Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Oracle Database Appliance, EXADATA Jr?

The Oracle Database Appliance saves time and money by simplifying deployment, maintenance, and support of high-availability database solutions. Built with the latest generation of the world’s most popular database—Oracle Database 11g—it offers customers a fully integrated system of software, servers, storage, and networking in a single box that delivers high-availability database services.

Fully Redundant Integrated System
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The Oracle Database Appliance hardware is a single 4U rackmountable chassis containing two
Oracle Linux server nodes, each with two 6-core Intel Xeon processors X5675 and 96 GB of memory. The two server nodes are connected via an internal redundant gigabit Ethernet (GbE) interconnect for cluster communication, and each provides both 1 GbE and 10 GbE external networking connectivity. The appliance contains 12 TB of raw storage that’s triple-mirrored, offering 4 TB of resilient usable database storage. There are also four 73 GB solid-state disks for database redo logs to boost performance. To expand storage outside of the appliance, external NFS storage is supported for online backups, data staging, or additional database files. The appliance is designed with mission-critical requirements in mind, with hotswappable and redundant components.  The Oracle Database Appliance runs Oracle Database 11g, Enterprise Edition, and customers have the choice of running Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) or Oracle RAC
One Node for “active-active” or “active-passive” database server failover.

Ease of Deployment, Management, and Support
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To help customers easily deploy and manage their databases, the Oracle Database Appliancefeatures Appliance Manager software for one-button automation to provision, patch, and diagnose database servers.

Pay-As-You-Grow Licensing 
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The Oracle Database Appliance offers customers a unique pay-as-you-grow software licensing model to quickly scale from 2 to 24 processor cores without any hardware upgrades. Customers can deploy the Oracle Database Appliance with as few as 2 processors cores to run their database servers, and incrementally scale up to the maximum of 24 processor cores.










Figure Legend for Front Panel of Oracle Database Appliance
Callout Number Description
1 Locator LED/Locator button, one for each server node (System Controller)
2 SP (service processor) OK/Fault LED (for each node)
3 Server Node Ready to Remove LED (for each node)
4 Service Required LED (for each node)
5 Power/OK LED (for each node)
6 System Over-temperature LED (for each node)
7 Rear hard disk drive (HDD)/power supply (PS)/Fan Fault LED (for each node)
8 Power button (for each node)
9 Drive map
10 RFID and Product Serial Number tag










Figure Legend for Back Panelof Oracle Database Appliance
Callout Label Ethernet Bond Description
1       Power connectors
2 PCIe 1 eth 7, 6, 5, 4 (left to right) bond1, bond2 eth4 and eth5 are configured as bond1. eth6 and eth7 are configured as bond2. These ports are used for custom configurations or for separate backup, disaster recovery, and network management.
3 PCIe 0 eth8, eth9 xbond0 Two 10-GbE ports.
4 SER MGT     Serial connector to Oracle ILOM and system console.
5 Net 0, Net 1 eth2, eth3 bond0 Two 1-GbE connectors. If you configure a 1-GbE network, then connect these ports to the public network.
6 NET MGT     Ethernet connection for Oracle ILOM
7 USB and Video     Used for connecting to system console.
8       Server Node 1 (System Controller 0)
9       Server Node 2 (System Controller 1)




 
 
 
Component Installed or Downloaded
Oracle Database Appliance Operating System Image, which includes the following: Installed
 
Oracle Appliance Manager (OAKCLI) modules and configurator
Oracle Linux
Hardware drivers
 
Oracle Database Appliance End-User Bundle, including the following: Downloaded
 
Oracle Database clone binaries
Oracle Database templates, customized for Oracle Database Appliance deployments
Oracle Grid Infrastructure clone binaries
 
Oracle Database Appliance patch set bundle, which includes the following Oracle Database Appliance patches: Downloaded
 
BIOS
hardware drivers
operating system
Oracle ILOM
Oracle software
 
 
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