The “Enterprise Deployment Guide for Oracle SOA Suite” is a comprehensive guideline document describing how to build an enterprise-strength SOA infrastructure. This session looks at common mistakes administrators make in implementing this guide, suggests ways to avoid them, and examines the rationale behind its guidelines. The presentation identifies how to build an enterprise-strength SOA infrastructure successfully and explains how virtualization can help accelerate this process. Finally, it discusses how to use Rubicon Red MyST to automate a complete install and configuration of an “Enterprise Deployment Guide for Oracle SOA Suite”–compliant SOA, reducing the chances for mistakes. The presentation draws on the presenters’ extensive experience in implementing this guide at multiple customers.

1. Best Practices for Building
an Enterprise SOA
Infrastructure
Antony Reynolds
Craig Barr
Matt Wright
Ramkumar Menon

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What We Will Do
 Enterprise Deployment Guide
– Explain the why
– Identify best practice
 Demonstrate simplified enterprise deployment

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Who We Are
Antony Reynolds
Master Principal Sales
Consultant
Oracle
Author SOA Suite 11g
Developers Cookbook & SOA
Suite 11g Developers Guide
Matthew Wright
Director & Founder
Rubicon Red
Author SOA Suite 11g
Developers Cookbook & SOA
Suite 11g Developers Guide
Ramkumar Menon
Principal Product Manager
Oracle
Craig Barr
Platform Architect
Rubicon Red

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Rubicon Red
• Experience
– Interacted with over 100 Oracle BPM / SOA Suite customers in 6 years
– Assisted in the rescue of failing projects.
– Oracle Partner Network - SOA Specialization
• Knowledge
– Involved in first beta of Oracle SOA Suite 11g in 2007.
– Co-authored ‘Oracle SOA Suite 11gR1 Developer’s Guide’
– Over 30 FMW specialist consultants – one of the largest SOA Specialized
partners in ANZ
• Connected
– Close relationships with local and Oracle HQ based resources
– Lend credibility to issue escalation
– Interact with key members of product support and development team

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DEMO KICKOFF

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Program Agenda
• Enterprise Deployment Requirements
• EDG Solution
• Virtualization Alternative
• Automation Approach

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ENTERPRISE DEPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS

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Enterprise Requirements - Availability
• In event of server failure
– No loss of service
– Recovery of persistent messages
– Recovery of in-flight transactions
• Achieved by
– Active-active configuration
– Warm standby
– Cold standby
HLB HLB
OHS/OTD OHS/OTD
Admin SOA SOA
RAC/DB RAC/DB
Load
Balancing
Tier
Web
Tier
App
Tier
DB
Tier
Redundancy
Redundancy
Redundancy
Redundancy

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Enterprise Requirements - Scalability
• Ability to increase capacity of system
– Only scale components needing it
• Achieved by
– Scale out – more servers
– Scale up – bigger servers
HLB HLB
OHS/OTD OHS/OTD
Admin SOA SOA
RAC/DB RAC/DB
Load
Balancing
Tier
Web
Tier
App
Tier
DB
Tier
OHS/OTD
SOA
RAC/DB
Scalability
Scalability
Scalability

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Enterprise Requirements - Security
• Secure servers
– Prevent direct access to
• App tier
• DB tier
– Limit services exposed
– Isolate tiers
– Only adjacent tiers communicate
• Secure services
– Authorized users only
• Achieved by
– Network port restrictions
– Access management HLB HLB
OHS/OTD OHS/OTD
Admin SOA SOA
RAC/DB RAC/DB
Load
Balancing
Tier
Web
Tier
App
Tier
DB
Tier
Firewall
Firewall
Firewall
OHS/OTD
OAM
OID Security DB
Isolated
Access
Management

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The Enterprise Deployment Guide
• Oracle Best Practice Document
• Strong on What
• Weak on Why
• Lacking Options
346 Detailed Pages

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Networking
HLB HLB
OHS/OTD OHS/OTD
Admin SOA SOA
RAC/DB RAC/DB
Load
Balancing
Tier
Web
Tier
App
Tier
DB
Tier
IP Addresses

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Virtual Server Names
• What
– Function specific names
• Why
– Separate admin from soa traffic
– Separate internal from external traffic
• Alternatives
– Separate DNS for internal/external
– OSB for all external access
3.2 Network
soa.mycompany.com
osb.mycompany.com
admin.mycompany.com
soainternal.mycompany.com

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Load Balancer
• What
– Expose virtual hosts
– SSL termination
• Why
– IP load balancing
– SSL acceleration
– Port mapping
• Alternatives
– OTD/SLB
3.3 Network

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Virtual IPs
• What
– Managed servers floating IP
• Why
– Whole server migration
– Admin server failover
• Alternatives
– Virtualization
3.4 Network
SOAHost1
WLS_WSM1Admin
Server
WLS_SOA1
WLS
Console
EM
Console
WSM-PM SOA
B2B
SOAHost2
WLS_WSM2Admin
Server
WLS_SOA2
WLS
Console
EM
Console
WSM-PM SOA
B2B
VIP 1 IP 1 VIP 2 IP 2 VIP 3

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Firewalls
• What
– Restrict access between layers
• Why
– Isolate tiers
• Alternatives
– May not be needed
– Separate management network
– Dedicated replication network
3.6 Network

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File System
HLB HLB
OHS/OTD OHS/OTD
Admin SOA SOA
RAC/DB RAC/DB
Load
Balancing
Tier
Web
Tier
App
Tier
DB
Tier
File System

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Oracle Homes
• What
– At least 2 homes
• Why
– Separate binary from config
– Resilient to corruption
– Simplify patching
• Alternatives
– 1 local binary per server
4.3.1 File Systems SOAHost1
WLS_WSM1Admin
Server
WLS_SOA1
WLS
Console
EM
Console
WSM-PM SOA
B2B
SOAHost2
WLS_WSM2Admin
Server
WLS_SOA2
WLS
Console
EM
Console
WSM-PM SOA
B2B
FMW_HOME1
FMW_HOME2

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Domain Directories
• What
– Separate admin &
managed domain dirs
– Separate managed
domain dirs per server
• Why
– Reduce risk of corruption
• Alternatives
– Managed domain dirs on local
storage
4.3.2 File Systems SOAHost1
WLS_WSM1Admin
Server
WLS_SOA1
WLS
Console
EM
Console
WSM-PM SOA
B2B
SOAHost2
WLS_WSM2Admin
Server
WLS_SOA2
WLS
Console
EM
Console
WSM-PM SOA
B2B
MServer1
MServer2
AServer AServer MServerMServer
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JMS File Stores & Transaction Logs
• What
– Shared folder for
ALL servers
• Why
– Support recovery of JMS msgs
– Support recovery of XA xacts
• Alternatives
– Use database for JMS queues
– Use database for TLogs
4.3.3 File Systems SOAHost1
WLS_WSM1Admin
Server
WLS_SOA1
WLS
Console
EM
Console
WSM-PM SOA
B2B
SOAHost2
WLS_WSM2Admin
Server
WLS_SOA2
WLS
Console
EM
Console
WSM-PM SOA
B2B
TX Logs
JMS Persistent Stores

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Database
HLB HLB
OHS/OTD OHS/OTD
Admin SOA SOA
RAC/DB RAC/DB
Load
Balancing
Tier
Web
Tier
App
Tier
DB
Tier

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DB Requirements
• What
– RAC
– GridLink
– UTF-8
• Why
– High availability & Scalability
– FCF, RCLB & affinity
– International character sets
• Alternatives
– Single instance with cold failover
5.2 Database
SOAHost1
WLS_WSM1Admin
Server
WLS_SOA1
WLS
Console
EM
Console
WSM-PM SOA
B2B
SOAHost2
WLS_WSM2Admin
Server
WLS_SOA2
WLS
Console
EM
Console
WSM-PM SOA
B2B
SOA
Database
DBHost1 DBHost1
db-scan.mycompany.com

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DB Service & Transactions
• What
– Optimized SOA service
– Transaction privileges
• Why
– Load distribution & targeting
– Enables XA recovery
5.3,5.5 Database

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OHS
HLB HLB
OHS/OTD OHS/OTD
Admin SOA SOA
RAC/DB RAC/DB
Load
Balancing
Tier
Web
Tier
App
Tier
DB
Tier

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OHS
• What
– Virtual Hosts
– WL_Plugin
• Why
– Separate traffic
– Load balancing
• Alternatives
– OTD
– Non-Oracle web server
– Same host as SOA
– No OHS
7. Web Tier SOAHost1
WLS_WSM1Admin
Server
WLS_SOA1
WLS
Console
EM
Console
WSM-PM SOA
B2B
SOAHost2
WLS_WSM2Admin
Server
WLS_SOA2
WLS
Console
EM
Console
WSM-PM SOA
B2B
WebHost1
OHS1OPMN
WebHost2
OHS2OPMN
WL_PlugIn WL_PlugIn

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Clustering
HLB HLB
OHS/OTD OHS/OTD
Admin SOA SOA
RAC/DB RAC/DB
Load
Balancing
Tier
Web
Tier
App
Tier
DB
Tier

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Managed Servers & Clusters
• What
– Distributed JMS destinations
– Cluster address
– FrontEnd host
• Why
– Scalability & Resiliency
– Internal service lookup
– Correct redirection
• Alternatives
– DB store
9. SOA, 10. BPM, 11. OSB, 12. BAM Server1
jms/Queue_1
Server1
jms/Queue_2
Physical
Queues
Cluster1
jms/Queue
Logical
Queue

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Server Migration
• What
– Configure node manager
• Why
– JMS messages recovery
– XA transaction recovery
– Singleton servers
• Alternatives
– Virtualization
– DB JMS store
– Cluster services
SOAHost1
WLS_WSM1Admin
Server
WLS_SOA1
WLS
Console
EM
Console
WSM-PM SOA
B2B
SOAHost2
WLS_WSM2Admin
Server
WLS_SOA2
WLS
Console
EM
Console
WSM-PM SOA
B2B
WLS_SOA1
SOA
B2B

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Coherence
• What
– Use WKA discovery
– List subset of servers
• Why
– Avoid cross talk
– Only need 1 listed server
• Bad Alternative
– Change default multicast address
SOAHost1
WLS_WSM1Admin
Server
WLS_SOA1
WLS
Console
EM
Console
WSM-PM SOA
B2B
SOAHost2
WLS_WSM2Admin
Server
WLS_SOA2
WLS
Console
EM
Console
WSM-PM SOA
B2B
SOAHost3
WLS_WSM3 WLS_SOA3
WSM-PM SOA
B2B
SOAHost4
WLS_WSM3 WLS_SOA3
WSM-PM SOA
B2B
SOAHost4
WLS_WSM3 WLS_SOA3
WSM-PM SOA
B2B
WKA1 WKA2
WKA3

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Virtualization
• Run managed servers in VM
• VM have fixed IP
– No floating IP for MS
– No whole server migration
• Failure of VM or VM host
– Restart on available server
• Live migration
• Shared disk for domain/jms/tx
– Maintains state

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Performance
• Database is important
• Remove OHS tier
• Separate domains
– Long running
– Short running
– SLA based
– Temporal load variation
– User vs System traffic
• Exalogic

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Exalogic
• New SOA EDG for Exalogic
– Has options!!!!
• Use OTD
• Optimized with Exadata
• Infiniband for internal communication
• WLS & SOA optimizations
• Physical or virtual

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Drawbacks of a Manual Approach
Manual setup can be
– Time consuming
– Error prone
Which leads to
– Pain & stress
– Delays in delivery
– Lack of consistency
– Wasted effort
How do you delivery quickly and consistently?

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Automation
What is available out-of-the-box?
Phase Enablers
Installation Silent Installation
VM Templates
Repository Setup Command Line
Creation & Configuration WLST
Software Deployment WLST, Apache Ant, Maven
Operations – Start, Stop WLST, OPMN
Patching OPatch, BSU
Customizations ??

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Validation Script
• An automated script to check correctness
• Ensures targets are defined as per EDG
• Uses WLST
• Target Verification Script available for download at
https://blogs.oracle.com/reynolds/entry/target_verification
How do we know we built the environment correctly?

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Introduction Rubicon Red MyST
• Declarative Configuration Management
– Pre-built templates
– Multi Node, Single Node, Complex, Simple topologies
– No scripting or coding required
• Rapid Provisioning
– Define, Execute and Report on environments
– Reduce effort to minutes for most complex topologies
• Continuous Delivery Platform
– SDLC Support for FMW Projects
– Automates deployment across full set of FMW Components
• Extensible Automation Framework
– Supports extensions in multiple technologies
– Add tasks and validators for custom components
100% Automated Rollout of EDG Environments

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Extensible Pluggable Framework
Example products supported:
• Oracle WebLogic Server
• Oracle SOA Suite (including B2B)
• Oracle BPM Suite
• Oracle AIA Foundation Packs
• Oracle AIA Pre-Built Integration
• Oracle Service Bus
• Oracle Data Integrator
• Oracle Business Intelligence
• Oracle Governance (OER / OSR)
• Oracle WebCenter Portal & Content
• Oracle Repository Creation Utility
• Oracle VM
• Oracle EM 12c Cloud Control
• Oracle BPM Process Accelerators
• Oracle Business Activity Monitoring
• Oracle Business Transaction Management
• Security Administration
• OPatch + Smart Update
• Java Connector Architecture
• User Messaging Service
• Oracle HTTP Server
• Oracle JRockit / Sun JDK

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Comparing Options
Features Description Manual Scripted MyST
Automated Provides a simple way to reduce a large number of manual tasks into
smaller discrete automated tasks   
Consistent Target state is defined once, deployed multiple times in multiple
environments.  Limited 
Predictable Know how long it takes to create an environment or deploy a release.
  
Easy to Use No additional scripting or coding. Can be used by generic infrastructure
teams with little Fusion Middleware knowledge   
Extensible Ability to extend the components supported including custom
components using a wide range of technologies  Limited 
SDLC Support Support deployments of FMW components using the same framework
as the provisioning   
Cost & ROI Benefits Leverage an out of the box solution that has global customers
  
Supported Traditional Software Support model including forums, support tickets
and feature requests   

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Back to the Demo!

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Benefits of Automation
• Deliver significantly faster!
• Deliver more reliably
& consistently
• Reduce overall risk
• Decrease time-to-market
Delivery at the click of a button

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Takeaways
• EDG is a Guide not a Gospel
• Automation enables a different game

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Q&A

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