition

– Real Application Clusters (RAC) – RAC One Node

– Single instance

• Oracle grid infrastructure

• Oracle WebLogic 11g and 12c

– Active GridLink for RAC

• Oracle Linux

• Oracle Appliance Manager

Redundant Hardware Reliable Software

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How Are WebLogic, Coherence and OTD Deployed?

• Deploy VMs to run WebLogic Server, Software Load Balancer

• WebLogic can be used for

custom apps and upper stack products, such as SOA Suite

• HA VIP provides single entry point for application clients with isolation

• Oracle VM 3.2.8 supported templates

Applications Solution Platform

DOM 1

Oracle Database Appliance

DOM0 ODA Base

•Appliance Manager

• Grid Infrastructure

• Database

Node 1

DOM0

•Appliance Manager

• Grid Infrastructure

• Database

Node 2

HA VIP

ODA Base

Oracle Traffic Director

WebLogic WebLogic Coherence Coherence

Oracle Traffic Director

WebLogic WebLogic Coherence Coherence

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WebLogic on ODA Customer Experience

Install ODA in customer Datacenter

Download DB, WLS Appliance Manager, WLS ODA from E-Delivery, MOS, OTN

Run Oracle Appliance Manager

Choice of two distributions

• WebLogic 11g

• WebLogic 12c

• Oracle DB 11g

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Run Oracle WebLogic Server Configuration

Customer installs ODA HW, maps out

networking & topology

Database RAC

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Cluster Setup

WLS, OTD VMs provisioned; appliance

is ready to use!

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WebLogic on ODA Patching Experience

Download WebLogic ODA PSU Distribution

Apply Patches and PSUs

Customer downloads from MOS PSUs for WLS, OTD, JDK, JeOS, &

OVM Templates

 

Patching Complete

Apply PSUs to the WebLogic VMs



Apply Patches to the VM Templates and Guest OS

Restart VMs and WebLogic Server

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WebLogic on Oracle Database Appliance

WebLogic on ODA 12.1.3 and ODA 12.1.2

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More options of WebLogic Deployment

• Full flexibility of configuring WebLogic Domain

– Multi Domain, Multi Cluster – Single instance

• Fast Development environment set

• up Production with high availability

• Choice of provisioning options WebLogic Domain / Cluster

Admin Server Java VM Virtual Machine 1

Java VM Virtual Machine 2

WebLogic Domain

Admin Server Node Manager

Compute Node 1

Compute Node 1 Compute Node 2 Node Manager Node Manager

Managed Server1

WebLogic Domain

Admin Server

Node Manager

Compute Node 1 Managed

Server

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Coherence Provisioning

• Coherence instances provisioned in different VMs

• Coherence provisioned as part of WebLogic domain

• High Available Coherence

• Managed by WebLogic management framework

WebLogic

Admin Console Enterprise

Manager WebLogic Scripting

Coherence

Configure Deploy Start/Stop Monitor

WebLogic WebLogic

WebLogic Management Framework for Coherence

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New Snapshot Architecture

• The VM snapshot on ODA is based on ACFS filesystem snapshot

• The base filesystem of the repo will contain only the metadata

and the VM files will not be stored in the base filesystem of the

repo

• Every new VM in the repo will be located on a separate snapshot

filesystem of the base filesystem

• The VM in the repo is a snapshot copy of the existing vmtemplate

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Oracle Database Appliance

Oracle WebLogic, Coherence, Oracle Traffic Director Provisioning

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Configuring WebLogic Server, Coherence and OTD on ODA

• WebLogic 11g and 12c provisioning

• JMS Distributed Destination Configuration

• One JMS Server per WebLogic Managed Server

• Data Source configuration with

choice of GridLink DS, Multi DS and Generic DS

• Global Transaction support option

• Coherence 12c provisioning

• Oracle Traffic Director 11.1.1.7 (Software Load Balancer) as an option

• Only small set of value needs to be entered

• Customize available post provisioning

• Administration available with Admin Console, WLST, EM

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• Customer planned deployment cores

• Current Core Usage helps for sizing the system

• Network with choice of Eth1 and Eth2

• Optional software Load Balancer Deployment

WebLogic Deployment and Network Information

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• WebLogic versions offered

– 10.3.6

– 12.1.2, 12.1.3

• Domain, Cluster sizes offered

– Multi domain, multi cluster

– Single domain, single cluster, single server

• Optionally, customers can enable

– JMS – default configuration only

• JDBC Persistent Store enabled

– Application data source

• GridLink datasource, Multi datasource, generic datasource

WebLogic Domain and Cluster Settings

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• As default, 6 servers

configured in a single HA clusters

– Multiple levels of transparent in-memory redundancy

– Zero data loss If a VM or physical server fails

• For x4-2, 12 vCPU, 36 GB memory

• 3GB of redundant in-

memory storage or 16GB for cache storage

Coherence Provisioning

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• Use one of two external network interfaces for the VIPs

• Two IP address for OTD

– Real IP address listening on eth1 – Virtual interface bound to this eth1 – Allows requests to be failed over to

1st or 2nd OTD nodes

• OTD front-ending WebLogic domains

• One OTD Virtual IP per WebLogic domain

• OTD listening port per WebLogic Cluste^r

Oracle Traffic Director (Load Balancer) Configuration

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Deploying SOA on the

Oracle Database Appliance

Simon Haslam

Technical Director

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ODA Benefits

• ODA already gives you easily provisioned:

– Database (EE, RON, RAC) – WebLogic Server

– Traffic Director

• “…but I want Oracle Fusion Middleware products like SOA Suite!”

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How do I install SOA on ODA?

• Use WebLogic on ODA but need to consider…

– Disk space – Packages – Tuning

– FMW Infrastructure (12c) – more…

• Or Do It Yourself OVM template…

– not really the ODA way!

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WebLogic on ODA Characteristics

• WebLogic 12c (12.1.3) or 11g (10.3.6)

• JDK 7 (for WebLogic 12c) or JDK 6 (for 11g)

• ‘Best practice’ WebLogic domain design

• Integrated with Oracle Traffic Director load balancer

• Exploits ODA’s 10Gb internal network for best performance

• Secured by firewalls

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VMs

WebLogic Admin Server

Oracle Traffic Director Oracle Traffic Director

load balancer

WebLogic Managed Server in Cluster

EE/RON/RAC database

OTD Admin

Server

Per environment

Application Traffic

Administration

Database instances Run in ODA Base VMs

O-box only

O-box Manager

Administration

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Networking

• One configuration of Traffic Director, shared by all domains

• ‘Public’ network(s) are defined by you during configuration (names and IP addresses)

• Internal addresses are assigned by ODA VP (private algorithm) & not for application use

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VIP

O-box only

Admin Server

Oracle Traffic Director

OTD AN

OTD Admin

Server

Public network, e.g. 10.1.1.0/24

ODA internal 10GbE network 192.168.16.0/24

ms1 ms2

7001

7002

7001 7001 7002 7001 7002

7001 7001

80

8998

443 8998

8998

443

O-box Manager

443

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Disk space

• WebLogic on ODA template has:

– 3GB /

– 3GB /opt/oracle {middleware home}

– 10GB /u01 {domain home}

• SOA middleware home needs ~6GB

ODA VP now supports adding vdisks ^{New in}_12.1.2!

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Packages

• WebLogic on ODA template has 187-213 RPMs (depending on version)

• SOA needs ~230

– (that’s O-box SOA today and includes a few extra packages)

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Tuning

• Memory

– VM: 6 GB

– Managed Server heap max: 3 GB – Admin Server heap max: 1.5 GB

• Processing

– Managed Server: 4 vCPU (2 vCPU on ODA V1) – Admin Server: 2 vCPU

• Cluster

– Oracle Configurator gives various options for cluster sizing/topologies – O-box offers HA Starter/Medium/Large plus database option

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FMW Infrastructure (12c)

• 11g

– WebLogic “generic” installer

– Extend domain to include JRF, EM etc

• 12c

– Fusion Middleware Infrastructure installer

• WebLogic on ODA currently uses generic installer

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More SOA (& Upper Stack) Considerations…

• Management of ports

• Domain design (SOA, OSB, Coherence)

• Multiple environments (e.g. adding later)

• Licensing and CPU pools

• Status of VMs & lifecycle management

• SSL Certificates

• Automating patching and updates

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How do I install SOA on ODA?

• Use WebLogic on ODA but need to consider…

– Disk space – Packages – Tuning

– FMW Infrastructure (12c) – more…

• Or Do It Yourself OVM template…

– not really the ODA way!

• Let O-box provision SOA

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WebLogic on Oracle Database Appliance

Management

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WebLogic, OTD and VM Management Tools

• Oracle WebLogic Server management

– Admin console – WLST

– Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control

• Oracle Traffic Director

– Oracle Traffic Director admin console – CLI tadm

– Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control

• VM template management

– oakcli

Oracle Database RAC

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Future: Monitoring with Enterprise Manager Plug-In

• Expose all ODA functionality through EM

• Centralized console to monitor and manage ODA

• Simple, intuitive tag based model to create ODA groups

• Actionable component level analytics across ODA groups

• Hierarchical viewer to show the relationship

• Full support for both Bare Metal and Virtualized ODA

• Full support for all ODA hardware versions – V1, X3-2 and X4-2

Coming Soon

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Future: Monitoring with Enterprise Manager Plug-In

• Creates new ODA system target

• Links all ODA manageable targets to ODA system target

– Single view of the entire system

– ASM, Host, Hypervisor, ILOM, OAK, Database

• Master ODA system page

– General - availability, key configuration info, memory and CPU usage

– Storage status

– Version - system and component versions System Targets and Master ODA System Page Coming Soon

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WebLogic on Oracle Database

Appliance:

Combining High Availability

and Simplicity

Frances Zhao-Perez Alexandra Huff

Oracle CAF Product Management Simon Haslam

Technical Director O-box

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