Using Pxe To Image A New System - Oracle EXADATA X6-2 Installation And Configuration Manual

9. Install Cluster Software
10. Initialize Cluster Software
11. Install Database Software
12. Relink Database with RDS
13. Create ASM Diskgroups
14. Create Databases
15. Apply Security Fixes
16. Install Exachk
17. Setup ASR Alerting
18. Create Installation Summary
19. Resecure Machine
Related Topics:
• Oracle Software Delivery Cloud
• Exadata 12.1.2.2.0 release and patch (20131726) (My Oracle Support Doc ID
2038073.1)
• Exadata Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server Supported Versions (My
Oracle Support Doc ID 888828.1)

5.8.4 Using PXE to Image a New System

To prepare a new Exadata system for deployment using PXE, perform the following
steps:
Obtain the latest Oracle Exadata Deployment Assistant (OEDA).
1.
Run the OEDA configuration tool to generate the configuration files.
2.
Apply power to all the servers.
3.
a.
b.
Run OEDA to generate the preconf.csv file that you will use to image the
4.
system.
Connect to the first database node. You can do this by connecting a laptop to the
5.
ILOM serial management port (9600, 8, N, 1), and then connecting to the console
and log in to the database node.
Obtain the eth0 MAC address for each database node. This is the
6.
field from /SYS/MB/NET0 in the ILOM (or from
a.
b.
Insert the MAC addresses using uppercase characters in the seventh field of the
7.
preconf.csv
two consecutive comma characters (
orhb42-b08-01,us.oracle.com,db,eth0,eth0,Management,00:10:E0:69:34:52,
10.196.3.106,255.255.224.0,10.196.31.250,orhb42-b08-01-priv,Private:active-bond-
ib,
192.168.10.15,255.255.255.0,,,America/Los_Angeles
Create a PXE configuration file for each node.
8.
Below are the recommended options for PXE imaging of versions 12.1.2.1.0 and
above
Database nodes and cells will automatically assign to themselves unused IP
addresses on eth0 in the 172.16 range.
Host names of the nodes will be of the format
Connect to the other database nodes through SSH from the console.
Run to get a list of node names and IP addresses.
ibhosts
file for each node. This field should be empty, that is, you should see
, where N is a number.
nodeN
if logged into the console).
ip addr
). For example:
,,
Chapter 5
Imaging a New System
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