Oracle Database Appliance X6-2

Software Overview
Ravi Ransi & Sanjay Singh
RACPack Team

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Oracle Database Appliance (X6-2 S/M)
Bare Metal only – No Virtualized Option

Oracle RDBMS SE2 – 12.1.0.2, 11.2.0.4

Oracle RDBMS EE – 12.1.0.2, 11.2.0.4
Appliance Manager 12.1.2.7

Oracle Linux – 6.7

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Oracle Database Editions Supported on ODA (X6-2 S/M)

• Standard Edition 2 – 11.2.0.4, 12.1.0.2

• Enterprise Edition – 11.2.0.4, 12.1.0.2
• Database Classes & Options (OLTP, DSS, IMDB) only supported on EE. SE2 comes with
OLTP only.
• You can only choose one edition – SE2 or EE (no way to change it after provisioning).

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ODA Lite Capacity-On-Demand Licensing (Core Key Management)
• System ships with all cores enabled.
• Set the cores in multiples of 2.
– 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 For ODA Lite Small.
– 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16,18, 20 For ODA Lite Medium.

# /opt/oracle/oak/bin/configure-cpucore -cores <NumberOfCores>

– A reboot is required after changing the number of cores.

– No need to generate core keys in MOS. (Customer trust based model)
– A one-time reduction in cores is allowed.

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What is the Appliance Manager?
Simplifies Deployment, Management, and Support of Oracle Database Appliance
Web Console
• Gather following configuration
information and provision the
system
– System information
– Network information
– Database information
– ASR information
• Review appliance information.
• Create databases
• Monitor activities
Command Line Tools Background Processes
• ODACLI provides simple (OAKD etc.)
commands to streamline
administration • Continuous monitoring and
management to ensure best
– Database creation practices compliance and
– Patching optimal performance
– Management – Servers
– Support (ASR) – Storage
• ODAADMCLI provides – Database
commands to manage the
system and the storage.
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New command line interface - ODACLI
Continuous Life Cycle Activities
Activity Target Command
Appliance create-appliance
describe-appliance
Database create-database
list-databases
describe-database
delete-database
DB Home create-dbhome
list-dbhomes
describe-dbhome
delete-dbhome
Network create-network
list-networks
describe-network
delete-network
update-network

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New command line interface - ODACLI
Continuous Life Cycle Activities

Activity Target Command

ASR describe-asr
Network Interfaces list-networkinterfaces
describe-networkinterface
Jobs list-jobs
describe-job

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New command line interface - ODAADMCLI
System & Storage Management
Feature Command
System show env_hw
show fs
Storage show disk
locate disk
show diskgroup
show controller
show storage
show iraid
stordiag
power disk {on|off}
expand storage
HW Monitoring show server
show memory
show processor
show power
show cooling 9

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OLTP Database Templates Sized for Performance
Database CPU SGA (GB) PGA REDO Log • Provides well defined database
Class Cores (GB) File Size configuration templates …
(GB)
Odb-01s 1 2 1 1
– Sizing for CPU and Memory
• Out of the box allocation for SGA and PGA
Odb-01 1 4 2 1
Odb-02 2 8 4 1 – Incorporates all best practice database
Odb-04 4 16 8 1
init parameters
Odb-06 6 24 12 2 – Advise on the storage characteristics
Odb-10 10 40 20 2 – Multiple sizes to satisfy various
Odb-12 12 48 24 4 workloads
Odb-16 16 64 32 4 – Three REDO logs are created in RECO
Odb-20 20 80 40 4

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Storage Architecture Used For
+DATA
Database data files
+RECO
REDO logs,
ODA X6-2 S/M archive logs, RMAN
backups
Usable Storage Normal Redundancy – 2.7 TB 0.6 TB
External Backup
Based on 6.4 TB raw (80/20 split)
Usable Storage Normal Redundancy – 1.3 TB 1.9 TB
ASM Cluster File System (ACFS) Internal Backup
Based on 6.4 TB raw (40/60 split)
Usable Storage Normal Redundancy – 5.1 TB 1.3 TB
ASM Disk Groups External Backup
Based on 12.8 TB raw (80/20 split)
+DATA, +RECO Usable Storage Normal Redundancy – 2.6 TB 3.8 TB
Internal Backup
Based on 12.8 TB raw (40/60 split)
NVMe Storage Usable Storage High Redundancy – 3.4 TB 0.3 TB
External Backup
Based on 12.8 TB raw (80/20 split)
Useable Storage High Redundancy – 1.7 TB 2.5 TB
Internal Backup
Based on 12.8 TB raw (40/60 split)

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Storage Architecture
ODA X6-2 S/M
Backup Type can be Custom,
where you specify the Data
Storage Percentage for DATA
diskgroup.

• At least 10% required

• Cannot exceed 90%

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Performance
IOPS and Throughput

2 x 3.2 TB NVMe 4 x 3.2 TB NVMe

Read IOPS 240K 480K
Write IOPS 120K 240K
Read Throughput 2.5 GB/Sec 5 GB/Sec
Write Throughput 1.5 GB/Sec 3 GB/Sec

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