Owners Manual

Dell Integrated Systems for Oracle Business Analytics (DISOBA) – Owner’s Guide 1.0
The R920 database servers are pre-installed and pre-configured with Oracle Linux running
Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel. For more details on the OS configuration, refer to section
Database Nodes (R920) Configuration
2.3 Shared Storage – Dell Acceleration Appliances for
Databases (DAAD)
DISOD ships with Dell Acceleration Appliances for Databases (DAAD) storage array as the
high performance, low-latency backend shared storage. The following table lists the DAAD
storage array components.
DAAD Storage Array Components
Storage Array Nodes
2 x Dell PowerEdge R720 Servers (HA Mode)
Processors
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2 per server
Memory
256GB per server
Solid State Disks
4 x Fusion-io ioDrive2 3.0TB MLC Adapters per server
Network Daughter Card (NDC)
Broadcom 5720 Quad Port 1GbE LOM
Remote Management
iDRAC7 Enterprise
HBAs
2 x QLogic 2662 DP 16Gb FC Adapters per server
Ethernet Adapter (HA)
Mellanox ConnectX-3 DP 40GbE Adapter per server
Total Raw Capacity
12TB
Acceleration Software
Fusion-io ION Acceleration Software v2.4.1 (w/ HA option
installed)
Table 1 DAAD Storage Array Components
As seen in Figure 5, DISOD consists of two Fibre Channel based DAAD storage array nodes
that are connected in a highly available configuration.
DISOD Shared Storage: Highly Available FC based DAAD Storage Array
For more details on the DAAD storage array configuration for DISOD refer to the section
DAAD Storage Array Configuration.
2.4 Network Switches
DISOD solution rack is configured with high bandwidth, low latency, and highly available
LAN and SAN switches. The solution also includes a Gigabit switch for management of all