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WebLogic on ODA: Final release and new partner supported model by Tshepo Madigage

Posted: December 1, 2015 in WebLogic
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A new version of the WebLogic installation wizard for WebLogic on ODA is now available on OTN for download, and supports the latest release of ODA hardware and software.
With the latest release of WebLogic on ODA, which now supports the X5-2 hardware, we have come to a new chapter. Oracle partners around the world have been developing customized solutions using WebLogic on ODA for years now. Many of them started with the wizard-driven templates produced by the Oracle WebLogic engineering team, and then went on to design their own customized solutions by expanding on and embellishing these templates for their customers’ unique needs. A great new value proposition is also being part of this new released version:

solution-based support by experienced Oracle partners, who are ready and able to assist Oracle customers worldwide with new or existing solutions.

Release News: WLS on ODA 12.1.2.2.0 on X5-2 Hardware

  • Certified on X5-2 ODA hardware / ODA 12.1.2.2.0 SW
  • Templates for WebLogic 12.1.3, 12.1.2, 10.3.6
  • Oracle Traffic Director 11.1.1.7
  • Support for Infiniband
    • All templates are HVM; required for IB support for PCI passthrough
  • Critical bug fixes
    • CPUpool – default and ODAbase order agnostic
    • Parsing error for prechecks – WLS repo does not exist

New! Installation Model for WebLogic on ODA

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New Partner Solutions on WebLogic and the Oracle Database Appliance by Alexandra Huff

Posted: October 17, 2015 in WebLogic
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With the latest release of WebLogic on ODA, which now supports the X5-2 hardware, we have come to a new chapter. Oracle partners around the world have been developing customized solutions using WebLogic on ODA for years now. Many of them started with the wizard-driven templates produced by the Oracle WebLogic engineering team, and then went on to design their own customized solutions by expanding on and embellishing these templates for their customers’ unique needs.

It became obvious that, to best support our existing users, and to give new customers more immediate access to the tools and resources they need for success, we would formalize this direction by shifting resources to enable Oracle WebLogic 12c specialized partners to rapidly gain expertise and traction in this arena.

To this end, we are publishing a new whitepaper how-to guide, Running Middleware Applications on ODA Machines, that can be used by partners or end users to speedily deploy a highly available platform on which to run Java applications. We are also announcing that this latest release of the WebLogic templates is also our final release. However, we will continue to encourage and support customer and partner led development efforts Read the complete article here.

Watch the webcast on-demand here

Additional we posted the presentation WebLogic on ODA-Partner Update.pdf at our WebLogic Community Workspace (WebLogic Community membership required).

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WebLogic 12c on Oracle Database Appliance X5– Webcast July 16th 2015

Posted: July 10, 2015 in WebLogic
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With data growing at unprecedented levels, application providers need a robust, scalable and high-performance infrastructure. Oracle Database Appliance is known as a simple, reliable, and complete package of software, server, storage, and networking for ISV applications that can save time and money by helping them streamline deployment, maintenance, and support of application workloads.

Oracle WebLogic on ODA evolved Oracle Database Appliance to an ISV solution in a box, a complete solution for building and deploying enterprise Java EE applications in a fully integrated system that delivers highly available Database and WebLogic services. The world’s most popular database, Oracle Database and the industry’s best application server, WebLogic Server have been combined in this industry-unique appliance to provide high availability and the simplicity of One-Button deployment.

And to top it all off, it reduces IT cost with a unique capacity-on-demand software licensing model, meeting customer and ISV needs on small to mid-sized projects.           

Join us as we go through the specifics of Weblogic 12c deployment on ODA, demonstrate the value of a combined solution and also explain ISV opportunities with ODA and the OPN Exastack Program, which now includes Oracle Database Appliance Ready accreditation of ISV solutions. Register for the webcast here.

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What you need to know about the new ODA X5-2 by Simon Haslam

Posted: April 10, 2015 in WebLogic
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Today, as part of the "Next Generation of Oracle Engineered Systems" webcast,  Larry Ellison launched the new X5 systems. This bullishly-titled post attempts to summarise what’s new specifically with the ODA X5-2, and what’s most important, especially for those using ODA Virtualized Platform (ODA VP) to build entire Oracle infrastructures as an appliance.

We’ve known since last September when Intel released the Haswell-EP processors (the E5-2600 v3 models) that there would likely be refreshes to many of Oracle’s engineered systems. However for this year’s ODA refresh there have been far more changes than the previous one (which was just the processor update and fibre option).

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Summary of Changes

Here are the most significant changes in the ODA X5-2, as compared to the previous X4-2 generation, biased towards my perspective of running Fusion Middleware products, and associated databases, on ODA VP for O-box:

  • Extra SSD on shared storage ("ODA Flash Accelerator") to hold some database data ("ODA Flash Cache") and ACFS metadata ("ODA Flash Files")
  • 40Gb/s InfiniBand for interconnect between server nodes
  • DDR4 memory with the option to upgrade to 768GB per node, so 1.5TB total
  • SAS3, which runs at 12 Gb/s – I assume/hope this is for connections to server disks, internally within the array(s) and between the arrays and servers Read the complete article here

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WebLogic on Oracle Database Appliance 12.1.3 available

Posted: January 11, 2015 in WebLogic
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image At our WebLogic Community Workspace (WebLogic Community membership required) you can find the latest presentations about WebLogic on the Oracle Database Appliance:

For more WebLogic on ODA material use the tag ODA

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ODA News from Oracle OpenWorld 2014 by Simon Haslam

Posted: December 14, 2014 in WebLogic
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clip_image002Oracle has been putting a lot of engineering effort into the new ODA 12c release so this is quite a long article. The latest ODA news from last week can be summarized as:

· ODA 12.1.2 database: 12c including pluggable database support, ACFS integration

· ODA 12.1.2 VP: ACFS snapshots, option to add disks to VMs

· WLS ODA 12.1.3: support for WebLogic 12.1.3, WebLogic Standard Edition, faster provisioning using ACFS snapshots, additional single VM topology, new Coherence option

· Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c: sneak peak at up-coming plug-in for ODA

There were no announcements about an ODA X5-2 although, given that Intel has recently released Hawell-EP processors (E5-2600 v3 family) – and based on the v2 update last year – it seems likely that there will be a new version of the ODA hardware at some point.

Now to discuss each of these topics in a little more detail:

WLS ODA 12.1.3

Frances Zhao-Perez, the Product Manager responsible for the WebLogic implementation (and related components) on ODA and I described WLS ODA 12.1.3 in our joint presentation Oracle WebLogic on Oracle Database Appliance: Combining High Availability and Simplicity [CON8004]. I wrote about that yesterday, but the enhancements are:

· Support for the new WebLogic Server 12.1.3 version (and dropping support for 12.1.1 and possibly 12.1.2).

· Coherence can now also be provisioned, creating up to 6 additional VMs (as part of a specific WebLogic domain and with Coherence lifecycle managed via console/Admin Server etc).

· VMs may now be created from an ACFS snaphot of the template leading to far quicker provisioning time (for a 6 VM topology I’d expect around 30 minutes instead of 60, and the saving will be greater for larger clusters).

· Additional domain topologies available for a single Admin Server with no Managed Servers (for a development environment for example), or Admin Server co-located with a Managed Server (if you like that idea please read my Admin Server Separation – Pros and Cons article and comments).

· Some minor changes to the user interface of the ‘configurator’.

Read the complete article here.

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The Fantastic New WebLogic on Oracle Database Appliance 2.9 Release is Here!

Posted: June 5, 2014 in Uncategorized
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O-box SOA Appliance running multiple environmentsLast week was a big day in virtualised ODA-land as it saw the launch of WebLogic on ODA 2.9. Admittedly it doesn’t sound like a very exciting release but it is one that we at O-box have been looking forward to for quite some time.

Let me explain why, then we’ll look into the details…

The ODA X4-2 has 48 Intel Xeon cores. That is a lot of compute power. Whilst the largest O-box SOA Appliance single environment configuration can in theory use all those cores (currently with 40 vCPU of SOA!) the vast majority of O-box users will want smaller configurations. Prior to 2.9 the Oracle WebLogic implementation only supported one domain per ODA, so the conundrum O-box development faced last year was either: offer customers only one SOA environment on their O-box for now (but have the benefit of a standard, easily supportable WebLogic installation), or build our own WebLogic/OTD OVM templates from scratch.

One of our driving goals with O-box is to give the best possible experience and make the appliance as supportable as possible. Therefore we took the gamble that we would stick with the Oracle’s one-domain WebLogic configuration initially, and just hope that it would deliver multi-domain support for us in a timely manner (note: this is probably not a strategy that business textbooks would recommend!).

Anyway, we’ve been working closely with Oracle Product Management for a few months now and I’m delighted to see 2.9 as the fruits of their labour. This also neatly ties in with several recent requests for O-box to include OSB as well as SOA/BPEL (which we have always wanted to have in separate domains). The diagram below is the neatest way to summarise what the new 2.9 release will allow us to deliver, i.e. previously only one 3D box was possible: Read the complete article here.

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