Oracle® Private Cloud Appliance

Administrator's Guide for Release 2.0

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E56837-05

August 2016

Table of Contents

Preface

1 Concept, Architecture and Life Cycle of Oracle Private Cloud Appliance

1.1 What is Oracle Private Cloud Appliance

1.2 Hardware Components

1.2.1 Management Nodes
1.2.2 Compute Nodes
1.2.3 Storage Appliance
1.2.4 Network Infrastructure

1.3 Software Components

1.3.1 Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Dashboard
1.3.2 Password Manager (Wallet)
1.3.3 Oracle VM Manager
1.3.4 Operating Systems
1.3.5 Databases
1.3.6 Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Management Software
1.3.7 Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Diagnostics Tool

1.4 Provisioning and Orchestration

1.4.1 Appliance Management Initialization
1.4.2 Compute Node Discovery and Provisioning
1.4.3 Server Pool Readiness

1.5 High Availability

1.6 Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Backup

1.7 Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Software Update

2 Monitoring and Managing Oracle Private Cloud Appliance

2.1 Connecting and Logging in to the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Dashboard

2.2 Hardware View

2.3 Network View

2.4 Network Settings

2.5 Authentication

2.6 Update

2.6.1 Mandatory Updates
2.6.2 Updating the Oracle PCA Controller Software
2.6.3 Upgrading the Virtualization Platform
2.6.4 Upgrading Component Firmware

3 The Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Command Line Interface (CLI)

3.1 CLI Usage

3.1.1 Interactive Mode
3.1.2 Single-command Mode
3.1.3 Controlling CLI Output
3.1.4 Internal CLI Help

3.2 CLI Commands

3.2.1 backup
3.2.2 diagnose
3.2.3 delete
3.2.4 list
3.2.5 reprovision
3.2.6 rerun
3.2.7 set
3.2.8 show
3.2.9 start
3.2.10 stop

4 Managing the Oracle VM Virtual Infrastructure

4.1 Guidelines and Limitations
4.2 Logging in to the Oracle VM Manager Web UI
4.3 Monitoring Health and Performance in Oracle VM
4.4 Creating and Managing Virtual Machines
4.5 Managing Virtual Machine Resources
4.6 Configuring Network Resources for Virtual Machines
4.7 Viewing and Managing Storage Resources
4.8 Tagging of Resources in Oracle VM Manager
4.9 Managing Jobs and Events

5 Automating Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Service Requests

5.1 Understanding Oracle Auto Service Request (ASR)

5.2 ASR Prerequisites

5.3 Installing ASR Manager

5.4 Activating ASR Assets

5.4.1 Activating Compute Nodes
5.4.2 Activating InfiniBand Switches
5.4.3 Activating ASR on the ZFS Storage Appliance

6 Servicing Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Components

6.1 Replaceable Components

6.1.1 Rack Components
6.1.2 Oracle Server X5-2 Components
6.1.3 Sun Server X4-2 Components
6.1.4 Sun Server X3-2 Components
6.1.5 Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance ZS3-ES Components
6.1.6 Sun ZFS Storage Appliance 7320 Components
6.1.7 Oracle Switch ES1-24 Components
6.1.8 NM2-36P Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Expansion Switch Components
6.1.9 Oracle Fabric Interconnect F1-15 Components

6.2 Preparing Oracle Private Cloud Appliance for Service

6.3 Servicing the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Rack System

6.3.1 Powering Down Oracle Private Cloud Appliance (When Required)
6.3.2 Service Procedures for Rack System Components

6.4 Servicing an Oracle Server X5-2

6.4.1 Powering Down Oracle Server X5-2 for Service (When Required)
6.4.2 Service Procedures for Oracle Server X5-2 Components

6.5 Servicing a Sun Server X4-2

6.5.1 Powering Down Sun Server X4-2 for Service (When Required)
6.5.2 Service Procedures for Sun Server X4-2 Components

6.6 Servicing a Sun Server X3-2

6.6.1 Powering Down Sun Server X3-2 for Service (When Required)
6.6.2 Service Procedures for Sun Server X3-2 Components

6.7 Servicing the Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance ZS3-ES

6.7.1 Powering Down the Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance ZS3-ES for Service (When Required)
6.7.2 Service Procedures for Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance ZS3-ES Components

6.8 Servicing the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance 7320

6.8.1 Powering Down the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance 7320 for Service (When Required)
6.8.2 Service Procedures for Sun ZFS Storage Appliance 7320 Components

6.9 Servicing an Oracle Switch ES1-24

6.9.1 Powering Down the Oracle Switch ES1-24 for Service (When Required)
6.9.2 Service Procedures for Oracle Switch ES1-24 Components

6.10 Servicing an NM2-36P Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Expansion Switch

6.10.1 Powering Down the NM2-36P Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Expansion Switch for Service (When Required)
6.10.2 Service Procedures for NM2-36P Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Expansion Switch Components

6.11 Servicing an Oracle Fabric Interconnect F1-15

6.11.1 Powering Down the Oracle Fabric Interconnect F1-15 for Service (When Required)
6.11.2 Service Procedures for Oracle Fabric Interconnect F1-15 Components

7 Troubleshooting

7.1 Adding Proxy Settings for Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Updates
7.2 Setting the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Logging Parameters
7.3 Configuring Data Center Switches for VLAN Traffic
7.4 Enabling Support Tools on Systems Provisioned with Software Release 1.0.2
7.5 Verifying and Re-applying Oracle VM Manager Tuning after Software Update
7.6 Upgrading Existing Compute Node Configuration from Release 1.0.2
7.7 Enabling Compute Node IPMI in Oracle VM Manager
7.8 Enabling SNMP Server Monitoring
7.9 Changing Oracle WebLogic Server Passwords
7.10 Replacing Default Passwords Manually
7.11 Using a Custom CA Certificate for SSL Encryption
7.12 A Compute Node Fails to Complete Provisioning
7.13 Oracle VM Server Pool Is Offline After Network Services Restart

Index