Vagrant Oracle 19c ZFS Appliance VM

Fully automatted Vagrant Ansible Oracle 19c build using NFSv4.1 and dNFS delivered from a ZFS Appliance VirtualBox VM

Pre-requistes

• VirtualBox
• ZFS Appliance VM Simulator
• Vagrant

For details on how to install and configure the ZFS Appliance for NFS and iSCSI block volumes read the following:

• ZFS Appliance VM Installation on VirtualBox https://ronekins.com/2021/02/02/getting-started-with-the-oracle-zfs-storage-appliance-simulator-on-virtualbox/
• Setting up NFSv4.1 and dNFS https://ronekins.com/2022/03/15/oracle-19c-database-nfsv4-1-oracle-direct-nfs-dnfs-and-the-oracle-zfs-storage-appliance-simulator/
• Setting up iSCSI block Luns https://ronekins.com/2022/03/30/how-to-configure-the-oracle-zfs-storage-appliance-vm-simulator-for-iscsi-block-storage/

Preperation

Pull this repo

% git pull https://github.com/raekins/Vagrant-Oracle19-ZFSA.git

Download and copy oracle-database-ee-19c-1.0-1.x86_64.rpm into ../vagrant/software/

Vagarant Virtual Machine Usage

The Vagrant file pull the latest Oracle Linux box from https://yum.oracle.com/boxes/oraclelinux/latest/ol7-latest.box for example:

% vagrant box list
ol7-latest                (virtualbox, 0)

To start Oracle Liunx 7.9 database Virtual Machine type:

$ vagrant up

To logon to the Virtual Machine

$ vagrant ssh

To delete and tidy up the Virtual Machine

$ vagrant destroy
    default: Are you sure you want to destroy the 'default' VM? [y/N] 

Database Management

As the vagrant user sudo to root or oracle, for example

$ sudo su - oracle

The Ansible playbook creates a DBCA silent installation script, this can be run as-is or ammended as required.

dbca_silent_create.sh

There is also a DBCA silent delete script.

dbca_silent_delete.sh

Authors

Ron Ekins, Principal Solutions Architect, Office of the CTO at Pure Storage

Oracle ACE Director

@ronekins