Owners Manual
Dell Integrated Systems for Oracle Business Analytics (DISOBA) – Owner’s Guide 1.0
fcion1_v_c1
fcion1_v_c2
fcion1_v_d1
fcion1_v_d2
Eight volumes of size 1.5TB each, giving a total raw storage capacity of 12TB are mapped
to the database nodes for Oracle Database usage. Refer to section
Shared Storage Volume
Partitions
for further details on how these eight volumes are configured on the database
nodes.
4.2 OBIEE Server (R730) Configuration
This section described the OS pre-configuration that is applied on the OBIEE server to
ease the Oracle Business Analytics deployment at the customer. The configuration is done
based on Dell and Oracle’s best practices.
Database nodes are pre-configured and optimized in the following areas:
1. Hardware configuration
2. Oracle Business Analytics 11g Pre-Installation Setup
3. Oracle network configuration
4.2.1 Hardware Configuration
Before any software is installed, we have taken steps to ensure that the hardware
configuration is adequate to support the Oracle environment. This includes making sure
we have optimized the BIOS settings, updated appropriate firmware, used the proper RAID
configuration, and created properly sized/named partitions. Some details are as follows:
BIOS matches our supported configuration
All hardware firmware matches the supported version
Each R730 has 4 600GB local HDDs in 2 x RAID 1
File System layout:
Virtual Disk 1
o 60GB /usr/home
o 17GB swap (minimum 16GB + 1KB required by Oracle)
o Rest dedicated to /u01 to be used for Oracle BI software installation
Virtual Disk 2
o 600GB /data – owned by oracle user for application data
4.2.2 Oracle Business Analytics 11g Pre-Installation Setup
The OBIEE comes pre-installed with OL 6.5 running UEK3 (3.8.13-44). To make integration
of Dell hardware and Oracle BI software seamless, the Oracle Database 12c’s preinstall
utility has been customized to eliminate many of the manual steps necessary to correctly
setup the environment. This utility modifies many settings, including but not limited to:
Modify kernel parameters and boot settings per Oracle’s recommendations
Add Oracle recommended module options