5 Provisioning an Oracle Database Appliance Virtualized Platform
Oracle Database Appliance provides you with the option to reimage the system and configure the appliance as a virtualized platform.
Note:
You can provision Standard Edition and Standard Edition 2 Oracle Real Application Cluster (Oracle RAC) databases, but you must use Oracle VM virtualization on a virtualized platform on Oracle Database Appliance and follow the single socket per server licensing restriction. The single socket restriction means that you can use a maximum of 18 cores per server, in multiples of two. You can use the remaining cores for applications.- Determining if the System is Configured with a Virtualized OS Image
Before deploying a Virtualized Platform on Oracle Database Appliance, determine if the system has the Virtualized OS ISO image. - Setting Up the Virtualized Platform
Set up thedom0
virtualized operating system on both nodes and configure the initial public network. - Installing Virtualized Platform Software and Deploying the Appliance
Deploy the ODA_BASE domain for a virtualized platform and then deploy the appliance.
Determining if the System is Configured with a Virtualized OS Image
Before deploying a Virtualized Platform on Oracle Database Appliance, determine if the system has the Virtualized OS ISO image.
Oracle Database Appliance ships from the factory with a bare metal ISO image installed. To use the virtualization features, you must reimage the system with the Virtualized OS ISO image.
A bare metal system uses the odacli
and odaadmcli
commands. A virtualized system uses the oakcli
commands.
Perform the following steps to determine if you need to re-image Oracle Database Appliance and install the Virtualization Platform ISO image:
Setting Up the Virtualized Platform
Set up the dom0
virtualized operating system on both nodes and configure the initial public network.