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Oracle Database Appliance

DOAG Regionaltreffen Hamburg/Nord 24.04.2012

Andreas Findert, Principal Sales Consultant Oracle Systems Presales


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product direction. It is intended for information

purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any

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material, code, or functionality, and should not be

relied upon in making purchasing decisions.

The development, release, and timing of any

features or functionality described for Oracle’s

products remain at the sole discretion of Oracle.


Agenda

• Hardware

• Installation Overview

• Configuration and Setup

• Oracle 11g R2 Options

• Backup Strategies

• News & Other Topics


Oracle Database Appliance – Hardware



Simple to implement

Designed and priced to scale

Performance improves as you scale

Highest levels of serviceability

Highest availability for this class of machine

• Ideal for SMBs and Departmental Systems


Oracle Exadata Database Machine


Quarter Rack

Half Rack

Full Rack

Engineered Systems for Oracle Database


Oracle ODA Components RAC-in-a-box

Node 0

Node 1

Interconnect

Shared Storage


Chassis

• 4U Redundant Storage Server

• 2 Server Nodes (SN)

– 2 sockets per SN (each with 6 Cores)

– 2 internal 500GB 7.2K RPM SATA mirrored boot disks per SN

• 24 3.5” dual ported SAS/SATA/SSD disk slots

– 20x 600GB 15K RPM SAS (slots 0-19)

(Triple-mirrored:12 TB RAW, 4 TB Usable)

– 4x 73GB STEC GEN3 SSD (slots 20-23)

for redo logs (Triple-mirrored)

• 2 Hot-swap redundant power

• Redundant 5V and 12V disk backplane power

• Independent power, locate buttons and status per

SN

• Fixed configuration

• One order number for the hardware + another for

the power cord

• Plus SFP+ Transceivers and/or cables when using

10GbE

FRONT VIEW

REAR VIEW


Server Node

Details 1/2

• 2 x Intel Xeon Processor X5675 (6C, 3.06 GHz, 95W) per SN

– 2-12 CPU Cores per SN enabled on demand

• 96 GB of memory per SN

– 12x 8GB DDR3 low-voltage DIMMs per SN

• 1 Internal low profile 8-lane PCI-E GEN-2 HBA per SN

– LSI SAS GEN2 Erie HBA

• 3 x low profile 8-lane PCI-E GEN-2 Slots via PCI riser per SN

– Slot 2: LSI SAS GEN2 Erie HBA

– Slot 1: Intel quad port 1GbE Northstar

– Slot 0: Intel dual port 10GbE Niantic


Server Node

Details 2/2

• 2 x 1-GbE RJ45 connectors for Host per SN

• 2 x 1-GbE ports within chassis for SN to SN connectivity

• 2 x rear accessed hot-plug SATA 2.5” drive per SN

– Boot disks

• 2 x Rear, 1 internal USB connector per SN

• AST2100 Service Processor per SN

– 1 SP Serial, 1 SP Network, 1 SP VGA per SN

• 2 x Hot-swap 80MM counter-rotating fans per SN


OS Boot

Disk

Internal

HBA

Internal

USB

PCI Riser

CPU0

CPU1

Server Node View


SAS, Chassis, FIM,

+5V disk, PSU

Signals

Server Node View


Network port bonding


Architectural Overview

• Each Node

– plugs into the chassis

– operates independent of the other

– has full access to the 24 front

mounted disks

– contains a dual port Ethernet

controller internally connected

• eliminates the need for external cables

• failure on one Node will not result in a service interruption on

the other Node

• Any service requests on a failed Node are maintained through

the surviving Node


Hardware Benefits Review

• Internal chassis wiring

– Less potential of accidentally pulled cables

• Redundant and Hot-serviceable components

– Server Nodes

– Fan Assembly

– Power

• Two redundant PSU

• Individually power cabled from PSU to SN

• Independent buffer chip to each SN

– HDD and SSD

• Triple-mirrored

– Two internal networking to fuse cache across the clustered SNs

– Two dual-SAS controllers per SN


Hardware Benefits Review

• Improved Performance

– SSDs used for redo logs

– Networking throughput

• CPU on demand

– Allows for growth by enabling more CPU cores to meet customer

demands



Pre Deployment & Installation Overview


About oakcli

• Command line interface to manage ODA

• Needs to be run as root.

• Invocations of CLI is logged to

/opt/oracle/oak/log/<hostname>/client/oakcli.log

# oakcli

Usage: oakcli <command> <object> [<options>]

commands:

show|locate|apply|deploy|update|validate|manage|unpack|copy|configure

objects :

disk|diskgroup|expander|controller|storage|core_config_key|version|firstnet

For complete usage, use: oakcli –h

For detailed help on each command and object and its options use:

oakcli <command> -h

oakcli <command> <object> -h

For details MOS Note 1417879.1:

Oracle Database Appliance: oakcli command reference


Oracle Appliance Manager

• GUI-based enquiry

collects configuration

information

• Two modes – Configurator

– Deployment

• oakcli deploy

• oakcli config


4 Pre-Deployment Steps Done with oakcli • 1. Prepare Network Config (before ODA shipment)

– Use Offline Configurator (from OTN)

– Save configuration file

• 2. Get newest software images

– Download ODA software image and patch bundle from MOS

– Power on ODA and log into node 0 (remote via ILOM or local KMM)

• 3. Copy software to ODA

– Define temporary network access: oakcli configure firstnet

– Copy the software image to /tmp (Sftp or USB stick)

– Unpack software image: oakcli unpack -package /tmp/pxxxxxxxx_yyyyy_Linux-x86-64.zip

– Copy patch bundle to /tmp

– Unpack and apply patch bundle: oakcli unpack -package /tmp/pxxxxxxxx_yyyyy_Linux-x86-64.zip

oakcli update -patch x.x.x.x.x

– Repeat for node 1 (scp over internal network for software images)

• 4. Apply network configuration

– oakcli copy -conf /tmp/mynetworkconf.file

– Creates the onecommand.param file


1 Optional Pre-Deployment Step Configure for subcapacity

• No need to do anything if running at full capacity

• To change the CPU core count

– Log onto MyOracleSupport

– Declare configuration for servers

– Download encrypted key to reconfigure servers

– Run CLI to reconfigure servers (as specifed in key) in BIOS and

system will reboot

• Once configured for sub-capacity, core count can only

increase in subsequent reconfigurations

# /opt/oracle/oak/bin/oakcli apply core_configuration_key /tmp/myfile.txt


The Real Installation

• Login on Server Node 0 as root

• Start the X Window System

– startx

– use setxkbmap for a non US keyboard

• setxkbmap de (for german keyboard)

• Start the deployment

– Welcome Page opens, click Next

– Click Browse to load and select the onecommand.param file

– Review the configuration information and modify it as needed

– On the Summary Page, click Install to begin the configuration

and installation

# cd /opt/oracle/oak/bin

# ./oakcli deploy

Only about 1 hour (with the BIOS fix)


Oracle Database Appliance – Configuration and Setup


Build System Image Firmware Install OS

Connect System to Network & Power ON

Download SW from MOS

Provide Basic info to Configurator

Deploy Grid, DB with best Practices

Initiate HealthCheck

Fully Configured Database

Deployment Overview


Oracle Appliance Manager Planning Required for typical type deployment

• Cluster Name

• Region, Timezone

• Domain

• DNS Servers

• Client Access Public Network Hostnames and its IPs

• Client Access Public Network netmask

• VIP Name (auto populated with –vip) and its IPs

• Scan Name (auto populated with –scan) and two scan IPs

• Database Type, Name, Class and Language


Oracle Appliance Manager Planning Optional for custom type deployment

• NTP Servers

• ILOM network info

• Additional network info

• ACFS

• Backup type, database block size, and characterset

• ASR proxy and MOS username, password


OAM Deployment overview

• oakcli deploy runs the command in linear workflow order.

• It is designed to be simple so that it can be used by users with

basic experience with Grid Infrastructure and RAC

• oakcli deploy does not provide complete control to the users

during install but does standardized install that works for

majority of the scenarios


OAM Config Type

• Two types

– Typical

– Custom, including ntp, bond1,

bond2, xbond1, ilom, asr setup

on 1st node, and acfs

• Can load the pre-created

onecommand.params file at

/opt/oracle/oak/onecmd


OAM System Info

Setup the customized System Name

Select from three Database Deployment Configurations:

RAC, RAC One Node, or Single Instance


OAM Network Info Node and IP information for 2nd Node is automatically generated &

filled

VIP Name & IP information automatically generated & filled for

both nodes

SCAN name is auto generated


OAM Database Info

Setup the customized Database Name

Select the Database Class type


OAM Database Class

SGA= System Global Area, PGA= Program Global Area

Very

Small Small Medium Large

Very

Large

SGA (MB) 4096

8192

8192

16384

16384

24576

24576

49152 49152

PGA (MB) 2048

4096

4096

8192

8192

12228

12228

24576 24576

Log buffer (MB) 16 16 32 64 64

Processes 200 400 800 1200 2400

Redo Log (GB) 1 1 2 4 4


OAM Network Validation


OAM Network Validation Sample output


OAM Custom type System Info


OAM Save the parameter file

One Button

Install


Link to Installation, Configuration and

User's Guide

• http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E22693_01/doc.21/e2269

2.pdf

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E22693_01/doc.21/e22692.pdf

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E22693_01/doc.21/e22692.pdf


Patching

• All patches (appliance manager, database, OS, firmware,

bios) are bundled in a patch set

– Validated firmware for hardware

– Validated kernel updates

– Validated OAK, HMP, ASR rpms

– Validated and Tested GI/RDBMS Bundle Patches

• One command/No user input is needed

• quarterly patch

• No rolling updates

– Planned for a later release

# /opt/oracle/oak/bin/oakcli update -patch 2.1.0.3.0


Oracle Database Appliance – Oracle 11g R2


Oracle Database on ODA

• Oracle 11gR2 Enterprise Edition

– Completely standard, no special testing required

– Single Instance, or...

– RAC One Node, or…

– RAC

• Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.2)

– Oracle Clusterware

– Oracle Automatic Storage Management


Oracle 11gR2 on ODA

• Oracle Active Data Guard

• Partitioning

• Real Application Testing

• Advanced Compression

• Total Recall

• Advanced Security

• Label Security

• Database Vault

• Audit Vault

• OLAP

• Data Mining

• GoldenGate

• Spatial

• …

Database options


Database Sizing Model for Oracle RAC http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E22693_01/doc.21/e22692/chklist.htm#CIHIEIHG

Very Small Small Medium Large Very Large

CPU (Core) for

each node 1 2 4 6 12

Memory (GB) for

each node 8 16 32 48 96

Database size

(GB) 136 273 546 819 1638

Log file size (GB) 1 1 2 4 4

Number of

databases 12 6 3 2 1

I/O per seconds

(IOPS) 300 600 1300 2000 4000

Throughput

(MB/second) 250 500 1000 1500 3000

Log generation

(MB/second) 6.83 6.83 13.65 27.30 27.30

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E22693_01/doc.21/e22692/chklist.htm


Creating Additional Databases: DBCA Same ODA Templates


Oracle Database Appliance – Backup Strategies


Backup

• RMAN, Oracle Secure Backup

Whitepaper: Backup and Recovery Strategies for the Oracle Database Appliance


Supported Third Party Agents for the ODA

Company Backup

Application

Version RMAN Client Media Server

OS

Symantec Netbackup 7.1 7.1 Client OEL 5.7

CommVault Simpana 9 SP3 iDA for Oracle

Databases -

Linux

OEL 5.7

EMC Networker 7.6.2 "SP2" Networker

Module for

Databases and

Application

(NMDA) V1.1

OEL 5.7

IBM Tivoli Storage

Manager

6.3 Data Protection

for Oracle 6.3

OEL 5.7

HP Data Protector A.06.20 A.06.20 Client OEL 5.5

MOS 1415713.1: Oracle Database Appliance (ODA)

Software Agents and Multiple Oracle Homes support

• Beginning immediately software release, all Oracle or 3rd-

party software agents, including management, monitoring,

and authorization agents, will be supported on ODA

• We will no longer maintain a white list of agents that will be

supported

• Customers may load any software agent, or write and deploy

their own agents

• Oracle will provide patches for Oracle software and Linux

libraries. Agents that ship as part of the Oracle Linux

distribution will be automatically patched as part of our

appliance patching process

New


Four possible Backup Strategies

• Back up to a Flash Recovery Area (FRA) on disk

• Back up to a file system such as NAS

• Back up to tape

• Remote replication using Data Guard (Disaster Recovery)


ODA Backup Sizing

• All disk groups are using high redundancy (triple-mirrored)

– 4TB of 12 TB are availabe.

• When using Cloud FS (ACFS)

Less space for the DATA disk group

• More disk space?

– Move (read only) tablespaces to NFS storage

– Option: Advanced Compression

FRA Backup NFS Backup

DATA 1.6 TB 3.2 TB

FRA 2.4 TB 0.8 TB

REDO 97.3 GB 97.3 GB


Oracle Database Appliance – Features & Other Topics


Features & Other Topics

• You can use

– Multiple DB instances in ODA

– Any options available on Oracle Database EE

• ODA is to be used exclusively as a DB server

– (Other applications are not supported)

– All Oracle or 3rd-party software agents, including management,

monitoring, and authorization agents, are now supported

• You can not change the ASM setup

• Multiple Oracle Database Homes will be supported

– The Grid Infrastructure home must be the latest appliance release

– Database homes can be any release supported by the appliance

– Target Release Date: Q3CY2012

New

New


Features & Other Topics II

• Automatic Service Requests (ASR)

– is optional

– for existing ASR accounts

• ASR supports multiple assets

• ODA and its ILOM can be added to the account

• Always full access to disk, memory & network

– Does not depend on active CPU cores

• NFS expansion via 1- or 10-GbE network connectivity is

supported

– Best practices: Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance (HA configuration)

– ODA will support Hybrid Columnar Compression (HCC) for tables stored

on ZFS Storage Appliance

– Requires 11.2.0.3 (available in April) and Direct NFS (dNFS) access

New


Features & Other Topics III

• Change of hardware config is not supported

– No InfiniBand

– No FC expansion

– No SAS expansion

– No memory upgrade

• 192.168.16.24/25 & 192.168.17.24/25 are used for the Private

Network

– Don‘t use 192.168.16.0 & 192.168.17.0 for client access

• What is needed for 10GbE connectivity?

– Small Form-factor Pluggable Plus (SFP+ ) transceivers and/or cables

(either optical or copper)

– Not included with ODA, but may configured separately on same quote

– Details: http://blogs.oracle.com/eSTEP/entry/oda_what_is_needed_for

http://blogs.oracle.com/eSTEP/entry/oda_what_is_needed_for


Appliance Manager 2.2 2012-04-19

• Support for Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.3.2)

• Support for Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (Oracle Linux 5.8)

• Patching new features, including the following:

– Support to patch Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle Database homes

separately

– New oakcli command options (-infra, -verify)

• Improved system diagnostics, including the following:

– ODA check: checks Oracle Database Appliance software stack, and

generates an HTML report

– Improved logging and patching information

• Support for local applications running on Oracle Database

Appliance --> FAQ to be released soon!

• Use of HCC with ZFS Storage Appliances with

Database version 11.2.0.3.2


Useful ODA External Documents &

Links ● Landing Page:

http://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/database-appliance/index.html

● Oracle Technology Network: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/engineered-systems/database-appliance/index.html

● Documentation Library: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E22693_01/index.htm

● White Paper English: http://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/oracle-db-appliance-whitepaper-495291.pdf

German: http://www.oracle.com/us/dm/111123-oda-whitepaper-german-1377922.pdf

● FAQ: English: http://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/oracle-database-appliance-faq-495423.pdf

German: http://www.oracle.com/us/dm/111123-oda-faq-german-1377916.pdf

● Datasheet English: http://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/oracle-database-appliance-ds-495410.pdf

German: http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/de/community/dbadmin/docs/OracleDatabaseAppliance_DSv2_de.pdf





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