Oracle Database Appliance simplifies deployment, maintenance, and support for high availability database solutions built from Oracle Database templates designed for optimal performance on this platform. Oracle Database Appliance provides a reliable, resilient, self-managing database system that is scalable for small and large businesses.
Oracle Database Appliance also includes several documents to help you configure, deploy, manage, and use your systems.
This chapter contains the following sections:
The documentation road map identifies where in the life-cycle of obtaining, deploying, managing, and using Oracle Database Appliance the documents are relevant.
Use Oracle Database Appliance Getting Started Guide as an introduction to understanding and managing Oracle Database Appliance and related software. The book applies to all models of Oracle Database Appliance hardware. Unless the text refers to a specific model, the term "Oracle Database Appliance" implies all hardware models.
Oracle Database Appliance Getting Started Guide focuses primarily on software configuration, deployment, and management of Oracle Database Appliance. However, there are other documents that can help you prepare for installing and subsequently managing and using Oracle Database Appliance.
The first three categories in the following list identify documents available from the Oracle Database Appliance Documentation Library at http://www.oracle.com/goto/oda/docs. The fourth category includes documents from other sources, as indicated, which contain information that you might require.
Orientation
Setup Poster
Getting Started Guide
Release Notes
Installation and Deployment
Setup Poster
Getting Started Guide
Release Notes
Licensing Information
Safety and Compliance Guide
Owner's Guide
Ongoing Management
Service Manual
Security Guide
Administration and Reference Guide
General Resources
Oracle Database Administrator's Guide and Oracle Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide (Oracle Database Documentation Library at http://docs.oracle.com/)
Sun Server X3-2, Sun Server X4-2 and Oracle Server X5-2 documentation at http://docs.oracle.com/en/hardware/?tab=2
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You will find a full-size, full-color printed copy of the Setup Poster in your Oracle Database Appliance shipment. The copy in the library, mentioned in the preceding list, is a PDF file accompanied by a text version of its contents for your convenience.Oracle Database Appliance simplifies deployment, maintenance, and support for high availability database solutions built from Oracle Database templates designed for optimal performance on this platform. Oracle Database Appliance provides a reliable, resilient, self-managing database system that is scalable for small and large businesses.
Deploy as few or as many processors in Oracle Database Appliance as your workload requires, within the limits described below. Capacity-on-Demand software licensing enables you to scale quickly to more processor cores without incurring the excessive costs and downtime usually associated with hardware upgrades.
Oracle Database Appliance X5-2 scales from a minimum of 2 processor cores up to 72 processor cores on bare metal and on Oracle Database Appliance X5-2 Virtualized Platform.
Oracle Database Appliance X4-2 scales from a minimum of 2 processor cores up to 48 processor cores on bare metal and on Oracle Database Appliance X4-2 Virtualized Platform.
Oracle Database Appliance X3-2 scales from a minimum 4 processor cores up to 32 processor cores. If you deploy Oracle Database Appliance X3-2 Virtualized Platform, license processor cores for your ODA_BASE only, from a minimum of 2 processor cores to a maximum of 32 processor cores.
Oracle Database Appliance Version 1 scales from a minimum of 2 processor cores up to 24 processor cores on bare metal and on Oracle Database Appliance Virtualized Platform.
The decision to use bare metal or Oracle Database Appliance Virtualized Platform depends on your company policies and the benefits that each implementation offers your company.
Table 1-1 lists the software that might be included with each Oracle Database Appliance component. Some releases may not contain all of the items listed in the table for one or more of the components.
Components listed as Installed are typically available on Oracle Database Appliance when you receive it, and components listed as Downloaded are components that you will typically download and deploy yourself.
Table 1-1 Software for Oracle Database Appliance
Deployment consists of three high-level steps:
Prepare for Oracle Database Appliance.
Register your Support Identifier (SI) for Oracle Database Appliance with My Oracle Support to obtain software and support from Oracle.
Plan your configuration options and gather network and related information.
Set up the server site.
Configure network names and addresses on your Domain Name System (DNS) server.
Use the Oracle Appliance Manager configurator to generate the network names and addresses or to validate your existing network names and addresses. The standalone configurator is available for download from Oracle Technology Network. You can create a configuration file on a local machine before delivery of your Oracle Database Appliance, as described in "Preparing for Oracle Database Appliance Installation and Deployment".
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Download the standalone Oracle Appliance Manager configurator fromhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-appliance/overviewSee Chapter 2, "Preparing for Oracle Database Appliance Installation and Deployment" and Oracle Database Appliance Owner's Guide for more information to complete this step.
Prepare Oracle Database Appliance for deployment.
Mount Oracle Database Appliance hardware into a rack at the server site.
Connect power and required cables to Oracle Database Appliance.
Create an initial network configuration to load external files.
See Chapter 3, "Readying Oracle Database Appliance for Deployment" and Oracle Database Appliance Owner's Guide for more information to complete this step.
Install and deploy software on Oracle Database Appliance.
Download and copy the Oracle Database Appliance software package to Oracle Database Appliance.
Run the Oracle Appliance Manager configurator and select or enter the required information.
During deployment, you configure a two-node Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation (Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Automatic Storage Management). You also have the option to configure Oracle Database Enterprise Edition, Oracle RAC, or Oracle RAC One Node. After the initial deployment, you might add databases, configure core count and instance caging, and add virtual domains if you have deployed Oracle Database Appliance.
See Chapter 4, "Deploying Oracle Software on Oracle Database Appliance" for more information to complete this step.
Complete post-installation tasks.
See Chapter 5, "Oracle Database Appliance Postinstallation Tasks" for more information to complete this step.
See Also:
Oracle Database Appliance Owner's Guide for more information about setting up your Oracle Database Appliance hardware.