5.1

Installing and Configuring a vCloud Director Database
vCloud Director cells use a database to store shared information. This database must exist before you can
complete installation and configuration of vCloud Director software.
NOTE Regardless of the database software you choose, you must create a separate, dedicated database schema
for vCloud Director to use. vCloud Director cannot share a database schema with any other VMware product.
Configure an Oracle Database
Oracle databases have specific configuration requirements when you use them with vCloud Director. Install
and configure a database instance and create the vCloud Director database user account the before you install
vCloud Director.
Procedure
1 Configure the database server.
A database server configured with 16GB of memory, 100GB storage, and 4 CPUs should be adequate for
most vCloud Director clusters.
2 Create the database instance.
Use commands of the following form to create separate data (CLOUD_DATA) and index (CLOUD_INDX)
tablespaces:
Create Tablespace CLOUD_DATA datafile '$ORACLE_HOME/oradata/cloud_data01.dbf' size 1000M
autoextend on;
Create Tablespace CLOUD_INDX datafile '$ORACLE_HOME/oradata/cloud_indx01.dbf' size 500M
autoextend on;
3 Create the vCloud Director database user account.
The following command creates database user name vcloud with password vcloudpass.
Create user $vcloud identified by $vcloudpass default tablespace CLOUD_DATA;
NOTE When you create the vCloud Director database user account, you must specify CLOUD_DATA as
the default tablespace.
4 Configure database connection, process, and transaction parameters.
The database must be configured to allow at least 75 connections per vCloud Director cell plus about 50
for Oracle's own use. You can obtain values for other configuration parameters based on the number of
connections, where C represents the number of cells in your vCloud Director cluster.
Oracle Configuration Parameter Value for C Cells
CONNECTIONS
75*C+50
PROCESSES
= CONNECTIONS
SESSIONS
= PROCESSES*1.1+5
TRANSACTIONS
= SESSIONS*1.1
OPEN_CURSORS
= SESSIONS
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