A Supported Hardware and Software Configurations for the Oracle Exadata Plug-in

This section outlines the hardware and software configurations supported by the Oracle Exadata plug-in.

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Supported Component Versions

This section provides references to My Oracle Support notes that detail the Exadata hardware and software versions supported by Enterprise Manager.

For information on supported component versions of Exadata, see the following notes in My Oracle Support:

  • Exadata System Software and Hardware Versions Supported by Oracle Enterprise Manager Plug-ins (KB492866). This note provides information on the required Oracle Enterprise Manager and plug-in versions to support the specific versions of Exadata Software and generations of Exadata Hardware.
  • Exadata Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server Supported Versions (KB153930).

Supported Operating Systems

This section lists the operating systems supported by the Exadata plug-in 24ai for OMS and agent installations.

  • Management Server plug-in (all OMS-certified platforms):
    • IBM AIX on POWER Systems (64-bit)
    • HP-UX Itanium
    • Linux x86 and x86-64
    • Microsoft Windows x64 (64-bit)
    • Oracle Solaris on SPARC (64-bit)
    • Oracle Solaris on x86-64 (64-bit)
  • Agent Plug-ins for Exadata and Supercluster
    • Exadata Plug-in + SI plug-in + VI Plug-in for Exadata
    • Exadata Plug-in + SI Plug-in for SSC
    • Linux x86-64
    • Oracle Solaris on x86-64 (64-bit)
    • Oracle Solaris on SPARC (64-bit)

Exadata Database Machine Configuration Support

This section provides information on the Exadata Database Machine configurations for which Enterprise Manager is supported.

Hypervisor Support

Exadata Database Machine Monitoring and Management supports both Xen and KVM Hypervisors when used in certified Exadata configurations.

Multi-rack Support

Enterprise Manager supports managing multiple connected racks of Oracle Database Machine of the supported machine types listed in the Hypervisor Support section. Additionally, the following racks can be monitored in a multi-rack environment as they cannot exist as standalone single racks:

  • Storage Expansion Rack

  • Compute Node Expansion Rack

Partitioned Support

The following partitioned configurations are supported:

  • Partitioned Exadata Database Machine - the logical splitting of a Database Machine Rack into multiple Database Machines. The partitioned Exadata Database Machine configuration must meet the following conditions to be fully supported by Enterprise Manager:
    • Each partition is defined through a single OneCommand deployment.
    • Exadata Storage Servers and compute nodes are not shared between partitions.
    • Multiple partitions are connected through the same InfiniBand network.
    • Compute nodes in same partition share the same Cluster.

    The expected behavior of a partitioned Exadata Database Machine includes:

    • The target names for the Exadata Database Machine, Exadata Grid, and InfiniBand Network will be generated automatically during discovery (for example, Database Machine dbm1.example.com, Database Machine dbm1.example.com_2, Database Machine dbm1.example.com_3, etc.). However, users can change these target names at the last step of discovery.
    • All InfiniBand Switches need to be selected as part of the Exadata Database Machine targets for every partition. InfiniBand Switches will not be added automatically to subsequent Exadata Database Machine targets of other partitions. The KVM, PDU, and Cisco switches can be individually selected for the Database Machine target of each partition.
    • User can confirm and select individual components for each Database Machine.

IPv6 Support

Enterprise Manager supports monitoring and managing Exadata environments configured with IPv6.

For more information, see IPv6 Support Status on Exadata Database Machine (KB608858) in My Oracle Support.

Oracle SuperCluster Support

Only Oracle SuperCluster with software Version 1.1 with DB Domain on Control LDOM-only environments are supported. Earlier versions of Oracle SuperCluster can be made compatible if you update to the October 2012 QMU release. You can confirm this requirement by looking at the version of the compmon pkg installed on the system (using either pkg info compmon or pkg list compmon commands to check). You must have the following minimum version of compmon installed: 

pkg://exa-family/system/platform/exadata/compmon@0.5.11,5.11-0.1.0.11:20120726T024158Z

The following hardware configurations are supported:

  • Oracle SuperCluster:
    • T4-4
    • T5-8
    • M6-32
    • M7
    • M8
    • M12-2S

Note: Enterprise Manager Systems Infrastructure plug-in doesn't support firmware monitoring through eXtended System Control Facility (XSCF).

The following software configurations are supported:

  • LDOM
    • Control Domain
    • IO/Guest Domain
  • Zone
    • Global
    • Non-Global

The following software versions are supported:

  • Oracle SuperCluster V1.1 and above
  • Oracle SuperCluster V1.0.1 + October QMU