Transcript ES-OAUG

Oracle eBusiness Suite From: IBM/HPUX/SUN/et.al

To: Lightening-Fast-Linux Presented by: Michael Barone, OATC DBA David Channell, Liggett

Eastern States Oracle Applications Users Group

Friday May 18, 2007

Agenda

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Review Process/Approach taken Review Core Team Review some technical details… Questions and Answers (maybe!) Wrap-up

The Process or Approach Taken: CRPs

The Process or Approach Taken: CRPs

CRP Definition: –

CRP is a Conference Room P

ilot –

Prototyping, according to APICS

…a CRP is “a product model constructed for testing and evaluation to see how the product performs before releasing the product to production” –

In this case:

Product … Testing and evaluation … The upgrade to 11i via CRP Product to Production … Oracle Applications 11i Releasing 11i to the end users!

The Process or Approach Taken: CRPs A typical upgrade using the CRP method goes like this…

The Process or Approach Taken: CRPs

Some important things to keep in mind:

  Liggett upgraded from 10.7 to 11i (11.5.6) in … ‘2003    Preserving/reusing Upgrade/Testing material : Reusing Upgrade/Testing Materials saved time & money!

End users … (familiarity, reproducible results) Auditors …

The Process or Approach Taken: CRPs An upgrade using previous CRP documents goes like this… Just like riding a bike!

The Process or Approach Taken: CRPs An upgrade using previous CRP documents goes like this…

1) Technical Upgrades are applied 2) Rudimentary testing is performed • Repeat until successful • Patches/Fixes/Setups/Profiles 3) User Unit testing 4) User Acceptance Testing 5) Final approval …and then 4) Select the GoLive date, and 5) Upgrade production!

UAT

Our team!

Our Core Team Members

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David Channell, Project Manager

Michael Barone, OATC DBA Jim Sizemore, DBA Lisa Over, Applications Technical Lead Various testers

Our Core Team Members

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Project Manager

Hardware Selection/Negotiations/OS Licensing

Systems Set up/Administration/Backup Strategies

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DBA

eBusiness Suite Certification Matrix

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eBusiness Suite Migration/Upgrade scripts eBusiness Suite Migration/Upgrade AIM documentation

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Developers

Technical and Functional Testing

Some Technical Details

Some Technical Details … why wait? eBusiness Suite fully supports the migration: From: To: Proprietary UNIX hardware/OS

Lightning Fast Linux OS …

there really isn’t a reason to wait any longer.

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Save money Save hardware-resources Save-software resources

Technical Environment … Hardware

Current System: eBusiness Suite 11.5.6

PA-RISC HP-UX Servers – Single Node Installation HP Direct Attached Storage Tape Backup

Target System: eBusiness Suite 11.5.10.2

HP C Class Blade Servers – Single Node Installation Network Appliance SAN/NAS Storage Disk to Disk to Tape Backup

Technical Environment … Software

Current System: eBusiness Suite 11.5.6

Operating System -

HP-UX version 11.0

Database – Oracle 8.1.7

CA Brightstor ARCServe Backup for Windows

Target System: eBusiness Suite 11.5.10.2

VMWare 3.0.1 w/Virtualized Red Hat Linux Enterprise version 4 Network Appliance - FCP, iSCSI, CIFS, Snapshot, SnapRestore, Cluster Disk to Disk to Tape using CA Brightstor ARCServe Backup for Windows

Some Technical Details … overview!

eBusiness Suite: IBM/HPUX/Sun

Lightening Fast Linux

 Metalink Note: 230627.1

Export/Import eBusiness Suite Release 11

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Process  Create a new Oracle eBusiness Suite 11

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eBusinss Suite RapidWiz (RapidInstall). environment via Oracle  Export (exp) and Import (imp) utilities then move the existing data to the new Hardware/OS Platforms   No ugly Export-FileSize limits Table-Level Row-Count/Confirmation  Update the Imported eBusiness Suite 11i Database

Some Technical Details … beware!

The Oracle-Squeeze -- Caveat Emptor

 The Source-IBM/HP/Sun (export-from) MUST use Oracle8

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Enterprise Edition Release 8.1.7 or Oracle9

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Enterprise Edition Release 2 (9.2.0)  The Target-Linux-Server (import into) MUST use Oracle9

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Enterprise Edition Release 2 (9.2.0).

 Fortunately, eBusiness Suite 11.5.10

eBusiness Suite Rapidwiz Installs … Oracle9i (9.2.0.6)

Some Technical Details … MiniPacks!

eBusiness Suite: IBM/HPUX/Sun 

Lightening Fast Linux

Pre-Requisites:

Source 11i (IBM/HP/Sun) Database (Oracle8i/Oracle9i)

AD MiniPack PreRequisite AD MiniPack F Applications Export/Import Consolidated Patch Materialized Views 11.5.7-Only New Improved Database Preparation Scripts 2291496 2141471 2826013 2447246 2096242

Some Technical Details … TechStack version

eBusiness Suite: IBM/HPUX/Sun 

Lightening Fast Linux

 Oracle 11.5.10 Release 2 Information        Oracle Database Executables Oracle RDBMS Home Oracle Applications Server (Includes HTTP) Oracle Discoverer Jinitiator Oracle Developer6i (Forms/Reports/Graphics) RapidWiz (rapidwiz/RapidWizVersion) 9.2.0.6

8.0.6

1.0.2.2.2

4.1.48

1.3.1.21

6.0.8.25

11.5.10.35

Some Technical Details … Post Upgrade

eBusiness Suite: IBM/HPUX/Sun 

Lightening Fast Linux

Consolidated Update Patch 2 AD MiniPack I Delta 4 ATG Technology Family Pack Additional Family Packs and MiniPacks JInitiator Upgrade Personalization

MetaLink 316366.1

…and there is more to 11i than meets the eye!

But Wait There’s More: New eBusiness Suite Personalization AutoConfig VS.

Personalize Self-Service Defn Yes FND: Personalization Region Link Yes Disable Self-Service Personal Corporate Branding Image FND: Diagnostics Local Login Mask -or No liggett_logo.jpg

Yes 32 40 < If Multi-Language> General Preferences Show Flag Yes

But Wait There’s Even More: New eBusiness Suite Personalize AutoConfig

Metalink 270519.1 (February 2007) Customizing an AutoConfig Environment

Review and migrate existing customizations

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AppsTier: $AD_TOP/bin/adcustomizer.sh

DBTier: $ORACLEME/appsutil/bin/adcustomizer.sh

Implementing AutoConfig customizations

cp -i $FND_TOP/admin/template/appsweb.cfg \ $FND_TOP/admin/template/custom/appsweb.cfg

Execute AutoConfig

Wrap-up…

Wrap-Up

Q & A

Wrap-Up

Thanks for your time!

David Channell Jim Sizemore Michael Barone [email protected]

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