Owners Manual

Dell Integrated Systems for Oracle Business Analytics (DISOBA) – Owner’s Guide 1.0
The R730 OBIEE servers is pre-installed and pre-configured with Oracle Linux running
Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel. For more details on the OS configuration, refer to section
OBIEE Server (R730) Configuration
2.2 Database Servers (R920)
The DISOBA solution rack ships with two Dell PowerEdge R920 servers that are used as
Oracle Database 12c nodes. Table 2 shows the details of the hardware components within
each of these servers:
Database Nodes Hardware Components
Servers
2 x 4S Dell PowerEdge R920s
Processor
Up to 4 x Intel Xeon E7-8891 v2 10c 3.2GHz per server
Memory
Up to 2TB using 32GB DDR3 1600MT/s QR LRDIMMs per
server
Network Adapters (Oracle
Database Public & Private)
2 x Mellanox ConnectX-3 EN DP 40Gb Ethernet Adapters
per server
Network Daughter Card (NDC)
Broadcom 5720 Quad Port 1GbE NDC
Remote Management
iDRAC7 Enterprise
HBAs
2 x QLogic 2662 DP 16GB FC Adapters per server
RAID Controller
PERC H730P (RAID 1)
Local Storage
2 x 900GB 10K 6Gbps SAS 2.5in Hot-plug HDDs per server
Operating System
Oracle Linux 6.5 running Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel
(UEK) Release 3 Update 3 (3.8.13-44)
Table 2 Database Server (R920) Hardware Details
The following figure shows the rear side of the R920 chassis with the adapters populated
according to Dell’s best practice for optimum performance.
Database Server (R920) PCIe Slot Population
12
34
iDRAC
1100W 1100W 1100W 1100W
8 4 2
PORT 2
8 4 2
PORT 1
PCIe x8 8Gb FC
8 4 2
PORT 2
8 4 2
PORT 1
PCIe x8 8Gb FC
Slot5: QLogic 2662
16Gbps DP FC HBA
Slot4: QLogic 2662
16Gbps DP FC HBA
Broadcom 5720
1GbE QP NDC
Slot1: Mellanox ConnectX-
3 40GbE DP Adapter
Slot3: Mellanox ConnectX-
3 40GbE DP Adapter
iDRAC
Enterprise