Oracle® Exalytics Machine
Pre-Installation Checklist
Version 2.7, 26-Dec-2012
Customer Information
Field
Entry
Customer Name:
Customer Address:
Customer Contact Information
Primary Contact:
Secondary Contact:
Overall comments on site readiness
Exalytics Pre-Install Worksheets
Please answer all the questions and the information requested. These are required for Exalytics
installation. The following worksheets need to be filled out:
1. Logistics Checklist
2. Physical and Networking Install Worksheet
3. Software Configuration Worksheet
The following worksheets need to be filled out separately for each of the Exalytics machines
installed at the customer site.
Logistics Checklist
Logistics Checklist Considerations
Yes
1.
Do Oracle resources need a badge
to access the facilities at the data
center?
2.
Is computer room access available
for installation personnel?
3.
Are laptops, cell phones, and
cameras allowed in the data
center?
4.
Are there any restrictions on the
number of hours Oracle resource
can work at the data center?
5.
Can Oracle resource access the
Exalytics machine over the
customer’s network?
6.
Username/password to access the
customer network
7.
Any citizenship requirements for
Oracle resource to access the data
center?
Are the Oracle resources required
to have any security clearance?
Please specify the requirements.
8.
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No
N/A
Customer Input
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Hardware Configuration Worksheet
Question
Yes No N/A Customer Input
Hardware and Networking Configuration Worksheet
1. How many Exalytics machines will be
installed during the installation?
2.
If more than one (1) Exalytics machine,
will they be installed under one cluster
installation or they are separate
installations? Please describe / attach
the installation architecture
3.
Each Exalytics machine requires 3
Rack Unit space in a customer
supplied 19” rack. Is the rack space
available and designated for the
install?
4.
Each Exalytics machine requires
1317W peak power. Does the
designated rack have this available
capacity?
5.
Exalytics machines require 200 to
240VAC power. Does the designated
rack have 200 to 240VAC power?
Exadata and InfiniBand Configuration
6.
Are any of the Exalytics machines
expected to be directly connected to
Exadata? If no, skip to question
number 18
7. How many Exalytics Machines are
expected to be connected with
Exadata via InfiniBand?
8. Specify the Exadata size (quarter,
half, full or multi-rack). If multirack, specify the number of racks.
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Question
Yes No N/A Customer Input
9. For direct cabling with the
included 5m passive cable,
Exalytics machines must be racked
within 5m cabling distance of the
Exadata rack (one of the Exadata
racks in case of Multi-rack). Is this
requirement satisfied? Rack are 2M
tall plus an additional 1M to reach the leaf
switches. If Exalytics is on top of rack and
cables are routed under the floor
(3+meters required) the racks must be
next to each other to allow for movement
of the racks during repairs.
10. If answer to the previous question
is No, are InfiniBand cables of
sufficient length available with the
customer to connect Exalytics and
Exadata?
11. Please also specify the length and
type of cable available if the
answer to the previous question is
‘Yes’
12. Is the Exadata machine connected
to any other external customersupplied InfiniBand devices?
13. Please confirm that there is an
available InfiniBand port on each
of the two leaf switches of the
Exadata machine for each
Exalytics system to be connected.
Each Exalytics system connected
to an Exadata will require two
InfiniBand ports (one on each leaf
switch) for proper cabling. The
leaf switches will normally have
ports 5B,6A,6B,7A,7B, 12A free if
there are no external InfiniBand
devices connected."
14. Has the Oracle database listener in
Exadata been configured to listen
on the InfiniBand network?
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Question
Yes No N/A Customer Input
15. Please specify the IP address and
netmask for Exalytics in the
Exadata InfiniBand private
network.
16. Please provide IP address of one of
the database servers in the
InfiniBand network. This will be
used for ping testing.
17. What is the operating system of
the Exadata database nodes
(Linux/Solaris)?
10G Networking
18. Is Exalytics expected to be
configured to connect to 10G
network? If not skip to question 24
19. How many ports (max 2) of 10G
expected to be connected?
20. What is the IP address, netmask
and gateway IP address for the
first 10G port (eth4)? (optional)
21. What is the IP address, netmask
and gateway IP address for the
second 10G port(eth5)? For
bonded configuration with other
10G port, specify “bonded”.
(optional)
22. Are 10G SFP+ cables available to
connect Exalytics to customer
network? If yes, specify copper or
optical cables.
23. If optical cables are used with 10G,
are SFP+ transceivers available to
connect to Exalytics?
1G Networking
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Question
Yes No N/A Customer Input
24. Is Exalytics connected to customer
network via 1G network? If No,
skip to Question 31
25. Please specify the eth0 1G IP
address, netmask and gateway
26. Please specify the eth1 1G IP
address, netmask and gateway
(optional)
27. Please specify the eth2 1G IP
address, netmask and gateway
(optional)
28. Please specify the eth3 1G IP
address, netmask and gateway
(optional)
29. Are all the four 1G interfaces to be
bonded? (optional)
Fiber Channel Networking Configuration
30. Is Exalytics connected to a SAN via
Fiber Channel network?
Other Networking Configuration
31. Please specify the primary and
secondary DNS Servers for
Exalytics.
32. Please specify the domain name
for the Exalytics machine
33. Please specify the IP address,
netmask and gateway for
customer management network.
This is a 10/100Mbps Ethernet
Interface used for management.
34. Confirm that port 22 (ssh) and 443
(https) ports are open for ILOM
access for the administration of
Exalytics machines
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Question
Yes No N/A Customer Input
35. Please specify the host name(s)
assigned for the Exalytics machine
for access from customer network
and their corresponding IP
addresses. For example, if the
customer network access is via 1G
network, the host names must
map to the 1G network interface IP
address.
36. Have the DNS servers been
configured for the above host
names?
37. Specify Time Server IP address
(optional)
38. Specify Time Zone for
configuration (optional)
Automated Service Request Configuration
39. Does Exalytics need ASR
configuration? For ASR
configuration, customer must have
an ASR manager service installed
and running at the customer
network.
40. If ASR configuration required,
provide IP address of ASR
manager. Confirm that ASR
manager is accessible from
management network (ILOM IP
address)
41. If ASR configuration required, is a
proxy needed for ASR manager
access? If yes, provide proxy ip
address and port.
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Software Configuration Worksheet
Complete the following checklist to ensure that the systems component considerations have been addressed.
Question
Yes No
N/A Comment
Customer Questions – General Software Install
1.
Should ACS install and
configure OBIEE and
TimesTen?
2.
Should ACS install Essbase as a
stand-alone MOLAP engine?
3.
Should ACS install Essbase and
Hyperion Planning
Default is “Yes”
Customer Questions – General
4.
Please enter your Customer
Service Identifier (CSI) number
in the “Comment” field.
5.
Is Oracle resource allowed to
accept any license agreement
displayed during the
installation on behalf of the
customer?
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OVM Configuration Worksheet
Complete the following checklist if running multiple separate environments under Oracle Virtual Machine on the
Exalytics machines.
Question
1.
Yes No
N/A
Customer Input
Do you require Oracle
virtualization? Oracle
virtualization is required if
 The software on Exalytics

licensed with Trusted
Partitioning or Hard
Partitioning licensing
You need more than one
instance of OBIEE on a
single Exalytics machine
2.
Specify number of VM to
create (If Essbase and BI are to
be installed they will be
installed on different virtual
machines
3.
Please provide a list of IP
addresses, netmask and
gateways for VM networking,
Number of addresses needed
is n+1, where n=number of VM
to create
For each VM please identify
a) the number of vCPUs
b) the RAM
c) the disk space
5.
4.
6.
7.
8.
Please provide for each of the
VMs:
a) the hostname
b) domain
Provide address and
credentials for host with
Oracle Linux 5.5+ already
installed to be used as OVMM
Please identify an Oracle 11g
Database Server instance to be
used as the OVM Manager
repository. This can be the
same instance as that for the
RCU
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Question
9.
Yes No
N/A
Customer Input
Please confirm that VM
template will be downloaded
and available to access via the
OVMM web interface from an
ftp or http location. VM
Template (.tar.gz file) to be
available via ftp / http so ports
(21, 80, 443) must be open
from the to the OVMM. If this
can’t be done, then ACS will
need to enable http / ftp on the
OVMM Oracle Linux machine
itself .
Software Installation Checklist
Complete the following checklist to understand any specific naming conventions/customizations customer
would like to use for the Exalytics install.
Customer Questions - OBIEE (if OBIEE to be installed)
Question
Yes
1.
Is the OBIEE installation clustered?
2.
If yes above, please provide address
and credentials for the network
store (NFS).
3.
OBIEE requires a relational
database for RCU. Please provide
database location, access credentials
(must have admin access).
If this is an Oracle database, then it
must be AL32UTF8 and
NLS_LENGHT_SEMANTICS must be
BYTE
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No
N/A
Comment
Details, such as:
- Host name
- DB Port
- DB Service name
- DB username/password (nonexpiring) with SYSDBA privileges.
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4.
OS username for Exalytics install
Default “oracle” will be used unless
otherwise specified.
5.
OS group for Exalytics install
Default “oinstall” will be used unless
otherwise specified.
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Question
Yes
No
N/A
Comment
Customer Questions – Essbase and Planning
6.
Do you plan to use, Hyperion Shared
Services on another server? If the
answer is no skip to 13
7.
If answer above is yes, have the EPM
components been patched up to be
compatible with Essbase 11.1.2.2.100
– ie are EPM components at 11.1.2.2?
8.
Please provide the hostname,
credentials for HSS. Without this
information, Essbase cannot be
installed.
9.
Please provide the location and
access credentials for the repository
database for the EPM System.
Without this information, Essbase
cannot be installed. If this is an
Oracle database, then it must be
AL32UTF8.
This can be the same DB instance as
RCU, but needs to be a separate
schema
Details, such as:
- Host name
- DB Port
- DB Service name
- DB username/password (nonexpiring) with SYSDBA privileges
10. Please provide EPM Oracle
instance name on foundation
services server. Default is
epmsystem1
11. Please provide EPM Oracle
instance name on
Exalytics/Essbase server.
Default is epmsystem2
12. Please provide the Floating IP
Address to be used for WebLogic
Administration Server install
13. Provide the EPMS instance name
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Ports Required for Installation
Following is a list of the ports that need to be opened (if they are blocked) for the software installation:
Component
Port/Port Range
OBIEE
Answers & BI Admin Tool
WLS admin Console
Managed server
Coherence
Node Manager
EPMS
Workspace/Shared Services application deployment
Essbase Admin services and Analytics Provider
Services application deployment
WLS admin Console
Managed server
Node Manager
OTHER
Oracle HTTP Server
TimesTen Server
Browser request
Browser Request (SSL)
Database Connectivity
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9704, 9703
7001
7002-7020
8080-8090
5556
28080, 28443
10080, 13080, 10083, 13083
8001
8002-8020
5557
19000
53396, 53397
80
443
Port identified in question # 3 of OBIEE section
above
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