Exadata Best Practices Meta link Notes

Documentation availability for Exadata Customers:

Online Documentation

The following documentation can be found in the /opt/oracle/cell/doc

directory on the Oracle Exadata Storage Server (Exadata Cell):

¦ Oracle Exadata Storage Server Software User’s Guide

¦ Oracle Exadata Storage Server Software Release Notes

MAA Best Practice Papers for Exadata:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/features/availability/exadata-maa-best-practices-155385.html

Useful URL's and links

Latest Backup & Recovery Whitepaper:

Oracle Exadata Database Machine - Backup & Recovery Sizing: Tape Backups

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/focus-areas/availability/maa-exadata-backup-methodology-495297.pdf

Exadata Whitepaper:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/exadata/exadata-technical-whitepaper-134575.pdf

Exadata and Database Machine Version 2 Demo Series

https://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=44785:24:1352200682703903::::P24_CONTENT_ID,P24_PREV_PAGE:5118,24

Some important My Oracle Support Notes(Metalink):

Master Note for Oracle Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server

1187674.1

Patches & Updates, InfiniBand Firmware Updates

888828.1

Exadata Patching Overview

1262380.1

Oracle Sun Database Machine Application Best Practices for Data Warehousing

1094934.1

Best Practices for OLTP on the Sun Oracle Database Machine

1269706.1

DBFS:

11911441.1          Configuring Database for DBFS on Oracle Database Machine

1054431.1            Configuring DBFS on Oracle Database Machine

Monitoring Best Practices

1110675.1

ASM Diskgroup Imbalance Check

367445.1

Data Guard Related

1085687.1            Heterogeneous Data Guard Support

Infiniband RDS Support

745616.1