A Oracle Database Appliance Software Configuration Defaults

The Oracle Database Appliance software configuration defaults are detailed in the following sections:

Directory Paths for Oracle Database Appliance

Table A-1 Directory Paths for Oracle Database Appliance

Item Directory Path

Grid home

/u01/app/release-specific_name/grid

Grid base

/u01/app/grid

Oracle home

/u01/app/oracle/product//dbhome_release-specific_namesequence_number

Oracle base

/u01/app/oracle

Oracle Inventory

/u01/app/oraInventory

Oracle Groups and Users Configuration for Oracle Database Appliance

Table A-2 Oracle Groups and Users Configuration for Oracle Database Appliance

Groups and Users Default Value

Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation owner

grid, password welcome1 (change after installation), UID 1000

Oracle Database installation owner

oracle, password welcome1 (change after installation), UID 1001

Oracle Database system administrator

sys, password welcome1 (change after installation)

Oracle Database generic administrator

system, password welcome1 (change after installation)

Oracle Inventory system privileges group

oinstall, GID 1001

Oracle ASM Administrators system privileges

asmadmin, GID 1006

Oracle ASM Users system privileges

asmdba, GID 1004

Oracle ASM Operator system privileges

asmoper, GID 1005

Oracle Database Administrators system privileges

dba, GID 1002

Oracle Database Operator system privileges

racoper, GID 1003

Database Disk Group Sizes for Oracle Database Appliance

Table A-3 and Table A-4, and show the sizes for DATA, RECO, REDO, and FLASH disk groups on various configurations of Oracle Database Appliance. Each row has values for either normal or for high redundancy levels. The disk capacities shown in the table vary because they are derived by converting disk hardware terabytes (based on 1 kilobyte=1,000 bytes) into data storage terabytes (based on 1 kilobyte=1,024 bytes).

The space calculated with a storage expansion shelf approximately doubles the space mentioned in Table A-3, and Table A-4. Note that the storage expansion shelf can only be used in Oracle Database Appliance X3-2, X4-2, and X5-2.

Table A-3 Approximate Database Disk Group Sizes for Oracle Database Appliance Version 1, X3-2, and X4-2

Sizing Version 1 (GB) X3-2 (GB) X4-2 (GB)

HDD Size

559

838

838

Total HDD

11,180

16,760

16,760

Total SSD (REDO Disk Group)

272

744

744

Total SSD (FLASH Disk Group)

N/A

N/A

N/A

Total HDD with High Redundancy

3,727

5,587

5,587

Total HDD with Normal Redundancy

5,590

8,380

8,380

DATA Disk Group with High Redundancy - External Backup

3,205

4,805

4,805

RECO Disk Group with High Redundancy - External Backup

522

782

782

DATA Disk Group with High Redundancy - Local Backup

1,603

2,402

2,402

RECO Disk Group with High Redundancy - Local Backup

2,124

3,185

3,185

DATA Disk Group with Normal Redundancy - External Backup

4,807

7,207

7,207

RECO Disk Group with Normal Redundancy - External Backup

783

1,173

1,173

DATA Disk Group with Normal Redundancy - Local Backup

2,404

3,603

3,603

RECO Disk Group with Normal Redundancy - Local Backup

3,186

4,777

4,777

REDO Disk Group

91

248

248

FLASH Disk Group

N/A

N/A

N/A

Note:

High Redundancy is triple-mirroring and Normal Redundancy is double-mirroring. REDO Disk Group is always High Redundancy. FLASH Disk Group is always Normal Redundancy.

See Also:

"Managing Capacity in Disk Groups" in Oracle Automatic Storage Management Administrator's Guide for more information about determining the amount of free space in your Oracle Database Appliance disk groups for Oracle ASM. Table A-3 only provides the raw disk information.

Table A-4 Approximate Database Disk Group Sizes for Oracle Database Appliance X5-2

Sizing X5-2 (GB), 4 TB X5-2 (GB), 8 TB

HDD Size

3,816

7,631

Total HDD

61,056

122,096

Total SSD (REDO Disk Group)

744

744

Total SSD (FLASH Disk Group)

1,492

1,492

Total HDD with High Redundancy

20,352

40,699

Total HDD with Normal Redundancy

30,528

61,048

DATA Disk Group with High Redundancy - External Backup

15,315

30,626

RECO Disk Group with High Redundancy - External Backup

2,493

4,986

DATA Disk Group with High Redundancy - Local Backup

7,473

16,407

RECO Disk Group with High Redundancy - Local Backup

9,906

21,748

DATA Disk Group with Normal Redundancy - External Backup

24,513

49,220

RECO Disk Group with Normal Redundancy - External Backup

4,007

8,013

DATA Disk Group with Normal Redundancy - Local Backup

12,307

24,610

RECO Disk Group with Normal Redundancy - Local Backup

15,920

32,623

REDO Disk Group

248

248

FLASH Disk Group

746

746

Notes:

  1. For non-CDB databases, the REDO disk group has 50% free disk space.

  2. For CDB databases, an Oracle ACFS mount point is created per CDB database, based on the template log file size. If this is a Single Instance (SI) database, then multiply by 3. If the is an Oracle RAC database, then multiply by 4.

  3. Accelerator volume size is 0.4% of the database DATA Oracle ACFS file system size and shared REPO Oracle ACFS file system size.

Usable Storage on Oracle Database Appliance X5-2

Table A-5 shows the usage storage for various configurations of Oracle Database Appliance X5-2.

The reserved storage is the amount of ASM storage required to maintain redundancy in the event of a disk failure. If a customer uses the reserve storage capacity, the system will continue to run and be protected through ASM mirroring. However, in the event of a second disk failure, the system will be running in a non-protected and degraded mode, and the disk needs to be replaced immediately.

For more ASM Disk Groups Capacity information, see:

>http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B28359_01/server.111/b31107/asmdiskgrps.htm#CHDGGGA

Table A-5 Usable Storage on Oracle Database Appliance X5-2

Sizing Raw Value (GB) Reserve (GB) Usable (GB)

Total SSD (REDO Disk Group)

(based on an estimated 190,780 GB)

See the Note.

764

191

191

Total SSD (FLASH Disk Group)

(based on an estimated 3,816 GB)

1,528

382

573

HDD Size: 8 TB

7,631

    

External Backup/Normal Redundancy (86%/14% split)

      

DATA Disk Group with Normal Redundancy - External Backup

105,003

6,563

49,220

RECO Disk Group with Normal Redundancy - External Backup

17,093

1,068

8,013

External Backup/High Redundancy

      

DATA Disk Group with High Redundancy - External Backup

105,003

13,125

30,626

RECO Disk Group with High Redundancy - External Backup

17,093

2,137

4,986

Internal Backup/Normal Redundancy (43%/57% split)

      

DATA Disk Group with Normal Redundancy - Internal Backup

52,501

3,281

24,610

RECO Disk Group with Normal Redundancy - Internal Backup

69,595

4,350

32,623

Internal Backup/High Redundancy

      

DATA Disk Group with High Redundancy - Internal Backup

52,501

3,281

16,407

RECO Disk Group with High Redundancy - Internal Backup

69,595

4,350

21,748

HDD Size: 4 TB

(Total: HDD Raw: 59,584 GB)

3,816

    

External Backup/Normal Redundancy (86%/14% split)

      

DATA Disk Group with Normal Redundancy - External Backup

52,508

3,282

24,613

RECO Disk Group with Normal Redundancy - External Backup

8,548

534

4,007

External Backup/High Redundancy

      

DATA Disk Group with High Redundancy - External Backup

52,508

6564

15,315

RECO Disk Group with High Redundancy - External Backup

8,548

1,068

2,493

Internal Backup/Normal Redundancy (43%/57% split)

      

DATA Disk Group with Normal Redundancy - Internal Backup

26,254

1,641

12,307

RECO Disk Group with Normal Redundancy - Internal Backup

33,963

2,123

15,920

Internal Backup/High Redundancy

      

DATA Disk Group with High Redundancy - Internal Backup

25,621

3,203

7,473

RECO Disk Group with High Redundancy - Internal Backup

33,963

4,245

9,906

Storage on Oracle Database Appliance

Oracle Database Appliance uses the Oracle Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System (Oracle ACFS) for storage of database and virtual machine files. Oracle ACFS provides both servers with concurrent access to some or all of the shared storage on Oracle Database Appliance. Oracle ACFS supports space-efficient storage snapshots, which provides fast provisioning databases and virtual machines within Oracle Database Appliance.

Three types of Oracle ACFS file systems are used in Oracle Database Appliance:

  • Database

  • Shared repositories

  • General-purpose storage

Database file systems are used exclusively for storing database files, and they include a FLASH file system for storing database data files and flash cache files, a DATA file system for database data files, a RECO file system for storing archive files and backups, and a REDO file system for storing redo log files.

Shared repositories are file systems created on Oracle Database Appliance Virtualized Platform, and they are used to store virtual machine templates, runtime images, and virtual disks.

A general-purpose cluster file system, cloudfs, is also created by default on every Oracle Database Appliance. Cloudfs can be used for general purpose storage that must be shared between the servers (for example, staging for data loads).

All Oracle ACFS file systems are created on Oracle ASM Dynamic Volumes provisioned from disk groups created in the shared disk storage pool. In a bare metal deployment, these file systems are mounted directly in the operating system hosting the databases. In a virtualized deployment, these file systems are managed and mounted directly in ODA_BASE.

ACFS Mount Points

The various Oracle ACFS file systems are mounted in the operating system, or in ODA_BASE (Virtualized Platform) in different locations. Table A-6 describes the various mount points and related Oracle ASM disk groups and volume information.

Table A-6 Oracle ACFS Mount Points and Related Oracle ASM Disk Groups and Volume Information

File System Oracle ASM Disk Group Oracle ASM Dynamic Volume Mount Point

DATA (Non-CDB)

+DATA

/dev/asm/datastore-nnn

/u02/app/oracle/oradata/datastore

RECO (Non-CDB)

+RECO

/dev/asm/datastore-nnn

/u01/app/oracle/fast_recovery_area/datastore

REDO (Non-CDB)

+REDO

/dev/asm/datastore-nnn

/u01/app/oracle/oradata/datastore

DATA (per CDB)

+DATA

/dev/asm/dat-adbnamennn

/u02/app/oracle/oradata/datadbname

RECO (per CDB)

+RECO

/dev/asm/rco>-dbnamennn

/u01/app/oracle/fast_recovery_area/rcodbname

REDO (per CDB)

+REDO

/dev/asm/rdo-dbnamennn

/u01/app/oracle/oradata/rdodbname

FLASH

+FLASH

/dev/asm/flashdata-nnn

/u02/app/oracle/oradata/flashdata

Shared Repository <name>

+DATA or +RECO

/dev/asm/-reponamennn

/u01/app/sharedrepo/reponame

General ACFS Storage

+RECO

/dev/asm/acfsvol-nnn

/cloudfs (default)

Space Management

The Oracle ACFS file systems are automatically created when you create a shared repository, or when you create a database. However, the file systems do not initially consume all of the storage in the appliance which preserves space for additional repositories, or in some cases, database files stored directly in Oracle ASM. In Oracle Database Appliance software releases 12.1.2.2 and earlier, the Oracle ACFS file systems do not automatically extend if they run low on space, even if storage space is still available in the shared storage pool. You can check for available storage space in your file systems by running the operating system command df -h as shown in the following example.

df -h
Filesystem        Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroupSys-LogVolRoot
                  30G  8.6G   20G  31% /
/dev/mapper/VolGroupSys-LogVolU01
                  97G   23G   70G  25% /u01
/dev/mapper/VolGroupSys-LogVolOpt
                  59G  6.8G   49G  13% /opt
/dev/sda1         99M   26M   68M  28% /boot
tmpfs             127G  1.2G  125G   1% /dev/shm
/dev/asm/datafsvol-352
                  5.0G   87M  5.0G   2% /odadatafs
/dev/asm/rdocdb1-66
                  5.0G  4.2G  874M  83% /u01/app/oracle/oradata/rdocdb1
/dev/asm/datcdb1-303
                  100G  4.2G  96G    4% /u02/app/oracle/oradata/datcdb1
/dev/asm/flashdata-138
                  558G  1.4G  557G   1% /u02/app/oracle/oradata/flashdata
/dev/asm/rcocdb1-352
                  132G  788M  132G   1% /u01/app/oracle/fast_recovery_area/rcocdb1
/dev/asm/acfsvol-352   50G  178M   50G   1% /cloudfs
/dev/asm/datastore-66
                  59G  4.3G   55G   8% /u01/app/oracle/oradata/datastore
/dev/asm/datastore-303
                  3.6T  2.1G  3.6T   1% /u02/app/oracle/oradata/datastore
/dev/asm/datastore-352
                  4.8T   10G  4.8T   1% /u01/app/oracle/fast_recovery_area/datastore

To extend the size of one of your file systems to accommodate growth in your data, you must manually expand the pool.

See Also:

System Configuration for Oracle Database Appliance

Table A-7 System Configuration for Oracle Database Appliance

Item Value

Oracle Linux with the Red Hat compatible kernel

Oracle Linux 5.11 UEK2

Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle Database Version (initial release)

Release 12.1.2.5.0: Oracle Database 12c Release 1 (12.1.0.2) with PSU5, optionally Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.4) with PSU8, and Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.3) with PSU16

Release 12.1.2.4.0: Oracle Database 12c Release 1 (12.1.0.2) with PSU4, optionally Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.4) with PSU7, and Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.3) with PSU15

Release 12.1.2.3.0: Oracle Database 12c Release 1 (12.1.0.2) with PSU3, optionally Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.4) with PSU6, and Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.3) with PSU14

Release 12.1.2.2.0: Oracle Database 12c Release 1 (12.1.0.2) with PSU2, optionally Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.4) with PSU5, and Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.3) with PSU13

Release 12.1.2.1.0: Oracle Database 12c Release 1 (12.1.0.2) with PSU1, optionally Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.4) with PSU4, and Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.3) with PSU12

Release 12.1.2: Oracle Database 12c Release 1 (12.1.0.2.0) and optionally 11.2.0.2.12, 11.2.0.3.11, and 11.2.0.4.3

Release 2.10: Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.4.2 with PSU2), optionally Oracle Database 11g Release 11.2.0.2 with PSU9, and 11.2.0.2.12 and 11.2.0.3.10

Release 2.9: Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.2.12, 11.2.0.3.9 and 11.2.0.4.1), with DB PSU1

Release 2.8: Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.2.12 and 11.2.0.3.8 with PSU8, and 11.2.0.4)

Release 2.7: Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.2.11 and 11.2.0.3.7), with PSU7

Release 2.6: Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.3), with PSU6

Release 2.5.5: Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.3), with PSU5

Release 2.5: Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.3), with PSU5

Release 2.4: Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.3), with PSU4

Release 2.3: Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.3), with PSU3

Release 2.2: Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.3), with PSU2

Release 2.1.0.3: Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.2), with PSU7

Release 2.1.0.3: Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.2), with PSU5

Release 2.1: Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.2), with PSU3 and patches 12639177 (ASM), 12914151 (MLR on Grid Infrastructure PSU3), and 12419331 (Database PSU3)

SCAN port number

1521

Oracle Enterprise Edition DB control port

1158

Use: https://hostname:1158/em, where hostname is the name of one of the Oracle Database Appliance server nodes.