Oracle Database Appliance is an optimized, prebuilt and ready-to-use clustered 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. This includes:
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 there are features 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 and Oracle Real Application Clusters installations.
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The following documents are published in the Oracle Database Appliance online documentation library, available at http://www.oracle.com/goto/oda/docs
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Oracle Database Appliance Setup Poster (a full-size printed copy ships with Oracle Database Appliance)
Oracle Database Appliance Getting Started Guide
Oracle Database Appliance Release Notes
Oracle Database Appliance Owner's Guide
Oracle Database Appliance Service Manual
Oracle Database Appliance Safety and Compliance Guide
Oracle Database Appliance Licensing Information
Oracle Database Appliance Security Guide
For more information about using Oracle Database, see the following documents:
Oracle Database Concepts
Oracle Database Administrator's Guide
Oracle Database SQL Language Quick Reference
Oracle Database Reference
Oracle Database 2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide
Oracle Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide
Oracle Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide
For more details about other Oracle products that are mentioned in Oracle Database Appliance documentation, such as Oracle VM, Oracle Integrated Lights Out Manager, and so on, see the Oracle Documentation home page at the following address:
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