Installation Overview - SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 Owner's Guide

1. Prepare for installation.

Reference

Review the safety precautions, guidelines, site checklists, and site requirements.
Ensure that the site is prepared for the installation.
Complete the worksheets.

Oracle Safety Information

Preparing the Site

SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 Site Checklists and SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 Configuration Worksheets

2. Begin the installation.

3. Power on the PDUs in the rack.

Connect rack power.
Switch on the six PDU circuit breakers located on the rear of the main PDU (PDU A).
Wait 3 to 5 minutes for power-on self-test device checks to finish and for all Oracle ILOM service processors to boot.
Verify that server standby power is on for each SPARC T4-4 server in the SPARC SuperCluster T4-4.
Verify that the main power is on for each database compute mode.

4. The Sun ZFS Storage 7320 storage controllers should start up automatically.

If the storage controllers do not start up:

Press the soft switches located on the front of the two Sun ZFS Storage 7320 storage controllers.
Wait 3 to 5 minutes for the Sun Storage 7320 System to initiate NFS services, daemons, and basic services.
Ping the IP address assigned to the Sun ZFS Storage 7320 storage controllers to verify whether the system is up and running.

5. Start the Exadata Storage Cells.

Wait for Oracle ILOM to boot, then either press the Power On buttons, or turn on the Exadata Storage Servers through Oracle ILOM.

6. Start the SPARC T4-4 servers.

Press the soft switches located on the front of the SPARC T4-4 servers.
Verify that power is applied to the Ethernet switch.
Verify that power is applied to the Sun Datacenter Infiniband Switch 36 switches.

7. Configure the SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 system.

8. Finish the installation.

(Optional) Install an express module to copy a database from another server.