Hello, and welcome to today's video presentation on configuring an Oracle Linux Storage Appliance
in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
In this video, we will cover the steps to set up an Oracle Linux Storage Appliance Instance.
So let us get started.
First, open your browser and log in to the Oracle Cloud console.
On the dashboard, click the hamburger menu in the upper left corner.
In the drop-down menu, select Compute and then Instances.
From the list of Instances, click the Instance name associated with the Oracle Linux Storage
Appliance.
On the Instance Details page, under Primary VNIC, note the Private IP address.
In this Tenancy, the VNIC associated with this IP address is a private network behind
a secure bastion server.
For this reason, use an OpenSSH Local Port Forward to connect to the appliance web console.
The Local Port Forward allows for a secure connection between the local browser and the
remote web console for the appliance through the bastion server.
If needing more information on configuring an OpenSSH Local Port Forward, check out our
other videos at oracle.com/goto/oraclelinuxlearning under Remote Management.
In the browser, open another tab or window and navigate to https://127.0.0.1:8443.
The port 8443 is the local port on the port forward, which connects to the web console
on port 443.
Once the page renders, a page requests to set the admin password.
Hovering over the "password for admin" field shows the password must contain at least one
number, one special character, one lowercase, and one uppercase letter, and at least eight
characters.
Type the password in both fields and then click the Set password button.
After setting the password, the page will refresh and present the Oracle Linux Storage
Appliance login screen.
Enter the user name of admin and the password created on the previous step.
Once logged in, a page displays asking to add storage to the pool.
If there are no devices listed, additional block storage must be attached to the appliance
instance before continuing with the setup.
In the browser, navigate back to the Oracle Cloud console and the Instance Details page
for the appliance.
Scroll down and click Attached Block Volumes under Resources.
Click the Attach Block Volume button.
In the Attach Block Volume dialog, select the iSCSI radio button in the "VOLUME ATTACHMENT
TYPE" section.
Next, click the drop-down box within the "BLOCK VOLUME" section and select the block volume
to attach.
For this demo, I previously created two one terabyte block volumes named bg-olsa-01 and
bg-olsa-02.
The size and number of block volumes to create and attach is entirely based on the total
amount of share storage to allocate to the appliance.
As this is a one-time operation, ensure you add enough storage when creating the pool
for the appliance as the pool cannot be modified later.
Further, ensure that each of the volumes selected are new and not previously used.
If previously used, the appliance will not be able to use the attached block devices
in the appliance storage pool and lists the storage as "Disk not clean, already initialized
as a physical volume.
Leave the ACCESS section as "READ/WRITE".
Scroll to the bottom and click the Attach button.
While attaching the block volume, the Oracle Cloud console will pop-up a reminder to run
the iSCSI commands.
Click the Close button to dismiss the reminder.
Repeat the same steps for each block volume created and designated for this appliance's
share storage.
With all the designated block volumes attached to the Instance, wait 2-3 minutes.
The appliance's design is to automatically detect that the block volumes were attached
through the Oracle Cloud console and run the necessary iSCSI commands to make the storage
available.
Return to the appliance web console and refresh the page.
The block storage appears in this appliance as devices sdb and sdc.
With the storage now available, create the pool.
Check the boxes next to both devices and then click the Create button.
A pop-up dialog appears.
Confirm you want to create the pool now and click the OK button.
The pool creation will proceed.
After pool creation, the browser will refresh and land on the Dashboard page showing Storage
Status and Appliance Status.
Having the appliance now configured, you can perform the following tasks:
View the storage capacity that is available for shares.
Display status and configuration information about the appliance.
Create and manage shares and associate them with the NFS and SMB protocols.
Migrate an appliance storage pool from one Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute Instance
to another Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute Instance.
And
Perform backup and recovery operations and other system and user administrative actions.
That completes the demo on configuring an Instance of the Oracle Linux Storage Appliance
in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Thank you for watching, and I hope you enjoyed this video.
To find additional resources on Oracle Linux, please check out:
Our Oracle Linux Curriculum at education.oracle.com/linux
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure at cloud.oracle.com
And attentional training on Oracle Linux on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure at oracle.com/goto/linuxcloudlearning.