This guide describes Oracle Big Data Appliance, which is used for acquiring, organizing, and analyzing very large data sets. It includes information about hardware operations, site planning and configuration, and physical, electrical, and environmental specifications.
This preface contains the following topics:
This guide is intended for Oracle Big Data Appliance customers and those responsible for data center site planning, installation, configuration, and maintenance of Oracle Big Data Appliance.
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Oracle Big Data Appliance Documentation Library
In the Big Data Documentation Portal of the Oracle Help Center, you can find a link to the complete Oracle Big Data Appliance library for your release of the product. The library includes the following core documents as well as documents for products that are used in conjunction with Oracle Big Data Appliance:
Oracle Big Data Appliance Owner’s Guide (this guide)
Note:
The Oracle Big Data Appliance Licensing Information User Manual is the consolidated reference for licensing information for Oracle and third-party software included in the Oracle Big Data Appliance product. Refer to this manual or contact Oracle Support if you have questions about licensing.Documentation for Affiliated Products
The following Oracle libraries contain hardware information for Oracle Big Data Appliance. Links to these libraries are available through the Big Data Documentation Portal at
https://docs.oracle.com/en/bigdata/
Oracle Server X5–2 Documentation Library at http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E41059_01/index.html
Sun Rack II 1042 and 1242 library at http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37710_01/nav/products.htm
Sun Network QDR InfiniBand Gateway Switch Firmware Version 2.0 Documentation at http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26699_01/index.html
Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Switch 36 Firmware Version 2.0 Documentation at http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26698_01/index.html
Oracle Integrated Lights Out Manager 3.1 Documentation Library Documentation Library at http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E24707_01/index.html
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Oracle Big Data Appliance is primarily a maintenance release that includes the following software version updates:
Updated Software
Cloudera Enterprise 5.13.1
Oracle NoSQL Database Enterprise Edition 4.5.12
ODI Agent 12.2.1.3.0
Oracle Linux 6 and UEK updates. UEK4 updated to UEK4QU5
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Oracle Big Data Appliance 4.11 supports Oracle Linux 6 only, for both installations and upgrades. Oracle Linux 5 is not supported in this release and will not be supported in future releases.Other Software
Revision levels for software other than the Cloudera and Oracle packages listed above remain the same as in Oracle Big Data Appliance 4.10:
Oracle Big Data Connectors 4.10
In previous releases, Oracle Big Data Connectors and Oracle Big Data Appliance have been at the same release level. Note that in Oracle Big Data Appliance 4.11, Oracle Big Data Connectors has not been upgraded and remains at Release 4.10.
Big Data SQL 3.2
Oracle Big Data Spatial & Graph 2.4
MySQL Enterprise Edition 5.7.19
Perfect Balance 2.10.0
Java JDK 8u141
Oracle R Advanced Analytics for Hadoop (ORAAH) 2.7.0
Oracle's R Distribution (ORD) 3.2.0
Oracle NoSQL Community Edition 4.4.6
Change Notices
Perfect Balance deprecated
The Perfect Balance feature is deprecated in this release of Oracle Big Data Appliance and may be de-supported in a future release.
Patch 27077322 is NOT required for Big Data SQL 3.2
The previous Oracle Big Data Appliance release (4.10) requires Patch 27077322 in order to install Oracle Big Data SQL 3.2. This patch is not needed for the installation of Oracle Big Data SQL 3.2 on Oracle Big Data Appliance 4.11