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.
- 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.
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.
Example 4-1 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/oak/bin/configure-firstnet
Select the Interface to configure the network on (btbond1 btbond2 sfpbond1) [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 4-2 Example of a Non-Bonded Configuration
To create a non-bonded configuration and disable VLAN capabilities, answer no
to using a bonding public interface.
# opt/oracle/oak/bin/configure-firstnet
Using bonding public interface (yes/no) [no]:
INFO: Breaking the bonding on btbond1
INFO: remove bonding module: rmmod bonding
INFO: remove slave setup in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-em2
INFO: remove slave setup in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-em3
INFO: Restarting the network
Shutting down interface em1: [ OK ]
Shutting down loopback interface: [ OK ]
Bringing up loopback interface: [ OK ]
Bringing up interface em1: [ OK ]
Bringing up interface em2: [ OK ]
Bringing up interface em3: [ OK ]
INFO: Restarting the DCS agent
initdcsagent stop/waiting
initdcsagent start/running, process 57629
Select the Interface to configure the network on (em2 em3) [em2]:
Configure DHCP on em2 (yes/no) [no]:
INFO: You have chosen Static configuration
Enter the IP address to configure : 10.31.102.101
Enter the Netmask address to configure : 255.255.240.0
Enter the Gateway address to configure[10.31.96.1] :
INFO: Plumbing the IPs now
INFO: Restarting the network
Shutting down interface em1: [ OK ]
Shutting down interface em2: [ OK ]
Shutting down interface em3: [ OK ]
Shutting down loopback interface: [ OK ]
Bringing up loopback interface: [ OK ]
Bringing up interface em1: [ OK ]
Bringing up interface em2: Determining if ip address 10.31.102.101 is already in use for device em2...
[ OK ]
Bringing up interface em3: [ OK ]
Example 4-3 Example of Configuring VLAN
# opt/oracle/oak/bin/configure-firstnet
Select the Interface to configure the network on (btbond1 btbond2 btbond3
btbond4)
[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 : 10.144.204.116
Enter the Netmask address to configure : 255.255.248.0
Enter the Gateway address to configure [10.144.200.1] :
INFO: Restarting the network
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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Parent topic: Provisioning Oracle Database Appliance Bare Metal System