In this session, we will discuss strategies, tools, and techniques for migrating and running off-the-shelf Oracle packages on AWS. We'll consider applications like Oracle eBusiness Suite, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Endeca, and Siebel. These applications are complex by themselves, they are frequently customized, they have many touch points on other systems in the enterprise, and they often have large associated databases. Therefore, they may not seem good candidates for the cloud at first look. Nevertheless, running enterprise applications in the cloud affords powerful benefits, and we'll identify the factors and best practices that most influence success.

3. •
•
•
•
•
Oracle Enterprise applications support and licensing
Popular Oracle COTS on AWS
Architecture Best Practices
Customer Successes
Roadmap and Resources

5. This timeline highlights the collaboration between Oracle and AWS along with the major
milestones and joint deliverables.
Oracle &
AWS
Oracle Secure Backup
Cloud Module
on Amazon EC2
Oracle on
Amazon
EC2
2007
2008
2008
Oracle on
RDS
Oracle VM
virtualization
support
2010
2011
Ref Arch,
AMIs
Oracle Test
Drive
2012
2013

6. AWS is the only virtualization platform that Oracle supports. All Oracle technology and
applications are support by AWS.
• Oracle technology stack supported by Oracle
to run on AWS Xen or OVM
• Oracle Database and Middleware (Application
Server) supported on AWS Xen
• Oracle applications are supported when they
run on OVM
• Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) supported on
AWS

7. •
All of these Oracle Products are fully supported on EC2
Oracle E-Business Suite
Siebel
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
Agile PLM
JD Edwards World
Hyperion
Primavera
Endeca
Demantra
Oracle Fusion
Applications
PeopleSoft Applications
InQuira
Oracle Hyperion
ATG Web Commerce
http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/global-solution-providers/oracle/labs/
Try out many of these Enterprise Applications on AWS with Test Drive

8. " Oracle VM is Oracle’s own hypervisor built based on XEN
" In addition to Amazon XEN hypervisor AWS also offers EC2 instances with
Oracle VM (OVM) as the hypervisor.
" When an AMI based on OVM is launched, AWS automatically chooses OVM
as the hypervisor for that EC2 instance.
" Oracle Software can be run in EC2 on OVM or without OVM (Amazon Xen)
" OVM based instances does not support some of the newly introduced features
of AWS including
" Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
" Cluster Compute Instances (CC) and Cluster GPU instances
" Hi I/O instance
" EBS Optimized Instances

9. " All Oracle Software on AWS will work just fine without
OVM, OVM is basically for Oracle Support.
" OVM is required for support only for Enterprise Apps not
necessary for Database or Middleware.
" Many SI partners are running Oracle Enterprise Apps on
EC2 as managed service.
" Running on Oracle XEN is like running Oracle Enterprise
Applications on VMWare, Citrix, or Microsoft Hypervisor.
These are not supported by Oracle as well.
" New Customer Accounts on “VPC by Default” will have an
exception process that will allow them to run OVM
instances if needed.
" Talk to your Oracle sales rep or Oracle support

10. Traditional and AWS Environments
All Oracle Software licenses are fully
portable to Amazon Elastic Compute
Cloud (EC2)
•
•
•
•
•
Enterprise License Agreement (ELA)
Unlimited License Agreement (ULA)
Oracle Partner Network (OPN)
Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)
Oracle Technology Network (OTN)
Oracle on AWS
•
•
Processor & Socket Licensing:
• 0.25 core multiplier for standard
licenses (sockets)
• 0.5 core multiplier for enterprise
licenses (processor)
Oracle Cloud Licensing Policy

12. PeopleSoft Architecture
on Amazon
Highly available and scalable PeopleSoft implementation can be complex and
expensive. Dense peak periods and wild swings in traffic patterns result in low
utilization rates of expensive hardware.
Amazon Web Services provides the reliable,
scalable, secure, and high-performance
infrastructure required for Oracle PeopleSoft
while enabling an elastic, scale out and scale
down infrastructure to match IT costs in real time
as customer traffic fluctuates
Sample Architecture
• High-Memory Extra Large Instance Database Server
• m1.large Application Servers
• m1.small Web Servers
• m1.medium File and Batch Servers
Developed by

13. PeopleSoft Architecture
on Amazon
The user's DNS requests are served by Amazon
Route 53, a highly available Domain Name System
(DNS) service. Network traffic is routed to
infrastructure running in Amazon Web Services.
HTTP requests are first handled by Elastic Load Balancing,
which automatically distributes incoming application traffic
across multiple Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
instances across Availability Zones (AZs). It enables even
greater fault tolerance in your applications, seamlessly
providing the amount of load balancing capacity needed in
response to incoming application traffic.
Developed by

14. PeopleSoft Architecture
on Amazon
Oracle Web, application and database servers are deployed on Amazon EC2
instances. These are Amazon Machine Image (AMI) using Oracle Enterprise
Linux 5.3 and Oracle PeopleSoft Amazon Spot Instances or Auto Scaling can be
used to support batch processing.
Web and application servers are deployed in an Auto Scaling group. Auto Scaling
automatically adjusts your capacity according to conditions you define. This
ensures that the number of Amazon EC2 instances increases seamlessly during
demand spikes.
Oracle Database 11g is run on RDS Instances and replicated using
RDS replications. Oracle database backups and the batch flat files
for integration with the corporate data center are stored on Amazon
Simple Storage Service (S3), a highly durable storage
infrastructure designed for mission-critical and primary storage.
Developed by

15. PeopleSoft Architecture
on Amazon
Availability zones (AZs) are distinct geographic locations that are
engineered to insulate against failures in other AZs. Multiple AZs are
combined into a region. Here, the entire web application is deployed in
two different AZs for high availability.
Developed by

16. Project Overview
Approach to Moving to AWS
• Setup VPC
• Create Foundational infrastructure
(Web, App, Proc, DB Servers)
• Copy Database Into AWS
• Complete Configuration
• Test Environment and Application
• Test Move to Production (2 Iterations
Min)
• Move to Production
Total Time to Deploy – 6-12 Weeks
Developed by

17. • Fixed
infrastructure
that
is
o1en
over
or
underu3lized
• Produc3on
-­‐
Varying
Demands
– Based
on
line
of
business
demand
may
vary
•
•
•
•
Business
hours
Financial
closing
Holiday
shopping
Unpredictable
online
retailing
• Non-­‐Produc3on
–
Short
term
instances
– Conversion,
Training,
EAI,
Produc3on
clones
• Long
procurement
cycles
to
add
capacity
• No
ability
to
scale
down
Developed by

18. Developed by

19. • Customers network can be connected to a VPC in Amazon
•
IPSec/VPN or Hardware/VPN or Direct Connect
• All instances will only be accessible from customers
network only and part of customers domain unless
customer chooses otherwise.
• Instance will be strategically placed for very high availability
• Standby images will be created for Disaster recovery in a
Alternate Zone/Region
• A Elastic Load balancer, Elastic IP and Route 53 will be
used to make failure over transparent to end users
Developed by

20. Developed by

21. •
•
•
•
•
In a region closest to customer site (e.g Virginia) two web servers to be placed
Each Web server to be placed in separate AZ
Additional stand by images will be kept in secondary region (e.g Oregon)
Web servers can be load balanced using customers in house load balance or
Amazon Elastic Load Balancer
For DR failover times can be reduced by keeping stand by instances online
Developed by

22. Scenario
Solution
Impact
Web Server Fails
Start a new instance from
Stand by image within
same AZ
Slow Performance while
stand by instances are
added
AZ failure
ELB Managed. Launch
Additional Instances on
available AZ
Slow Performance while
stand by instances are
added
Region Failure
DNS Failover. Startup web
servers on the secondary
region.
Switch Route 53 entry for
Web Server to point to ELB
in Secondary Region.
System will be unavailable
while instances in stand by
region come online
• Impact can reduced if
instances in secondary
region are kept online
High Load/Low Load
Based on concurrent users,
CPU and Memory additional
standby instances can be
turned on or existing
Improved performance and
TCO as infrastructure
scales to according to
demand
Developed by

23. Developed by

24. •
•
•
•
•
In a region closest to customer site (e.g Virginia) three app servers will be
deployed
Each app server to be placed in separate AZ
Additional stand by images will be kept in secondary region (e.g Oregon)
Based on load additional stand by web servers can be brought online
Siebel native load balancing to be used
Developed by

25. Scenario
Solution
Impact
App Server Fails
Start standby app servers in the
same AZ
Reduced performance till
instance is replaced
AZ Failure
Startup additional instance in
online AZs
Reduced performance till
instance is replaced
Region Failure
Startup app servers on the
secondary region.
System will be unavailable while
instances in stand by region
come online
* Impact can reduced if
instances in secondary region
are kept online
High Load/Low Load
Based on concurrent users,
CPU and Memory additional
standby app servers can be
turned on or existing app
servers can be turned off
Improved performance and TCO
as infrastructure scales to
according to demand
Developed by

26. Developed by

27. • In a region closest to customer site (e.g Virginia)
Gateway will be deployed
• siebns.dat will be backed up on S3
• A stand by image will be kept in AZ in the same
region
• Another stand by by image will kept in the same AZ
• A Elastic IP address pointing to active gateway
instance
• A Route 53 entry for the gateway that points to the
Elastic IP
Developed by

28. Scenario
Solution
Impact
Gateway Server Machine
fails
Copy the siebns.dat from
S3 bucket to secondary
Gateway.
Start standby in secondary
AZ.
User sessions continue to
run as is. Siebel Servers
can not be started/shutdown
and Siebel Admin disabled
until secondary AZ gateway
is online.
AZ Failure
Copy the siebns.dat from
S3 bucket to secondary
Gateway.
Start standby in secondary
AZ.
User sessions continue to
run as is. Siebel Servers
can not be started/shutdown
and Siebel Admin disabled
until secondary AZ gateway
is online.
Region Failure
Copy the siebns.dat from
S3 bucket to standby
instance in different region.
Update Route 53 to point to
secondary region gateway
User sessions continue to
run as is. Siebel Servers
can not be started/shutdown
and Siebel Admin disabled
until secondary gateway
form another region is
online.
Developed by

29. Developed by

30. Ac3ve
Applica3on
Server
Applica3on
Server
Applica3on
Server
Database
Server
Database
Server
Database
Server
Rapid
Clone
EBS
Middle
Tier
OLTP
Database
Server
OSB
Cloud
Module
Test
/
Dev
Produc3on
EBS
Corporate
Datacenter
Developed by
Training
RMAN
Restore
Amazon S3
Bucket
Region
Project/POC

31. Ac3ve
Not
Ac3ve
for
Produc3on
Traffic
Rsync
Replica3on
EBS
Middle
Tier
Applica3on
Server
Applica3on
Applica3on
Volume
Volume
Standby
Database
Database
Server
Server
OLTP
Database
Server
Produc3on
EBS
Corporate
Datacenter
Developed by
Physical
Standby
/
Data
Guard
Data
Volume
Scaled Down
Scaled Up
Standby
Production
Servers
Region
OSB
Cloud
Module
Amazon S3
Bucket

32. Not
Ac3ve
for
Produc3on
Traffic
Ac3ve
Rsync
Replica3on
Applica3on
Server
Rapid
Clone
Applica3on
Server
EBS
Middle
Tier
Standby
Database
Server
OLTP
Database
Server
Produc3on
EBS
Corporate
Datacenter
Developed by
Standby
Database
Server
Physical
Standby
RMAN
Restore
Data
Volume
Region
Test/Dev

33. •
•
•
•
•
Global manufacturing company with operations in APAC, Europe & North America
(200 employees in North America)
Complete Datacenter Migration to AWS Platform for North American Operations
Microsoft SQL Server, IIS Application server and other infrastructure components
Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle BI, and various Business applications
Services
provided
by
Apps
Associates
–
–
–
–
–
Cloud
Assessment
&
Enablement
Architecture
Design
and
Deployment
POC
&
Produc3on
Migra3on
Project
Management
24x7
Managed
Services
for
Produc3on
Opera3ons
Developed by

34. Internet
EBS
OBIEE
Lacrosse
Windows
Headquarters
VPC
Private
Subnet
Monitoring
Solution
Domain
Controller
Ping Identity
MWA
VPC
Public
Subnet
AZ-­‐1
Developed by
US
East
Customer
Loca3on
2

35. •
Global
manufacturing
company
with
opera3ons
in
7
countries
• Oracle
BI
Analy3cs
– Prod,
test,
dev
environments
• Oracle
E-­‐Business
Suite
– Implementa3on
phase
– CRP
and
dev
environments
• Apps
Associates
Services
• Architecture
design,
deployment
and
24x7
managed
services
from
Apps
Associates
for
produc3on
opera3ons
Developed by

36. Internet
EBS
R12
OBIEE
Headquarters
VPC
Private
Subnet
Monitoring
Solution
OpenVPN
Interface for
Remote
Admin Team
VPC
Public
Subnet
AZ-­‐1
Developed by
US
East
Customer
Loca3on
2

37. •
•
•
•
European
company
with
customer
base
worldwide,
providing
tax
solu3ons
integrated
to
ERP
environments
Oracle
E-­‐Business
Suite,
SAP
Instructor
led
mul3-­‐day
training
environments
for
custom
tax
solu3on
Apps
Associates
Services
• Build
&
update
Gold
image
• Spawn
Training
instances
on
Demand
in
minutes
• Support
services
for
Training
instances
Developed by

38. Internet
EBS
R12 –
App
EBS
R12 DB
Trainer
VPC Subnet
SAP –
App
SAP DB
VPC Subnet
Students
Developed by
US East

39. Migration Challenges
Challenges of Migrating to the AWS Cloud
• Migration of Large Databases (Timing)
• Customizations
• Connection to On-Premise Resources (i.e. LDAP, File
Servers)
• Availability of Testing Team

41. • The on-premise Oracle Enterprise Manager (EM12c) acts as a single
tool to get a comprehensive view of your public AWS resources as well
as your private cloud resources.
• Monitor EBS, EC2 and RDS instances on Amazon Web Services:
• Gather performance metrics and configuration details for AWS
instances
• Raise alerts and violations based on thresholds set on monitoring
• Generate reports based on the gathered data
• Leverage the Enterprise Manager features such as system promotion,
incident generation based on thresholds, integration with 3rd party
ticketing applications etc.
• AWS Monitoring via this Plug-in is enabled via Amazon CloudWatch
API and the users of this Plug-in are responsible for supplying
credentials for accessing AWS and the CloudWatch API.
https://blogs.oracle.com/zerotocloud/entry/amazon_web_services_aws_plug

42. VPC
OMS
/
EM
12c
OMR
VPN
Gateway
Custom
Scripts
Staging Area
VPN Tunnel
Elastic
Load
Balancer
EM AMI’s
OMS
/
EM
12c
OMR
OMR
Private Subnet
Amazon SES
NAT
Common Repository – S3
Private Subnet
VPC-­‐VPC
Tunnel
Instance
NAT
VPC-­‐VPC
Tunnel
Instance
Public Subnet
Public Subnet
Availability Zone
Availability Zone
Region
OMS Backups Database Backups

45. Content
Authors
AWS US East
Datapipe Virginia (Primary)
Gateway
S3 Logs
S3 Media
Public subnet
10.160.72.0/23(AZ-1b)
10.160.76.0/23(AZ-1c)
10.160.80.0/23(AZ-1d)
Internet
AWS IGW
Oracle
RAC
10.160.74.0/24(AZ-1b)
10.160.78.0/24(AZ-1c)
10.160.82.0/24(AZ-1d)
Direct
Connect
NAT
SG1
Amazon
Route 53
us-east-1D
us-east-1C
us-east-1B
Private subnet
(2 Gbps)
Autoscale Group
Autoscale Group
VPN
Gateway
SG2
Internet
DB Replication (1 Gbps)
Direct
Connect
ELB 1
(2 Gbps)
ELB 2
Web Tier Instances
Datapipe Somerset
(Failover)
App Tier Instances
(Apache+WLS Plug-in)
(WLS)
SG3
Student /
Instructor
ELB 3
Gateway
10.160.66.0/24(AZ-1c)
10.160.64.0/24(AZ-1b)
Mgmt subnet
IPSec
VPN
Checkpoint
VPN Gateway
Monitor DNS
NTP
MySql Snorby
rsyslog
IPSec
VPN
IPSec
VPN
MHE DataCenter
Wipro CCC
MHE DMZ
Gateway
Student / Instructor
LLB
GLB
EzTo
Admin
VPC Admin
Console
Connect
Classware
LSI
Oracle
RAC

47. Capgemini uses AWS to host the development, test and production
Oracle E-Business Suite Financials supporting their business in
Latin America.
KPIT Cummins runs their Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1.3
environments on Amazon EC2/OVM. They have benefitted from the
reduced complexity of AWS “infrastructure at a click.”
Advanced Innovations hosts their entire Oracle Applications and
technology platform on Amazon EC2. SOA Suite, WebCentre,
Beehive, Ebusiness etc.
Blue Gecko deployed SAGE Manufacturing’s dev, test, DR and
production Oracle E-Business Suite environments on Amazon EC2.

48. Oracle eBusiness Suite 11 - Imperia was established officially on
February 3rd, 1932 as the development of a little artisan workshop
and started at once to distribute pasta machines around the world.
McGraw-Hill migrated an Oracle WebLogic and Oracle RAC
environment to AWS using a hybrid architecture. Oracle WebLogic is
clustered on EC2 using ELB and Auto Scaling. The Oracle RAC
Database runs in Data Pipe.

49. Four Node Exadata Primary Site"
Client"
Standby on Amazon Web Services"
Client"
Client"
Client"
REDO APPLY"
Amazon"
EC2"
BROKER AGENT"
Oracle E-Business Suite 11i on Oracle Exadata
Amazon Elastic
Block Storage
(EBS)
EC2!
BROKER
AGENT!
Data Guard Broker!
RDBMS 11gR2"
Primary LIFE
Database
Amazon"
S3"
Standby LIFE 1DG
Database

51. Test Drive
Labs
New AMIs
Bigger
Oracle
OpenWorld
Presence
2013
Updated
Oracle.com FAQ
and Licensing
Document
Customer
Successes
Reference
Implementations
Re:Invent
Sessions
White
Papers

52. Here are some additional resources:
• Oracle Test Drives : http://awstestdrive.com
• Running Oracle on AWS: aws.amazon.com/oracle
• Oracle FAQ: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/cloud/faq-098970.html
• Oracle Secure Backup Cloud Module product Page:
http://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/secure-backup-066578.html
• Oracle AWS cloud licensing document:
oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/cloud-licensing-070579.pdf
• Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c plug in:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/oem/grid-control/downloads/oem-awsplugin-1852739.html
• Recorded sessions:
– smartShift customer success : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2UcCdnNsRc&feature=youtu.be
– Oracle on AWS :
http://mfile.akamai.com/23543/wmv/citrixvar.download.akamai.com/23543/www/
729/667/988620541967729667/2-988620541967729667-13e6bb61c33.asx
– Oracle OEM12c Hosted on AWS : http://youtu.be/XSBND55sghc

53. • Attend AWS re:Invent Oracle Related Sessions
–
–
–
–
–
–
DAT202 - Using Amazon RDS to Power Enterprise Applications
DAT401 - Advanced Data Migration Techniques for Amazon RDS
STG301 - AWS Storage Tiers for Enterprise Workloads - Best Practices
STG305 - Disaster Recovery Site on AWS - Minimal Cost Maximum Efficiency
STG303 - Running Microsoft and Oracle Stacks on Elastic Block Store
ENT303 - Migrating Enterprise Applications to AWS - Best Practices, Tools and
Techniques
Register here:
https://portal.reinvent.awsevents.com/portal/newreg.ww?
trk=PS_reinvent2013_Brand_AWS_Sessions_BMM