Exadata Software Executables And Software Locations


Compute Server software’s Locations and Executables

/u01 – GI and RDBMS binaries
/opt/oracle.cellos  - cell OS configuration,  executables
/opt/oracle.SupportTools – Support and configuration file
/opt/oracle.SupportTools/onecommand  - OneCommand files used for install/config
/etc/oracle/cell/network-config/cellip.ora –   Infiniband IP address for each cell
/etc/oracle/cell/network-config/cellinit.ora – IP address of the cell
/opt/oracle.oswatcher  - OS Watcher
/etc/rc.d/rc.Oracle.Exadata – init script for Exadata


Cell Server software’s locations and Executables
/opt/oracle
/opt/oracle.cellos
/opt/oracle.cellos/cell.conf                        cell configuration
/opt/oracle.cellos/Check                          validate hardware profile
/opt/oracle.cellos/ExadataDiagCollector.sh         collect cell diagnostic data
/opt/oracle.cellos/functions_cellos

/opt/oracle.cellos/imageinfo
dcli -l root -g cell_group imageinfo

/opt/oracle.cellos/imagehistory
                dcli –l root –g ~/cell_group imagehistory | grep Active

/opt/oracle.cellos/i                                     Diplay/config cell network enviornment
/opt/orac                                                   Kernel ISO image
/opt/oracle.cellos/MegaCli64
/opt/oracle.cellos/patch
/opt/oracle.cellos/restore_cellboot.sh
/opt/oracle.cellos/validations_cell
/opt/oracle.cellos/vldconfig
/opt/oracle.cellos/vldrun                             Configure cell validation
/opt/oracle/cell[VERSION]                                                                          – display current cell software
/opt/oracle/cell[VERSION]/cellsrv/deploy/config                                             – deployment files for active image
/opt/oracle/cell[VERSION]/cellsrv/deploy/config/cellinit.ora      – cell init parameter

var/log/oracle
var/log/oracle/cellos      Location of Trace files for cell services,c ell server startup / shutdown, others
var/log/oracle/diag/asm               Location storage cell related events

Backup Exadata Storage and Compute Servers

Backup Storage Servers:
Oracle does not support installation of any software of any type.  You’re not required to backup your storage server, Oracle automatically create backups of the OS and cell services software.  Oracle automatically maintains copies of the latest cell boot images and cell server software in /opt/oracle.cellos/iso/LastGoodConfig.  In addition, there are active and inactive system volume partitions to allow Oracle performing both in-partition and out-of partion patches.  During the patching activities, Oracle performs inactive partition first with out-of-partition and mark these partitions as active when successful. 

cd /opt/oracle.cellos/iso/lastGoodConfig

To display its contents, you need to mount the CELLBOOT USB flash drive partition.  Login as root, run fdisk –l to find your internal USB drive partition, then mount it (mount /dev/sdm1 /mnt/usb).  You can also creating a cell bot image on an external USB drive for backup redundancy purpose.

Backup the Compute Node:
You can install third-party backup software and agents on the Exadata Compute nodes.  Your backups will need to be done over either 1GbE, 10GbE, or or high speed infiniBand.  You can also use NET3 as the backup network. 

To see the compute node free storage capacity

vgdisplay | egrep '(VGExaDb|Alloc PE|Free  PE)'
  VG Name               VGExaDb
  Alloc PE / Size       59904 / 234.00 GB
  Free  PE / Size       153827 / 600.89 GB