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Creating Standalone Oracle Database

1. To create a standalone Oracle database, follow the steps described below:
   Go to Compute, click New and then select Create Standalone Oracle Database on the Create New Virtual Machine page.
2. Create virtual machine. For how to create a virtual machine, see the 2.2.1.2 Creating Virtual Machine section.

Name : Specifies a distinguishable name for the virtual machine.

Datastore : Specifies a datastore to store virtual machine. HA is configurable only when a shared datastore is selected.

Run on Node : Specifies the node to run the virtual machine.

Guest OS : Specifies an operating system for the virtual machine. The following types of guest OSes are supported: Windows, Linux, Sangfor and others.

Processor : Specifies the number of virtual sockets and cores per socket for the virtual machine respectively.

Memory : Specifies the memory size for the virtual machine. The minimum is 512 MB, and the maximum is 1TB.

3. Install guest OS.

After VM name and guest OS are specified, click Next to install OS. If the image file of a specified guest OS has not been uploaded to Sangfor HCI platform, you may upload it in the same way of uploading an ISO image introduced in the 2.2.1.2 Creating Virtual Machine section.

After guest OS is installed, vmTools must be installed before proceed to next step.

4. Configure use of disk.

In this step, you need to configure log and quorum disks. More specifically, specify Disk Name, Total Number, Size of Each Disk on the following page.

Log Disk: It is used to store Oracle database logs.
Data Disk: It is used to store Oracle database data.

5. After you have configured standalone Oracle database, you may download deployment guide by clicking Download Deployment Guide in the following figure.
   

Creating Oracle RAC Database (cluster)

To create Oracle RAC database(cluster), follow the steps described below:

1. Go to Compute, click New and then select Create Oracle RAC Database on the Create New Virtual Machine page.

2. Select disk type.

Select a type of disk to store VM data: Shared Disks, External iSCSI Disk, FC Disk.

Each node in Oracle RAC needs to be configured a public IP address, a virtual IP address and a private IP address at least, and a cluster has a public IP address. Address allocation and network deployment is shown below:

3. Create virtual machine

Refer to 2.2.1.2 Creating Virtual Machine section for configure virtual machine. Note that datastore must correspond to the type of disk you have chosen in the previous step.

4. Install guest OS.

After VM name and guest OS are specified, click Next to install OS. If the image file of a specified guest OS has not been uploaded to Sangfor HCI platform, you may upload it in the same way of uploading an ISO image introduced in the 2.2.1.2 Creating Virtual Machine section.

After guest OS is installed, vmTools must be installed before proceed to next step.

5. Create shared disk.

In this step, you need to configure log, quorum and data disks. More specifically, specify Disk Name, Total Number, Size of Each Disk.

Log Disk : It is used to store Oracle database logs.

Data Disk : It is used to store Oracle database data.

Quorum Disk : It is used to provide quorum service.

6. Allocate shared disks.

After shared disks are configured, you may allocate them.

7. Clone virtual machine.

Here, you may specify VM name, description and the number of virtual machines to be created.

8. Click OK to save the settings.

Creating SQL Server

To create SQL server, do as follows:

1. Select SQL Server AlwaysOn, as shown below:
   

2. Select disk type.
   

On the two nodes in an AlwaysOn availability group that host two SQL servers, the network adapter name and use should be the same. For example, both the eth0 ports on the two nodes are business interfaces and both the eth1 ports are heartbeat interfaces.

3. Create virtual machine

See 2.2.1.2 Creating Virtual Machine section for how to configure virtual machine.

4. Install guest OS.

After VM name and guest OS are specified, click Next to install OS. If the image file of a specified guest OS has not been uploaded to Sangfor HCI platform, you may upload it in the same way of uploading an ISO image introduced in the Creating Virtual Machine section.

After guest OS is installed, vmTools must be installed before proceed to next step.

5. Clone virtual machine

After one SQL server AlwaysOn virtual machine is created, you may create other virtual machines by cloning the previous one so as to enhance deployment efficiency and to ensure that the configurations of all SQL server AlwaysOn virtual machines are exactly the same.

As for number of cloned SQL Server AlwaysOn nodes, enter the number directly. For example, to create two SQL server AlwaysOn virtual machines, enter 2.

6. Allocate Disks

Allocate disks by specifying number of log disks, data disks and database root disks and size of.each disk respectively.

Log Disk: It is used to store log files of SQL server.
Data Disk: It is used to store data of SQL server.
Quorum Disk: It is used to store logs and data files of system database tempdb.

7. Click OK to save the settings.

After configuration, you may download deployment guide by clicking Download Deployment Guide.