A case study on deploying Oracle WebCenter as a cloud app on Oracle Exalogic engineered systems. Some of the challenges, compromises required, and benefits gained running these applications on shared hardware.

1. WebCenter as a Cloud App on Engineered Systems A Case Study on Virtualization and Performance
Session ID# 661
Doug Thompson, Raoul Miller

2. Agenda
•
Why Cloud?
•
Oracle WebCenter
•
Oracle Engineered Systems & Virtual Machine
•
Testing Approach
•
Tips & Best Practices
•
Wrap-up and planning for the future

3. Why Cloud?
 Fully Managed Infrastructure
 A sound & scalable foundation using Oracle Engineered
Systems and Oracle Virtual Machine
 Certified WebCenter partner to support, train and enable you!
 Monthly expense for infrastructure and support instead of all
upfront costs allowing you to achieve faster ROI.
 Rapid migration from existing infrastructure to
TEAM Cloud

5. Oracle WebCenter
Enterprise Portal Deployments
Portal
Portal
Sites
Composite Apps &Referencable customers
Composite Apps & Mash-ups
Mash-ups
Web Experience Management
Sites / UCM Connector in Production
Sites
Site Management
Web Experience Management
Self-Service
Self-Service
Enterprise
Personalization
Portals
Mash-ups
StellentPortals
& Oracle ECM
Social
Content
Enterprise
Mash-ups
partner for 13 years
Enterprise Social Software
Enterprise Content Management
Social
Mobile & Social
Site Management
Collaboration
Enterprise Social Software
Brand Presence
Oracle Developing strategy for WebCenter
Social
Imaging
Collaboration
Enterprise
Brand Presence
Activity Streams
Social
Rich Media
Enterprise
Social
Social
Gadgets / Integration
Gadgets / Integration
Personalization
Activity Streams
Content
Enterprise Content Management
Desktop
Mobile & Social
Application Context
Content
Lifecycle
Imaging
Desktop
Content
Application Context
Enterprise Social Software
Site Studio Sunset
Enterprise Content Management
Rich Media
Content
Lifecycle
Collaboration
Activity Streams
Imaging
Desktop
Enterprise
Social
Application Context
Rich Media
Content
Lifecycle

6. Advantages to Running WC on
Engineered Systems
Exalogic Appliance
TCP 7001
HTTP
Enterprise Manager
External Users
TCP 16200 / 80
HTTP
Client OVM
Node Manager
WLS Admin Server
OPSS
Internal Users,
Contributors
Editors, Approvers
Data Stores
Traffic Director
TCP 16200
HTTP
Application
Admins
WebCenter
Content Node 1
Infiniband
• Engineered for
performance & scalability
• Virtualization allows for
hard partitioning for each
customer
• Advanced management
tools for monitoring,
support, etc.
• Addresses issues of
infrastructure, support cost,
etc.
WebCenter
Content Node 2
WebCenter
Conversion
SAML
Integration
Optional BPM
SAML Integration
TCP 443
TLS / HTTPS
OID / OVD
Integrated Storage
Client’s File Storage
Exadata Appliance
Client’s Database
WCC
Schema
BPM
Schema
Full Text
Index Schema
Customer:
Project:
Optional
Content Store
Notes:
ExaLogic Deployment Model
Title:
Content ID:
EM
Schema
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7. Business Justification
• Many legacy Stellent customers are
running standalone J2SE versions
• Exposure since 7.x and 10gR3 are EoL
• Want to remain Oracle customers but skills
/ cost / management challenges for full
FMW deployment
• TEAM is already supporting these
customers
• Sensitivity of to “cloud” architecture

8. Private Cloud deployment
addresses business concerns
• Performance / security / stability dialed-in
• Partitioning ensures segregation of content
• Domain experts support infrastructure &
applications
• Very cost-competitive
• Substantial extra gains in functionality

9. TEAM / Oracle best-practice
WC on Exalogic Deployment
• Database on standalone h/w (although
experimenting on all-in-one)
• Directory Services standalone VM (Oracle
recommendation)
• Deploy each customer environment on standalone
VM
• Challenges assigning compute node / VM affinity
• We deployed OHS within Exalogic VM
• Coherence not deployed (WIP)
• ZFS storage assigned within VM (using infiniband)
• What about Oracle Database Appliance?

10. Testing Approach
Key Points:
• Exalogic x2-2 ¼ rack
• DB Server external
• OID server separate
from directory VM
• Requires OVM and
EECS v3
Work In Progress
• DB on Exalogic
• Coherence

11. Testing Approach contd.
• Apache Jmeter used as testing tool – running
on separate exalogic ¼ rack – 5 VMs @
2core
• Testing uses standard Oracle applications –
no TEAM additions (yet)
• Capacity test per compute node
• WebCenter Content Scenario
• WebCenter Spaces Scenario
• Combined Content / Spaces Scenario

12. Findings from Tests
• Hardware setup was challenging initially
• Latest versions of EECS and VM required
to support partitioning
• Complex partitioning and inter-node
communication not tested in this cycle
• Compute Node / VM affinity not supported
at present
• Performance as good as expected

13. Takeaways from testing
• Private cloud deployment is great option for
SME looking for high performance /
supported deployment
• Oracle VM provides great segmentation of
deployments
• EECS and EM management tools are very
useful
• Compelling cost / support story for business
• Licensing remains a challenge

14. Why Engineered Systems?
• All advantages of engineering system
• Massive scalability / throughput / DR w/
infiniband, ZFS storage, redundancy
• Private cloud deployment easily supported
• Oracle supported end-to-end
• Deploy in different data centers as needs arise
• Virtualization and hard partitioning supported
• Remote management tools are great
differentiator
• Oracle Database Appliance

15. Multiple Configurations
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OVM, Exalogic, Exadata and Private Cloud
OVM, Generic Hardware and Private Cloud
ODA, Private Cloud
ODA on Premise

16. Next Steps?
• Add Coherence to testing
• Explore database within VM and onboard
compute nodes
• Different external security scenarios
• Similar deployments on database machine
• Work with Oracle PM on other functionality
• Complex WLS domain interactions
• WebCenter in a box

17. Thank you!
Doug Thompson
Doug.thompson@teaminformatics.co
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Raoul Miller
Raoul.Miller@teaminformatics.com
@TEAMInformatics