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PeopleSoft on Oracle Real Application Clusters

Pat Bangalore PMP
Consulting Technical Manager
Oracle Consulting

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PeopleSoft on RAC Agenda

Overview of PeopleSoft Architecture on RAC

Infrastructure Deployment Options
Database Specific changes for RAC
High Availability and Failover
Workload Distribution
PeopleSoft Monitoring for RAC
PeopleSoft Platform Support for RAC
FAQ - PeopleSoft on RAC

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Architecture Overview
Application
Server(s)

11g DB/
11g RAC

Integration
Broker
Web Client

Web Server
Cluster
http(s)
Jolt

PeopleSoft
Application
Database

Tuxedo

Portal

Process
Scheduler
Application
Developer
LDAP Directory

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Whats RAC for PeopleSoft?

Multiple instances of Oracle running on many nodes
All instances share a single physical database
All instances have common data, control, and
initialization files
Each instances has its own thread of online redo logs
and undo tablespaces
All instances can simultaneously execute transactions
against the single database
The Caches are synchronized using Oracles Global
Cache Management technology (Cache Fusion)

Hardware setup for PeopleSoft on RAC

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Logical Architecture on RAC

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Deployment Options

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Infrastructure Options
RAC Instance and PeopleSoft Batch server on the same server,
Application Server on a separate host (Connecting to Global
Database name)

RAC Instance and PeopleSoft Batch server on a separate

server,Application Server on a separate host (Connecting to Global
Database name)

PeopleSoft batch server on the same server or on a separate

server, Application server on a separate Host (Connecting to the
local Instance name of the RAC node)
Use of a Hardware based Load Balancer

Architecture Configurations
Dedicated host for RAC Instance, Batch server and
Application Server
PeopleSoft Connects to a Global Database name
Clustered Web Severs through Load Balancer
Multiple Process Schedulers for Batch processing
Multiple Application servers being load balanced

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Application server installed on RAC members use cluster
member IP address (PS_MACH)
Transparent Application Failover (TAF) for RAC
Use Master Scheduler to enable Load Balancing of Work
Load for PeopleSoft Batch job Requests
Jolt Failover and Weighted Load Balancing for App Server

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Ideal PeopleSoft on RAC Architecture

USERS
Internet

Hardware Load
balancers for Clustered
Web Servers

Extranet
(DMZ)

Web Servers
(Oracle Application
Server/BEA WebLogic
Server)
BEA Tuxedo Servers

PeopleSoft Application
Servers

Intranet
RAC Cluster

Oracle
Database
Storage

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Real Application
Clusters (RAC)

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Database Specifics for RAC

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PeopleSoft Database Specifics for RAC

1. Use Oracles Database assistant (DBCA) to create
RAC database or create database manually by
editing the delivered PeopleSoft supplied scripts
2. It is not recommended to use PeopleSoft Database
Configuration Wizard for RAC
3. Use Raw devices for Oracle control and data files or
Oracles ASM storage or OCFS (Oracles cluster file
system) unless a O.S cluster file system is
supported by the cluster software.
4. Install RAC version of the Oracle Database
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PeopleSoft Scripts to edit for RAC

Edit the following delivered scripts appropriate file
system/ASM storage
Createdb10.sql (Use DBCA)
Utlspace.sql
XXddl.sql Application specific tablespace scripts)
example hcddl.sql for HCM
Create an ORACLE_SID=RAC1 - Initialization file
for each instance

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Create Initialization files for each Oracle

Instance (ORCL1,ORCL2)
Oracle initialization file for first Oracle Instance where
ORACLE_SID=orcl1:
Initorcl1.ora (Instance specific)
Init.ora (Common file)
Oracle initialization file for second Oracle Instance
where ORACLE_SID=orcl2:
Initorcl2.ora (Instance specific)
Init.ora (common file)

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Configure Database Security

Modify the PSDBOWNER Table to reflect the number of RAC
nodes.
There must be an entry in the PSDBOWNER table for each Oracle
instance
Make sure this table contains entries to the multiple DBNAMES and
Owner IDs; for instance:
DBNAMES Owner ID
-------------------------ORCL1
SYSADM
ORCL2
SYSADM
ORCL
SYSADM

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PeopleSoft Kernel Sizing

Resize OS Kernel - If Process Scheduler or
Application server is installed on the cluster members
of RAC then set O.S kernel parameters in addition to
the minimum required kernel changes for Oracle RAC
Database
Adjust Semaphores ,Message queues and Shared
Memory according to number of PeopleSoft
processes started and size of your domain

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High Availability and

Failover Options

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Failover Options
Connect Time Failover When a PeopleSoft application loses its
connection to the database, it will retry and connect to the other
Oracle instance based on the alternate IP address specified in
tnsnames.ora
(Multiple listeners or IP address pointing to a Database service
name)
No reference to Global database name of PeopleSoft
Failure that occurs while initiating a connection to the Database

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Failover Options
Transparent Application Failover (TAF)
Failure occurs after a successful PeopleSoft
connection has already been established, and
subsequently the connection gets terminated.
Can be used with multiple nodes or with
primary/secondary instance configurations
Is designed for RAC but can be used for:
Replicated systems
Data Guard
Single Instance

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TAF Configuration in PeopleSoft

HRPRD =
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = vip1)(PORT = 1521))
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = vip2)(PORT = 1521))
(FAILOVER = yes) (LOAD_BALANCE = yes)
(CONNECT_DATA =
(SERVER = DEDICATED)
(SERVICE_NAME = HRPRD)
(FAILOVER_MODE =
(TYPE = SELECT)
(METHOD = BASIC)
(RETRIES=180)(DELAY =5)
)
)
)

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Failover mode options

Add failover options manually to TNS configuration files.
These options are part of the CONNECT_DATA section of a
connect descriptor.
Failover options include:
TYPE: Identifies the nature of TAF, if any
METHOD: Configures how quickly failover can occur
BACKUP: Identifies an alternative net service name
RETRIES: Limits the number of times that a reconnection is
attempted
DELAY: Specifies how long to wait between reconnection
attempts

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Failover Methods
Determine how quickly connections become available
following a failover.
BASIC:
Connect to failover instance upon failure.

PRECONNECT:
Keep active connections to both instances
//sample//
(CONNECT_DATA =
(SERVER = DEDICATED)
(FAILOVER_MODE = (TYPE = SELECT)
(METHOD=PRECONNECT)))
//sample//

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What TAF does for PeopleSoft?

Reconnect to the backup Instance/Alternate node
Re-establish the PeopleSoft session (Stateful
Transactions)
Resume the SELECT statement in progress
User Login is preserved
Automatic re-Initiation of AE jobs based on
Restartable parameter

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What TAF does NOT do for PeopleSoft?

Transactional Web pages may see an error if the
connection is made to the failed node during retries.
Cobol and complex SQR jobs with multiple
updates/Commits may have to be restarted/reinitiated
While Saving or Editing data in a component, you
may see interruptions during node and transaction
failover

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So Whats the Bottom Line on Failover?

TAF is still the solution for Transaction Failover
Error message could be minimized by adjusting Allow consec
service failure
Recycle count parameter can be adjusted to release the
memory foot print on the failed node
Some customers have leveraged Bolt-on scripts to trap
PeopleSoft error messages during failover as a work around
Enhanced Retry Failover logic is planned in future release of
Peopletools

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PeopleSoft Work Load

Distribution

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Application Server Load balancing

Load Balancing is managed within a Domain by BEA Tuxedo
Requests are handled by idle server processes
Predefined algorithm for load distribution

Load is balanced between domains via the psserver property in

PIA config file for its Application servers
Enhanced Load balancing is available with Jolt Weight based load
balancing

(psserver=appserver_host1:9000#3,appserver_host2:9010#1)
In the above scenario

Appserver_host1 would receive 3 times more requests than

appserver2_host2

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Batch Server Load Balancing

Master Scheduler in PeopleSoft does Load Balancing of Work
load by automatically routing requests to the available Process
scheduler
PeopleSoft batch servers are connected to global database
name and not to individual cluster members of RAC
The Batch servers would use TAF entries for connecting to RAC
nodes.
Queued Job requests can be failed over to the available
scheduler based on TAF entries

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Monitoring Options

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Oracle Enterprise Manager

Enterprise Manager is the Oracle System
Management solution
The PeopleSoft Enterprise Management Plug-In
is an extension of Enterprise Manager
Minimum version of Enterprise Manager
supported is 10.2.0.2

OEM with PeopleSoft Architecture

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OEM Plug-in for PeopleSoft

PS Application Server Domain

PS Process Scheduler Domain
PS Search Server Domain
PS PIA
PS Web Site
PS App DB

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PeopleSoft OEM Dashboard

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PeopleSoft Support for RAC

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PeopleSoft Support for RAC

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PeopleSoft on RAC References

Oracle Real Application Clusters Installation and
Configuration Guide for step by step installation of CRS and
RAC
PeopleSoft installation guide (Customer Connection)
PeopleSoft Red Paper on High Availability
onhttp://www.peoplesoft.com/corp/en/doc_archive/red_paper/
tools_oracle9i_real_app.jsp
People bookshttp://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/psftent.html
Customer Connection
http://www.peoplesoft.com/corp/en/public_index.jsp

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PeopleSoft on RAC FAQs

Which versions of Oracle are currently
supported?
Oracle 9i (Versions 9.2.0.2.x and higher)
Which PeopleSoft versions are supported?
PeopleSoft 8 applications running on PT8.42 tools or
higher.
Which OS Platforms are currently supported?
HP Tru 64 5.1
HP UX11i
IBM AIX 5.1
MS Windows 2000
Sun Solaris 8
Oracle Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Linux & Suse
Enterprise Linux
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What Customers are Saying

The single point of failure in our PeopleSoft Infrastructure was
the Database and that has been a myth ever since we moved
to RAC
Our goal is to obtain 99.99% availability for our campus
solutions during Student enrollment and RAC for PeopleSoft is
the way to go for our Application
We have decreased our unplanned downtime with RAC and
the application is more scalable and flexible from all tiers of
PeopleSoft Architecture

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ANSWERS

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