Author: Martin Berger

In the previous blog post PCA X9-2 – Console Connection – How To – martinberger.com, I wrote how to connect to PCA running virtual machine by VNC viewer. If you have no VNC viewer available, the virtual machine is Linux based and only network connection to the management node is available, here is another way go get a console connection . In this case, no active Console Connection is required. Information Gathering Virtual Machine From the virtual machine you want to connect, get the Fault Domain and the OCID in the Service Enclave User Interface. In this example the virtual machine is running on FAULT-DOMAIN-1, in our case this is Compute Node 1. Compute Node IP Address On the active…

Available Storage Types For the PCA X9-2, you can order two different storage types. High Capacity or High Performance. They are different in size and speed as described in this table. High Capacity – DE3-24C High Performance – DE3-24P – 20x 18 TB, SAS-3, 3.5-inch, 7200 RPM HDDs– 2x read SSD accelerator– 2x write SSD accelerator – 20x 7.68TB SAS-3 2.5-inch SSDs– 2x write SSD accelerator The question this week was, which type do we use in our PCA X9-2 setup. In a PCA X9-2, there is as ZFS Storage Appliance running as we already know for example from ZS7-2. Oracle uses the same architecture and the software, the main difference is, that the ZFSSA is completely integrated into the…