The document discusses deploying SOA on the Oracle Database Appliance (ODA). It describes how ODA already provides easily provisioned database and WebLogic Server. To install SOA, one can use WebLogic Server on ODA but must consider additional disk space, packages, tuning, and FMW infrastructure requirements. Alternatively, one could create their own OVM template, though this is not the preferred ODA approach. The best option is to let the Oracle Database Appliance provision SOA.

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Deploying SOA on the Oracle Database Appliance
Simon Haslam
Technical Director

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ODA Benefits
•ODA already gives you easily provisioned:
–Database (EE, RON, RAC)
–WebLogic Server
–Traffic Director
•“…but I want Oracle Fusion Middleware products like SOA Suite!”

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How do I install SOA on ODA?
•Use WebLogic on ODA but need to consider…
–Disk space
–Packages
–Tuning
–FMW Infrastructure (12c)
–more…
•Or Do It Yourself OVM template…
–not really the ODA way!

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WebLogic on ODA Characteristics
•WebLogic 12c (12.1.3) or 11g (10.3.6)
•JDK 7 (for WebLogic 12c) or JDK 6 (for 11g)
•‘Best practice’ WebLogic domain design
•Integrated with Oracle Traffic Director load balancer
•Exploits ODA’s 10Gb internal network for best performance
•Secured by firewalls

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VMs
WebLogic Admin Server
Oracle Traffic Director
Oracle Traffic Director
load balancer
WebLogic Managed Server in Cluster
EE/RON/RAC
database
OTD Admin Server
Per environment
Application Traffic
Administration
Administration
Database instances
Run in ODA Base VMs
O-box only
O-box
Manager
Administration

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Networking
•One configuration of Traffic Director, shared by all domains
•‘Public’ network(s) are defined by you during configuration (names and IP addresses)
•Internal addresses are assigned by ODA VP (private algorithm) & not for application use

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VIP
O-box
only
Admin Server
Oracle Traffic Director
OTD AN
OTD
Admin Server
Public network, e.g. 10.1.1.0/24
ODA internal 10GbE network 192.168.16.0/24
ms1
ms2
7001
7002
7001
7002
7001
7002
7001
7001
7001
80
8998
443
8998
8998
443
O-box
Manager
443

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Disk space
•WebLogic on ODA template has:
–3GB /
–3GB /opt/oracle {middleware home}
–10GB /u01 {domain home}
•SOA middleware home needs ~5GB
ODA VP now supports adding vdisks
New in 12.1.2!

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Packages
•WebLogic on ODA template has 187-213 RPMs (depending on version)
•SOA needs ~230
–(that’s O-box SOA today and includes a few extra packages)

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Tuning
•Memory
–VM: 6 GB
–Managed Server heap max: 3 GB
–Admin Server heap max: 1.5 GB
•Processing
–Managed Server: 4 vCPU (2 vCPU on ODA V1)
–Admin Server: 2 vCPU
•Cluster
–Oracle Configurator gives various options for cluster sizing/topologies
–O-box offers HA Starter/Medium/Large plus database option

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FMW Infrastructure (12c)
•11g
–WebLogic “generic” installer
–Extend domain to include JRF, EM etc
•12c
–Fusion Middleware Infrastructure installer
•WebLogic on ODA currently uses generic installer

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More SOA (& Upper Stack) Considerations…
•Management of ports
•Domain design (SOA, OSB, Coherence)
•Multiple environments (e.g. adding later)
•Licensing and CPU pools
•Status of VMs & lifecycle management
•SSL Certificates
•Automating patching and updates

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How do I install SOA on ODA?
•Use WebLogic on ODA but need to consider…
–Disk space
–Packages
–Tuning
–FMW Infrastructure (12c)
–more…
•Or Do It Yourself OVM template…
–not really the ODA way!
•Let O-box provision SOA

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Deploying SOA on the Oracle Database Appliance
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