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®Virtual Compute Appliance X3-2
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Oracle
®Virtual Compute Appliance X3-2
Administrator's Guide for Release 1.0
Oracle Legal Notices
E40647-02
January 2014
Table of Contents
Preface
1 Concept, Architecture and Life Cycle of Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance X3-2
1.1 What is Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance X3-2
1.2 Hardware Components
1.2.1 Management Nodes
1.2.2 Compute Nodes
1.2.3 Storage Appliance
1.2.4 Network Infrastructure
1.3 Software Components
1.3.1 Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance Dashboard
1.3.2 Password Manager (Wallet)
1.3.3 Oracle VM Manager
1.3.4 Operating Systems
1.3.5 Databases
1.3.6 Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance Management Software
1.3.7 Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance Configuration Script
1.4 Provisioning and Orchestration
1.4.1 Appliance Management Initialization
1.4.2 Compute Node Discovery and Provisioning
1.4.3 Server Pool Readiness
1.5 High Availability
1.6 Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance X3-2 Backup
1.7 Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance X3-2 Software Update
2 Monitoring and Managing Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance X3-2
2.1 Connecting and Logging in to the Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance Dashboard
2.2 Hardware View
2.3 Network View
2.4 Network Setup
2.5 Update
3 Managing the Oracle VM Virtual Infrastructure
3.1 Guidelines and Limitations
3.2 Logging into the Oracle VM Manager Web UI
3.3 Monitoring Health and Performance in Oracle VM
3.4 Creating and Managing Virtual Machines
3.5 Managing Virtual Machine Resources
3.6 Configuring Network Resources For Virtual Machines
3.7 Viewing and Managing Storage Resources
3.8 Tagging of Resources in Oracle VM Manager
3.9 Managing Jobs and Events
4 Servicing Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance X3-2 Components
4.1 Replaceable Components
4.1.1 Rack Components
4.1.2 Sun Server X3-2 Components
4.1.3 Sun ZFS Storage Appliance 7320 Components
4.1.4 Oracle Switch ES1-24 Components
4.1.5 NM2-36P Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Expansion Switch Components
4.1.6 Oracle Fabric Interconnect F1-15 Director Switch Components
4.2 Preparing Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance X3-2 for Service
4.3 Servicing the Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance X3-2 Rack System
4.3.1 Powering Down Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance X3-2 (When Required)
4.3.2 Service Procedures for Rack System Components
4.4 Servicing a Sun Server X3-2
4.4.1 Powering Down Sun Server X3-2 for Service (When Required)
4.4.2 Service Procedures for Sun Server X3-2 Components
4.5 Servicing the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance 7320
4.5.1 Powering Down the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance 7320 for Service (When Required)
4.5.2 Service Procedures for Sun ZFS Storage Appliance 7320 Components
4.6 Servicing an Oracle Switch ES1-24
4.6.1 Powering Down the Oracle Switch ES1-24 for Service (When Required)
4.6.2 Service Procedures for Oracle Switch ES1-24 Components
4.7 Servicing an NM2-36P Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Expansion Switch
4.7.1 Powering Down the NM2-36P Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Expansion Switch for Service (When Required)
4.7.2 Service Procedures for NM2-36P Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Expansion Switch Components
4.8 Servicing an Oracle Fabric Interconnect F1-15 Director Switch
4.8.1 Powering Down the Oracle Fabric Interconnect F1-15 Director Switch for Service (When Required)
4.8.2 Service Procedures for Oracle Fabric Interconnect F1-15 Director Switch Components
5 Troubleshooting
5.1 Adding Proxy Settings for Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance Updates
5.2 Setting the Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance Log Level
5.3 Configuring Data Center Switches for VLAN Traffic
5.4 Enabling SNMP Server Monitoring
5.5 Changing Oracle WebLogic Server Passwords
5.6 Using a Custom CA Certificate for SSL Encryption
5.7 A Compute Node Fails to Complete Provisioning
5.8 Oracle VM Server Pool Is Offline After Network Services Restart
A Licenses
A.1 Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance Controller Software
A.2 Oracle Linux
A.3 Oracle Hardware with Pre-Installed Oracle VM Server
A.4 License Information for Software Components
A.4.1 Hardware Management Pack
A.4.2 Java Runtime Environment
A.4.3 Tinyproxy
A.4.4 Pexpect
A.4.5 Oracle Fabric Manager
A.4.6 Oracle VM
A.5 License Information for Hardware Components
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