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HP Cloud Map for CloudSystem for Oracle RAC and Fusion Middleware on VMware: Importing the template A VMware and HP 3PAR Reference Architecture for Oracle Technical white paper Table of contents Executive summary .......................................................................................................................2 Solution environment .....................................................................................................................3 Overview.....................................................................................................................................3 Resource pool requirements ...........................................................................................................4 Storage pool requirements .........................................................................................................4 Networking requirements ...........................................................................................................4 Server pool requirements ...........................................................................................................4 HP Cloud Map .............................................................................................................................4 Download the HP Cloud Map.....................................................................................................4 Import the template ...................................................................................................................6 Edit server group configuration .................................................................................................10 Saving or changing configuration .............................................................................................11 Importing the workflows ..............................................................................................................12 Review the template ....................................................................................................................23 Save and publish the template ..................................................................................................24 Create the service .......................................................................................................................25 Successful deployment .................................................................................................................28 Insight Orchestration status.......................................................................................................28 Database creation using Oracle Enterprise Manager ..................................................................29 Oracle SOA domain customization ...........................................................................................29 Post deployment .........................................................................................................................30 Summary ...................................................................................................................................32 For more information...................................................................................................................33

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Page 1: VMware and HP 3PAR Reference Architecture for Oracle

HP Cloud Map for CloudSystem for Oracle RAC

and Fusion Middleware on VMware: Importing

the template

A VMware and HP 3PAR Reference Architecture for Oracle

Technical white paper

Table of contents

Executive summary ....................................................................................................................... 2

Solution environment ..................................................................................................................... 3

Overview..................................................................................................................................... 3

Resource pool requirements ........................................................................................................... 4 Storage pool requirements ......................................................................................................... 4 Networking requirements ........................................................................................................... 4 Server pool requirements ........................................................................................................... 4

HP Cloud Map ............................................................................................................................. 4 Download the HP Cloud Map ..................................................................................................... 4 Import the template ................................................................................................................... 6 Edit server group configuration ................................................................................................. 10 Saving or changing configuration ............................................................................................. 11

Importing the workflows .............................................................................................................. 12

Review the template .................................................................................................................... 23 Save and publish the template .................................................................................................. 24

Create the service ....................................................................................................................... 25

Successful deployment ................................................................................................................. 28 Insight Orchestration status ....................................................................................................... 28 Database creation using Oracle Enterprise Manager .................................................................. 29 Oracle SOA domain customization ........................................................................................... 29

Post deployment ......................................................................................................................... 30

Summary ................................................................................................................................... 32

For more information ................................................................................................................... 33

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Executive summary

For IT teams, infrastructure provisioning can be both time-consuming and resource-draining. Each time a business unit,

application owner, or development team requests resources, a lengthy process begins. IT experts have to capture

system requirements, design the solution from scratch, and then identify the resources that are currently available and

those that need to be procured. HP Matrix Operating Environment (Matrix OE) infrastructure orchestration enables

your IT organization to provision infrastructure consistently and automatically from pools of shared resources using a

self-service portal. You can rapidly provision resources ranging from a single virtual machine to complex multi-tier

environments with physical and virtual servers and storage systems.

Oracle Real Application Clusters or better known as Oracle RAC is Oracle’s popular cluster database technology

utilizing a shared cache architecture. Oracle Fusion Middleware (OFM) is Oracle’s complete family of application

infrastructure products that uses WebLogic, Oracle’s Java application server. The OFM product suite ranges from

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to enterprise portals, and is integrated with Oracle Applications and

technologies to speed implementation and lower the cost of management and change.

HP Cloud Maps were developed to accelerate the creation of a service catalog by providing a guide to automate

infrastructure and application provisioning and deployment. The HP Cloud Map for CloudSystem for Oracle RAC and

Fusion Middleware on VMware virtual machines includes a template and associated workflows, which provisions

RAC database servers and OFM SOA Suite clusters quickly and automatically in a repeatable fashion. This document

describes the process to import the HP Cloud Map supplied template into target systems and customize them for use.

To review this reference architecture, and for further information on the installation and configuration, check the white

paper Inside the HP Cloud Map for CloudSystem for Oracle RAC and Fusion Middleware on VMware.

This Cloud Map differs from the one with the same name without CloudSystem in the title in that this one uses HP

Server Automation (SA) interfacing with VMware and the other uses VMware directly. Server Automation manages

the complex data center environment and is used in CloudSystem for Matrix and CloudSystem for Enterprise for

larger, more complex environments. The Cloud Map that uses VMware directly is directed mainly at smaller

environments.

Target audience: This document is for IT managers, database and system administrators and experienced users who

wish to learn more about the capabilities of HP Matrix OE and how it can be used to provision Oracle RAC and

OFM SOA Suite clusters. Knowledge of the HP CloudSystem Matrix and the underlying components will be helpful

when reading this white paper. Please see the For more information section at the end of this paper for links to

additional information on these topic areas.

This white paper describes validations performed in November 2011.

Note

HP Matrix Operating Environment was previously referred to as HP Insight

Dynamics.

HP Matrix OE infrastructure orchestration was previously referred to as HP

Insight Orchestration (IO).

The HP Matrix Operating Environment uses a subset of Operations Orchestration

capability. HP Cloud Maps leverage workflows that are authored using this

subset of Operations Orchestration.

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Solution environment

The instructions in this document assume you have already set up your CloudSystem Matrix, HP Virtual Connect (VC)

infrastructure, and Central Management Server (CMS). You will need to specify the network connections required for

Oracle RAC and OFM SOA Suite in the template definition.

This template was created using HP Insight Dynamics 6.3 Update 1. The server where Insight Dynamics is installed is

known as CMS. To download HP BladeSystem firmware, go to http://www.hp.com/go/matrixcompatibility.

SAN Storage is required for this Cloud Map. The testing was done on an HP 8400 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA)

and then on an HP 3PAR T800 Storage System.

The firmware and software versions used during template creation are listed in Table 1.

Table 1. Firmware and software levels

Overview

The HP Cloud Map for CloudSystem for Oracle RAC and Fusion Middleware on VMware provides a template,

workflows and scripts used to deploy a RAC cluster and an OFM cluster on four virtual machines using HP Server

Automation. HP Server Automation software provides lifecycle management for enterprise servers and automates the

deployment of applications. It provides a proven scalable solution for establishing a baseline, provisioning, patching

configuration management, script execution, and compliance management—all across physical and virtual servers.

HP Server Automation helps customers increase efficiency and reduce risk by automating manual operations for

complex environments. The Cloud Map with the same name without the term CloudSystem is meant for smaller,

simpler environments and can use VMware directly. Using the Cloud Map you can provision RAC and OFM SOA

servers quickly and automatically in a repeatable fashion. This will automate the OS installation on the servers, tune

kernel parameters for RAC and OFM, modify system configuration files and apply any required patches.

System and other requirements for the template and a discussion of the provisioning, VMware vCenter and ESXi

installation, SA installation, Red Hat Linux operating system installation, the Oracle RAC installation process, and the

OFM SOA Suite installation process are provided in the white paper Inside the HP Cloud Map for CloudSystem for

Oracle RAC and Fusion Middleware on VMware. Before you begin to deploy the Cloud Map, make sure that you

have read and followed the ―Cloud Map prerequisites and caveats‖ , ―VMware setup‖ and ―Server Automation‖

sections in that paper.

Component Version

HP Insight Dynamics 6.3 Update 1

HP Onboard Administrator 3.21

HP Virtual Connect Manager 3.17

Servers HP ProLiant BL460c G7

Hypervisor Manager VMware vCenter 4.1.0

Hypervisor VMware ESXi 4.1 Update 1

Virtual Machine Operating System Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5

Database Oracle 11gR2 (11.2.0.2) RAC

Middleware Oracle Fusion Middleware SOA

(including WebLogic Server) 11g

Server Automation 9.10

HP Integrated Lights-Out 1.15 (iLO 3)

QLogic QMH2562 4Gb Fiber

Channel Adapter

Driver: 8.03; Firmware: 4.04.09

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Resource pool requirements

Storage pool requirements

50 GB for boot storage for each database RAC system (customizable).

A single 100 GB ASM disk (that is named for Oracle Automatic Storage Management database disks) for

database storage that is shared among the RAC database servers (customizable to fit your database storage

requirements).

20 GB for boot storage for each OFM system (customizable.)

We will describe below how to customize the template to support your requirements. In order for the template to

deploy successfully, you will need to pre-configure a storage pool entry for each server.

Networking requirements

The Cloud Map requires three networks. The names of the networks are the same for the physical networks seen by

the Virtual Connect modules and seen by VMware ESXi server. Only virtual networks can be used for VMware

templates. Here are descriptions of the three networks:

PRIV_147: Network to install Linux. The primary network used between vCenter, ESXi and SA servers to install Linux

virtual machines.

PRIVATE: RAC and OFM private network between the four systems for this application to communicate, which is

also the RAC interconnect network.

PUBLIC: Public external network between all four systems for access to other systems in the company and for external

web browsing. The DNS server must be updatable by deployed RAC servers.

Note:

Network names, VLAN_147, PRIVATE and PUBLIC are hardcoded in the

FindPrimaryIPAddressByLogicalServerId.xsl.

In case you are using different network names in your setup, the names have to

be updated accordingly. Only PRIV_147 should have a DHCP server in it.

Server pool requirements

The Cloud Map template ―Virtual_DBRAC_OFM‖ requires four virtual machines: two for RAC and two for OFM. The

multi-server environment is for a light testing workload and provides for some high availability. It is recommended to

have at least 1GB memory per vCPU and only one WebLogic instance for every 2 vCPUs in the server. Depending on

the RAC and SOA application load in question, you may want to increase the number of servers.

HP Cloud Map

This section describes the process for importing and customizing the downloadable template and workflows.

Download the HP Cloud Map

Go to www.hp.com/go/cloudmaps/oracle. Download the HP Cloud Map for CloudSystem for Oracle RAC and

Fusion Middleware on VMware to your desktop. This will be formatted as a zip file, so you should find an

appropriate directory and unzip the file. The file will contain:

The HP IO template to be imported into HP Insight Dynamics infrastructure orchestration

Workflows to be imported into HP Operations Orchestration (OO)

XSL files to be installed on the HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) server

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The names of all of the files in the Cloud Map, their descriptions, and file destinations are provided in Table 2.

Table 2. HP Cloud Map for CloudSystem for Oracle RAC and Fusion Middleware on VMware contents and where to copy files

Filename Description Copy To Server Instructions

Virtual_DBRAC_OFM.xml HP IO template for 2 RAC and 2

OFM Linux virtual machines

Copy to c:\temp on CMS for future HP IO

template import discussed in the Import the

template section.

vSARAC_OFM_ReadMe.txt Read me file

vSARACOFMworkflow.zip Workflow to deploy Oracle RAC

and OFM SOA Suite. Composed

of many files. Workflow is

imported into Operations

Orchestration.

Unzip on CMS server in a directory under

c:\temp.

vSARACOFMxsl.zip xsl files that manipulate the

deployment xml file

(c:\tmp\initalrequest.xml) and

pull out appropriate list data for

workflows. These files are to

extracted and restored to

c:\program files\hp\insight

orchestration\conf\oo on the

CMS server.

Unzip to c:\Program Files\HP\Insight

Orchestration\conf\OO on CMS

vSARACdoc.zip Automated workflow

documentation (optional; not

used in import)

(Optional) Unzip in c:\temp on CMS. Go to

browser on CMS and read RAC workflow

documentation directed by the index.html file.

vSAOFMdoc.zip Automated workflow

documentation (optional; not

used in import)

(Optional) Unzip in c:\temp on CMS. Go to

browser on CMS and read RAC workflow

documentation directed by the index.html file.

Oracle RAC Files

vSARACFiles.zip Needed RAC files for deployment

that need to be extracted to CMS

server in c:\tmp. These files are

RAC installation response files

and shell scripts to install RAC on

Linux.

Unzip on CMS server in a directory under

c:\tmp.

Oracle Fusion Middleware Files

doSOAinstall.sh Master shell script run from HP IO

to install OFM SOA Suite

onto Linux

Copy to c:\tmp on CMS

installSOA.tar Files used to install OFM SOA

Suite onto Linux.

Put in c:\tmp on the CMS server. The

SetUpOFM workflow will transfer this file to

the Linux OFM server to complete the

installation.

ks_vmware.cfg This file states the options

anaconda needs for VMware to

install Linux silently (Optional)

Optional file – not used in import.

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Note

C:\tmp files are ones that the Insight Orchestration tool creates or uses. If they

are not in that directory, the Cloud Map will not be successful. C:\temp is for

scratch files.

Virtual_DBRAC_OFM.xml installs RAC so a RAC database can be created and imported. It also sets up and

configures a WebLogic/SOA admin server and a managed server on the OFM servers. This template can be

expanded to have one admin server and a number of managed servers. The initial template can be used for a small

setup or to debug any initial configuration issues you may have.

Import the template

From the Insight Orchestration Designer portal, select the ―Import‖ button as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1. Insight Orchestration Designer

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The following dialog will be presented. You should find the template file you downloaded, select it here, and press

―Open‖. This will import the template into HP IO. The ―Virtual_DBRAC_OFM‖ template shown in Figure 2 is chosen.

Figure 2. Upload a template

Because the template defines networking, storage and bootable disk requirements, you will encounter the warning

shown in Figure 3 upon import. The problem is resolved later. This is normal; you will need to reconfigure the boot

properties to select a bootable disk on your system. This will be described later.

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Figure 3. The import states that the rh5_vmware_seq does not exist even if it is present.

After import, you should see a template that looks like Figure 4. You will notice that the Validation Status is showing

errors (see red circle). If you select the Show Issues button, it will highlight the areas requiring attention.

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Figure 4. Template with Validation Status showing errors

Figure 5 shows two errors that need attention - highlighted in red. They state that the OFMAppServer and

DatabaseRAC server pools do not exist in this installation. We will now address these issues.

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Figure 5. Two errors in server template validation

Edit server group configuration

Next we will address the server configuration. Right click on both OFMAppServer icon and DatabaseRAC icon and

select ―Edit Server Group Configuration‖ as shown in Figure 6.

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Figure 6. Configuring the server group

The SA sequence for installing Red Hat 5.5 on virtual machines must be selected for both server groups. In this case,

rh5_vmware_seq is checked as shown in the Figure 7.

Figure 7. Confirm the rh5_vmware_seq to install on the virtual machines.

Saving or changing configuration

As shown in Figure 8, the template is now valid as shown by the checkmark circled in red. Save the HP IO template

by pressing the Save icon circled in red.

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Optionally, you can also modify the template before saving. You can change the number of vCPUs for the RAC

and/or OFM servers, change the amount of memory allocated to each, and/or change the size of the ASM virtual

disk.

Figure 8. Imported template is ready to be saved, but customization can also be done.

Importing the workflows

Before you can complete the required changes to the template, you need to import the workflows that are used in the

template. Launch HP Operations Orchestration Studio either from the desktop icon or from the Start menu and login

as admin user and specify the password you used during Insight Dynamics installation.

Select Repository and then Add Repository (see Figure 9).

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Figure 9. Add Repository

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Type in a Repository Name and select the location where you copied the repository files. The example in Figure 10

shows a Repository Name of vCloudSARACOFM and opening up the repository at C:\temp\vSARACOFMworkflow

on the CMS server. Click OK to open the repository in Studio.

Figure 10. Add Repository Name

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Click on Repository and then Set Target Repository and select your Default Public Repository.

Figure 11. Set Target Repository

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Click on Repository again and then Publish Source To Target – Preview. Circled in red in Figure 12 are the objects to

be published. Click on the Apply icon circled in green in Figure 12. Note that in this private repository are the

routines to be added circled in blue.

Figure 12. Publish Source To Target – Preview

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If desired enter a comment for the imported workflow and click on OK.

Figure 13. Publish workflow with comment in white box

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A confirmation message is displayed as shown in Figure 14. The workflow has been added to the default repository.

Figure 14. Publish completed successfully

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Click on Repository, then Open Repository and select Default Public Repository.

Figure 15. Open Default Repository

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After importing the CloudRAClinux and OFMlinuxforRACVM (bundled in CloudRAClinux) workflows, they appear in

the left pane. The workflow utilized by the template appears in Figure 16. The other workflows that appear and are

not circled are for other Cloud Maps unrelated to this one.

Figure 16. Workflow for Virtual_DBRAC_OFM template

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Next we will add the System Properties that are required for both workflows. Expand the Configuration folder, then

right click on System Properties and select New as shown in Figure 17.

Figure 17. Start adding System Properties

Enter AdminUser for the System Property name and click on OK.

Figure 18. System administrator login

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Specify the name of the AdminUser you want to create in the Property Value field. The example below sets

AdminUser to be Administrator.

Figure 19. Give System Property a specific value

Several more System Properties need to be added. Table 3 lists the required System Properties and descriptions.

Following the method described above, create a new System Property for each property listed in the table.

Table 3. System Properties required for the CloudRAClinux and OFMlinuxforRACVM workflows

Property Description

AdminUser

Administrative User for CMS Server, which is normally a Microsoft® Windows® server,

although it doesn’t have to be. For Windows, the value of this field is normally

Administrator. [For both workflows]

AdminPassword AdminUser’s password [For both workflows]

GridOraclePassword Password for properties RemoteCommandGridUser and RemoteCommandOracleUser on

RAC systems. [For RAC workflow]

RACClusterName Name of RAC Cluster. Default name is raccluster. [For RAC workflow]

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Property Description

RemoteCommandGridUser The grid user (usually grid) [For RAC workflow]

RemoteCommandOracleUser The oracle user (usually oracle) [For RAC workflow]

RemoteCommandUser Administrative user for Linux server to install OFM SOA (usually root) [For OFM workflow]

RemoteCommandPassword Password for RemoteCommandUser [For OFM workflow]

You can now save your modifications and close Operations Orchestration.

Review the template

After importing the workflows, return to Insight Orchestration Designer to review the workflow associated with the

template. Click on the ―Workflows‖ button (circled in red in Figure 20) to attach the workflows to the template.

Figure 20. Attaching the workflows to the Virtual_DBRAC_OFM template

In Figure 21, each workflow must be associated with the template. This is not done automatically.

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Figure 21. Execution points for workflows

The two main workflows, CloudRAClinux and SetupOFM, are called at the end of the Create Service execution point.

The CaptureXML workflow is strictly for debugging. This workflow will write the XML to a file in the c:\tmp folder of

the CMS when the service is created. The generated XML can then be easily copied into Operations Orchestration

Studio for debugging. Verify the execution point for each workflow is properly set in the template.

The CloudRAClinux must come before the SetupOFM workflow because the RAC workflow is executed first. To add

the workflows, click on the ―Add‖ button that is circled in red and then choose to add in the workflow by specifying

the tree path. The initial path for both CaptureXML and CloudRAClinux is /Library/Hewlett-Packard/Insight

Orchestration/Service Actions/CloudRAClinux. For SetupOFM, the path is /Library/Hewlett-Packard/Insight

Orchestration/Service Actions/OFMlinuxforRACVM.

In Figure 21, also note the red circled checkbox. Each of the three workflows has a checkbox marked as specified in

Table 4.

Table 4. Workflow Execution points

Workflow name Execution point

CaptureXML Create Service: Beginning

CloudRAClinux Create Service: End

SetUpOFM Create Service: End

Save and publish the template

Now the template Validation Status should be green, so we can save and publish the template. Insert comments in the

Notes section that will help your users know when to choose this template, click on the checkbox next to ―Published‖,

and click on the Save icon to save the template.

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Figure 22. Publish the updated template

Your users will now be able to select and deploy this template from the HP IO User Portal.

Create the service

Once the template edit is complete and the server and storage pools have been created, a service can be created. In

the Create Service window, enter a service name. The example in Figure 23 shows a Hostname Completion string of

―rac‖. Using a hostname completion string of server, the RAC virtual machines have names of vdrac01 and vdrac02.

The OFM virtual machines have names vfmrac01 and vfmrac02.

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Figure 23. Create the service

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If you wish to change the Lease End date, Email address, or Server Pools selection, click on the Options button to

make your modifications. (See Figure 24). Note that the Selected Server Pool chosen is the esx host server pool

circled in red, which is the server pool that holds the ESXi server. In the Available Server Pools area, note that

Integrity servers and x86 servers circled in green are not chosen because they happen to be physical server pools

and do not qualify for deployment of virtual machine HP IO templates.

Figure 24. Service options

Deployment of a Virtual_DB_11_22 service begins after you click Submit. If all the required resources are available,

logical servers will be created and VMware virtual machines will be cloned on disk areas carved out of the VMware

data store. After the Linux operating systems are deployed, the workflows will run and complete the installation by

running a shell script. Oracle RAC will be installed first using Oracle’s runInstaller and then OFM SOA Suite will be

installed by utilizing Oracle’s apply clone functionality. In addition, the SOA domain will be unpacked.

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Successful deployment

Insight Orchestration status

As shown in Figure 25, Insight Orchestration reports the successful completion of creating the service using the

template Virtual_DBRAC_OFM.

Figure 25. Two RAC and two OFM virtual machines successfully deployed automatically in 63 minutes

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Database creation using Oracle Enterprise Manager

As shown in Figure 26, part of the validation process for the template deployment is successfully creating a RAC

database using Oracle Enterprise Manager. This is a manual step done by the customer after Insight Orchestration

completes. The Cloud Map does not create a demo database because it is expected that a customer will have their

own database with their own specific data for the deployed servers.

Figure 26. Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g shows created clouddb RAC database

Oracle SOA domain customization

After infrastructure orchestration has completed the installation of RAC and OFM SOA Suite, deploy your specific

SOA application into the admin console, configure the SOA domain per your specific environment, and then bring

up the admin server and managed server. See the WebLogic Server Administration Console in Figure 27. As with the

RAC database, a vanilla or demo instance is not used because the customer will have specific OFM products that

need to be deployed with a specific domain.

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Figure 27. WebLogic admin console shows that admin server and one managed server are up. The other managed servers are

reserved for expansion.

Post deployment

After deploying the database, especially if you have multiple development / test RAC instances, you may wish to use

HP Storage Essentials Storage Resource Management (SRM) Database Viewer to manage your RAC databases on HP

3PAR, EVA, or other storage. Storage Essentials SRM Database Viewer is an optional plug-in component to extend

end-to-end capacity, performance, and dependency management capabilities from application to storage spindles.

Figure 28 shows an example of HP Storage Essentials managing a RAC database using Oracle ASM.

For more information on HP Storage Essentials, see the following Storage Essentials Data Sheet

http://h20195.www2.hp.com/V2/GetPDF.aspx/4AA0-1720ENW.pdf, or product page for HP Storage Essentials

Storage Resource Management Standard Edition Software – Overview & Features,

http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/software/bto/srmgt/standard/index.html.

You can access manuals at http://support.openview.hp.com/selfsolve/manuals by searching under ―storage

essentials srm‖ and looking for the latest release. You will need to login to HP Passport.

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Figure 28. HP Storage Essentials SRM Database Viewer topology for Oracle RAC using ASM volumes

HP 3PAR has partnered with Oracle to promote Oracle ASM and thin provisioning for most of the past decade. 3PAR

thin provisioning and thin reclamation technology

Provide a dramatic reduction in storage cost

Simplify database storage management

Enable resource optimization

Don’t sacrifice performance

To learn how you can take advantage of thin provisioning for your RAC database, see

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/oracle-3par-wp-final-0-130057.pdf and

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/oracle-asru-3par.pdf.

As a result of joint performance testing, Oracle and HP concluded that using HP 3PAR thin provisioning in conjunction

with ASM and the database autoextend feature yielded minimal performance impact. Since this initial development

with 3PAR, Oracle has actively supported all vendors implementing thin provisioning. It should be noted that the

VMware boot disks are not thinly provisioned, just the ASM shared disk for the database.

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Summary

Built on the HP BladeSystem, CloudSystem Matrix is a Converged Infrastructure platform providing pools of computer,

storage and network resources that can be quickly deployed. The goals of Matrix are to help accelerate provisioning,

to optimize IT capacity across physical and virtual environments and to ensure predictable delivery and service levels.

This enables companies to address some of the key datacenter pain points facing them today including rising costs,

low utilization rates, and inflexible environments.

With Matrix, powered by HP Matrix Operating Environment, application services can be quickly provisioned using

infrastructure orchestration templates. This enables IT organizations to develop service-driven, standardized

application deployment processes. The HP Cloud Map for CloudSystem for Oracle RAC and Fusion Middleware on

VMware detailed in this paper provides guidance to automate the installation of RAC and provisioning of a SOA

instance automatically and quickly in a repeatable fashion.

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For more information

HP CloudSystem Matrix http://www.hp.com/go/bladesystemmatrix

HP Cloud Map download site http://www.hp.com/go/cloudmaps

HP Cloud Map download site for Oracle software http://www.hp.com/go/cloudmaps/oracle

HP Matrix Operating Environment

(delivered through HP Insight Dynamics) http://www.hp.com/go/matrixoe

http://www.hp.com/go/matrixoperatingenvironment

HP Insight Dynamics (Matrix OE)

infrastructure orchestration documentation http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/solutions/insig

htdynamics/info-library.html

HP BladeSystem http://www.hp.com/go/bladesystem

HP Server Automation http://www8.hp.com/us/en/software/software-

product.html?compURI=tcm:245-937078

VMware http://www.vmware.com/support

http://www.hp.com/go/vmware

Oracle 11g Database http://www.oracle.com/pls/db112/homepage

Oracle Fusion Middleware http://www.oracle.com/us/products/middleware/inde

x.html

Oracle Cloning http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E15523_01/co

re.1111/e10105/clone.htm

HP BladeSystem technical resources http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/cache/3166

82-0-0-0-121.html

HP 3PAR Storage Systems http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF05

a/12169-304616-5044010-5044010-5044010-

5044216.html

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