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Contents
List of Tables
Title and Copyright Information
Preface
Audience
Documentation Accessibility
Related Documentation
Conventions
Backus-Naur Form Syntax
Changes in Oracle Big Data Appliance Release 4.11
Part I Preinstallation
1
Introduction to Oracle Big Data Appliance
1.1
About Oracle Big Data Appliance
1.2
Oracle Big Data Appliance Rack Components
1.3
Server Components
1.4
Spare Parts Kit Components
1.5
Oracle Big Data Appliance Management Software
1.6
Supportability Guidelines
2
Site Requirements for Oracle Big Data Appliance
2.1
General Environmental Requirements
2.2
Space Requirements
2.2.1
Receiving and Unpacking Requirements
2.2.2
Maintenance Access Requirements
2.3
Flooring Requirements
2.4
Electrical Power Requirements
2.4.1
PDUs for Oracle Big Data Appliance
2.4.1.1
Single-Phase PDUs for North America, South America, Japan, and Taiwan
2.4.1.2
Three-Phase PDUs for North America, South America, Japan, and Taiwan
2.4.1.3
Single-Phase PDUs for Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific
2.4.1.4
Three-Phase PDUs for Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific
2.4.2
Facility Power Requirements
2.4.3
Circuit Breaker Requirements
2.4.4
Grounding Guidelines
2.5
Temperature and Humidity Requirements
2.6
Ventilation and Cooling Requirements
2.7
Network Connection Requirements
2.8
Ensuring That the Site Is Ready
3
Understanding the Network Requirements
3.1
Overview of Network Requirements
3.1.1
Default Network Connections
3.1.2
Minimum Requirements for the Networks
3.1.3
Network Diagram
3.2
Cabling the Client Network
3.2.1
How the Servers Connect to the Gateway Switches
3.2.2
Using Splitter Cables for Connecting to the 40 Gbps Physical Ports
3.2.3
What About Data Centers Without a 10 GbE Infrastructure?
3.2.4
Guidelines for Connecting to the Gateway Switches
3.2.4.1
Configuring for LACP/LAG Connections
3.2.5
Configuring Multiple Racks into a Single Hadoop Cluster
3.3
Factory Network Settings
3.4
Port Assignments for Oracle Big Data Appliance Software
3.5
Preparing the Network for Oracle Big Data Appliance
4
Using Oracle Big Data Appliance Configuration Generation Utility
4.1
Overview of Oracle Big Data Appliance Configuration Generation Utility
4.2
Generating the Configuration Files
4.3
About the Configuration Files
4.4
Validating the Network Settings
4.5
Customer Details Page
4.5.1
Using Standardized Host Names
4.5.2
Using Customized Host Names
4.5.3
Naming Multirack Clusters
4.5.4
Connecting to Oracle Big Data Appliance Over the Networks
4.6
Hardware Selection Page
4.7
Rack Details
4.8
Networking Page
4.9
Administration Network Page
4.10
General Network Properties Page
4.11
Review and Edit Details Page
4.12
Define Clusters Page
4.13
Cluster Page
4.13.1
A New Oracle NoSQL Database Cluster
4.13.1.1
User and Groups
4.13.1.2
Client Network
4.13.1.3
InfiniBand Network
4.13.1.4
MIT Kerberos
4.13.1.5
Installed Components
4.13.1.6
Oracle NoSQL Configuration
4.13.2
A New CDH Cluster
4.13.2.1
User/Groups
4.13.2.2
Client Network
4.13.2.3
InfiniBand Network
4.13.2.4
Big Data SQL
4.13.2.5
Big Data Connectors
4.13.2.6
Oracle Big Data Spatial and Graph
4.13.2.7
MIT Kerberos
4.13.2.8
Active Directory Kerberos
4.13.2.9
HDFS Transparent Encryption
4.13.2.10
Auto Service Request
4.13.2.11
Email Alerting
4.13.3
Adding to an Existing Cluster
4.14
Client Network Config Summary
4.15
Complete Page
5
Setting Up Auto Service Request
5.1
Understanding Auto Service Request
5.2
Getting Ready to Install ASR
5.3
Installing ASR Manager
5.4
Verifying the ASR Manager Installation
5.5
Configuring the Trap Destinations on Oracle Big Data Appliance
5.6
Verifying ASR Assets
5.7
Validating Auto Service Request on Oracle Big Data Appliance
5.8
Troubleshooting ASR
Part II Hardware Installation and Configuration
6
Installing Oracle Big Data Appliance at the Site
6.1
Reviewing Safety Guidelines
6.2
Unpacking Oracle Big Data Appliance
6.2.1
Contents of the Shipping Kit
6.2.2
Removing Oracle Big Data Appliance from the Shipping Crate
6.3
Placing Oracle Big Data Appliance in Its Allocated Space
6.3.1
Moving Oracle Big Data Appliance
6.3.2
Securing an Oracle Big Data Appliance Rack
6.3.2.1
Secure the Oracle Big Data Appliance Rack with Leveling Feet
6.3.3
Attaching a Ground Cable (Optional)
6.4
Powering On the System for the First Time
6.4.1
Inspecting the Oracle Big Data Appliance Rack After It Is in Place
6.4.2
Connecting Power Cords
6.4.3
Powering On Oracle Big Data Appliance
7
Configuring an Oracle Big Data Appliance Full Rack or Starter Rack
7.1
Configuring the KVM Switch
7.1.1
Starting the KVM Switch
7.1.2
Connecting the KVM Switch to the Management Network
7.1.3
Configuring the KVM Switch to Access the Servers
7.1.4
Accessing a Server by Using the KVM Switch
7.2
Configuring the Ethernet Switch
7.2.1
Configuring the Cisco Nexus 93108-1G Ethernet Switch
7.2.1.1
Performing the Initial Switch Configuration for the Cisco Nexus 93108-1G Ethernet Switch
7.2.1.2
Setting the Clock on the Cisco 93108-1G Ethernet Switch
7.2.2
Configuring the Cisco Catalyst 4948 Ethernet Switch
7.2.2.1
Scope of the Configuration
7.2.2.2
Prerequisites for Configuring the Ethernet Switch
7.2.2.3
Configuring the Ethernet Switch on the Customer Network
7.2.2.4
Setting Up Telnet Access on the Ethernet Switch
7.2.2.5
Configuring SSH on the Ethernet Switch
7.2.2.6
Setting the Clock and Time Zone on the Ethernet Switch
7.2.2.7
Configuring the NTP Servers for the Ethernet Switch
7.2.2.8
Disabling the Spanning Tree
7.2.2.9
Verifying the Ethernet Configuration
7.3
Configuring the InfiniBand Leaf and Spine Switches
7.3.1
Configuring an InfiniBand Switch
7.3.2
Setting the Time Zone and Clock on an InfiniBand Switch
7.3.3
Checking the Health of an InfiniBand Switch
7.3.4
Checking the Sun Network QDR InfiniBand Gateway Switches
7.4
Configuring the Power Distribution Units
7.4.1
Connecting the PDUs to the Network
7.4.2
Updating the PDU Firmware Version
7.5
Configuring the Oracle Big Data Appliance Servers
7.6
Configuring the Network
7.6.1
Copying the Configuration Files to Oracle Big Data Appliance
7.6.2
Starting the Network Configuration
7.6.3
Connecting to the Administrative Network
7.6.4
Connecting to the Client Network
7.6.5
Completing the Network Configuration
7.6.6
Checking the Virtual Interface Cards (VNICs)
7.6.7
Verifying Access to the Network Services
7.7
Configuring Multiple Oracle Big Data Appliance Racks
7.7.1
Configuring and Cabling Multiple Racks
7.7.2
Validating a Multirack InfiniBand Network
8
Expanding an Oracle Big Data Appliance Starter Rack
8.1
About Expanding an Oracle Big Data Appliance Starter Rack
8.1.1
Checking the Contents of a High Capacity Node plus Infiniband Infrastructure
8.1.2
Checking the Status of a Starter Rack
8.1.3
Expanding an Oracle Big Data Appliance X4-2 Starter Rack
8.2
Installing New Servers to an Oracle Big Data Appliance Starter Rack
8.3
Configuring the New Oracle Big Data Appliance Servers
8.4
Setting Up the Network
8.4.1
Copying the Configuration Files
8.4.2
Configuring the Network
8.4.3
Verifying the Network Configuration
8.5
Installing Oracle Big Data Appliance Software on the New Servers
9
Connecting Multiple Oracle Big Data Appliance Racks
9.1
Extending a Rack by Adding Another Rack
9.2
Prerequisites for Multirack Cabling
9.3
Cabling Two Racks Together
9.4
Cabling Several Racks Together
Part III Software Installation and Configuration
10
Installing the Oracle Big Data Appliance Software
10.1
About the Mammoth Utility
10.1.1
About Rolling Upgrades
10.2
Installation Prerequisites
10.3
Downloading the Mammoth Software Deployment Bundle
10.4
Installing the Software on a New Rack
10.4.1
Installing the Software
10.5
What If an Error Occurs During the Installation?
10.6
Adding Servers to a Cluster
10.7
Upgrading the Software on Oracle Big Data Appliance
10.7.1
About the Operating System Versions
10.7.2
Upgrading the Software
10.7.2.1
Prerequisites
10.7.2.2
Upgrading to the Current Software Version
10.7.2.3
Performing Parcel Upgrades Outside of the One-Off Patch Mechanism
10.8
Changing the Configuration of Optional Software
10.8.1
Changing Support for Oracle Big Data Connectors
10.8.1.1
Adding Oracle Big Data Connectors
10.8.1.2
Removing Oracle Big Data Connectors
10.8.2
Adding Support for Auto Service Request
10.8.3
Adding Support for Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
10.8.4
Adding Kerberos Authentication
10.8.5
Installing Oracle Big Data Discovery
10.8.5.1
How Oracle Big Data Discovery is Deployed on Oracle Big Data Appliance
10.8.5.2
Installing and Enabling Oracle Big Data Discovery
10.8.5.3
Using Oracle Big Data Discovery
10.8.6
Installing Oracle Big Data SQL
10.8.6.1
Installing on Oracle Big Data Appliance
10.8.6.2
Customizing the Default Oracle Big Data SQL Installation
10.8.6.3
Installing Oracle Big Data SQL on the Oracle Database System
10.8.6.4
Managing the Oracle Big Data SQL Service
10.8.6.5
Uninstalling Oracle Big Data SQL
10.9
Reinstalling the Base Image
10.9.1
Reimaging a Single Oracle Big Data Appliance Server
10.9.2
Reimaging an Oracle Big Data Appliance Rack
10.9.3
Reimaging an Oracle Big Data Appliance Cluster
10.10
Installing a One-Off Patch
10.11
Mammoth Software Installation and Configuration Utility
10.11.1
Mammoth Options
10.11.2
Mammoth Installation Steps
10.12
Oracle Big Data Appliance Base Imaging Utilities
10.12.1
makebdaimage
10.12.2
reimagecluster
10.12.3
reimagerack
Part IV Maintenance
11
Oracle Big Data Appliance Utilities
11.1
bdacheckcluster
11.2
bdacheckhw
11.3
bdacheckib
11.4
bdachecknet-cluster
11.5
bdachecknet-rack
11.6
bdachecksw
11.7
bdaclustersynctime
11.8
bdacli
11.9
bdaclustersynctime
11.10
bdadiag
11.11
bdadiagcluster
11.12
bdagetclientconfig
11.13
bdaid
11.14
bdaibstatus
11.15
bdaimagevalidate
11.16
bdanodedesc
11.17
bdaredoclientnet
11.18
bdaredousb
11.19
bdaserials
11.20
bdaswapoff
11.21
bdaswapon
11.22
bdaupdatefw
11.23
iblinkinfo
11.24
imagehistory
11.25
imageinfo
11.26
listlinkup
11.27
mount_hadoop_dirs
11.28
remove-root-ssh
11.29
reset-boot-order
11.30
setup-root-ssh
11.31
showusb
11.32
showvlan
11.33
showvnics
12
Maintaining Oracle Big Data Appliance
12.1
Monitoring the Ambient Temperature of Servers
12.2
Powering On and Off Oracle Big Data Appliance
12.2.1
Nonemergency Power Procedures
12.2.1.1
Powering On Oracle Big Data Appliance
12.2.1.2
Powering Off Oracle Big Data Appliance
12.2.1.2.1
Powering Off the Servers
12.2.1.2.2
Powering Off Multiple Servers at the Same Time
12.2.1.3
Powering On and Off Network Switches
12.2.2
Emergency Power-Off Considerations
12.2.2.1
Emergency Power-Off Procedure
12.2.2.2
Emergency Power-Off Switch
12.2.3
Cautions and Warnings
12.3
Adding Memory to the Servers
12.3.1
Adding Memory to an Oracle Server X6-2L
12.3.2
Adding Memory to an Oracle Server X5-2L, Sun Server X4-2L, or Sun Server X3-2L
12.3.3
Adding Memory to Sun Fire X4270 M2 Servers
12.4
Maintaining the InfiniBand Network
12.4.1
Replacing a Failed InfiniBand Switch
12.4.2
Verifying InfiniBand Network Operation
12.4.3
Understanding the Network Subnet Manager Master
12.5
Changing the Number of Connections to a Gateway Switch
12.6
Changing the NTP Servers
12.7
Monitoring the PDU Current
12.8
Node Migration
13
Replacing a Server Disk
13.1
Verifying the Server Configuration
13.1.1
Verifying Disk Controller Configuration
13.1.2
Verifying Virtual Drive Configuration
13.1.3
Verifying Physical Drive Configuration
13.2
Overview of the Disk Replacement Process
13.3
About Disk Drive Identifiers
13.3.1
Standard Disk Drive Mappings
13.3.2
Standard Mount Points
13.3.3
Obtaining the Physical Slot Number of a Disk Drive
13.4
Prerequisites for Replacing a Failing Disk
13.5
What If a Server Fails to Restart?
13.6
Replacing a Disk Drive
13.7
Correcting a Mounted Partitions Error
13.8
Identifying the Function of a Disk Drive
13.9
Configuring an Operating System Disk
13.9.1
Partitioning the Operating System Disk
13.9.1.1
Partitioning for Oracle Linux 6
13.9.2
Repairing the RAID Arrays
13.9.3
Formatting the HDFS Partition of an Operating System Disk
13.9.4
Restoring the Swap Partition
13.9.5
Restoring the GRUB Master Boot Records and HBA Boot Order
13.10
Configuring an HDFS or Oracle NoSQL Database Disk
13.11
Verifying the Disk Configuration
14
Executing Commands Across a Cluster Using the dcli Utility
14.1
Overview of the dcli Utility
14.1.1
Setting Up Passwordless SSH
14.1.2
Basic Use of dcli
14.1.2.1
Getting Help
14.1.2.2
Identifying the Target Servers
14.1.2.3
Specifying the Commands
14.1.2.4
Controlling the Output Levels
14.2
dcli Syntax
14.3
dcli Return Values
14.4
dcli Examples
15
Using Oracle Integrated Lights Out Manager
15.1
Oracle ILOM Overview
15.1.1
Oracle ILOM Interfaces
15.1.2
Oracle ILOM Users
15.2
Administrative Network Diagram
15.3
Oracle ILOM IP Addresses for Oracle Big Data Appliance Components
15.4
Connecting to Oracle ILOM Using the Network
15.4.1
Connecting to the Command-Line Interface
15.4.2
Connecting to the Web GUI
15.5
Connecting to Oracle ILOM Using a Serial Connection
15.5.1
Connecting to the Oracle ILOM of a Server
15.5.2
Connecting to the Oracle ILOM of an InfiniBand Switch
15.6
Backing Up and Restoring Oracle ILOM Settings
15.6.1
Backing Up the Oracle ILOM Configuration Settings
15.6.2
Restoring Oracle ILOM Configuration Settings
Appendixes
A
Error Messages for Oracle Big Data Appliance
B
Replacement Units
B.1
Understanding Repair Categories
B.2
Disk Controller Batteries
B.3
LED Status Descriptions
B.3.1
Sun Server LEDs
B.3.2
Sun InfiniBand Switch LEDs
B.4
Parts for Oracle Big Data Appliance Servers
B.4.1
Oracle Server X7–2L Parts
B.4.2
Oracle Server X6-2L and X5-2L Parts
B.4.3
Sun Server X4-2L Parts
B.4.4
Sun Server X3-2L Parts
B.4.5
Sun Fire X4270 M2 Parts
B.5
Parts for Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Switch 36
B.6
Parts for Sun Network QDR InfiniBand Gateway Switch
B.7
Parts for the Cisco Ethernet Switch
B.8
Parts for Power Distribution Units
B.9
Cables and Cable Accessories for an Oracle Big Data Appliance Rack
C
In-Rack Cabling Tables for Oracle Big Data Appliance X7–2, X6–2, and X5-2
C.1
Cable Color Coding
C.2
Oracle Big Data Appliance Rack Layout
C.3
Administrative Gigabit Ethernet Cable Connections
C.4
Oracle Integrated Lights Out Manager Cable Connections
C.5
Single-Phase Power Distribution Unit Cable Connections
C.6
Three-Phase Power Distribution Unit Cable Connections
C.7
In-Rack InfiniBand Switch-to-Switch Cable Connections
C.8
In-Rack InfiniBand Switch-to-Server Cable Connections
D
In-Rack Cabling Tables for Oracle Big Data Appliance X4-2 and X3-2
D.1
Cable Color Coding
D.2
Oracle Big Data Appliance Rack Layout
D.3
Administrative Gigabit Ethernet Cable Connections
D.4
Oracle Integrated Lights Out Manager Cable Connections
D.5
Single-Phase Power Distribution Unit Cable Connections
D.6
Three-Phase Power Distribution Unit Cable Connections
D.7
In-Rack InfiniBand Switch-to-Switch Cable Connections
D.8
In-Rack InfiniBand Switch-to-Server Cable Connections
E
In-Rack Cabling Tables for Oracle Big Data Appliance Sun Fire X4270 M2
E.1
Cable Color Coding
E.2
Oracle Big Data Appliance Rack Layout
E.3
KVM Network Cable Connections
E.4
Administrative Gigabit Ethernet Cable Connections
E.5
Oracle Integrated Lights Out Manager Cable Connections
E.6
Single-Phase Power Distribution Unit Cable Connections
E.7
Three-Phase Power Distribution Unit Cable Connections
E.8
In-Rack InfiniBand Switch-to-Switch Cable Connections
E.9
In-Rack InfiniBand Switch-to-Server Cable Connections
F
Multirack Cabling Tables
F.1
Understanding Multirack Cabling
F.1.1
Cabling Together Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Big Data Appliance
F.1.2
Cabling the Switches in One Rack
F.1.3
Cabling the Switches in Two Racks
F.1.4
Cabling the Switches in Up to Eight Racks
F.2
Key to Cabling Table Abbreviations
F.3
Two-Rack Cabling
F.4
Three-Rack Cabling
F.5
Four-Rack Cabling
F.6
Five-Rack Cabling
F.7
Six-Rack Cabling
F.8
Seven-Rack Cabling
F.9
Eight-Rack Cabling
G
Change History
G.1
Changes in Oracle Big Data Appliance Release 4 (4.10)
G.2
Changes in Oracle Big Data Appliance Release 4 (4.9)
G.3
Changes in Oracle Big Data Appliance Release 4 (4.8)
G.4
Changes in Oracle Big Data Appliance Release 4 (4.7)
G.5
Changes in Oracle Big Data Appliance Release 4 (4.6)
G.6
Changes in Oracle Big Data Appliance Release 4 (4.5)
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