Getting optimal performance from oracle e-business suite presentation

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Getting Optimal Performance
from Oracle E-Business Suite

Samer Barakat
Senior Architect, Applications Performance

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Program Agenda
Performance Triage & Resolution
Optimizing E-Business Suite Applications Tier
Optimizing E-Business Suite Database Tier
Optimizing E-Business Suite on RAC
E-Business Suite on Engineered Systems
Optimizing E-Business Data Management
Q&A

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How to Approach a Performance Issue
DEFINE the problem clearly
GATHER the right data to analyze the issue
Identify the ROOT CAUSE of the problem, possibly gather additional data
Search for a KNOWN SOLUTION or workaround that addresses the root cause of
the problem
If it is a product issue, PASS ON the right information to support/dev through the
regular channels
Try to identify a TEMPORARY WORKAROUND to alleviate the issue while you get a
permanent fix

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Define the Problem
Get a clear understanding & quantitative definition of the issue
Where is the time going ? Get the right diagnostics
– What?
– Where?
– When?
– Why?
– How?

Identify the Techstack
components in-play
Refer to the architecture

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Define the Problem
~ 80% of issues are DB processing related
If non-database (client side) processing occurs within the flow, you may see DB
wait events like
SQL*Net Message from client
TCP Socket%
PLSQL Lock Timer
Keep a watchful eye on OS metrics and resource consumption in all 3 tiers

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Gather Diagnostic Data
Start with MOS ID 1121043.1 for How-to & Best Practices
• SQL Tuning
• Trace files
• SQLT output (MOS ID: 215187.1)
• Trace Analyzer (MOS ID: 224270.1)
• AWR Report (MOS ID: 748642.1)
• 11g SQL Monitor Report
• AWR SQL Report (awrsqrpt.sql)
• PL/SQL Tuning
• Product logs
• PL/SQL Profiler (MOS ID: 808005.1)
• Reports Tracing (MOS ID: 111311.1)

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• Database Tuning
• AWR Report (MOS ID: 748642.1)
• ADDM report (MOS ID: 250655.1)
• Active Session History (ASH)
• Forms Tuning
• Forms Tracing (MOS ID: 373548.1)
• FRD Log (MOS ID: 445166.1)
• Generic note (MOS ID: 438652.1)
• Middletier Tuning
• JVM Logs
• JVM Sizing/Tuning (MOS ID:
362851.1,278868.1)
• OS - OSWatcher (MOS ID: 301137.1)

Gather Enhanced Performance Diagnostics for Oracle E-Business Suite
(MOS ID: 1362660.1)
Gather as much diagnostic data as possible in one round trip to customer.
Available on 12.1.3 as a standalone patch# 12544073 (Mandatory Pre-Requisite AD
Patch# 12991557)
Enhancement to FND_TRACE : New procedure “set_preferences” enables you to
– Enable tracing for sessions
– Enable tracing for one or more SQL statements using SQL_ID (*)
– Generate CBO trace when tracing SQL statements (*)
– Trace PL/SQL using PL/SQL Hierarchical Profiler (*)
– Set Statistics Level
(*) - Only in Oracle Database 11g+
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Gather Enhanced Performance Diagnostics for Oracle E-Business Suite
(MOS ID: 1362660.1)
One or more of the following outputs can generated automatically after the end of traced
session. The concurrent program 'Gather Diagnostic Data for Traced Sessions' is
automatically submitted via 'System Administrator responsibility to gather this output.
– AWR, ADDM and ASH Reports
– Session Statistics
– SQLT output (*)
– Trace Analyzer output, which includes SQLT output for top SQLs
– Objects statistics when a SQL statement is traced, but SQLT output is not chosen or not installed
– Real-Time SQL Monitor Report when a SQL statement is traced (**)
– SQL Detail Report when a SQL Statement is traced (***)

(* )Requires SQLT tool - Note 215187.1,
11.2.0.1+
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(** )Oracle DB 11g+

(*** )Oracle DB

Establish baselines for different workloads by collecting system level performance
information
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AWR (Automatic Workload Repository) Report
ADDM (Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor) Report
ASH (Active Session History) Report
Real-Time SQL Monitoring Report (11g+) (Parallel queries and queries taking > 5 seconds)

Operating system statistics
– OSW Document Doc ID 301137.1
– OSWg Document Doc ID 461053.1

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Monitor and trace critical flows & concurrent programs
– ASH (Active Session History) Report
– SQL Trace Level 8 (with waits) or Level 12 (with waits and binds) followed by TKPROF
• Check both raw trace and TKPROF
• Interpreting Raw SQL_TRACE files MOS Doc ID 39817.1
– Trace Analyzer (TRCA) reads an Event 10046 SQL Trace file and provides a
comprehensive report for performance analysis and tuning MOS Doc ID 224270.1
Monitor and trace specific SQLs
– SQLTXPLAIN (aka SQLT) MOS Doc ID 215187.1
•Maintained by Oracle Support - often requested
•Collects information on why the execution plan was chosen

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Trace/TKPROF … Get the complete session story
Set Trace Parameters
– max_dump_file_size=unlimited
•Ensure there is sufficient disk space in the tracing directory
– user_dump_dest or if diagnostic_dest is set in Oracle11g
•(diagnostic_dest)/diag/rdbms/(dbname)/(instname)/trace
•background_dump_dest for parallel slave processes
– STATISTICS_LEVEL=ALL
Generate Trace
– Forms: Help -> Diagnostics -> Trace
– OA HTML: Diagnostics -> Tracing
– Set the profile: “Initialization SQL Statement - Custom“. Use FND_CTL.FND_SESS_CTL

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Trace/TKPROF … Get the complete session story
Raw trace must be
– From before the user action began To the point the DB session ends**
– A complete, non-truncated trace file
*** DUMP FILE SIZE IS LIMITED TO 12345 BYTES***
Run TKPROF from the correct Oracle home
•Use the sort options = fchela,exeela,prsela
TKPROF output MUST have
•Runtime Execution Plans and Row Counts & Row Source Stats
•Run Time Execution Plan = “Row Source Operation” != “Explain Plan”
Best practices, detailed how-to steps & recommended tracing patches
•MOS Doc 1121043.1 (Also review Appendix B – Getting In-Memory partial runtime
stats)
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Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) … Get the complete system story
– Regularly Review Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) data for different workloads
– Use DBMS_WORKLOAD_REPOSITORY or Enterprise Manager to create snapshots
– Generate reports using $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/awrrpt.sql
– Review the Advisory sections in AWR to fine tune SGA & PGA.
– Monitor and correlate top SQL in AWR to business flows.
– Review Load Profile and Top 5 Timed Events section to determine utilization &
bottlenecks and review relevant detailed sections for these events.

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Analyze Root Cause
Regularly Review Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) data for different workloads
– For Latch related waits
•Often due to: non-sharable SQL, sub-optimal SQL which performs full table or full
index scans, dynamic object creation/removal, etc.
•Review the latch Statistics section to determine the hot latches
•Trace waiter and holder sessions to determine actual cause
– For I/O related waits
•Review SQL sections by Logical/Physical reads and the Segment Statistics
sections by I/O
– For Enqueue related or buffer busy waits
•Review the following sections: enqueue, segment statistics by buffer busy waits,
row lock & ITL waits

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Analyze Root Cause
If bottleneck is IO related...
(db file sequential read, db file scattered read, log file sync, free buffer waits, etc...)
– Tune Top SQL is always the first step
– Make sure that system has updated statistics.
– Maximize Memory availability, allocate generously to buffer cache, review AWR

advisories & monitor swapping & paging.
– Use ASM or alternatively use the SAME methodology for db files.
– IO Sub-system:

RAID 10 still preferred most often for high end requirements Ideal avg. response
times of < 10ms.
– Check for excessive/redundant indexing.
– Configure async IO, use quick IO technologies.

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Analyze Root Cause
If the bottleneck is concurrency related
(enq%, latch%, buffer busy%, etc… )
– Use global hash-partitioned indexes for hot leaf blocks - Identify via AWR "Top logical
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IOs by Segment"
Some of these waits are commonly caused by bad SQL execution plans
i.e. :latch: cache buffer chains, %buffer busy waits, read by other session
Make sure to use ASSM and OATM tablespace model.
Increase INITRANS to alleviate ITL contention.
Increase sequence caches,
Work with support/consulting to evaluate if table/index partitioning will help .
If the program allows, more frequent commits (batch size) can help by reducing the
CR (consistent read) work required.


Optimizing E-Business Suite
Applications Tier

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Stay Current
Apply latest Release Update Packs
Release 12.1.3: Patch 9239090 : MOS ID: 1080973.1
Release 12.0 - RUP6: Patch 6728000 : MOS ID: 743368.1
Apply the latest EBS Family Packs + Recommended Patch List
“Recommended Performance Patches for the Oracle E-Business Suite”,
MOS ID 244040.1
Recommended performance patches for all the modules and tech stack
components are consolidated in this note
Upgrade techstack components to the latest certified levels
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Use Optimal Logging Settings
FND: Debug Log Enabled - Set it to ‘Yes’ (12.0 RUP3+, 12.1.x)
FND: Debug Log Level - Set to Unexpected (Level=6)
Query FND_LOG_MESSAGES to check the logging traffic
With above profile configuration
If the query shows a large number of rows being created, there could be
exceptions and errors which need to be investigated

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Optimize Workflow Processes
Purge runtime data (Conc Program: FNDWFPR)
Can run by ITEM_TYPE
Monitor/Troubleshoot old workflows not properly closed
Purge frequently
For background engines via Concurrent Manager, set the ‘Process Stuck’
parameter to ‘No’
Identification of stuck workflows is resource intensive
Start a separate background engine to handle stuck/timed out processes
with a low frequency –i.e. once a day
Use deferred activities to improve online response times for flows such as
Scheduling, PO Document Approval, etc.
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Optimize Workflow Processes
Run $FND_TOP/sql/wffngen.sql to translate the activity function calls into static calls
Edit & add heavily used ITEM_TYPES
itemtypeList_t (‘WFSTD’,’FNDFFWF’)
Generates wffncal2b.pls in utl_file_dir to re-create pkg
Disable retention on Workflow Queues
DBMS_AQADM.ALTER_QUEUE(queue_name=>:b1,retention_time=>0);
Partition runtime tables for higher scalability – MOS ID: 260884.1
For high volume batch processing in RAC use ITEM_TYPE to Node affinity
Define node affinity at the program level ( See MOS Doc ID 1129203.1)
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Optimize Forms Processes
To reduce load on the database server, ensure users are optimally utilizing the
professional Forms interfaces.
– Avoid Blind queries
– Provide selective criteria in Find windows and LOVs
Minimize network traffic and form open times
– Avoid opening and closing forms across transactions
– Combine forms from multiple-products onto a single menu
Generate complete SQL trace and Forms Runtime Diagnostics (FRD) to debug
performance issues

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Optimize JVM Processes
Total available memory is the most important factor affecting GC performance.
Review the frequency of collections, especially major collections (i.e. Full GC)
Enable verbose GC to tune heap sizes based on the GC traffic
Start with: -Xms1024M and –Xmx1024M
Setting -Xms and -Xmx to the same value avoids the need for heap memory
re-allocation during runtime

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Optimize JVM Processes
If full GCs are too frequent, consider increasing Xms and Xmx
Consider using jstat to see and review each of the heap generations for
possible tuning
Increase the number of JVMs to scale up for more users with faster GC times.
– Each JVM has a smaller Xmx,Xms memory footprint so full GCs will be

faster!

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Size The Middle Tier For Concurrency
The main contributors to the middle tier memory are the JVMs heaps, forms (frmweb)
process memory and concurrent manager components, especially java concurrent
programs.
To calculate physical memory for oacore JVM heap, the following formula can be used:
M= (N/ 150 ) * 1 GB
Where M = total memory used by oacore VMs
N = total number of concurrent Self-Service users
Use one JVM per 2 CPUs
~100-150 concurrent users per JVM

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Size The Middle Tier For Concurrency
To calculate physical memory for Forms frmweb processes, the following formula can
be uses used:
M= N * 40MB
Where
M = total memory used by Forms frmweb processes
N = total number of concurrent Forms users
Care should be taken to size for the concurrent manager components, especially
java concurrent programs.

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Optimize the Concurrent Manager
Manage CM Jobs Lifecycle: 50% of performance tuning is in the business!
– Review long-running auto resubmitted jobs
– Review short/long-running jobs – selective parameters?
– Don’t purge jobs that the users then have to run again
– Trim the fat: Review and eliminate concurrent jobs that are not required and/or are not

being used by users.
Manage CM Managers : More managers/workers != more throughput
– Avoid enabling an excessive number of standard or specialized managers.
– A common guideline is between 1-2 target process per CPU, but this needs to be

balanced with resources required by online activity
– Utilize Parallel Concurrent Processing (PCP) to leverage the Cluster (RAC)

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Manage CM State Data:
– Purge the FND tables on a regular basis using the “Purge Concurrent Request and

Manager Data” program
– Patch 7530490 for R12 or 7834670 for 11i (MOS ID 822368.1)
– High throughput: Keep *.out and *.log on fast disks. Use Separate disks if throughput
seems slow especially on NFS Filers
– Truncate the reports.log file in log directory. Watch for 2GB limit on any output files
(Doc ID 842850.1)
Manage CM Schedules:
– Use specialization rules and work shifts to bind specific jobs to specific time windows .
– Avoid scheduling resource intensive batch requests during peak activity.
– Reschedule some programs to run when the concurrent managers have excess capacity.
– Define Workload Management Strategy based on job average duration and system usage

profile.
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Optimize the Concurrent Manager: Workload Management Strategy

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Avoid Short Sleep Times
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*Enough for a couple of minutes of work

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**Set cache size to at least twice the number of workers

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Specialization rules and work shifts
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Profile Option: Concurrent: Active Request Limit can be used restrict the number
of concurrent requests that may be run simultaneously by each user

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Bind specific jobs to specific time windows

Specialize if there are too many jobs in a specific category


Conflict Resolution Manager Sleep Time:
– To maximize throughput for jobs which spawn parallel workers (i.e. Auto Invoice, Payroll),

consider reducing the sleep time of the Conflict Resolution Manager (CRM).
– Default is 60s, consider 5 or 10 seconds

Concurrent Manager Sleep Time:
– Define dedicated queues for short and frequent requests and increase the sleep times for

managers which do not require near real-time job execution
– Reducing sleep time to a very low value many cause excessive CPU utilization.

Transaction Manager Sleep Time:
– Set the profile “Concurrent:Wait for Available TM” to 1 (second) to minimize TM latency.

The profile sets the total time to wait for a TM before switchover to next available TM
– Set Sleep time on Transaction Managers to 30 minutes. this avoids constant polls to check

for shutdown requests.
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Concurrent Manager Tracing Best Practices
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Program Level
Not recommended
Enable the trace/profiling option in the concurrent program definitio

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Request Level
Ensure “Concurrent: Allow Debugging” is set to ‘Yes’
Use the Debug Options button in the Request Submission Form

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Tracing Documents
280391.1 How to Retrieve SID Information For a Running Request

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Optimizing E-Business Suite
Database Tier

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Verify init.ora Parameters and EBS Patches
Tune Init.ora Parameters:
– Ensure mandatory init.ora parameters are set correctly.
– MOS ID 396009.1 & 216205.1 (R12 & 11i respectively)

Apply Required Patches & Fixes/Workarounds for Known Issues
– Recommended Performance Patches - MOS ID 244040.1
– Required Patching – Interoperability Notes

»11gR1 Certified with 11i and R12 – MOS ID 452783.1 & 735276.1
»11gR2 Certified with 11i – MOS ID 881505.1

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Properly Size SGA/PGA Memory
Use Large/Huge pages. For example on Linux HugePages – See MOS ID 744769.1
MOS ID 361468.1, “HugePages on Oracle Linux 64-bit” describes how to configure
hugepages. When running the recommended script provided with Note 401749.1, make
sure that all database instances are started.
Set the parameter USE_LARGE_PAGES=’only’ for each instance so that the instance
will only start if sufficient HugePages are available. See MOS ID 1392497.1
“USE_LARGE_PAGES To Enable HugePages In 11.2”
Only SGA allocation benefits from large/huge pages, PGA allocation does not.
Consider both SGA and PGA memory requirement when sizing your RAM

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Tune Disk IO
Ensure kernel asynchronous I/O is enabled and supported for the underlying file system (if
file systems are being used for the DB files)
Configure & verify direct IO is used (if file systems are being used for the DB files)
– Improves performance/scalability by simulating raw devices, avoiding file system cache
traffic
Ensure your IO subsystem can handle your peak IO load & IOPS
– Use ASM or alternatively use the SAME methodology for db files.
– Measure with ORION tool or in 11g
DBMS_RESOURCE_MANAGER.CALIBRATE_IO – MOS ID 727062.1
Reduce the IO workload
– Tune expensive SQL
– Trim the workload of unnecessary tasks
– Do 3X less IO on average with 11g Advanced Compression Option
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Convert to the OATM Tablespace Model
OATM Consolidates # of Apps tablespaces from 400 to ~12
– MOS ID 248857.1
OATM Uses automatic segment management (ASSM) along with uniform extent sizes
for tablespaces containing large transaction tables/indexes.
OATM supports uniform extent allocation and auto allocate extent (AUTOALLOCATE )
management
OATM provides efficient space utilization. This is achieved by supporting locally
managed tablespaces as opposed to the dictionary managed tablespace
OATM Helps avoid frequent space management operations.
Migration utility can be used to migrate a schema at a time
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Optimize Backend Code Execution Path
Utilize PL/SQL Native Compilation.
Pin Top Apps PL/SQL packages by executions to help avoid shared pool fragmentation
and reloads.
Check cursor leaks and SQL statements using literals with large execution counts. Cursor
leaks/literals can result in ORA-4031 errors.
Tune sequence cache sizes for hot sequences (e.g. 1,000 or higher) in order to minimize
index key contention for the Apps surrogate keys.
Make sure to use FNS_STATS to gather statistics.

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Gather Applications Statistics
Statistics gathering strategy should not be based on time.
It should always be based on rate of change in the data and is an iterative process.
Disable the 10g/11g automatic job to gather stats
Do not gather statistics excessively on entire schemas or the entire database such as
nightly or weekly.
• Do not gather statistics on Global Temporary Tables.
Avoid gathering statistics during peak hours.
Gather statistics after large data load and when mix/max values have changed.
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New Published MOS ID 1586374.1 for "Best Practices for Gathering Statistics with Oracle
E-Business Suite"
Use only FND_STATS or the Gather Schema / Table Statistics Concurrent Programs
Do NOT USE the analyze or dbms_stats command directly. It is not supported,
and can result in sub-optimal plans.
When Gather Schema Statistics concurrent program is used fnd_stats does the
bookkeeping for the run.
FND_STATS supports column histograms.
Histograms can be seeded by calling to fnd_stats.load_histogram_cols.
Use the GATHER_AUTO option to gather incrementally. This will re-analyze objects which
currently have no statistics and objects with stale statistics
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Analyze all schemas at 10%, then for some specific objects use higher sampling x%
Due to data skew, some tables benefit from higher sampling %
For 11g, can use value of zero (AUTO_SAMPLE_SIZE)
Do not invalidate cursors
While submitting concurrent request to gather statistics set “Invalidate Dependent
Cursors” parameter to No.
Consider locking statistics for very volatile tables once a representative set is gathered.
For example, interface tables, ap_selected_invoices, wsh_pr_workers etc.
These intermediate tables are used in batch processes.
Use FND_STATS.LOAD_XCLUD_TAB to skip the table.

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Gather Dictionary and Fixed Stats
• Gather dictionary object statistics when there is a significant change in dictionary, for
example, lot of new objects created.
exec dbms_stats.gather_dictionary_stats;
• Gather fixed object statistics with reasonable load on the system
exec dbms_stats.gather_fixed_objects_stats
• Dictionary and Fixed stats should be gather manually as they are not gathered
automatically in the Release 12 upgrade by adstats.sql or any other method.

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Verify Optimal HW/DB Configurations
Interconnect– Private; GigE or Infiniband
Network Configuration– Use Jumbo frames
ifconfig <adapter> mtu 9000
IO subsystem sized for performance, not just storage; write optimized
Buffer Cache +10%
Use Parallel Query Instance Affinity (Set PX affinity local each node)
10g - Set instance specific values for INSTANCE_GROUPS,
PARALLEL_INSTANCE_GROUP
11gR1 - Can be done as above or via services
11gR2 - PARALLEL_FORCE_LOCAL =true
Monitor CPU utilization, run queue lengths and interconnect traffic

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Utilize Instance Affinity and PCP
Follow EBS RAC conversion MOS documents for patch and parameter info
(MOD ID 466219.1) 11gr1 RAC with EBS R12
(MOS ID 823587.1) 11gr2 RAC with EBS R12
Use Affinity : Direct some workload components to specific RAC nodes to maximize
scalability by minimizing inter-node communication and synchronization work.
Utilize Parallel Concurrent Processing (PCP) to leverage the Cluster (RAC).
For RAC and PCP refer to (MOS ID1359612.1)
On 12.1 you can define node affinity at the program level (MOS ID 1129203.1)

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PCP: Maintain 1 – 1 correspondence of CM nodes to RAC nodes
Set <s_cp_twotask> per CM node to tie to a specific RAC instance.
Do not use a load balanced TNS entry for the value of s_cp_twotask. The request
may hang if the sessions are load balanced.
Define primary/secondary CM nodes for Failover
12.1 Define node affinity at the program level
Concurrent | Program | Define ( See MOS Doc ID 1129203.1)
12.1.3 introduced option to define node affinity at the program level – Concurrent ->
Program -> Define

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Extend Affinity to the Applications Tier (Forms)
Set Profile Option "Database Instance" at App or Resp level which can be tied to
two_task value or to a service
Extend Affinity to the Applications Tier (Self-service)
Set Profile Options “App%Agent” to web tier hosts configured for specific services
…or
Set Profile Option "Applications Database ID" to node specific DBC file name

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E-Business Suite on Engineered Systems

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Engineered Systems I The Family

Exadata
Database
Machine

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Exalogic
Elastic
Cloud

Database
Appliance

Expedited time to value
Easier to manage and upgrade
Lower cost of ownership


Exalytics

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Big Data
Appliance

SPARC
Super
Cluster

Reduced change management risk
One-stop support
Extreme performance

E-Business Suite on Exadata and Exalogic
Technical Benefits

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E-Business Suite on Exalogic and Exadata
Performance
Oracle E-Business Suite Characteristics:
– Workloads are CPU intensive
– Requires large SGA and PGA due to high concurrency online workloads
– Requires high I/O and low latency for data intensive batch processing
Benefits of deploying Oracle E-Business Suite on Engineered Systems:
– Up to 3X performance improvements in batch processing
– Up to 8X performance improvements in responsiveness to end user
– Large Memory capacity of Engineered Systems
– Dramatically faster backups, cloning and other routine operation tasks
– Improved scalability allows adding more users and transaction volumes

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Consolidation | Exadata
With higher performance and throughput and smaller footprint, it becomes possible to
reduce the number of instances by aggregating more applications and databases
Resource Manager can help database consolidation in two ways.
– Control CPU usage and manage CPU contention through instance caging
– Control disk I/O usage and contention through IORM’s inter-database resource
plans.
Configuring and Monitoring Instance Caging [ID 1362445.1]
Master Note for Oracle Database Resource Manager [ID 1339769.1]

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Consolidation | Exalogic
Mission-critical server virtualization offers a whole new level of consolidation where
multiple virtual machines are sharing a single physical server in order to maximize the
utilization of server hardware, while minimizing associated costs
Exalogic has been engineered to leverage a technique known as Single-Root I/O
Virtualization to eliminate virtualization overhead and deliver the maximum performance
and scalability.
Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3 Database Tier and Application Tier
Templates for Oracle Exalogic [ID 1499132.1]

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Consolidation

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E-Business Suite OVM Template for Exalogic
E-Delivery

EBS

Download from Oracle
• Pre-built, pre-configured OVM
Exalogic Template for E-Business
Suite, MOS Note 1499132.1

EBS
HA

FMW

Test
& Dev
VM

Customize &
Save
as Golden
Images

Oracle VM Server Pool

EBS
Exalogic
OVM
Templates

Import to
Enterprise
Manager

Start-Up vServer
in Oracle VM Pool

Oracle VM on Exalogic

VM

Save days or weeks in installation and configuration time

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E-Business Suite on Exalogic and Exadata?
Supportability
Exalogic and Exadata are pre-assembled systems with limited variations in end
user configuration.
Pre-assembly saves 1000s of hours spent by customers in researching and building
a system to scale to the demanding needs of Oracle E-Business Suite.
Reduced number of end user configurations (uniform Operating system, CPU,
memory, network, and storage) allows Oracle to replicate customer issues easily
and maintain consistent patch sets across components
Running an E-Business Suite instance on a well-known single vendor configuration
and keeping it up-to-date with consistent patches lowers business risk.

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E-Business Suite on Exalogic and Exadata?
High Availability and Disaster Recovery
Best practices for deploying Oracle E-Business Suite on Exadata Database
Machine for maximum availability and disaster recovery have been documented
and validated by the Applications MAA/Exadata team
Configure EBS using our MAA best practices
– Load balanced web and forms servers
– Parallel concurrent processing
– Oracle RAC and Oracle Data Guard
Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture - MAA
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Optimizing E-Business Data
Management

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What Do We Know About Data

High
Volume

Data Volume

Activity

From Day 0 data starts to grow
Data comes from many sources such as

Less
Active

Low
Volume
0

1
Months

1

5

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Transient data (i.e. login, concurrent
requests etc..)
Reference/Seed data e.g. lookup
codes

Is all this data needed or required to be
available online?

10

Years

FACT: More than 80% of Data is Inactive
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Transactional e.g. Oracle Payables

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Active

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Why Do We need To Know
Optimal Data Management
Reduced Hardware Cost
Reduced network impact from data
movement
Reduced backup time
Reduced upgrade time and associated
downtime
Increased Transactions Per Second Rates
(TPS)
Improved Operating Performance
Reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

Available Oracle Solutions

Data Growth Control Methods
Archive/Purge Functionality within
E-Business Suite
Data Management Methods
Database Partitioning
Database Compression
Information Lifecycle Management
(ILM)
These methods can be used interchangeably

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E-Business Suite: Archiving & Purging
Where possible try to utilize the standard Oracle supplied programs
Purge/Archive programs provided at the module level in the E-Business Suite
Many documented standard programs available
260 purge and archive programs in R12

Financials
GL, AR, AP,
Costing,
Cash Management,
HR, FA, PA

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Manufacturing
Order Management,
INV, BOM,
WIP, QP,
Shipping, Purchasing

Purge Portal
Purge Portal introduced in 11i10
Single purge/archive management
console
Purge programs can be configured,
initiated and monitored
Set the execution frequency as well view
history of purge programs.
Accessing the Purge Portal
System Administrator > Oracle
Applications Manager >Purging/Critical
Activities

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E-Business Suite provides
Purge/Archive solutions for the key
transactional entities
The native E-Business Suite purge
and archive programs are
synchronized with the data model
Oracle’s solution considers
cross-product dependencies
Example: We can’t simply
delete data in Oracle Payables

Human
Resources

Workflow

Alert

Payables

General
Ledger
iExpense

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Archive/Purge Product Information
– Product User guides – GL/AP/AR/FA/OM
– Support Notes:

(MOS ID 138264.1) – General Ledger Archive/Purge FAQ
(MOD ID 144431.1) – Fixed Assets Archive/Purge FAQ
(MOS ID 136919.1) – General Ledger Archive/Purge Setup and Usage
(MOS ID 752322.1) : Reducing Oracle E-Business Suite Data Footprint

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E-Business Suite: Partitioning
When ?
– Many times it will be an implementation decision driven by huge data volume
– Can be physical DM decision to improve performance
Situations where partitioning can help
– Large deletes could become simple truncates of a partition
– Re-population/Refreshing of large portions of data could become a “partition
exchange” operation
– Very large tables & their indexes can be split into smaller segments, reducing IO
Partition Key
– Should be a key that most statements will have in the WHERE clause to reap the

benefits of partition pruning & elimination as well as index IO (local index)
– Should not change often to avoid row-movement between partitions
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E-Business Suite release 11i and Release 12 are certified with the Oracle Database 11g
Partitioning Option
(MOS ID 554539.1) – Database Partitioning for Oracle E-Business Suite
The Oracle E-Business Suite uses partitioning out-of-the-box with few modules:
200+ tables
Tables have a natural and logical partition key
Majority of the runtime access path (of the standard product) is based on this natural
partition key
Many E-Business Suite tables do not have a natural partitioning key which would apply to
all customers
Based on their own requirements, customers are free to partition the tables in a logical
manner
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Read Query performance
Partition elimination is important
Visible performance gains in a warehouse/reporting applications.
In OLTP, partitioning slightly improves read query performance
You must be careful to not negatively impact it
Occasionally, it can increase read performance due to clustering
List partition by region, application queries by region, all data on a given block is
for that region
Write Query performance
Reduced contention
Instead of 1 index with 1 hot block, you have N indexes with 1 hot block each
Instead of one set of freelists (be they ASSM or MSSM), you have N.

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Oracle 11g Advanced Compression Option (ACO)
Introduced in Oracle Database 9i Release 2
Compression during bulk load operations (Direct Load, CTAS)
Data modified using conventional DML not compressed
Oracle Database 11g extends table compression for OLTP data
Support for conventional DML Operations (INSERT, UPDATE)
New algorithm significantly reduces write overhead
Batched compression minimizes impact on OLTP transactions
No impact on reads
Reads data directly in compressed format
Reads may actually see improved performance due to fewer I/Os and
enhanced memory efficiency

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E-Business Suite: Advanced Compression (ACO)
Advanced Compression (ACO) option is an ideal choice for saving space with readintensive operations and can reduce the associated Disk I/O. ACO reduces storage
requirement from 2-4 times.
In our benchmarks, online workload showed up to 30% improvement with up to 6%
increase in CPU consumption
As for the batch programs, Order-to-Cash batch runtime increased by only 0.43%,
while payroll process runtime reduced by 17% with additional 3.7% CPU usage
Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 with Oracle Database 11g Advanced
Compression [ID 1110648.1]

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Q&A
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Additional Resources

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1362660.1 Enhanced Performance Diagnostics for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3

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301137.1 OSW Document

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461053.1 OSWg Document

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215187.1 SQLTXPLAIN (SQLT)

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224270.1 Trace Analyzer (TRCA)

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39817.1 Interpreting Raw SQL_TRACE files

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1121043.1 Collecting Diagnostic Data for Performance Issues in Oracle E-Business Suite

280391.1 How to Retrieve SID Information For a Running Request


Tuning the Concurrent Manager
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1359612.1 Webcast 'E-Business Suite - RAC & Parallel Concurrent Processing
1367676.1 Webcast 'E-Business Suite - Concurrent Manager Performance
164085.1 Enhancing and Automating Oracle Applications Concurrent Processing
1057802.1 Best Practices for Performance for Concurrent Managers
1304305.1 E-Business Concurrent Processing Information Center


EBS Upgrade and Platform Migration
Best Practices for Minimizing Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 Upgrade Downtime (Doc
ID 1581549.1)
Express Diagnosis of Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 Upgrade Performance Issues
(Doc ID 1583752.1)
R12.1 documentation roadmap (MOS ID 790942.1)
Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 Info center (MOS ID 806593.1)
Database preparation guidelines for R12.1 upgrade (MOS ID 761570.1)
Patching FAQs (MOS ID 459156.1, 225165.1)
Staged or shared APPL_TOP and distributed AD (MOS ID 734025.1, 384248.1, 236469.1)
OAM “Patch Wizard” overview and FAQ (MOS ID 976188.1, 976688.1)
AD Command Line Options for Release R12 (MOS ID 1078973.1)
Recommended Performance Fixes (MOS ID 244040.1)
R12 Upgrade Sizing & Best Practices (MOS ID 399362.1)

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EBS Upgrade and Platform Migration
EBS R12.1 Upgrade related Reports
EBS 12.1.3 Data Model Comparison Report (MOS ID 1290886.1)
EBS ATG Seed Data Comparison Report (MOS ID 1327399.1)
EBS File Comparison Report (MOS ID 1446430.1)
EBS pre-install patches Report (MOS ID 1448102.1)
White papers
Planning Your Oracle E-Business Suite Upgrade from Release 11i to
Release 12.1 (MOS ID 987516.1)
R12 Upgrade considerations by product: Financials (MOS ID 889733.1)
Oracle E-Business Suite Upgrades and Platform Migration (MOS ID
1377213.1)

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