Owners Manual

Dell Integrated Systems for Oracle Database 2.0 - Owner’s Guide 1.1
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1 Overview―Dell Integrated Systems for Oracle
Database (DISOD)
Dell Integrated Systems for Oracle Database (DISOD) is a fully integrated hardware stack
that is purpose-built as a high performance Oracle Database 12c racked solution. DISOD
provides an out-of-box experience to customers, where, everything up to the point of the
Oracle Database software installation is preconfigured. By providing integrated and
preconfigured hardware and software solution, DISOD provides a fast and easy-to-deploy
Oracle Database rack solution to the customers.
The main hardware components of a DISOD rack solution are:
 Database servers: Dell PowerEdge servers with preinstalled and preconfigured
Linux-based operating system that is Oracle database installation-ready.
 Shared storage: All-flash Dell Acceleration Appliance for Databases (DAAD) nodes
preconfigured as highly available/high availability (HA) storage arrays and
preconfigured with storage volumes required for the Oracle database.
 Network switches:
o LAN switches: High bandwidth, low latency, top-of-rack (ToR) Dell
Networking Ethernet switches preconfigured for Oracle database’s public
and private interconnect network traffic.
o SAN switches: High bandwidth SAN switches preconfigured for Oracle
database storage network traffic.
o Management switch: Management switch preconfigured and dedicated
for the management traffic of the DISOD components.
 Management server: Management server preconfigured to enable a one-stop
shop management and monitoring of the DISOD hardware components.
 Console: KMM (Keyboard/Monitor/Mouse) for local management and monitoring
of the DISOD hardware components from within the DISOD solution rack.
The base configuration of a DISOD solution ships with the following preintegrated,
preconfigured, racked, stacked, and cabled hardware:
 Two Dell PowerEdge Oracle database servers
 One pair of DAAD storage nodes
 Two ToR Dell Networking Ethernet switches
 Two SAN switches
 One Dell Networking management switch
 One Dell PowerEdge management server, and
 One KMM
The base configuration is also referred to as a 2×2 configuration, where the first ‘2’
represents the number of database nodes, while the second ‘2’ represents the number of
individual DAAD nodes. In general, in this document or otherwise, the different DISOD
configuration sizes will be referred to with similar representation. For example, a 4×2
configuration refers to a DISOD solution rack that has four database nodes and two
individual DAAD storage nodes or one DAAD HA pair.