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 Components

Oracle Database Appliance X6-2S, X6-2M, and X6-2L components that are installed or available for download are described in the following table.

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.

Note:

The components listed in this table are not available with every release.

Table 1-1 Software for Oracle Database Appliance

Component Component Contents Installed or Downloaded

Oracle Database Appliance Operating System Image

Oracle Appliance Manager command-line interface

Oracle Appliance Manager (Web Console)

Oracle Linux

Hardware drivers

Installed

Oracle Database Appliance Single Instance Software Bundle

Oracle Database clone binaries

Oracle Database templates, customized for Oracle Database Appliance deployments

Oracle Grid Infrastructure clone binaries

Oracle Appliance Manager Web Console

Oracle Appliance Manager command-line interface

Oracle Appliance Manager software

Downloaded

Note:

Oracle Database Appliance supports Oracle Database 12.1.0.2 and 11.2.0.4. Oracle Database 11.2.0.3 is not supported on Oracle Database Appliance X6-2S, X6-2M, and X6-2L.

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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 and mouse to USB ports and video display to VGA port.
    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 Single Instance Software Bundles to a system on the network.
    2. Copy the Oracle Database Appliance Single Instance Software Bundles to Oracle Database Appliance.
    3. Run the update-image command 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.
    4. Click Submit to start the deployment.
    5. Monitor the progress on the Activity tab.

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About the Oracle Appliance Manager Web Console

Use the Oracle Appliance Manager Web Console to view and create databases and to view job activity.

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 perform the following tasks:

  • Deploy the appliance

  • View existing databases

  • Create and delete databases

  • View existing database homes

  • Create and delete database homes

  • View job activity

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

Note:

The preferred browser is Google Chrome.

Auto Refresh Feature

The Auto Refresh option is available in the upper right corner of the console. When you turn on Auto Refresh, all pages in the console refresh every 30 seconds. By default, Auto Refresh is Disabled.

Note:

It is important to Turn Off Auto Refresh before performing any actions in the Web Console. If you are performing a task and the console refreshes before you submit your job, your changes are not saved.

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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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