1 About Oracle Database Appliance

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.

Oracle Database Appliance Software

View the Oracle software that is available for download for Oracle Database Appliance X7-2S, X7-2M, and X7-2-HA.

The table describes the Oracle Database Appliance patches that are available for download and the purpose of the patch.

Note:

Some hardware models may not use the patches listed in the table.

Table 1-1 Software for Oracle Database Appliance

Patch Description

Oracle Database Appliance patch bundle (quarterly patch release)

Use the patch bundle to update to the latest release after Oracle Database Appliance is deployed. The patch updates the Oracle Database Appliance server, storage, and database components.

Oracle Database Appliance GI/RDBMS Clone

Use to perform an initial deployment of Oracle Database Appliance.

The bundle contains the latest Grid Infrastructure and RDBMS components, Oracle Database Appliance Manager software, Oracle Linux and hardware drivers for deployment on an Oracle Database Appliance that is shipped from factory state.

If you reimage Oracle Database Appliance with the Bare Metal ISO Image, download the GI/RDBMS Clone patch to deploy Oracle Database Appliance.

RDBMS Clone

Use the RDBMS Software Clone files to get the latest RDBMS clone binaries for Oracle Database releases 12.2.0.1, 12.1.0.2, and 11.2.0.4. The RDBMS clone files are needed to create Oracle databases and database homes.

Bare Metal ISO Image

Use to reimage the appliance and reset the system back to the factory configuration.

VM ISO Image (DOM0) (Virtualized Platform ISO Image)

Use to re-image Oracle Database Appliance before deploying the ODA_Base Template and virtualized platform. The Oracle Database Appliance virtualized operating system image contains the following:

  • Oracle Database Appliance Manager oakcli command-line interface

  • Oracle Database Appliance Manager Configurator

  • Oracle Linux

  • Hardware drivers

Required for Virtualized Platform deployments on multi-node high availability (HA) systems.

ODA_BASE Template (Virtualization Template)

Use to create the ODA_Base virtual machine for a virtualized database appliance. The template contains the following:

  • Oracle Virtual Machine template

  • Oracle Database clone binaries

  • Oracle Database templates, customized for Oracle Database Appliance deployments

  • Oracle Grid Infrastructure clone binaries

Required for Virtualized Platform deployments on multi-node HA systems.

Note:

See the Oracle Database Appliance Release Notes for the patch numbers and download locations and the component versions available in the quarterly patch bundle. See Oracle Database Appliance X7-2S, X7-2M, and X7-2-HA Patches and Component Versions for Oracle Database Appliance X7-2 Models for details.

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Overview of Oracle Database Appliance Deployment

Review the steps you must complete 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, mouse and video display to USB ports.

    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 software to a system on the network.

    2. Copy the Oracle Database Appliance software to Oracle Database Appliance.

    3. Run the command odacli update-repository to install the bundles.

  4. Deploy Oracle Database Appliance.

    1. Log into the Oracle Database Appliance Web Console.

    2. Click Create Appliance.

    3. Enter the configuration details that you gathered in Step 1.

    4. Click Submit to start the deployment.

    5. Monitor the progress on the Activity tab.

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About the Web Console

Use the Oracle Appliance Manager Web Console to deploy and manage the appliance, databases, networks, and jobs.

The Web Console assists you in deploying Oracle Databases that follow Optimal Flexible Architecture guidelines. The Optimal Flexible Architecture standard provides best practices configurations to help to ensure database deployments that are easier to support and maintain. Optimal Flexible Architecture includes the following:

  • Structured organization of directories and files, and consistent naming for critical database files, such as control files, redo log files, and other critical files, which simplifies database administration

  • Separation of tablespace contents to minimize tablespace free space fragmentation, and maximize administrative flexibility

  • Stripe and Mirror Everything (SAME) deployment, which safeguards against database failures

Note:

Create Oracle Databases using the Web Console or command-line interface to ensure that your database is configured optimally for Oracle Database Appliance.

The Web Console provides a user-friendly option to quickly view and perform many of the tasks needed to manage your system.

Use the links in the side navigation to view and manage the following:

  • Appliance

    • Appliance information

    • System information

    • Disk group information

  • Network

    • View network details

    • Create, update, and delete networks

    • View interface details

  • Oracle ASR

    • View Oracle Auto Service Request (Oracle ASR) configuration details

    • Configure, update, test, and delete Oracle ASR

  • Patch Manager

    • Update the patch repository with Oracle Database Appliance patches

    • View component details of the patch and versions that are installed on the appliance

    • View component details of the patch and versions that are available, but not yet installed, on the appliance

    • Run patch prechecks before applying the patch

    • Update the server and storage components

Use the links in the top navigation to view and manage the following:

  • Database

    • Create a database

    • View database details

    • Apply a backup policy for the database

    • Create a manual backup

    • Recover a database from a backup

    • View and update the database backup schedule and update the archive log backup schedule for the database

    • Create, update, and delete backup policies

    • Create, update, and delete database homes

    • Create and delete database homes

    • Patch database homes

  • Object Store

    • Create Object Store Credentials for backup and recovery

    • View the details for Object Store Credentials, including the endpoint URL, user name, and tenant

    • Update and delete Object Store Credentials

    • Configure and enable Oracle Auto Service Request (Oracle ASR)

  • Activity

    • View a list of jobs, details, and status

    • Click a job description to view job details

Update ILOM and User Settings

Expand About in the upper right corner of the Web Console to perform the following tasks:

  • Click About to view the Oracle Database Appliance release that is installed on the appliance.

  • Click Update ILOM Setting to change the root password. To enable first-time login and access to Oracle ILOM, a default Administrator (root) account and its password are provided with the system.

  • Click Update User Settings to change the oda-admin password.

  • Click Sign Out to sign out of the Web Console. If you do not sign out, the system automatically signs you out after a period of inactivity. A warning will appear 2 minutes before the session expires.

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Viewing Job Activity

Use the Oracle Appliance Manager Web Console to view job activity, the status of tasks in a job, and job status.

  1. Open a browser and enter the following URL to launch the Web Console:
    https://ip-address:7093/mgmt/index.html
  2. Enter the following credentials:
    • User name: oda-admin
    • Password: password
  3. Click Activity.
    The jobs page displays recent jobs, the job name, identifier (ID) date created, and status.
  4. (Optional) Click the job name to display greater details about the job, including the tasks that make up the job and the status of each task. In this image, the job name is Provisioning service creation. Several tasks finished successfully, but there are two tasks that failed and the overall job status is Failure due to inability to run root scripts.

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