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Oracle
®Virtual Compute Appliance
Administrator's Guide for Release 1.1
Oracle Legal Notices
E52087-02
June 2014
Table of Contents
Preface
1 Concept, Architecture and Life Cycle of Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance
1.1 What is Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance
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
1.3.8 Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance Diagnostics Tool
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 Backup
1.7 Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance Software Update
2 Monitoring and Managing Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance
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 in to 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 Automating Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance Service Requests
4.1 Understanding Oracle Auto Service Request (ASR)
4.2 ASR Prerequisites
4.3 Installing ASR Manager
4.4 Activating ASR Assets
4.4.1 Activating Compute Nodes
4.4.2 Activating InfiniBand Switches
4.4.3 Activating ASR on the ZFS Storage Appliance
5 Servicing Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance Components
5.1 Replaceable Components
5.1.1 Rack Components
5.1.2 Sun Server X4-2 Components
5.1.3 Sun Server X3-2 Components
5.1.4 Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance ZS3-ES Components
5.1.5 Sun ZFS Storage Appliance 7320 Components
5.1.6 Oracle Switch ES1-24 Components
5.1.7 NM2-36P Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Expansion Switch Components
5.1.8 Oracle Fabric Interconnect F1-15 Director Switch Components
5.2 Preparing Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance for Service
5.3 Servicing the Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance Rack System
5.3.1 Powering Down Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance (When Required)
5.3.2 Service Procedures for Rack System Components
5.4 Servicing a Sun Server X4-2
5.4.1 Powering Down Sun Server X4-2 for Service (When Required)
5.4.2 Service Procedures for Sun Server X4-2 Components
5.5 Servicing a Sun Server X3-2
5.5.1 Powering Down Sun Server X3-2 for Service (When Required)
5.5.2 Service Procedures for Sun Server X3-2 Components
5.6 Servicing the Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance ZS3-ES
5.6.1 Powering Down the Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance ZS3-ES for Service (When Required)
5.6.2 Service Procedures for Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance ZS3-ES Components
5.7 Servicing the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance 7320
5.7.1 Powering Down the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance 7320 for Service (When Required)
5.7.2 Service Procedures for Sun ZFS Storage Appliance 7320 Components
5.8 Servicing an Oracle Switch ES1-24
5.8.1 Powering Down the Oracle Switch ES1-24 for Service (When Required)
5.8.2 Service Procedures for Oracle Switch ES1-24 Components
5.9 Servicing an NM2-36P Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Expansion Switch
5.9.1 Powering Down the NM2-36P Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Expansion Switch for Service (When Required)
5.9.2 Service Procedures for NM2-36P Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Expansion Switch Components
5.10 Servicing an Oracle Fabric Interconnect F1-15 Director Switch
5.10.1 Powering Down the Oracle Fabric Interconnect F1-15 Director Switch for Service (When Required)
5.10.2 Service Procedures for Oracle Fabric Interconnect F1-15 Director Switch Components
6 Troubleshooting
6.1 Adding Proxy Settings for Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance Updates
6.2 Setting the Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance Logging Parameters
6.3 Configuring Data Center Switches for VLAN Traffic
6.4 Verifying and Re-applying Oracle VM Manager Tuning after Software Update
6.5 Upgrading Existing Compute Node Configuration to Release 1.1.1
6.6 Enabling Support Tools on Systems Provisioned with Software Release 1.0.2
6.7 Enabling Compute Node IPMI in Oracle VM Manager
6.8 Enabling SNMP Server Monitoring
6.9 Changing Oracle WebLogic Server Passwords
6.10 Replacing Default Passwords Manually
6.11 Using a Custom CA Certificate for SSL Encryption
6.12 A Compute Node Fails to Complete Provisioning
6.13 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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