Preface
Oracle® Linux: Storage Appliance Deployment and User's Guide describes how to launch and deploy Oracle Linux Storage Appliance Compute instances and covers the following topics: overview information, requirements, prerequisite tasks, deployment tasks, including migrating and upgrading an appliance instance, and a description of the Oracle Linux Storage Appliance web interface.
Note that support for the Oracle Linux Storage Appliance is limited to use on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Audience
This guide is intended for users and administrators who want to use the Oracle Linux Storage Appliance to administer NFS and SMB shares on Compute instances that they provision on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The guide includes an overview of the appliance; instructions for deploying, migrating, and upgrading an appliance instance; and basic instructions on accessing and using its web interface. It is assumed that readers have a general understanding of the Oracle Linux operating system.
Document Organization
The document is organized as follows:
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Chapter 1, About the Oracle Linux Storage Appliance provides an overview of the Oracle Linux Storage Appliance.
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Chapter 2, Deploying an Oracle Linux Storage Appliance Instance describes tasks for deploying the Oracle Linux Storage Appliance.
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Chapter 3, Working With the Oracle Linux Storage Appliance Web Interface summarizes the various pages that constitute the Oracle Linux Storage Appliance web interface.
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Chapter 4, Accessing Appliance Shares Over the NFS and SMB Protocols describes how to access shares that you create on client VMs over the NFS and SMB protocols.
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Chapter 5, Migrating Appliance Instances describes how to migrate an appliance storage pool from one Oracle Cloud Infrastructure compute instance to another Oracle Cloud Infrastructure compute instance or from version 1 to version 2 of the appliance.
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Chapter 6, Upgrading the Oracle Linux Storage Appliance Version describes guidelines and caveats for upgrading the appliance version.
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