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
  
• Documentation Accessibility
  
• Related Documents
  
• Conventions
  

Audience

This guide is intended for anyone who configures, maintains, or uses Oracle Database Appliance:

• System administrators

• Network administrators

• Database administrators

• Application administrators and users

This book does not include information about Oracle Database architecture, tools, management, or application development that is covered in the main body of Oracle Documentation, unless the information provided is 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.

Documentation Accessibility

For information about Oracle's commitment to accessibility, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program website at http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=docacc.

Access to Oracle Support

Oracle customers that have purchased support have access to electronic support through My Oracle Support. For information, visit http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=info or visit http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=trs if you are hearing impaired.

Related Documents

The following documents, along with this document, are published in the Oracle Database Appliance online documentation library, which is available from the following URL:

http://www.oracle.com/goto/oda/docs:

• Oracle Database Appliance Setup Poster (a full-size printed copy ships with Oracle Database Appliance)

• Oracle Database Appliance Administration and Reference Guide

• Oracle Database Appliance Release Notes for Linux x86-64

• Oracle Database Appliance Owner's Guide

• Oracle Database Appliance Service Manual

• Oracle Database Appliance Series Safety and Compliance Guide

• Oracle Database Appliance Security Guide

• Oracle Database Appliance Licensing Information User Manual for Linux x86-64

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

For more information about using Oracle Database, see the following documents:

• Oracle Database Concepts

• Oracle Database Administrator's Guide

• Oracle Database SQL Language Quick Reference

• Oracle Database 2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide

• Oracle Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide

• Oracle Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide

See the Oracle Auto Service Request library at http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37710_01/index.htm for more information about Oracle Auto Service Request.

For more details about other Oracle products that are mentioned in Oracle Database Appliance documentation, such as Oracle VM, Oracle Integrated Lights Out Manager, and so on, see the Oracle Documentation home page at the following address:

http://docs.oracle.com

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document:

Convention	Meaning
boldface	Boldface type indicates graphical user interface elements associated with an action or terms defined in the text.
italic	Italic type indicates book titles, emphasis, or placeholder variables for which you supply particular values.
monospace	Monospace type indicates commands within a paragraph, URLs, code in examples, text that appears on the screen, or text that you enter.