Preface

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.

Audience

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 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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Related Documents

The following documents are published in the Oracle Database Appliance online documentation library, available at http://www.oracle.com/goto/oda/docs. From the Oracle Help Center at http://docs.oracle.com, click the Engineered Systems tile, scroll to Oracle Database Appliance, and select the appropriate release number.

• 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

• Oracle Enterprise Manager Plug-in for Oracle Database Appliance User's Guide

For information about Oracle Database, click the Database tile on the Oracle Documentation home page (http://docs.oracle.com), scroll to Oracle Database, and select All Oracle Database Documentation. The following documents may be of interest:

• 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 and Oracle Integrated Lights Out Manager, see the Oracle Documentation home page at the following address:

http://docs.oracle.com

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document:

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