Oracle Database Appliance enables you to take advantage of Oracle Database in an easy-to-deploy and manage system that supports virtualization.
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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Capacity-on-Demand software licensing enables you to deploy as few or as many processors in Oracle Database Appliance as your workload requires.
Oracle Database Appliance’s Capacity-on-Demand feature enables you to add more processor cores to scale up to increased system demands as you need to, without incurring the excessive costs and downtime usually associated with hardware upgrades. Additional cores are increased in 2-core increments.
Oracle Database Appliance Scaling Capabilities
The following table lists the scaling capacities for Oracle Database Appliance bare metal and virtualized platform deployments. The decision to use bare-metal or Oracle Database Appliance Virtualized Platform depends on your company policies and the benefits that each implementation offers your company.
Table 1-1 Oracle Database Appliance Scaling Capacities
Oracle Database Appliance Platform | Minimum Number Processor Cores | Maximum Number Processor Cores |
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X6-2-HA |
2 |
40 |
X6-2L |
2 |
20 |
X6-2M |
2 |
20 |
X6-2S |
2 |
10 |
X5-2 |
2 |
72 |
X4-2 |
2 |
48 |
X3-2 |
4 |
32 |
Version 1 |
2 |
24 |
Applications Deployed on Oracle Database Appliance and Capacity-on-Demand
All Oracle products that are deployed on Oracle Database Appliance can take advantage of Capacity-on-Demand licensing.
Review this topic to see Oracle software that is installed with or available for download for Oracle Database Appliance.
Oracle Database Appliance components can include the software listed in the following table.
Note:
Some releases may not contain all the items for one or more components listed in the table.
Table 1-2 Software for Oracle Database Appliance
Component | Component Contents | Component Required On | Installed or Downloaded |
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Oracle Database Appliance Operating System Image |
Oracle Appliance Manager command-line interface Oracle Appliance Manager Configurator (graphical user interface) Oracle Linux Hardware drivers |
All deployments |
Installed |
Oracle Database Appliance Patch-Set Bundle |
Basic input/output system (BIOS) Hardware drivers and management pack and firmware drivers for various components Oracle Appliance Manager Oracle Linux Oracle VM Java Development Kit (JDK) Oracle Integrated Lights Out Manager (Oracle ILOM) Oracle Database Patch Set Update (PSU) Oracle Automated Service Request (ASR) Oracle Grid Infrastructure Oracle Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) Java Development Kit (JDK) |
All deployments |
Downloaded |
Oracle Database Appliance End-User Bundle |
Oracle Database clone binaries Oracle Database templates, customized for Oracle Database Appliance deployments Oracle Grid Infrastructure clone binaries |
Bare Metal deployments |
Downloaded |
ODA_BASE template |
Oracle Database clone binaries Oracle Database templates, customized for Oracle Database Appliance deployments Oracle Grid Infrastructure clone binaries |
Virtualized Platform deployments |
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.