Storage Appliance Overview; Introduction To Projects; Introduction To Shares; Configuration Overview - Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Owner's Manual

8.3 Storage Appliance Overview

This section introduces projects and shares.

8.3.1 Introduction to Projects

All file systems and LUNs are grouped into projects. A project defines a common
administrative control point for managing shares. All shares within a project can share
common settings, and quotas can be enforced at the project level in addition to the
share level. Projects can also be used solely for grouping logically related shares
together, so their common attributes (such as accumulated space) can be accessed from
a single point.By default, the appliance creates node-level projects based on the
number of compute nodes in your Exalogic machine when a storage pool is first
configured. For example, for a compute node with the host name abc, the default
project abc_1 is created. You can create all shares within this default project.
However, Oracle recommends that you create additional projects for organizational
purposes.

8.3.2 Introduction to Shares

Shares are file systems and LUNs that are exported over supported data protocols to
clients of the appliance. File systems export a file-based hierarchy and can be accessed
over NFS over IPoIB in the case of Exalogic machines. The project/share tuple is a
unique identifier for a share within a pool. Multiple projects can contain shares with
the same name, but a single project cannot contain shares with the same name. A
single project can contain both file systems and LUNs, and they share the same
namespace.
For a list of default shares created in the Exalogic machine, see
Configuration.

8.4 Configuration Overview

The storage appliance in the Exalogic machine is configured at different stages of the
Exalogic machine setup and enterprise deployment.
The following are the configuration stages:
•

Initial Configuration

• Connect Storage Heads to the Management Network and Accessing the Web
Interface
• Cluster Network Configuration
• Network Configuration Options
• Default Storage Configuration
• Custom Configuration
8.4.1 Initial Configuration
The initial configuration involves networking configuration for the NET0 interface,
configuration of ILOM IP addresses, launch of service processor console, launch of
several client network services, and the layout of the storage pool for standalone
Storage Appliance Overview
Default Storage
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