Oracle SOA Suite is a complex piece of software which required good knowledge and research to install, configure and later maintain it. This session will highlight the best practices to install, configure and maintain for a High availability enterprise and share some real world performance solutions and basic Administrative tasks. Best Practices Knowledge sharing

1. Oracle SOA Suite for High
Availability Enterprises
Session# 283
Presenter: Zeeshan Baig
Co-Presenter: Deepak Sharma
AST Corporation
www.astcorporation.com

2. Agenda
• Why High availability is Important
• Determining your HA
• Oracle SOA Suite Installation
• Oracle SOA Suite Basic Topology
• Oracle SOA Suite Topology for HA Enterprises
• Oracle SOA Suite Administration
• Best Practices
• Q&A
All images used in this presentation is courtesy of Google images and Oracle documentation.

3. About Zeeshan
• 13+ Years of Technical experience in Oracle products
• Technical Manager in Middleware Practice at AST
• Oracle ACE Member
• Oracle OCP Certified
• Technical Blog at www.baigzeeshan.com
• YouTube Channel www.youtube.com/baigsorcl

4. About Deepak
• 6+ Years of Technical experience in Oracle products
• Senior Consultant in Middleware Practice at AST
• OCP Certified

5. What is High Availability?
• As per Wiki
High availability is a system design approach and associated
service implementation that ensures a prearranged level of
operational performance will be met during a contractual
measurement period.
• High Availability Characteristics
• Be transparent to most failures
• Provide built-in preventative measures
• Provide proactive monitoring
and fast detection of failures
• Provide fast recoverability
• Provide the HA solution to meet your SLA

6. Why High Availability is Important
• Impact on Business
• Customer Relationship
• Downtime = Lost productivity & Revenues
• Negative publicity
• Possible Legal actions

7. Determining Your HA
• Questions to Answer
• Business Impact Analysis
• Cost of Downtime
• Recovery Time Objective
• Recovery Point Objective
• SLAs
• HA Architecture

8. How to setup SOA Suite for HA
• Follow Oracle’s Enterprise Deployment Guide
• Deployment Guide is based on best HA practices
• Provides Built-in Security
• Separation with other components
• Provides Component level High availability

9. Oracle SOA Suite Installation Flow Chart

10. Oracle SOA Suite Simple Topology
• Web Tier is a HTTP server
• Application Tier is where SOA
resides
• Database tier is where Meta
Repository resides

11. Enterprise Topology - Directory Structure
Admin Server (Shared)
Managed Server (Shared or Local)
Fixed Name
Installation-dependent name

12. Enterprise Topologies – Shared Storage

13. Enterprise Topologies – Web Tier

14. Enterprise Topologies - SOA

15. Enterprise Topologies - Database

16. Best Practices / Lesson Learned
• Check Platform certification
• Follow Enterprise deployment Guide
• AdminServer on Shared drive
• Schedule SOA Purge scripts
• Shared file system based JMS
• Ensure HA at Database Layer
• Implement OSB virtualization

17. Basic Administration Tasks
• Managing SOA Composites
• Instance Monitoring
• BPEL Process Recovery
• Composite State management
• Deployment of SOA Composites
• Deploy, Re-deploy
• Securing SOA Composites
• Policy Management, SSL
• Managing Database Growth
• Instance Purging
• Partitioning Component Tables

18. Summary
• High availability is important for us
• Oracle’s Enterprise deployment Guide is
based on best HA practices for SOA
suite
• Automate basic Administration task to
avoid problems later on

19. AST Corporation Overview (Booth# 1261)
• In Business for Over 17 Years
• No Failed or Terminated Projects - Ever!
• Awarded 2011 Top Small Company Workplaces by Inc. Magazine.
• Focused Exclusively on Oracle Technology and Applications
• Oracle Platinum Partner
• Oracle’s “Go To” Transportation Partner
• 80% of Work with Public Sector Customers
• Oracle Public Sector Partner of the Year
• 100% On-Time, On-Budget Track Record

20. Q &A

21. Contact Information
• Zeeshan Baig
• Email: zeeshan.baig82@gmail.com
• Twitter: @baigsorcl
• Blog: www.baigzeeshan.com
• LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/baigzeeshan
• Deepak Sharma
• Email: deepaks.pec@gmail.com