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

14. Create Databases
15. Apply Security Fixes
16. Install Exachk
17. Setup ASR Alerting
18. Create Installation Summary
19. Resecure Machine
Related Topics:
• Oracle Exadata Deployment Assistant Downloads
• Oracle Software Delivery Cloud
• Updates to Imaging Parameters
Some of the command line options for imaging have changed with 12.1.2.1.0 and
above.
• 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)

5.8.5 Using USB to Image a New System

To prepare a new Exadata system for deployment using USB, perform the following
steps:
Obtain the latest Oracle Exadata Deployment Assistant (OEDA).
1.
Run OEDA to generate the
2.
Power on all the servers.
3.
a.
b.
Connect to the first database node. You can do this by connecting a laptop to the
4.
ILOM serial management port (9600, 8, N, 1), and then connecting to the console
and logging in to the database node.
Obtain the eth0 MAC address for each database node. This is the
5.
field from /SYS/MB/NET0 in the ILOM, or use the command
the console.
a.
b.
Insert the MAC addresses using uppercase characters in the seventh field of the
6.
preconf.csv
two consecutive comma characters (
00:10:E0:69:34:52:
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
Run
7.
Oracle Exadata server, and although not required, it is useful to ensure the
preconf.csv
preconf.csv
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 using 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
to verify the generated
ipconf
file is valid before proceeding.
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file that you can use to image the system.
, where N is a number.
nodeN
). For example, if the MAC address is
,,
file. This can be done on any
preconf.csv
Chapter 5
Imaging a New System
fru_macaddress
if logged into
ip addr
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