Oracle Database Appliance is an optimized, prebuilt database system that is easy to deploy, operate, and manage. By integrating hardware and software, Oracle Database Appliance eliminates the complexities of nonintegrated, manually assembled solutions. Oracle Database Appliance reduces the installation and software deployment times from weeks or months to just a few hours while preventing configuration and setup errors that often result in suboptimal, hard-to-manage database environments.
This guide is intended for anyone who configures, maintains, or uses Oracle Database Appliance:
System administrators
Network administrators
Database administrators
Application administrators and users
This book does not include information about Oracle Database architecture, tools, management, or application development that is covered in the main body of Oracle Documentation, unless the information provided is specific to Oracle Database Appliance. Users of Oracle Database Appliance software are expected to have the same skills as users of any other Linux-based Oracle Database installations.
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The following documents, along with this document, are published in the Oracle Database Appliance online documentation library, which is available from the following URL:
http://www.oracle.com/goto/oda/docs:
Oracle Database Appliance Release Notes for Linux x86-64
Oracle Database Appliance Licensing Information User Manual for Linux x86-64
Oracle Database Appliance X6-2-HA Deployment and User's Guide
Oracle Database Appliance Administration and Reference Guide
Oracle Database Appliance Setup Posters (a full-size printed copy ships with Oracle Database Appliance)
Oracle Database Appliance Owner's Guide
Oracle Database Appliance Service Manual
Oracle Database Appliance Series Safety and Compliance Guide
Oracle Database Appliance Security Guide
Oracle Enterprise Manager Plug-in for Oracle Database Appliance User's Guide
The following My Oracle Support Notes contain additional information:
https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&type=NOT&id=888888.1
https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&type=NOT&id=2144642.1
For more information about using Oracle Database, go to http://docs.oracle.com/en/database/ and select the database release from the menu. See the following documents in the Oracle Database online documentation library:
Oracle Database Security Guide
Oracle Database Administrator’s Guide
Oracle Database SQL Language Quick Reference
Oracle Database Backup and Recovery User’s Guide
Oracle Database Backup and Recovery Reference
Oracle Database Utilities
Oracle Automatic Storage Management Administrator's Guide
For more details about other Oracle products that are mentioned in Oracle Database Appliance documentation, such as Oracle Integrated Lights Out Manager, see the Oracle Documentation home page at the following address:
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