Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documentation and Other Resources
• Conventions

New Features for Exalytics Machine

• Oracle Exalytics Release 1 Patchset 3 (1.0.03)

Part I Installation

1 Installation Overview

• 1.1 Installable Components
  • 1.1.1 Core Components
  • 1.1.2 Optional Components
• 1.2 Oracle Exalytics Architecture
• 1.3 System Requirements and Certification

2 Configuring Exalytics Machines for Virtualization

• 2.1 Before You Virtualize an Exalytics Machine
  • 2.1.1 Documents to Review
  • 2.1.2 Prerequisites for Configuring Exalytics Machines for Virtualization
  • 2.1.3 Reconfiguring an Existing Configuration on a T5-8 Exalytics Machine
• 2.2 Configuring an Exalytics Machine for Virtualization
• 2.3 Installing and Configuring Exalytics Software on Virtual Machines
  • 2.3.1 Installing Exalytics Software on Virtual Machines
    • 2.3.1.1 Modifying the Oracle User and Granting Permissions
    • 2.3.1.2 Installing Oracle Business Intelligence and Oracle TimesTen
    • 2.3.1.3 Installing Oracle Essbase

3 Installing Software on the Exalytics Machine

• 3.1 Before You Install Software on the Exalytics Machine
  • 3.1.1 Documents to Review
  • 3.1.2 Prerequisites for Installing on the Exalytics Machine
• 3.2 Installing the Software
  • 3.2.1 Creating the User, Group, and Password on the Operating System
  • 3.2.2 Creating the Inventory for Oracle TimesTen
  • 3.2.3 Setting Resource Limits for Oracle TimesTen
  • 3.2.4 Downloading Oracle Files into the Directory Structure
  • 3.2.5 Staging the Middleware Home
  • 3.2.6 Creating the Database Schemas
  • 3.2.7 Installing WebLogic Server
  • 3.2.8 Performing a Software Only Install
  • 3.2.9 Creating a New Oracle BI Enterprise Edition Instance
  • 3.2.10 Editing the Properties File
  • 3.2.11 Verifying the Checklist
  • 3.2.12 Running the Script
  • 3.2.13 Verifying the Installation
• 3.3 Troubleshooting the Installation and Configuration Processes
  • 3.3.1 Resolving Issues with the Installation
  • 3.3.2 Viewing Log Files
  • 3.3.3 Reinstalling Software on the Exalytics Machine
  • 3.3.4 Manually Setting the HardwareAcceleration MBean Attribute
  • 3.3.5 For More Information

4 Postinstallation Tasks

• 4.1 Installing and Deinstalling Oracle Business Intelligence Client Tools
• 4.2 Creating the boot.properties File
• 4.3 Starting and Stopping Components on the Exalytics Machine
• 4.4 Running the Daemon Configuration Scripts for Oracle TimesTen
• 4.5 Configuring Memory Settings on the Server
  • 4.5.1 Increasing PermSize on Existing Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Databases
• 4.6 Instantiating the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database
• 4.7 Configuring the ODBC Connection from Oracle Business Intelligence to Oracle TimesTen
• 4.8 Mapping Instances of Oracle TimesTen into the Physical Layer of the Oracle BI Repository
• 4.9 Installing and Configuring BI Composer for Oracle BI EE
• 4.10 Creating a DSN for IBM DB2 or Microsoft SQL Server
• 4.11 Configuring IBM DB2 to Support Multibyte Data
• 4.12 Configuring Sample Reports for Oracle BI Publisher
• 4.13 Changing the Default Password for SampleAppLite.rpd
• 4.14 Adding the ORACLEHARDWAREACCELERATION TRUE Parameter for Essbase
• 4.15 Enabling Bursting Optimization for BI Publisher

5 Deinstalling Software on the Exalytics Machine

Part II System Management

6 System Management (Configuration, Diagnostics, and Monitoring)

7 Patching

• 7.1 About Patching Oracle Exalytics
  • 7.1.1 About Oracle Exalytics Version Stripes
  • 7.1.2 About the Different Types of Oracle Exalytics Patches
    • 7.1.2.1 About Oracle Exalytics Patchsets
    • 7.1.2.2 About Oracle Exalytics Certified Component Patches
    • 7.1.2.3 About Oracle Exalytics Component One-Off Patches
• 7.2 Applying the Oracle Exalytics Release 1 Patchset 3 (1.0.0.3)
  • 7.2.1 About the Oracle Exalytics Release 1 Patchset 3
  • 7.2.2 New Features in the Oracle Exalytics Release 1 Patchset 3
    • 7.2.2.1 Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition
    • 7.2.2.2 Oracle TimesTen for Exalytics
    • 7.2.2.3 Oracle Essbase
  • 7.2.3 Applying the Oracle Exalytics Release 1 Patchset 3
    • 7.2.3.1 Applying Oracle Exalytics Release 1 Patchset 3 (1.0.0.3) on an Exalytics Machine
  • 7.2.4 Postinstallation Instructions for the Oracle Exalytics Release 1 Patchset 3
    • 7.2.4.1 Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database
    • 7.2.4.2 Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition
  • 7.2.5 Deinstallation Instructions for the Oracle Exalytics Release 1 Patchset 3
  • 7.2.6 Bugs Fixed by the Oracle Exalytics Release 1 Patchset 3
  • 7.2.7 Known Bugs with the Oracle Exalytics Release 1 Patchset 3

8 Deploying Oracle Exalytics for High Availability

• 8.1 Requirements for High Availability
• 8.2 Diagram of High Availability
• 8.3 Configuring for High Availability
  • 8.3.1 Step 1: Preparing the First Exalytics Machine
  • 8.3.2 Step 2: Preparing the Second Exalytics Machine
  • 8.3.3 Step 3: Installing Oracle WebLogic Server
  • 8.3.4 Step 4: Installing Oracle Business Intelligence
  • 8.3.5 Step 5: Scaling Out the Existing BI Domain
  • 8.3.6 Step 6: Installing and Configuring Oracle TimesTen
  • 8.3.7 Step 7: Scaling Out System Components to the Second Exalytics Machine
  • 8.3.8 Step 8: Configuring Shared Storage for Persistent Stores
  • 8.3.9 Step 9: Configuring the Front-End Load Balancer
• 8.4 Troubleshooting the Highly Available Deployment
  • 8.4.1 Connection Issues with the Oracle BI Server and Oracle TimesTen
  • 8.4.2 Client Installer Cannot Locate the Driver for Oracle TimesTen
  • 8.4.3 Oracle BI Server Does Not Fail Over to the Instance of Oracle TimesTen
  • 8.4.4 Aggregates Are Not Present in Second Instance

9 Backup and Recovery

10 Disaster Recovery

Index