Setting the CPU Core Count on Oracle Database Appliance X5-2 Bare Metal Deployments

Learn how to set the CPU core count on Oracle Database Appliance X5-2 bare metal deployments.

Complete the following procedure to set the CPU core count:
  1. Log in to My Oracle Support:
  2. Click the Settings tab, and select Assets from the submenu.
  3. Search for the serial number of the appliance in the asset list. If you cannot locate the serial number, then contact Oracle Support.
  4. Select the serial number of the appliance.
  5. Select Manage Key from the available actions.
  6. In the Manage Cores Configuration Key dialog, you can view the serial number of the appliance. If there is a previously generated key, then you can view the current configuration.
  7. In the Cores Per Server menu, select the number of enabled CPU cores that you want to configure for each server. The value that you select applies to both servers on the appliance. . Initially, you can select 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, or 36. After your initial key generation, you can only select a number that is greater than the current number.
  8. Click Generate Key to generate the key.
  9. Click Copy Key to Clipboard to copy the key to the clipboard.
  10. Paste the key into an empty text file, and save the file to a location on Oracle Database Appliance.
  11. Log in as root to one of the Oracle Database Appliance servers.
  12. Run the following command to restart the server to complete the reconfiguration, where key_file_location is the full path name of the text file that you created in Step 7:

    /opt/oracle/oak/bin/oakcli apply core_configuration_key key_file_location

    For example:

    /opt/oracle/oak/bin/oakcli apply core_configuration_key /home/myfile.txt

    After the system restarts, Oracle Database Appliance is reconfigured. Both servers run with the specified CPU core count. You must always assign cores on Oracle Database Appliance X5-2 bare-metal deployments in multiples of two, with a minimum of two cores.

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