Oracle E-Business Suite on Exadata
Our Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) team has quietly been amassing a formidable set of whitepapers about theOracle Exadata Database Machine. They're available here:
MAA Best Practices - Exadata Database MachineIf
you're one of the lucky ones with access to this hardware platform,
you'll be pleased to hear that the MAA team has just published a new
whitepaper with best practices for EBS environments:
Oracle E-Business Suite on ExadataThis whitepaper covers the following topics:
Getting to Exadata-- a high level overview of fresh installation on, and migration to,
Exadata Database Machine with pointers to more detailed documentation
High Availability and Disaster Recovery-- an overview of our MAA best practices with pointers to our detailed MAA Best Practices documentation
Performance and Scalability-- best practices for running Oracle E-Business Suite on Exadata Database Machine based on our internal testingAs an added bonus, the whitepaper has details about the internal
testbeds where this
configuration was evaluated with Oracle's own 18 TB Global Single Instance. The whitepaper's Appendix discusses Exada
Smart Flash Cache results, Smart Scan, RAC, and RMAN backup performance.
Need an Overview of Migration Options?
Also
useful: A summary of the different technologies and techniques that
you can use to migrate your E-Business Suite database to Exadata can be
found here:
Migrating an Oracle E-Business Suite Database to Oracle Exadata Database Machine(Note 1133355.1)That
overview Note provides a short but precise analysis of physical
migration techniques (e.g. Data Guard Physical Standby, Transportable
Database, Transportable Tablespaces, Rapid Clone) vs. logical migration
techniques (e.g. Oracle Data Pump).