4 Provisioning Oracle Database Appliance Bare Metal System
Understand the process to configure Oracle Database Appliance bare metal system.
The Browser User Interface is the preferred method of deploying your bare metal platform configuration. The Browser User Interface provides all of the fields necessary to provision Oracle Database Appliance, including configuring the system, network, database, and Oracle Auto Service Request (Oracle ASR). If you prefer to use the command-line interface, you must create a JSON file to configure the deployment options.
- Configuring Persistent Memory (PMEM)
You can configure Persistent Memory (PMEM) on Oracle Database Appliance X9-2L before provisioning the software. - Plumbing the Network
Plumb the Oracle Database Appliance network with the public internet protocol (IP) information assigned to a node, to enable provisioning of the Oracle Database Appliance software. - Verifying Cabling and Network Connections
After powering on Oracle Database Appliance, verify that the network connections are set up correctly. - Downloading Oracle Database Appliance Software
Download Oracle Database Appliance software and copy to a temporary location before applying updates to your appliance. - Installing Oracle Database Appliance Software
Install Oracle Database Appliance software, before creating the appliance. - Creating the Appliance
Create the appliance using the Browser User Interface.
Configuring Persistent Memory (PMEM)
You can configure Persistent Memory (PMEM) on Oracle Database Appliance X9-2L before provisioning the software.
Caution:
You need to configure PMEM only on Oracle Database Appliance X9-2L. You cannot change the PMEM settings after the system is deployed.Run the command odacli configure-pmem
to configure PMEM.
- By default, PMEM is configured in
MemoryMode
. - When PMEM is running in
MemoryMode
, thesysctl.conf
hugepage parameter can be set up based on different types of databases:- OLTP: 50% of total memory
- In-memory: 50% of total memory
- DSS: 25% of total memory
- TimesTen: 80% of total memory
Example 4-1 Configure PMEM
# odacli configure-pmem
Configure PMEM in the system.
INFO: PMEM is configured in 'MemoryMode' mode.
Please select the database type - 1) OLTP 2) In-memory 3) DSS 4) TimesTen [4] 3
Setup the system to use PMEM in 'MemoryMode' mode for 'DSS' type database
The system will be reboot after finish the setup
Do you want to continue [Y/N] y
Parent topic: Provisioning Oracle Database Appliance Bare Metal System
Plumbing the Network
Plumb the Oracle Database Appliance network with the public internet protocol (IP) information assigned to a node, to enable provisioning of the Oracle Database Appliance software.
Important:
On Oracle Database Appliance X9-2, theodacli configure-firstnet
command supports
bonding of ports across two supported network PCI cards of the same type.
Caution:
On Oracle Database Appliance X9-2, you cannot change the network bonding after the system is deployed. To change the network bonding, you must reimage and deploy the appliance again.Example 4-2 Example of a Bonded Configuration
For a bonded configuration, answer yes to using a bonding public interface and configure the first network to use a btbond1
interface without configuring DHCP.
# /opt/oracle/dcs/bin/odacli configure-firstnet
Select the Interface to configure the network on (btbond1 btbond2) [btbond1]:
Configure DHCP on btbond1 (yes/no) [no]:
INFO: You have chosen Static configuration
Use VLAN on btbond1 (yes/no) [no]:
Enter the IP address to configure : 10.209.13.109
Enter the Netmask address to configure : 255.255.252.0
Enter the Gateway address to configure[10.209.12.1] :
INFO: Plumbing the IPs now
INFO: Restarting the network
Shutting down interface btbond1: [ OK ]
Shutting down interface btbond2: [ OK ]
Shutting down interface p3p1: [ OK ]
Shutting down interface p3p2: [ OK ]
Shutting down interface sfpbond1: [ OK ]
Shutting down loopback interface: [ OK ]
Bringing up loopback interface: [ OK ]
Bringing up interface btbond1: Determining if ip address 10.209.13.109 is already in use for device btbond1...
[ OK ]
Bringing up interface btbond2: [ OK ]
Bringing up interface sfpbond1: [ OK ]
Example 4-3 Example of Configuring VLAN
# /opt/oracle/dcs/bin/odacli configure-firstnet
Using bonding public interface (yes/no) [yes]:
Select the Interface to configure the network on (btbond1) [btbond1]:
Configure DHCP on btbond1 (yes/no) [no]:
INFO: You have chosen Static configuration
Use VLAN on btbond1 (yes/no) [no]:yes
Configure VLAN on btbond1, input VLAN ID [2 - 4094] 122
INFO: using network interface btbond1.122
Enter the IP address to configure : 192.0.2.24
Enter the Netmask address to configure : 192.0.2.24
Enter the Gateway address to configure[192.0.2.24] :
INFO: Restarting the network
Shutting down interface btbond1: [ OK ]
Shutting down interface em1: [ OK ]
Shutting down interface p1p1: [ OK ]
Shutting down interface p1p2: [ OK ]
Shutting down loopback interface: [ OK ]
Bringing up loopback interface: [ OK ]
Bringing up interface btbond1:
Determining if ip address 192.0.2.24 is already in use for device btbond1...
[ OK ]
Bringing up interface em1: [ OK ]
Bringing up interface p1p1:
Determining if ip address 192.0.2.24 is already in use for device p1p1... [ OK ]
Bringing up interface p1p2:
Determining if ip address 192.0.2.24 is already in use for device p1p2...
[ OK ]
Bringing up interface btbond1.122:
Determining if ip address 192.0.2.24 is already in use for device btbond1.122...
[ OK
INFO: Restarting the DCS agent
initdcsagent stop/waiting
initdcsagent start/running, process 32104
Parent topic: Provisioning Oracle Database Appliance Bare Metal System
Verifying Cabling and Network Connections
After powering on Oracle Database Appliance, verify that the network connections are set up correctly.
Downloading Oracle Database Appliance Software
Download Oracle Database Appliance software and copy to a temporary location before applying updates to your appliance.
Parent topic: Provisioning Oracle Database Appliance Bare Metal System
Installing Oracle Database Appliance Software
Install Oracle Database Appliance software, before creating the appliance.
/u01
and /opt
are smaller than the
corresponding sizes in earlier releases. The size of /u01
is now 40GB
and the size of /opt
is now 30GB. A new ACFS file system, mounted at
/opt/oracle/oak/pkgrepos/orapkgs/clones
, is created during
provisioning. The DATA disk group provides space of 150 GB for the file system. The
Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle Database clone files are stored on this file
system.
Creating the Appliance
Create the appliance using the Browser User Interface.
Note:
If you plan to enable multi-user access, then refer to the chapter Implementing Multi-User Access on Oracle Database Appliance before you create your appliance.After deployment, the root
and database users SYS
, SYSTEM
, and PDBADMIN
are set to the system password. The oracle
and grid
passwords are set to the default password. Change these passwords to comply with your user security protocols.
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