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Database Management Services, Oracle Database Appliance - ODA, Oracle Database Management Solution, Oracle Databases, Remote Database Management, Technology Consulting Services

September 2019 Oracle announced Oracle Database Appliance X8-2 (Small, Medium and HA). ODA X8-2 comes with more computing resources compared with X7-2 Models.

Let’s take a quick look at few benefits of ODA followed by the technical specification on ODA X8-2 Small/Medium and HA.

Oracle Database Appliance is an Engineered System. Software, server, storage, and networking, all co-engineered and optimized to run Oracle Database and applications.


Benefits of Oracle Database Appliance (ODA):

  1. Software, server, storage, and networking engineered and optimized to run Oracle Database and applications.

  2. Supports Oracle Database Standard Edition, Standard Edition One, Standard Edition 2, and Enterprise Edition. Optimized for Cloud.

  3. Capacity on Demand Licensing – Reduced Cost.

  4. Ease of deployment, patching, management, and support.

  5. Increased performance and reliability with NVMe flash storage.

  6. Reliable hardware architecture with redundant power, cooling, networking, and storage.

  7. Browser User Interface (BUI)


In this article we will compare the technical specifications of ODA X8-2 model family (Small, Medium and HA). This comparison table comes handy when you want to quickly take a look at the resources available for a given model.

 

For more information on the technical specification loot at the ODA X8-2 HA and Small/Medium Data Sheet at:

https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-appliance/oda-x8-2-ha-datasheet-5730739.pdf

https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-appliance/oda-x8-2sm-datasheet-5730738.pdf



Component

ODA X8-2 Small

ODA X8-2 Medium

ODA X8-2 HA


Database Server

1

1

2

Storage Shelf

NA

NA

1 4U DE3-24C Storage Shelf per System

Optional Second Storage Shelf for Expansion

Rack Size

1 2RU Server

1 2RU Server

2 2RU Servers & 1 4U Storage Shelf

Processor

One 16-core Intel Xeon Gold 5218

Two 16-core Intel Xeon Gold 5218

Two 16-core Intel Xeon Gold 5218 Per Server

Physical Memory

192 GB

Expandable to 384 GB

384 GB

Expandable to 768 GB

384 GB

Expandable to 768 GB per server

Storage

Two 6.4 TB NVMe SSDs

12.8 TB (raw)

Base: Two 6.4 TB NVMe SSDs

12.8 TB (raw)

Base: Six 7.68 TB SSDs

46 TB (raw)

Storage Expansion

Not expandable

Expandable up to 76.8 TB (raw)

Expandable up to 369 TB SSD or up to 92 TB SSD / 504 TB HDD (Raw)

Network

4 x 10GBase-T ports (RJ45) expandable up to 12 x 10GBase-T ports or

2 x 10/25 GbE ports (SFP28) expandable up to 6 x 10/25 GbE ports

4 x 10GBase-T ports (RJ45) expandable up to 12 x 10GBase-T ports or

2 x 10/25 GbE ports (SFP28) expandable up to 6 x 10/25 GbE ports

4 x 10GBase-T ports (RJ45) expandable up to 12 x 10GBase-T ports or

2 x 10/25 GbE ports (SFP28) expandable up to 6 x 10/25 GbE ports

Oracle Database

Oracle Database 18c/19c EE & SE 2

Oracle Database 12c R1/R2 EE & SE 2

Oracle Database 11g R2 EE, SE & SE 1

Oracle Database 18c/19c EE & SE 2

Oracle Database 12c R1/R2 EE & SE 2

Oracle Database 11g R2 EE, SE & SE 1

Oracle Database 18c/19c EE & SE 2

Oracle Database 12c R1/R2 EE & SE 2

Oracle Database 11g R2 EE, SE & SE 1

Database Deployment

Single Instance

Single Instance

Single Instance, RAC & RAC One node

Virtualization

Oracle Linux KVM

Oracle Linux KVM

Oracle VM & Oracle Linux KVM

Operating System

Oracle Linux

Oracle Linux

Oracle Linux





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Database Management Services, Oracle Database Appliance - ODA, Oracle Database Management Solution, Oracle Databases, Remote Database Management, Technology Consulting Services
In September 2019, Oracle announced Oracle Database Appliance X8-2 (Small, Medium and HA). ODA X8-2 comes with more computing resources compared with X7-2 Models.


Let’s take a quick look at few benefits of ODA followed by the technical specification on ODA X8-2 Small/Medium and HA.


Oracle Database Appliance is an Engineered System. Software, server, storage, and networking, all co-engineered and optimized to run Oracle Database and applications.


Benefits of Oracle Database Appliance (ODA):

  1. Software, server, storage, and networking engineered and optimized to run Oracle Database and applications.
  2. Supports Oracle Database Standard Edition, Standard Edition One, Standard Edition 2, and Enterprise Edition.
  3. Optimized for Cloud
  4. Capacity on Demand Licensing – Reduced Cost
  5. Ease of deployment, patching, management, and support
  6. Increased performance and reliability with NVMe flash storage
  7. Reliable hardware architecture with redundant power, cooling, networking, and storage
  8. Browser User Interface (BUI)


Oracle Database Appliance X8-2 HA Benefits & Technical specification


  1. Support mission-critical applications and consolidation of many databases
  2. Built for high availability
  3. Choice of high-performance flash or high-capacity drives
  4. 32 cores per server (64 cores in total for 2 servers)
  5. 384 GB physical memory per server expandable upto 768 (1.5 TB memory in total for 2 servers)
  6. Storage Shelf
  7. High Capacity: 46 TB SSD and 252 TB SDD raw capacity per shelf
  8. High Performance: 184 TB SSD raw capacity per shelf
  9. Choice of 10GBase-T or 10/25 GbE SFP28 public networking
  10. 25GbE interconnect for cluster communication


For more information on the technical specification loot at the ODA X8-2 HA Data Sheet at:
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-appliance/oda-x8-2-ha-datasheet-5730739.pdf


 
 


 
  • Oracle Database Appliance X8-2 Small Technical specification

  1. One server
  2. 1 Intel Xeon processor, 16 Cores
  3. 192GB Physical memory expandable upto 384GB
  4. Choice of 10GBase-T or 10/25 GbE SFP28 public networking
  5. 12.8TB NVMe raw storage



Oracle Database Appliance X8-2 Medium Technical specification

  1. One server
  2. 2 Intel Xeon processor, 32 Cores
  3. 384 GB Physical memory expandable upto 768GB
  4. Choice of 10GBase-T or 10/25 GbE SFP28 public networking
  5. 12.8 TB NVMe raw storage capacity with optional expansion to 76.8 TB NVMe raw storage


For more information on the technical specification loot at the ODA X8-2 S/M Data Sheet at:
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-appliance/oda-x8-2sm-datasheet-5730738.pdf



Conclusion


In this article we seen the benefits and the technical specification of latest Oracle Database Appliance X8 model family. ODA is the right choice for all type of Businesses as an on-premises solution and cloud ready option.



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Database Management Services, Oracle Database Appliance - ODA, Oracle Database Management Solution, Oracle Databases, Remote Database Management, Uncategorized

ODA is basically a 2-node RAC cluster database system running Oracle Linux operating (OEL), Oracle Database Enterprise Edition or Standard Edition, Oracle Grid Infrastructure (Clusterware and ASM). All these together provides the Oracle Database high availability running on ODA.

 
In 2016, Oracle added 3 new models to expand Oracle Database Appliance portfolio. These 3 new models are:
  • Oracle Database Appliance X6-2S (single-instance database)
  • Oracle Database Appliance X6-2M (single-instance database)
  • Oracle Database Appliance X6-2L (single-instance database)
  •  
 
The High Available ODA X6-2 is now known as X6-2 HA which consists of 2 nodes and a storage shelf and optionally an additional storage shelf.

 
In October 2017, Oracle announced Oracle Database Appliance X7-2 (Small, Medium and HA). ODA X7-2 comes with more computing resources compared with X6-2 Models.


  • Oracle Database Appliance X7-2S (single-instance database)
  • Oracle Database Appliance X7-2M (single-instance database)
  • Oracle Database Appliance X7-2 HA
  •  
With ODA X7-2, the ODA Large configuration is discontinued.
 
 
With the different model families there is always a confusion that which command line tool to be used for managing, monitoring and administrating Oracle Database Appliance.
 
 
 
 
In this article we will explain different command line tools that can be used to manage and administer an Oracle Database Appliance Small, Medium, Large and HA models for both Bare Metal and Virtualized Platform environment.
 
 
Let’s look at the different command line tools available:
 
OAKCLI: oakcli stands for Oracle Appliance Kit Command Line Interface. oakcli utility is used to manage Oracle Database Appliance. It used to carry out management tasks such as, Deploying, Patching, validating, monitoring, troubleshooting, Create Database, create database homes, configuring core key, manage Virtual machines and so on.

 
ODACLI: It is used for Hardware and administrative tasks on the Oracle Database Appliance, Example: Hardware monitoring and Storage Configuration

 
ODAADMICLI: It is used for everyday task on the Oracle Database Appliance, Example: Database Creation, Patches and upgrades, Job creation and manage and so on.

The following table provides a quick reference on when to use oakcli Vs. odacli/odaadmcli
 
  • For Oracle Database Appliance software version 12.2.1.4 or older use the tools as shown in the following table
  •  
  •  
Oakcli
odacli/odaadmcli
ODA V1
ODA X6-2 S, M, L
ODA X3-2
ODA X7-2 S, M
ODA X4-2
ODA X7-2 HA (Bare Metal only) 
ODA X5-2
 
ODA X6-2 HA
 
ODA X7-2 HA (VM Only)
 
 


  • For Oracle Database Appliance software version 18.3.0.0 and later user the tools as shown in the following table


  •  
oakcli
odacli/odaadmcli
All hardware versions running Virtualized platform
All hardware versions running Bare Metal (physical)
 


Examples using oakcli, odacli and odaadmcli:
 
[root@odanode1 ~]# odacli describe-appliance
 
Appliance Information
—————————————————————-
                     ID: 9aef262c-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-0d877c03d762
               Platform: ODA
        Data Disk Count: 2
         CPU Core Count: 10
                Created: May 23, 2017 3:08:03 AM CST
 
System Information
—————————————————————-
                   Name: odanode
            Domain Name: netsoftmate.com
              Time Zone: Asia/Pacific
             DB Edition: EE
            DNS Servers: 10.1.1.1
            NTP Servers: ntp1.netsoftmate.com
 
Disk Group Information
—————————————————————-
DG Name                   Redundancy                Percentage
————————- ————————- ————
Data                      Normal                    80
Reco                      Normal                    20
 
 
[root@odanode1 ~]# odaadmcli show disk
        NAME            PATH            TYPE            STATE           STATE_DETAILS
 
        pd_00           /dev/nvme0n1    NVD             ONLINE          Good
        pd_01           /dev/nvme1n1    NVD             ONLINE          Good
 
 
[root@odanode1 ~]# odaadmcli show diskgroup
DiskGroups
———-
DATA
RECO
 
 
[root@odanode1 ~]# odaadmcli show env_hw
BM ODA X6-2 Small
 
 
[root@odanode1 ~]# odaadmcli show storage
==== BEGIN STORAGE DUMP ========
Host Description: Oracle Corporation:ORACLE SERVER X6-2
Total number of controllers: 2
        Id          = 0
        Pci Slot    = 10
        Serial Num  = xxxxxxxxxx
        Vendor      = Samsung
        Model       = MS1PC2DD3ORA3.2T
        FwVers      = KPYABR3Q
        strId       = nvme:19:00.00
        Pci Address = 19:00.0
 
        Id          = 1
        Pci Slot    = 11
        Serial Num  = xxxxxxxxxxx
        Vendor      = Samsung
        Model       = MS1PC2DD3ORA3.2T
        FwVers      = KPYABR3Q
        strId       = nvme:1b:00.00
        Pci Address = 1b:00.0
 
Total number of expanders: 0
Total number of PDs: 2
        /dev/nvme0n1    Samsung           NVD 3200gb slot:  0  pci : 19
        /dev/nvme1n1    Samsung           NVD 3200gb slot:  1  pci : 1b
==== END STORAGE DUMP =========
 
 
[root@odanode1 ~]# oakcli show env_hw
BM ODA X5-2
Public interface : COPPER
 
 
[root@odanode1 ~]# oakcli show oda_base
ODA base domain
ODA base CPU cores :36
ODA base domain memory :362
ODA base template :/OVS/template.tar.gz
ODA base vlans :[‘priv1’, ‘net1’]
ODA base current status :Running
 
 
[root@odanode1 ~]# oakcli show env_hw
VM-oda_base ODA X7-2 HA
 
 
 
Conclusion

In this article we have learned about Oracle Database Appliance X6-2 and X7-2 model family. Also, we have learned when to use different ODA command lines tools such as oakcli, odacli and odaadmcli to manage and administer an Oracle Database Appliance.


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