Oracle® Private Cloud Appliance

Administrator's Guide for Release 2.3

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December 2020


Table of Contents

Preface
1 Concept, Architecture and Life Cycle of Oracle Private Cloud Appliance
1.1 What is Oracle Private Cloud Appliance
1.2 Hardware Components
1.2.1 Management Nodes
1.2.2 Compute Nodes
1.2.3 Storage Appliance
1.2.4 Network Infrastructure
1.3 Software Components
1.3.1 Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Dashboard
1.3.2 Password Manager (Wallet)
1.3.3 Oracle VM Manager
1.3.4 Operating Systems
1.3.5 Databases
1.3.6 Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Management Software
1.3.7 Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Diagnostics Tool
1.4 Provisioning and Orchestration
1.4.1 Appliance Management Initialization
1.4.2 Compute Node Discovery and Provisioning
1.4.3 Server Pool Readiness
1.5 High Availability
1.6 Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Backup
1.7 Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Software Update
1.8 Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Upgrader
2 Monitoring and Managing Oracle Private Cloud Appliance
2.1 Connecting and Logging in to the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Dashboard
2.2 Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Dashboard Accessibility Features
2.3 Hardware View
2.4 Network View
2.5 Network Settings
2.6 Functional Networking Limitations
2.7 Network Customization
2.8 Tenant Groups
2.8.1 Design Assumptions and Restrictions
2.8.2 Configuring Tenant Groups
2.9 Authentication
2.10 Health Monitoring
3 Updating Oracle Private Cloud Appliance
3.1 Before You Start Updating
3.1.1 Checklist and Pre-Upgrade Validation with Proactive Support
3.1.2 Warnings and Cautions
3.1.3 Backup Prevents Data Loss
3.2 Mandatory Updates
3.3 Oracle PCA 2.3 – Using the Oracle PCA Upgrader
3.3.1 Optional: Rebooting the Management Node Cluster
3.3.2 Installing the Oracle PCA Upgrader
3.3.3 Verifying Upgrade Readiness
3.3.4 Executing a Controller Software Update
3.4 Updating the Oracle PCA Controller Software Through the Oracle PCA CLI
3.4.1 Optional: Rebooting the Management Node Cluster
3.4.2 Prerequisites for Software Update to Release 2.3.x
3.4.3 Monitoring the Update Process
3.4.4 Executing the Software Update
3.5 Upgrading the Virtualization Platform
3.5.1 Oracle PCA 2.3 – Upgrading Oracle VM to Release 3.4
3.5.2 Oracle PCA 2.2 and Earlier – Upgrading Oracle VM Release 3.2
3.6 Upgrading Component Firmware
3.6.1 Firmware Policy
3.6.2 Install the Current Firmware on All Compute Nodes
3.6.3 Upgrading the Operating Software on the Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance
3.6.4 Upgrading the NM2-36P Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Expansion Switch Firmware
3.6.5 Upgrading the Oracle Fabric Interconnect F1-15 Firmware
4 The Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Command Line Interface (CLI)
4.1 CLI Usage
4.1.1 Interactive Mode
4.1.2 Single-command Mode
4.1.3 Controlling CLI Output
4.1.4 Internal CLI Help
4.2 CLI Commands
4.2.1 add compute-node
4.2.2 add network
4.2.3 add network-to-tenant-group
4.2.4 add server
4.2.5 backup
4.2.6 configure vhbas
4.2.7 create lock
4.2.8 create network
4.2.9 create tenant-group
4.2.10 delete config-error
4.2.11 delete lock
4.2.12 delete network
4.2.13 delete task
4.2.14 delete tenant-group
4.2.15 deprovision compute-node
4.2.16 diagnose
4.2.17 get log
4.2.18 list
4.2.19 remove compute-node
4.2.20 remove network
4.2.21 remove network-from-tenant-group
4.2.22 remove server
4.2.23 reprovision
4.2.24 rerun
4.2.25 set system-property
4.2.26 show
4.2.27 start
4.2.28 stop
4.2.29 update appliance
4.2.30 update password
4.2.31 update compute-node
5 Managing the Oracle VM Virtual Infrastructure
5.1 Guidelines and Limitations
5.2 Logging in to the Oracle VM Manager Web UI
5.3 Monitoring Health and Performance in Oracle VM
5.4 Creating and Managing Virtual Machines
5.5 Managing Virtual Machine Resources
5.6 Configuring Network Resources for Virtual Machines
5.7 Viewing and Managing Storage Resources
5.8 Tagging Resources in Oracle VM Manager
5.9 Managing Jobs and Events
6 Automating Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Service Requests
6.1 Understanding Oracle Auto Service Request (ASR)
6.2 ASR Prerequisites
6.3 Installing ASR Manager
6.4 Configuring TinyProxy
6.5 Activating ASR Assets
6.5.1 Activating Compute Nodes
6.5.2 Activating InfiniBand Switches
6.5.3 Activating ASR on the ZFS Storage Appliance
7 Servicing Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Components
7.1 Replaceable Components
7.1.1 Rack Components
7.1.2 Oracle Server X7-2 Components
7.1.3 Oracle Server X6-2 Components
7.1.4 Oracle Server X5-2 Components
7.1.5 Sun Server X4-2 Components
7.1.6 Sun Server X3-2 Components
7.1.7 Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance ZS5-ES Components
7.1.8 Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance ZS3-ES Components
7.1.9 Sun ZFS Storage Appliance 7320 Components
7.1.10 Oracle Switch ES1-24 Components
7.1.11 NM2-36P Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Expansion Switch Components
7.1.12 Oracle Fabric Interconnect F1-15 Components
7.2 Preparing Oracle Private Cloud Appliance for Service
7.3 Servicing the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Rack System
7.3.1 Powering Down Oracle Private Cloud Appliance (When Required)
7.3.2 Service Procedures for Rack System Components
7.4 Servicing an Oracle Server X7-2
7.4.1 Powering Down Oracle Server X7-2 for Service (When Required)
7.4.2 Service Procedures for Oracle Server X7-2 Components
7.5 Servicing an Oracle Server X6-2
7.5.1 Powering Down Oracle Server X6-2 for Service (When Required)
7.5.2 Service Procedures for Oracle Server X6-2 Components
7.6 Servicing an Oracle Server X5-2
7.6.1 Powering Down Oracle Server X5-2 for Service (When Required)
7.6.2 Service Procedures for Oracle Server X5-2 Components
7.7 Servicing a Sun Server X4-2
7.7.1 Powering Down Sun Server X4-2 for Service (When Required)
7.7.2 Service Procedures for Sun Server X4-2 Components
7.8 Servicing a Sun Server X3-2
7.8.1 Powering Down Sun Server X3-2 for Service (When Required)
7.8.2 Service Procedures for Sun Server X3-2 Components
7.9 Servicing the Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance ZS5-ES
7.9.1 Powering Down the Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance ZS5-ES for Service (When Required)
7.9.2 Service Procedures for Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance ZS5-ES Components
7.10 Servicing the Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance ZS3-ES
7.10.1 Powering Down the Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance ZS3-ES for Service (When Required)
7.10.2 Service Procedures for Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance ZS3-ES Components
7.11 Servicing the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance 7320
7.11.1 Powering Down the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance 7320 for Service (When Required)
7.11.2 Service Procedures for Sun ZFS Storage Appliance 7320 Components
7.12 Servicing an Oracle Switch ES1-24
7.12.1 Powering Down the Oracle Switch ES1-24 for Service (When Required)
7.12.2 Service Procedures for Oracle Switch ES1-24 Components
7.13 Servicing an NM2-36P Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Expansion Switch
7.13.1 Powering Down the NM2-36P Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Expansion Switch for Service (When Required)
7.13.2 Service Procedures for NM2-36P Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Expansion Switch Components
7.14 Servicing an Oracle Fabric Interconnect F1-15
7.14.1 Powering Down the Oracle Fabric Interconnect F1-15 for Service (When Required)
7.14.2 Service Procedures for Oracle Fabric Interconnect F1-15 Components
8 Troubleshooting
8.1 Adding Proxy Settings for Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Updates
8.2 Setting the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Logging Parameters
8.3 Configuring Data Center Switches for VLAN Traffic
8.4 Enabling Support Tools on Systems Provisioned with Software Release 1.0.2
8.5 Verifying and Re-applying Oracle VM Manager Tuning after Software Update
8.6 Changing the Oracle VM Agent Password
8.7 Upgrading Existing Compute Node Configuration from Release 1.0.2
8.8 Environment Pre-Upgrade Validation and Software Update to Release 2.3.1-2.3.3
8.9 Upgrading to Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Release 2.3.x with Non-Functional Compute Nodes
8.10 Managing a Mixed Compute Node Environment
8.11 Eliminating ObjectNotFound Exceptions and Restoring the Oracle VM Manager Database
8.12 Running Manual Pre- and Post-Upgrade Checks in Combination with Oracle PCA Upgrader
8.13 Enabling Fibre Channel Connectivity on a Provisioned Appliance
8.14 Recovering From a Catastrophic Storage Controller Failure
8.15 Restoring a Backup After a Password Change
8.16 Enabling Compute Node IPMI in Oracle VM Manager
8.17 Enabling SNMP Server Monitoring
8.18 Using a Custom CA Certificate for SSL Encryption
8.18.1 Creating a Keystore
8.18.2 Importing a Keystore
8.19 A Compute Node Fails to Complete Provisioning
8.20 Deprovisioning and Replacing a Compute Node
8.21 Eliminating Time-Out Issues when Provisioning Compute Nodes
8.22 Oracle VM Server Pool Is Offline After Network Services Restart
8.23 Recovering from Tenant Group Configuration Mismatches
8.24 Rebuilding a Corrupted Compute Node OSA Image
8.25 Disabling Paravirtualized Virtual Machines to Avoid Security Issues
8.26 Configure Xen CPU Frequency Scaling for Best Performance
Index