Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Documentation Accessibility
• Conventions

1 Overview and Scope

• 1.1 Overview of Backup and Recovery Concepts
• 1.2 Overview of ExaBR
• 1.3 Supported Platforms
• 1.4 Known Issues
• 1.5 Scope
• 1.6 Backup and Recovery Recommendations

2 Using ExaBR to Back Up and Restore Exalogic Data

• 2.1 Backup Locations
  • 2.1.1 Shares Created for the Exalogic Lifecycle Toolkit
  • 2.1.2 Backup Directories Created by ExaBR
• 2.2 Preparing to Use ExaBR
• 2.3 Configuring ExaBR
  • 2.3.1 Enabling Key-Based Authentication for ExaBR
  • 2.3.2 Configuring the Connection Protocol to the Management Switch
  • 2.3.3 Configuring the Backup Retention Policy of ExaBR
  • 2.3.4 Scheduling ExaBR Backups
• 2.4 Using ExaBR
  • 2.4.1 ExaBR Commands
  • 2.4.2 ExaBR Options
  • 2.4.3 ExaBR Targets
• 2.5 Managing ExaBR Backups
  • 2.5.1 ExaBR Log File
  • 2.5.2 Status of Backups
  • 2.5.3 Listing Backups

3 Backup and Recovery of Infrastructure Components

• 3.1 Exalogic Configuration Utility
  • 3.1.1 Backing Up the ECU Files
  • 3.1.2 Recovering the ECU Files
• 3.2 Exalogic Compute Nodes
  • 3.2.1 Backing Up Compute Nodes
    • 3.2.1.1 Backing Up Linux Compute Nodes
    • 3.2.1.2 Backing Up Solaris Compute Nodes
    • 3.2.1.3 Backing Up Customizations on Oracle VM Server Nodes
  • 3.2.2 Recovering Compute Nodes
    • 3.2.2.1 Recovering Compute Nodes in a Physical Environment
    • 3.2.2.2 Recovering Compute Nodes on Failure of the InfiniBand HCA
    • 3.2.2.3 Reimaging and Recovering Compute Nodes in a Physical Environment
    • 3.2.2.4 Reimaging and Recovering Oracle VM Server Nodes in a Virtual Environment
• 3.3 NM2 Gateway and 36p Switches
  • 3.3.1 Backing Up InfiniBand Switches
  • 3.3.2 Recovering InfiniBand Switches
  • 3.3.3 Replacing InfiniBand Switches in a Virtual Environment
• 3.4 Management Switch
  • 3.4.1 Backing Up the Management Switch
  • 3.4.2 Recovering the Management Switch
  • 3.4.3 Replacing the Management Switch in a Virtual Environment
• 3.5 Storage Appliance Heads
  • 3.5.1 Backing Up the Configuration of the Storage Appliance Heads
  • 3.5.2 Recovering the Configuration of Storage Appliance Heads

4 Backup and Recovery of the Exalogic Control Stack

• 4.1 Backing Up the Exalogic Control Stack
• 4.2 Restoring the Exalogic Control Stack

5 Backup and Recovery of User vServers

• 5.1 Backing Up User vServers
  • 5.1.1 Backing Up User vServers Created Using EECS 2.0.6 Guest Base Template
  • 5.1.2 Backing Up User vServers Created Using EECS 2.0.4 Guest Base Template or Earlier
• 5.2 Restoring User vServers
  • 5.2.1 Restoring User vServers Created Using EECS 2.0.6 Guest Base Template
  • 5.2.2 Restoring User vServers Created Using EECS 2.0.4 Guest Base Template or Earlier

A Recovery of the Exalogic Control Stack From Hardware Failures

• A.1 Recovering the Exalogic Control vServer From Hardware Failures
• A.2 Recovering the Proxy Controller vServers From Hardware Failures

B Removing Orphan and Ghost vServers After Restoring the Exalogic Control Stack

C Increasing the Size of the Logical Volume Group of a vServer

• C.1 Creating a Volume
• C.2 Attaching the Volume to a vServer
• C.3 Formatting the Volume on the vServer