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Oracle ODA X6-2M Bare Metal Installation and Oracle Database Appliance Deployment

I would like to share Oracle ODA Bare Metal installation for X6-2M and deployment Oracle Database appliance. Why would we want to install something which is already preinstalled.

Oracle Database Appliances are mostly preinstalled with an old firmware version.  I do not recommend most of the time for the latest version for some softwares but in this ODA Machine cases, It has many bugs and these bugs can be a nightmare.

Thats why I strongly recommend you  to deploy ODA with the latest firmware.

This post will be a roadmap for many ODA versions. Because It is logically same for all ODA versions.

KVM feature will be in another blog post soon.

Here is a useful template to get all the information you need before you start to deployment.

 

Appliance Information System Information Disk Group Information
Platform:ODA X6-2 M

Data Disk Count:2

CPU Core Count:20

Created: Fri Jun 30 2017 11:39:56 AM

Version: 12.1.2.10

Host Name:node1

Domain Name:ittutorial.com

Time Zone:Europe/Istanbul

DB Edition:EE

DNS Servers:11.11.11.11

NTP Servers:

Name Redundancy Percentage

DATA NORMAL 80

RECO NORMAL 20

Database Information
Description:PROD

DB Name:PROD

DB Version:11.2.0.4

DBID:131900720

CharacterSet:AL32UTF8

NLS Characterset:AL16UTF16

Language:AMERICAN

Territory:AMERICA

Storage:ACFS

Home Location: /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0.4/dbhome_1

IP Information
Client Network

IP : 10.10.10.10

Mask : 255.255.255.0

Gateway : 10.10.10.12

ILOM Network

IP : 10.10.10.111

Mask : 255.255.255.0

Gateway : 10.11.1.1

Additional Network:

IP :

Mask :

Gateway :

Planning Oracle Database Appliance Configuration Options

Oracle Database Appliance X6-2S , X6-2M and X6-2 L (Doc ID 2144642.1)

Oracle Database Appliance X6-2M deliver with O/S installed as I mentioned before. Here is the first thing you need to check before going into bare metal installation is really necessary. Because according to this information, you need to download GI ( Grid ) and RDBMS clone templates

ps -ef |grep dcs

root 3426 1 0 Jun29 ? 00:00:30 java -jar /opt/oracle/dcs/bin/dcs-controller-12.1.2.10-SNAPSHOT.jar server /opt/oracle/dcs/conf/dcs-controller.json

Required Files

ODA O/S is delivered with old version, so we need to re-imaged our ODA X6-2M. It is always better to re-image with the latest version.

We downloaded three files according to our requirements, First we need to download O/S file (Patch 23530609 ) to re-image then we will download “12.1.0.2.xx GI” (Patch 23494985) and “11.2.0.4.xx RDBMS” (Patch 23494997) clone templates. You can use the below table and (Doc ID 2144642.1)

Patch # Description Details
1. Patch 24391174 ORACLE DATABASE APPLIANCE X6-2 S AND X6-2 M 12.1.2.8 DCSIMAGE  This Patch is applicable only required while upgrading from 12.1.2.7.0 to any of the later versions
2 Patch 25499206 ODA X6-2 : 12.1.2.10.0 SERVER PATCH BUNDLE FOR ODA X6-2 S, X6-2 M AND X6-2 L  This file contains the latest patches for DCS Agent, DCS Controller, OAK , GI and  RDBMS 12.1 and 11.2 homes
3 Patch 23494985 ORACLE DATABASE APPLIANCE X6-2 S , X6-2 M AND X6-2 L 12.1.0.2.xx GI Clone  This file is required to initial deployment of the Oracle Database Appliance X6-2S/X6-2 M stack.
4 Patch 23494992 ORACLE DATABASE APPLIANCE X6-2 S , X6-2 M AND X6-2 L  12.1.0.2.xx RDBMS Clone  Oracle 12.1.0.2.x RDBMS Software Clone file for creating any new 12.1 database homes.
5 Patch 23494997 ORACLE DATABASE APPLIANCE X6-2 S ,X6-2 M AND X6-2 L 11.2.0.4.xx RDBMS Clone
(This is same as 12.1.2.9 version. There is no new bundle for 12.1.2.10)
 Oracle 11.2.0.4.x  RDBMS Software Clone file for creating any new 11.2 database homes.
6 Patch 23530609 ORACLE DATABASE APPLIANCE X6-2 S and X6-2 M, X6-2 L  12.1.2.xx.xx OS ISO IMAGE  Factory Image. This patch is required only in cases when the machine needs to be re-imaged

Deployment Oracle Database Appliance Steps

  1. Configure ILOM
  2. Configure Boot Device and re-image
  3. Configure FirstNet
  4. Connect via Firstnet and download GI, RDBMS Clone Templates
  5. Update Repository
  6. Create Appliance and Database

1-Configure ILOM

  1. During boot press F2 to enter setup
  2. Set IPv4 Configuration to Static in Advanced menu
  3. Enter IP informations and commit

2-Configure Boot Device to Re-Image

ODA Oracle Database Appliance Bare Metal Restore Procedure X5-2 and X6-2 (Doc ID 1373599.1)

Default Username : oda-admin

Password : password

3-Configure FirstNet

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E75549_01/doc.121/e76082/GUID-958626CB-F7E8-4CAC-AB5D-64E04E9EBD0D.htm#CMTXG-GUID-958626CB-F7E8-4CAC-AB5D-64E04E9EBD0D

User : root

Password : password

configure-firstnet

Select the Interface to configure the network on (btbond1 sfpbond1): btbond1

Configure DHCP on btbond1 (yes/no): no

INFO: You have chosen Static configuration

Enter the IP address to configure: 10.123.31.10

Enter the Netmask address to configure: 255.255.255.0

Enter the Gateway address to configure: 10.123.31.1

INFO: Plumbing the IPs now

INFO: Restarting the network

Shutting down interface btbond1:

4-Connect via Firstnet and download GI, RDBMS Clone Templates

Note : Be careful for the release version. Release version should be the same with version we re-imaged ODA

5-Update Image

  1. Update image with command below

update-image –image-file /tmp/download/oda-sm-12.1.2.10.0-170205-GI-12.1.0.2.zip,/tmp/download/oda-sm-12.1.2.9.0-161007-DB-11.2.0.4.zip

6-Create Appliance and Database

https://10.123.31.10:7093/mgmt/index.html

On Appliance Menu > Create Appliance

 

 

Do you want to learn Oracle Database for Beginners, then read the following articles.

https://ittutorial.org/oracle-database-19c-tutorials-for-beginners/

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