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1 | EXPANDING ORACLE’S VIRTUAL COMPUTE APPLIANCE USING ORACLE ZFS STORAGE APPLIANCE

Introduction

Oracle’s Virtual Compute Appliance is a converged infrastructure solution that combines preconfigured

networking, servers, and storage into a convenient package that system administrators can easily

deploy into an existing data center. Each Virtual Compute Appliance arrives in a single rack with up to

25 servers (compute nodes), as well as multiple InfiniBand and Ethernet switches. Virtual Compute

Appliance has been designed to scale dynamically using built-in software automation to accommodate

the expansion of its server and storage space. Combined with the virtualization power of Oracle VM,

the Virtual Compute Appliance provides the perfect general-purpose solution for rapidly and easily

bringing online a new rack into a cloud environment.

The existing storage within the Virtual Compute Appliance is a small Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance

(the Oracle ZFS Storage ZS3-ES model), which is located in the bottom of the rack. It contains two

clustered 1U controllers and a single disk tray supplied with twenty 900 GB SAS data drives. This

design could be limiting for high-performance database workloads as well as for backup and recovery

needs. To address these requirements, the Virtual Compute Appliance has been qualified for use with

an additional external Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance. This document describes how to increase the

storage capacity of the Virtual Compute Appliance by adding a new rack containing a larger Oracle

ZFS Storage Appliance cluster.

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