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Goal

Solution

Background

Solution Details

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Goal

Some BDA racks require patching to the latest 4.5.0-7 bda rpm package before configuring the network. This ensures that the latest network configuration features are available and the latest bug fixes are applied. Racks falling into this condition are:

1. BDA racks that shipped with a BDA Base Image version older than v4.5.0-7.
2. BDA racks delivered with a Base Image version of v4.5.3.

Solution

Background

BDA v4.5.0 introduces major new network configuration capabilities :

• Configuration of multiple client networks on a cluster.
• Configuration of different client networks for different clusters on the same rack.
• Configuration of VLAN IDs for client networks.
• Configuration of partition keys for private InfiniBand networks.

The v4.5.x BDA Base Image that shipped on BDA racks does not fully support these new features. So for configuring BDA racks shipped with BDA Base image lower than BDA v4.5.0-7 or v4.5.3, it will be necessary to apply a patch to the latest 4.5.0-7 bda rpm package that contains the latest network configuration code before configuring the network.

Solution Details

Here are the network configuration steps for configuring the network on new racks with BDA Base Image lower than v4.5.0-7:

1. Download the BDA v4.5.0 rpm package. This will be available as Patch 23241894 BDA 4.5.0 PACKAGE FOR CONFIGURING NEW BDA RACKS WITH BASE IMAGE LESS THAN V4.5.0

2. Before running networksetup-one/two, update the bda rpm on all nodes of the rack to the downloaded v4.5.0 package.

This can be done by doing the following.

a) Copy the new bda rpm to the first node in the same way that the network.json file is copied in.

b) Copy the new bda rpm to all nodes of the rack (using the factory default admin IPs).

c) Update the bda rpm on all nodes of the of the rack as below:

i. For BDA racks that shipped with a BDA Base Image version older than v4.5.0-7:

Update the bda rpm on all nodes of the rack with "rpm -Uvh bda-4.5.0-7.el6.x86_64.rpm".

OR

ii. For BDA racks delivered with a Base Image version of v4.5.3":

Update the bda rpm on all nodes of the rack with "rpm -e bda/rpm -Uvh bda-4.5.0-7.el6.x86_64.rpm". In this case it is necessary to first remove the existing bda rpm:

3. Proceed with the normal network configuration instructions for copying network.json into /opt/oracle/bda/ and complete the network configuration.

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