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Use the following steps to configure the physical servers that host the database VMs:
In the baseline configuration for the Oracle database storage volumes and related VM operating system storage volumes, we applied the following design principles to create volumes:
VolumeGroup | VolumeName | Volume Size(GB) | Purpose |
Salt_VM_OS | Salt_VM_OS-001 | 300 | Guest VM1 OS |
Salt_VM_OS-002 | 300 | Guest VM2 OS | |
Salt_VM_Grid | Grid_VM1-(001-003) | 3x50 | ASM instance parameter file and password file of VM1 |
Grid_VM2-(001-003) | 3x50 | ASM instance parameter file and password file of VM2
| |
Salt_DB1 | DB1_Data-001 | 1200 | Data for VM1 |
DB1_Redo-001 | 60 | Redo for VM1 | |
DB1_Fra-001 | 50 | FRA for VM1 | |
Salt_DB2 | DB2_Data-001 | 1200 | Data for VM2 |
DB2_Redo-001 | 60 | Redo for VM2 | |
DB2_Fra-001 | 50 | FRA for VM2 | |
Salt_VM_Temp | Salt_Temp-001 | 500 | Temp for VM1 |
Salt_Temp-002 | 500 | Temp for VM2 |
There are four front-end I/O modules per node in PowerStore storage system. R750 servers have four HBA ports. Each front-end module and server side HBA port includes a 32 Gbps Fibre Channel.
For the baseline SAN configuration, the HBA ports (initiators) of R750 server and storage front-end I/O modules (targets) are connected to a switch. A storage zone process pairs the HBA ports and storage front-end ports. Each of the pairs create a physical path between the server and the storage. In the baseline configuration we used two HBA ports for each R750 server and two storage front-end modules per node. We paired each HBA port with one PowerStore controller node port, as shown in Figure 2.
This configuration ensures high availability against a single component failure of the stack.
We configured the following two distributed network switches:
The following table shows the details of these two distributed network switches.
Distributed network switches | Uplink ports | Purpose | VM port group |
ESXI-Mgmt DS | On 2x 1GB network (rNDC) vmnic0 and vmnic 1 | ESXi server host management |
|
OraPub-vMotion | 2x25 GbE physical network: vmnic5 and vmnic11 | Oracle Database public network and vMotion network | OraPub |
Network Settings | Jumbo Frames | Disabled |
VMXNET2 adapter | Yes |
The following table shows the physical NIC ports, their associated switches, and port groups. The last two columns, SAN FC A and SAN FC B, are the two dual port HBAs that are connected to the Fibre channel switches. The last row describes the switch ports that are connected the corresponding NICs ports or the HBA ports.
Server |
| ESXi Mgmt Network | Oracle Pub Group | vMotion Network | SAN FC A | SAN FC B |
R750-92O-09 |
| vmnic0(e:1), vmnic1(e:2) | vmnic2(i:1) | vmnic4(2:1) | 1:1, 7:1 | 1:2, 7:2 |
R750-92O-11 |
| vmnic0(e:1), vmnic1(e:2) | vmnic2(i:1) | vmnic4(2:1) | 1:1, 7:1 | 1:2, 7:2 |
R750-92O-13 |
| vmnic0(e:1), vmnic1(e:2) | vmnic2(i:1) | vmnic4(2:1) | 1:1, 7:1 | 1:2, 7:2 |
Switch Ports |
| L42K-92O-SW1:10 On L45K-98Q-SW01 Fex 132 (ACCESS VLAN 379) | S5224-92O-40:11 (TRUNK VLAN 382, 99) | S5224-92O-40:11 (TRUNK VLAN 382, 99) | DS6620-92J:1:8 | DS6620-92J:2:8 |
Figure 3 shows the configuration of the physical and virtual network and theandSAN Fibre Channel Network. In the middle of figure, two virtually distributed switches established the mapping of the virtual network port groups and physical uplinks: