Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Documentation Accessibility
• Conventions

1 Overview and Scope

• 1.1 Overview of Backup and Recovery Concepts
• 1.2 Scope
• 1.3 Supported Platforms
• 1.4 Backup and Recovery Recommendations

2 Backup and Recovery Locations

3 Backup and Recovery of Hardware Components

• 3.1 Exalogic Configuration Utility
• 3.2 Exalogic Compute Nodes
  • 3.2.1 Backing Up Exalogic Compute Nodes
    • 3.2.1.1 Backing Up the ILOM of a Compute Node
    • 3.2.1.2 Backing Up the Operating System of a Compute Node
  • 3.2.2 Reimaging and Bare Metal Restore
  • 3.2.3 Recovering Exalogic Compute Nodes in a Virtual Environment
• 3.3 InfiniBand Switches
  • 3.3.1 Backing Up the InfiniBand switches
  • 3.3.2 Recovering the InfiniBand Switches in a Physical Environment
  • 3.3.3 Recovering the InfiniBand Switches in a Virtual Environment
• 3.4 Cisco Management Switch
  • 3.4.1 Backing Up the Management Switch
  • 3.4.2 Recovering the Management Switch in a Physical Environment
  • 3.4.3 Recovering the Management Switch in a Virtual Environment
• 3.5 ZFS Storage Heads

4 Recovery of the Exalogic Control Stack from Hardware Failures and Corruption

• 4.1 Recovering from a Hardware Failure
  • 4.1.1 Recovering the Database vServer from a Hardware Failure
  • 4.1.2 Recovering the Oracle VM Manager vServer from a Hardware Failure
  • 4.1.3 Recovering the Proxy Controller vServer from a Hardware Failure
  • 4.1.4 Recovering the Enterprise Controller vServer from a Hardware Failure
• 4.2 Backing Up and Recovering Oracle VM Manager
  • 4.2.1 Backing Up Oracle VM Manager
  • 4.2.2 Restoring Oracle VM Manager
• 4.3 Recovering Oracle VM Manager After Database Corruption

5 Backup and Recovery of the Exalogic Control Repository and Stack

• 5.1 Recovering After Hardware Failure
• 5.2 Backing Up the Exalogic Control Repository
  • 5.2.1 Stopping the Components of the Exalogic Control Stack
  • 5.2.2 Shutting Down the Exalogic Control Virtual Machines
  • 5.2.3 Creating a ZFS Snapshot of the Exalogic Control repository
  • 5.2.4 Creating a Full Backup of the Exalogic Control Artifacts
  • 5.2.5 Starting the Exalogic Control Stack
• 5.3 Restoring the Exalogic Control Repository
• 5.4 Restoring the Exalogic Control Stack
  • 5.4.1 Restoring the Exalogic Control Stack from a ZFS Snapshot
  • 5.4.2 Restoring the Exalogic Control Stack from a Full Backup

6 Backup and Recovery of Customer vServers

• 6.1 Backing Up Customer vServers
• 6.2 Restoring Customer vServers
  • 6.2.1 Restoring a Customer vServer from a ZFS Snapshot
  • 6.2.2 Restoring Customer vServers from a Full Backup
• 6.3 Re-creating vServers