SysAdmin SIG Meeting

Sunday, April 13th

Don’t miss the OAUG Annual Meeting of the Don’t miss the OAUG Annual Meeting of the MembersMembers

Wednesday, April 16, 2008Wednesday, April 16, 20081:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.Wells Fargo TheatreWells Fargo Theatre

Featuring:Featuring:Jan Wagner, 2008 OAUG PresidentJan Wagner, 2008 OAUG President

Distinguished OAUG LeadersDistinguished OAUG LeadersThe OAUG Knowledge FactoryThe OAUG Knowledge Factory™™ Launch Launch

Grand Prize GiveawaysGrand Prize Giveaways

Sponsored by Global SoftwareSponsored by Global Software

Please attend the OAUG Annual Meeting of the Members for more information.Wednesday, April 16, 2008 at 1:00 p.m.

Wells-Fargo Theatre

Welcome!

• Welcome to OAUG Collaborate 2008!• Welcome to the SysAdmin SIG!

Agenda

• Audience Survey• OAUG Overview • SIG Overview• SIG Briefing• SIG Direction• SIG Direction Discussion• System Administration-Related Sessions• Virtualization and the E-Business Suite

OAUG MembershipMember Benefits include:• Advocacy opportunities to influence Oracle on product enhancements, usability,

new features, Oracle support, pricing and quality.• Knowledge that showcases the latest trends and techniques used by industry

leaders through our national and regional events and our publications, such as OAUG Insight magazine.

• Communication with other OAUG members worldwide through participation in OAUG committees, leadership positions, interaction with Oracle Corporation's user initiatives, frequent member surveys, and Oracle management briefings.

• Education through the hundreds of career-enhancing presentations in our conference paper database archive, as well as discounts to conferences and Oracle education.

• Networking with Oracle customers, industry experts, third-party software firms, and other Oracle Applications specialists through our Member Database and Online Vendor Directory.

OAUG Skills Marketplace

• Employer Benefits– Pre-defined, product-specific templates– Pre-qualification questionnaire– Resume search based on keywords or skillset– Support for both contract and FT positions

• Job Seeker Benefits– Free resume posting– Search for jobs you are seeking for your skillsets

SysAdmin SIG

• Share knowledge and experience about a variety of topics relating to Oracle Applications System Administration – Oracle Applications System Administration– Operating System Administration for Oracle

Applications Installations

Purpose & Mission Statement• The SysAdmin Special Interest Group (SIG) provides a forum

for OAUG members and participants to share updates, tips and successful practices relating to System Administration in an Oracle Applications environment.

• The SysAdmin SIG strives to enable System Administrators to become more effective and efficient in their jobs by providing them with access to people and information that can their System Administration knowledge and experience.

Other OAUG SIGs• Related SIGs

– DBA SIG– Upgrade SIG– Workflow SIG– Middleware SIG (Formerly Apps Technology Stack

SIG)– Internal Control & Security SIG

SysAdmin SIG Committees• Concurrent Managers• SysAdmin Scripts • Architecture • Workflow Administration • Printer Drivers & Keyboard Mappings • System Administrator Roles & Responsibilities • Oracle Tools and Utilities • Third-Party Tools • Useful Links and Webmaster • Oracle Enhancements • UNIX • Linux • System Profiles

Web Site Organization• Oracle Applications System Administration

– Concurrent Managers – Printer Drivers & Keyboard Mappings – Architecture – Workflow Administration – Oracle Tools and Utilities – Third-Party Tools

• System Administration – UNIX – Linux – Windows

• General – SIG Mission – SIG List Server – Useful Links and Webmaster – System Administrator Roles and Responsibilities – Oracle Enhancement Requests – SysAdmin Scripts

http://sysadminsig.oaug.org/index.shtml

SIG Briefing

• Two meetings per year:– Connection Point (our meeting)– Oracle OpenWorld (Education-Oriented)

• Next Meeting Planned at Oracle OpenWorldSeptember 22 - 25 2008, in San Francisco, CA

SIG Direction

• What do you want?• How can this SIG provide benefit to you?• Were the past presentations helpful?

SysAdmin-Related Sessions

• Oracle System Administrator FundamentalsMonday, April 14, 2008 9:15 AM-10:15 AM 407

• Concurrent Manager / System Administration Panel Monday, April 14, 2008 10:30 AM-11:30 AM 112

• My 1st Year as a System Administrator...Thursday, April 17, 2008 11:00 AM-12:00 PM 407

Virtualizationand the E-Business Suite

Brian Bent

Virtualization show of hands

• How many out there are planning on using virtualization in their IT organization?

• How many out there are actually using some sort of virtualization in their IT organization?

• How many out there are currently running the E-Business Suite in a virtualized environment?

Definition (Wikipedia)

"[Virtualization is] a technique for hiding the physical characteristics of computing resources, thru encapsulation, from the way in which other systems, applications, or end users interact with those resources. This includes making a single physical resource appear to function as multiple logical resources; or it can include making multiple physical appear as a single logical resource."

Examples

• Server Consolidation• Disaster Recovery• Testing Training• Hardware LPAR/vPar/nPar/Containers• Grid Technology

• AMD-V processor “Pacifica”• Intel IVT processor “Vanderpool”

Oracle’s stance on Virtualization

• Oracle does not certify any of their software products to run on virtualized software except one…Oracle VM

• Oracle will only provide support for issues that either are known to occur on the native OS, or can be demonstrated not to be as a result of running a virtualized product

• If the problem is determined not to be a known Oracle issue, Oracle will refer the customer to the third-party vendor

The E-Business Suite

• Release 11i– Release 11.5.10.2 or later with ATG RUP 5 or

later– Database 10.2.0.3– Developer 6i Patchset 18 or later– JInitiator 1.3.1.28 or later

• Release 12– Release 12.0.2 or later– Database 10.2.0.3 or later– Sun JRE 1.5.0_12 or later

Oracle VM• Hypervisor / Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) -

virtualization platform that allows multiple operating systems to run on a host computer at the same time– Native or bare-metal– Hosted

• Guest operating system runs at the second level above the hardware

• Operating systems must be explicitly ported to run on top of a paravirtualized VMM

Direction of Virtualization

• According to Gartner– Virtualization will be the biggest driver for IT

infrastructure and operations spending over the next several years

– Virtualization will be the "highest-impact trend" for IT through 2012, predicting it will determine how IT administrators manage, buy, deploy and plan their future strategies

Licensing• Soft-partitioning

– Segments the operating system using OS resource managers

– Not permitted as a means to determine or limit the number of software licenses required for any given server

• Hard-partitioning– Physically segments a server, by taking a single

large server and separating it into distinct smaller systems

** Oracle VM can also be used as hard partitioning **

Questions and Answers

Brian Bent

Solution Beacon

bbent@solutionbeacon.com