1 About Oracle Database Appliance

This documentation only applies to Oracle Database Appliance X6-2S and Oracle Database Appliance X6-2M hardware.

Oracle Database Appliance enables you to take advantage of Oracle Database in an easy-to-deploy and manage system. The complete package of software, server, storage, and networking saves time and money by simplifying deployment, maintenance, and support of database and application workloads.

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Oracle Database Appliance

Review this topic to see Oracle software that is installed with or is available for download for Oracle Database Appliance X6-2S and X6-2M.

Oracle Database Appliance components can include the software listed in the following table.

Note:

The components listed in this table are not available with every release.

Table 1-1 Software for Oracle Database Appliance

Component Component Contents Installed or Downloaded

Oracle Database Appliance Operating System Image

Oracle Appliance Manager command-line interface

Oracle Appliance Manager (Web Console)

Oracle Linux

Hardware drivers

Installed

Oracle Database Appliance Single Instance Software Bundle

Oracle Database clone binaries

Oracle Database templates, customized for Oracle Database Appliance deployments

Oracle Grid Infrastructure clone binaries

Oracle Appliance Manager Web Console

Oracle Appliance manage command-line interface

Oracle Appliance Manager software

Downloaded

Components listed as Installed are typically available on Oracle Database Appliance when you receive it, and components listed as Downloaded are components that you can download and deploy yourself.

Overview of Oracle Database Appliance Deployment

Review this overview to understand the order of steps you must complete to deploy Oracle Database Appliance.

The following is an overview of how to deploy Oracle Database Appliance. To complete these tasks, refer to topics in this book, and in the Oracle Database Appliance Owner's Guide.

  1. Prepare for Oracle Database Appliance.
    1. Register your Support Identifier (SI) for Oracle Database Appliance with My Oracle Support to obtain software and support from Oracle.
    2. Plan your configuration options and gather network and related information.
    3. Set up the server site.
    4. Configure network names and addresses on your Domain Name System (DNS) server.
    5. Download the Oracle Database Appliance software to a local computer on the network.
  2. Ready Oracle Database Appliance for deployment.
    1. Mount Oracle Database Appliance hardware into a rack at the server site.
    2. Connect power and required cables to Oracle Database Appliance.
    3. Connect the keyboard and mouse to USB ports and video display to VGA port.
    4. Create an initial network configuration to load external files.
    5. Start up the system.
    6. Plumb the network.
  3. Install and deploy software on Oracle Database Appliance.
    1. Download the Oracle Database Appliance Single Instance Software Bundles to a system on the network.
    2. Copy the Oracle Database Appliance Single Instance Software Bundles to Oracle Database Appliance.
    3. Run the update-image command to install the bundles.
  4. Deploy Oracle Database Appliance.
    1. Log into the Oracle Database Appliance Web Console.
    2. Click Deploy Appliance.
    3. Enter the configuration details that you collected earlier.
    4. Click Submit to start the deployment.
    5. Monitor the progress on the Activities tab.