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Contents
Title and Copyright Information
Preface
Audience
Documentation Accessibility
Related Documentation and Other Resources
Conventions
New Features in Oracle Exalytics Release 1 Patchset 4 (1.0.0.4)
New Base Image 1.0.0.6, Upgrade Utility, and Security Updates
Exalytics Domain Management Utility
Oracle VM Upgrade to 3.2.7
Application Software Components
Part I Installation
1
Installation Overview
1.1
Existing Installations
1.2
New Installations
1.3
Installable Components
1.3.1
System Components
1.3.2
Application Software Components
1.4
Oracle Exalytics Architecture
1.5
System Requirements and Certification
2
Applying Oracle Exalytics Release 1 Patchset 4 (1.0.0.4)
2.1
About Oracle Exalytics Patchsets
2.2
Applying the Oracle Exalytics Release 1 Patchset 4 (1.0.0.4)
2.2.1
About the Oracle Exalytics Release 1 Patchset 4
2.2.2
Applying the Oracle Exalytics Release 1 Patchset 4
2.2.2.1
Applying Oracle Exalytics Release 1 Patchset 4 (1.0.0.4) on a Non-Virtual Exalytics Machine
2.2.2.2
Applying Oracle Exalytics Release 1 Patchset 4 (1.0.0.4) on an Exalytics Machine Configured for Virtualization
2.2.3
Postinstallation Instructions for Upgrading or Patching Oracle Business Intelligence Software
2.2.3.1
Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database
2.2.3.2
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition
2.2.4
Deinstallation Instructions for the Oracle Exalytics Release 1 Patchset 4
2.3
Configuring Flash and Replacing a Defective Flash Card on a Non-Virtual Exalytics Machine
2.3.1
License to Receive Open Source Code
2.3.2
Prerequisites for Configuring Flash
2.3.3
Configuring Flash
2.3.4
Replacing a Defective Flash Card
3
Configuring Exalytics Machine for Virtualization
3.1
Configuring New Installations for Virtualization
3.1.1
Before You Virtualize an Exalytics Machine
3.1.1.1
Documents to Review
3.1.1.2
Prerequisites for Configuring Exalytics Machines for Virtualization
3.1.1.3
Removing Existing Partitions
3.1.1.4
Reconfiguring Existing RAID Configurations on the Exalytics Machine
3.1.2
Configuring an Exalytics Machine for Virtualization
3.1.2.1
Installing and Configuring Oracle VM Server
3.1.2.2
Installing and Configuring Oracle VM Manager
3.1.2.3
Creating Virtual Machines
3.2
Configuring Existing Installations for Virtualization
3.3
Upgrading Oracle VM Manager and Oracle VM Server to 3.2.7
3.3.1
Upgrading Oracle VM Server 3.0.3 (Base Image 2.0.1.1) or Higher Version to Oracle VM Server 3.2.7
3.3.2
Upgrading Oracle VM Manager 3.0.3 or Higher Version to Oracle VM Manager 3.2.7
3.4
Applying Oracle Exalytics Release 1 Patchset 4 on a Virtualized Environment
3.5
Installing and Configuring Application Software on Virtual Machines
3.5.1
Prerequisites to Installing and Configuring Exalytics Software on Virtual Machines
3.5.2
Installing and Configuring Exalytics Software on Virtual Machines
3.5.2.1
Creating and Mounting a /u01 Partition
3.5.2.2
Modifying the Oracle User and Granting Permissions
3.5.2.3
Installing Application Software Components
3.6
Maintaining Virtual Machines
3.6.1
Viewing Virtual Machine Information and Events
3.6.2
Configuring and Starting a Virtual Machine
3.6.3
Configuring a Network on a Virtual Machine
3.6.4
Configuring a Virtual Machine for HVM with PV Drivers
3.6.5
Configuring SWAP on a Virtual Machine
4
Installing Software on an Exalytics Machine
4.1
About the Exalytics Domain Management Utility
4.2
Documents to Review
4.3
Installing Business Intelligence Software on New Deployments
4.3.1
Prerequisites for Installing Software on the Exalytics Machine
4.3.2
Verifying Configuration of the Exalytics Machine
4.3.2.1
Verifying Exalytics Software and Storage Configurations
4.3.2.2
Verifying Exalytics Image Information
4.3.3
Installing the Software by Using the Exalytics Domain Management Utility
4.3.3.1
Creating a Password on the Operating System
4.3.3.2
Optional: Creating the Inventory for Oracle TimesTen
4.3.3.3
Optional: Setting Resource Limits for Oracle TimesTen
4.3.3.4
Downloading the Oracle Installation Files into a Staging Directory Structure
4.3.3.5
Creating an Input Properties File
4.3.3.6
Verifying User Permissions to the /u01 Directory
4.3.3.7
Creating an Exalytics Domain
4.3.3.8
Installing Oracle TimesTen for Exalytics
4.3.3.9
Verifying the Installation
4.3.4
Postinstallation Tasks for Business Intelligence Software
4.3.4.1
Installing and Deinstalling Oracle Business Intelligence Client Tools
4.3.4.2
Creating the boot.properties File
4.3.4.3
Starting and Stopping Components on an Exalytics Machine
4.3.4.4
Running the Daemon Configuration Scripts for Oracle TimesTen
4.3.4.5
Configuring Memory Settings on the Server
4.3.4.6
Instantiating the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database
4.3.4.7
Configuring the ODBC Connection from Oracle Business Intelligence to Oracle TimesTen
4.3.4.8
Mapping Instances of Oracle TimesTen into the Physical Layer of the Oracle BI Repository
4.3.4.9
Installing and Configuring BI Composer for Oracle BI EE
4.3.4.10
Creating a DSN for IBM DB2 or Microsoft SQL Server
4.3.4.11
Configuring IBM DB2 to Support Multibyte Data
4.3.4.12
Configuring Sample Reports for Oracle BI Publisher
4.3.4.13
Changing the Default Password for SampleAppLite.rpd
4.3.4.14
Adding the ORACLEHARDWAREACCELERATION TRUE Parameter for Essbase
4.3.4.15
Enabling Bursting Optimization for BI Publisher
4.3.5
Managing Exalytics Domains
4.3.5.1
Starting and Stopping an Exalytics Domain
4.3.5.2
Viewing Status of an Exalytics Domain
4.3.5.3
Listing Exalytics Domains
4.3.5.4
Scaling Out an Oracle Business Intelligence Domain
4.3.5.5
Removing an Exalytics Domain
4.3.6
Troubleshooting the Installation and Configuration Processes
4.3.6.1
Resolving Issues with the Installation
4.3.6.2
Viewing Log Files
4.3.6.3
Reinstalling Software on the Exalytics Machine
4.3.6.4
Configuring Exalytics Operating System to Change Capacity On Demand
4.3.6.5
For More Information
4.3.7
Deinstalling Business Intelligence Software on the Exalytics Machine
4.4
Existing Business Intelligence Installations: Registering a Primary Business Intelligence Software Installation on an Exalytics Domain
4.5
Installing and Configuring Oracle BI Applications 11.1.1.7.1 on an Exalytics Machine
4.6
Installing Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Applications
4.7
Installing Oracle Endeca
Part II System Management
5
System Management (Configuration, Diagnostics, and Monitoring)
6
Deploying Oracle Exalytics for High Availability
6.1
Requirements for High Availability
6.2
Diagram of High Availability
6.3
Configuring for High Availability
6.3.1
Step 1: Preparing the First Exalytics Machine
6.3.2
Step 2: Preparing the Second Exalytics Machine
6.3.3
Step 3: Scaling Out the Existing BI Domain
6.3.4
Step 4: Installing and Configuring Oracle TimesTen
6.3.5
Step 5: Configuring Shared Storage for Persistent Stores
6.3.6
Step 6: Configuring the Front-End Load Balancer
6.4
Troubleshooting the Highly Available Deployment
6.4.1
Connection Issues with the Oracle BI Server and Oracle TimesTen
6.4.2
Client Installer Cannot Locate the Driver for Oracle TimesTen
6.4.3
Oracle BI Server Does Not Fail Over to the Instance of Oracle TimesTen
6.4.4
Aggregates Are Not Present in Second Instance
7
Backup and Recovery
8
Disaster Recovery
A
Manual Procedures for Installing and Configuring Software on an Exalytics Machine
A.1
Documents to Review
A.2
Installing Software on Exalytics Machine
A.2.1
Prerequisites for Installing Software on the Exalytics Machine
A.2.2
Verifying Configuration of the Exalytics Machine
A.2.2.1
Verifying Exalytics Software and Storage Configurations
A.2.2.2
Verifying Exalytics Image Information
A.2.3
Installing the Software
A.2.3.1
Creating the User, Group, and Password on the Operating System
A.2.3.2
Creating the Inventory for Oracle TimesTen
A.2.3.3
Setting Resource Limits for Oracle TimesTen
A.2.3.4
Creating and Mounting a /u01 Partition
A.2.3.5
Downloading Oracle Files into the Directory Structure
A.2.3.6
Staging the Middleware Home
A.2.3.7
Creating the Database Schemas
A.2.3.8
Installing Oracle WebLogic Server
A.2.3.9
Performing a Software Only Install
A.2.3.10
Creating a New Oracle BI Enterprise Edition Instance
A.2.3.11
Editing the Properties File
A.2.3.12
Verifying the Checklist
A.2.3.13
Running the Installation Script
A.2.3.14
Verifying the Installation
A.2.4
Troubleshooting the Installation and Configuration Processes
A.2.4.1
Resolving Issues with the Installation
A.2.4.2
Viewing Log Files
A.2.4.3
Reinstalling Software on the Exalytics Machine
A.2.4.4
Manually Setting the HardwareAcceleration MBean Attribute
A.2.4.5
Configuring Exalytics Operating System to Change Capacity On Demand
A.2.4.6
For More Information
A.3
Postinstallation Instructions
A.3.1
Installing and Deinstalling Oracle Business Intelligence Client Tools
A.3.2
Creating the boot.properties File
A.3.3
Starting and Stopping Components on an Exalytics Machine
A.3.4
Running the Daemon Configuration Scripts for Oracle TimesTen
A.3.5
Configuring Memory Settings on the Server
A.3.5.1
Configuring Large Pages at the Kernel Level
A.3.5.2
Configuring Large Pages for Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Databases
A.3.5.3
Increasing PermSize on Existing Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Databases
A.3.6
Instantiating the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database
A.3.7
Configuring the ODBC Connection from Oracle Business Intelligence to Oracle TimesTen
A.3.8
Mapping Instances of Oracle TimesTen into the Physical Layer of the Oracle BI Repository
A.3.9
Installing and Configuring BI Composer for Oracle BI EE
A.3.10
Creating a DSN for IBM DB2 or Microsoft SQL Server
A.3.11
Configuring IBM DB2 to Support Multibyte Data
A.3.12
Configuring Sample Reports for Oracle BI Publisher
A.3.13
Changing the Default Password for SampleAppLite.rpd
A.3.14
Adding the ORACLEHARDWAREACCELERATION TRUE Parameter for Essbase
A.3.15
Enabling Bursting Optimization for BI Publisher
A.4
Deinstalling Software on the Exalytics Machine
A.5
Deploying Oracle Exalytics for High Availability
A.5.1
Requirements for High Availability
A.5.2
Diagram of High Availability
A.5.3
Configuring for High Availability
A.5.3.1
Step 1: Preparing the First Exalytics Machine
A.5.3.2
Step 2: Preparing the Second Exalytics Machine
A.5.3.3
Step 3: Installing Oracle WebLogic Server
A.5.3.4
Step 4: Installing Oracle Business Intelligence
A.5.3.5
Step 5: Scaling Out the Existing BI Domain
A.5.3.6
Step 6: Scaling Out System Components to the Second Exalytics Machine
A.5.3.7
Step 7: Installing and Configuring Oracle TimesTen
A.5.3.8
Step 8: Configuring Shared Storage for Persistent Stores
A.5.3.9
Step 9: Configuring the Front-End Load Balancer
A.5.4
Troubleshooting the Highly Available Deployment
A.5.4.1
Connection Issues with the Oracle BI Server and Oracle TimesTen
A.5.4.2
Client Installer Cannot Locate the Driver for Oracle TimesTen
A.5.4.3
Oracle BI Server Does Not Fail Over to the Instance of Oracle TimesTen
A.5.4.4
Aggregates Are Not Present in Second Instance
Index
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