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Oracle Database Appliance

OAKd : ODA Storage Monitoring

Ruggero Citton
Product Development Technical Manager
RACPack Team ODA Product Development
June 2016

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OAKd : (Changes since 2015)

1 High Capacity Disk Support (8TB)


2 DE3-24C (SAS3) JBOD Support
3 Other enhancements
4 OL6 support
5 JBOD addition enhancements
6 Critical bug fixes

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OAKd (8TB disk support)

Support 8TB disk (12.1.2.4 onwards) (in X5-2 hardware)


Transparent support to the customer
Support mixed mode of 8TB and 4TB disks

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OAKd (DE3-24C support)

DE3-24C (SAS3) JBOD support from 12.1.2.7 onwards (June


2016) (*)
Supported in X5-2 systems and later
Mixed mode support of DE2 and DE3 (any combination)
Most valid cases tested and validated
Support for both online and offline addition

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OAKd (DE3-24C support )

Current firmware version : 0291


oakcli show enclosure command enhanced to work with
DE3 enclosures
oakcli show expander displays expander details
Details about the enclosure including temperature, RPMs of
components like fan, power supply, midplane, IOM etc.,

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OAKd (Other enhancements)
Internal reinitialize code enhanced and fixed (primarily for
lab testing) with inter-node comm. enabled for OAKD to
communicate in cluster mode.
Validate the disk parameter is correct

If new disk is part of ASM or has ASM signature, if yes abort

Verify if executed in master node and also if both nodes are active

Add logging in OAKD and in SYSLOG

Some of these checks get percolated to other areas like disk


addition, JBOD addition etc., in both offline, online mode.
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OAKd (Other enhancements )

oakcli add disk <resource> (command to add disk to


OAK/ASM in offline manner) enhanced.
Prompts option to add to only OAK or to both OAK & ASM.

In X5-2, added new hardware monitoring commands for


InfiniBand card and Internal MegaRAID controller.
(oakcli show ib, oakcli show iraid)

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OAKd (OL6 support)

Support for OL6 in 12.1.2.6 onwards


Fix / enhance all the storage tools to work in OL6
environment (OS command options / flags etc., change)
Fix changes due to multipath file permissions / users etc., in
OL6

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OAKd (JBOD addition improvements)

12.1.2.6 has enhanced checks added for JBOD addition


Check all the disks of storage addition for ASM signature and abort if
signature found

Extensive logging in both syslog and in oakd. Audit trail of the


command invocation

Reduced the 2nd JBOD addition time from ~30 mins to ~ 7 mins

Does not have any impact on the ASM rebalance time though

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