Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) High Availability (HA) Re-image/Restore procedure.

Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) High Availability (HA) Re-image/Restore procedure.

ODA comes bare metal pre-installed with Oracle Linux and Appliance manager.

If customer require, ODA can be re-imaged or restored with Oracle VM (Virtualization) or Bare Metal.

This doc provides step to step procedure to re-image the ODA X5-2 with Virtualized Platform.

ODA OS ISO Image / Bare Metal - Virtualized Platform images can be downloaded from MOS note 888888.1

Download OS ISO image from Patch 16186163

Unzip p16186163_121290_Linux-x86-64.zip

Re-image/ Restore can be initialize from ILOM.

1.    Connect to ILOM from the Browser and login as root.

2.    On left, Navigation pane click on remote control then Redirection then click on Launch Remote Console.

     Once console is there. Click on KVMS then storage.

1      New windows will be open. Click on Add.

5.       Select the downloaded OS ISO (Bare Matel or Virtualize)  from your laptop.

5       In Storage Devices windows you will see the attached ISO image. Select the ISO and click on connect.

5.       Once ISO is connected. Click on Ok.

5.       Once ISO is attached. You will see the screen like below. 

 Goto Navigation pane, Click on Host Control then select CDROM Next Boot Device.

5.       Click on Power Control and select Power Cycle and save. ODA server will boot from CDROM ISO.

5.       Once its boot from CDROM ISO. You will see screen like below. System is booting from ISO now.

It will take around 30 mins to install the Operating System. Do it from both ODA servers.

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5.       Once Installation is done. You will see the screen like below. Check the Local hostname should be oak1 and oak2 on node 0 and node 1 respectively. If you find Local hostname is different reboot the server one more time. Press Alt+F2 to login with user root and password welcome1.

5.       Execute xm list. You will see the dom0. 

5.       Execute oakcli show env_hw to verify the virtualized platform. With this step Re-image/ Restore has done. 

      Once Re-image/Restore is done. Assign the IP’s and hostname to the both database servers.

Execute the oakcli configure firstnet
1.       Choose global to assign the IP’s and hostname on both nodes.
2.       Enter the domain name.
3.       Enter the DNS server IP.
4.       Enter the secondary IP for DNS if any or leave blank.
5.       Enter hostname for both nodes.
6.       Choose network interface like net1
7.       For DHCP type NO.
8.       Enter IP’s for both nodes.
9.       Enter netmask IP.
10.   Enter Gateway IP.

With this step ODA re-image/restore procedure is completed.

In my next blog i will explain step by step procedure to deploy ODA_BASE.

Cheers !!!