Oracle Storage Cloud Software Appliance Installation

Just playing around with Oracle Storage Cloud and tried to install the appliance which enabled access to the cloud storage per NFS (otherwise you would have to use APIs).

Prerequisites:

    Oracle Linux 7 with UEK Release 4 or later
    Docker 1.8.3 or later
    NFS version 4.0 or later

And yes, for sure an active Oracle Storage Cloud subscription
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Ok, installed an Oracle VM and gave it a try:

[root@OL7mpress01 ~]# uname -a
Linux OL7mpress01 4.1.12-61.1.6.el7uek.x86_64 #2 SMP Thu Aug 18 21:55:17 PDT 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root@OL7mpress01 ~]# yum install docker-engine-1.8.3-1.0.2.el7.x86_64
Loaded plugins: langpacks, rhnplugin, ulninfo
This system is receiving updates from ULN.
[...]

Installed:
  docker-engine.x86_64 0:1.8.3-1.0.2.el7

Dependency Installed:
  audit-libs-python.x86_64 0:2.4.1-5.el7         checkpolicy.x86_64 0:2.1.12-6.el7                     docker-engine-selinux.noarch 0:1.12.0-1.0.2.el7
  libsemanage-python.x86_64 0:2.1.10-18.el7      policycoreutils-python.x86_64 0:2.2.5-20.0.1.el7      python-IPy.noarch 0:0.75-6.el7
  setools-libs.x86_64 0:3.3.7-46.el7

Complete!
[root@OL7mpress01 ~]#
[root@OL7mpress01 ~]# systemctl reboot
[...]
[root@OL7mpress01 ~]# groupadd docker
[root@OL7mpress01 ~]# useradd docker-test -m
[root@OL7mpress01 ~]# usermod -a -G docker docker-test
[root@OL7mpress01 ~]# passwd docker-test
Changing password for user docker-test.
[root@OL7mpress01 ~]# systemctl start docker
[root@OL7mpress01 ~]# systemctl enable docker
Created symlink from /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/docker.service to /usr/lib/systemd/system/docker.service.
[root@OL7mpress01 ~]# yum install nfs-utils
[...]
[root@OL7mpress01 ~]# systemctl start rpcbind
[root@OL7mpress01 ~]# systemctl start nfs-server
[root@OL7mpress01 ~]# systemctl enable rpcbind
[root@OL7mpress01 ~]# systemctl enable nfs-server
Created symlink from /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/nfs-server.service to /usr/lib/systemd/system/nfs-server.service.
[root@OL7mpress01 ~]# su - docker-test
[docker-test@OL7mpress01 ~]$ docker info
Containers: 0
Images: 0
Storage Driver: devicemapper
 Pool Name: docker-251:0-551720-pool
 Pool Blocksize: 65.54 kB
 Backing Filesystem: xfs
 Data file: /dev/loop0
 Metadata file: /dev/loop1
 Data Space Used: 1.821 GB
 Data Space Total: 107.4 GB
 Data Space Available: 46.23 GB
 Metadata Space Used: 1.479 MB
 Metadata Space Total: 2.147 GB
 Metadata Space Available: 2.146 GB
 Udev Sync Supported: true
 Deferred Removal Enabled: false
 Data loop file: /var/lib/docker/devicemapper/devicemapper/data
 Metadata loop file: /var/lib/docker/devicemapper/devicemapper/metadata
 Library Version: 1.02.107-RHEL7 (2016-06-09)
Execution Driver: native-0.2
Logging Driver: json-file
Kernel Version: 4.1.12-61.1.6.el7uek.x86_64
Operating System: Oracle Linux Server 7.2
CPUs: 2
Total Memory: 15.42 GiB
Name: OL7mpress01
ID: MROP:4OV3:WKNM:MQ3A:274N:EZ23:2SZQ:JHM5:GMQP:5EHC:BTS6:NMED
[docker-test@OL7mpress01 oscsa-onprem]$ df -h
Filesystem           Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs             7.7G     0  7.7G   0% /dev
tmpfs                7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                7.8G   17M  7.7G   1% /run
tmpfs                7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mapper/ol-root   50G  7.0G   44G  14% /
/dev/xvda1           497M  216M  281M  44% /boot
/dev/mapper/ol-home   42G   33M   42G   1% /home
tmpfs                1.6G     0  1.6G   0% /run/user/0
tmpfs                1.6G     0  1.6G   0% /run/user/1001
[docker-test@OL7mpress01 ~]$ cd oscsa-onprem
[docker-test@OL7mpress01 oscsa-onprem]$ sudo ./oscsa-install.sh  -p http://proxy.serverbla.at:3128 -a
data args: -v /oscsa/cache:/usr/share/oracle/ -v /oscsa/md:/usr/share/oracle/system/ -v /oscsa/logs:/var/log/gateway
*************************************
Imported temporary env vars from docker-test to this install session
*************************************
Checking that docker is installed and using the correct version
Pass found docker version Docker version 1.8.3, build aa9b234

*************************************
Checking host prerequisites
*************************************

Detected linux operating system
Checking kernel version
Pass kernel version 4.1.12-61.1.6.el7uek.x86_64 found
Checking NFS version
Pass found NFS version 4

*************************************
All prerequisites have been met
*************************************


*************************************
Begin install
*************************************

Enter the install location press enter for default (/opt/oscsa_gateway/) :

Installing to destination /opt/oscsa_gateway/
Copied install scripts
Copied OSCSA image
Starting configuration script
Enter the mount location for data cache
/oscsa/cache
Enter the mount location for meta data
/oscsa/md
Enter the mount location for log file information
/oscsa/logs
Enter the docker network mode (host or bridge), Hit  for the default bridge mode.

Enter the host port to use for the Administrative Web Interface. Hit  to use dynamic port mapping

Enter the host port to use for NFS access. Hit  to use dynamic port mapping

Enter the host port to use for the optional HTTP REST service. Hit  to use dynamic port mapping

Writing configuration
Importing image
Please run 'oscsa up' to start the software appliance

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For additional details, please see (/opt/oscsa_gateway/OSCSA_GATEWAY_README.txt) file
*************************************

[docker-test@OL7mpress01 oscsa-onprem]$ sudo firewall-cmd --state
[sudo] password for docker-test:
running
[docker-test@OL7mpress01 oscsa-onprem]$ sudo firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=32774/tcp --permanent
success
[docker-test@OL7mpress01 oscsa-onprem]$ sudo firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=32775/tcp --permanent
success
[docker-test@OL7mpress01 oscsa-onprem]$ sudo firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=32776/tcp --permanent
success
[docker-test@OL7mpress01 oscsa-onprem]$ sudo firewall-cmd --reload
success
[docker-test@OL7mpress01 oscsa-onprem]$ 
[docker-test@OL7mpress01 oscsa-onprem]$ time ./oscsa up
data args: -v /oscsa/cache:/usr/share/oracle/ -v /oscsa/md:/usr/share/oracle/system/ -v /oscsa/logs:/var/log/gateway
Creating OSCSA Volume
Applying configuration file to container
Starting OSCSA [oscsa_gw:1.0.11]
Setting up config file port with nfs
Setting up config file port with admin
Setting up config file port with rest
Management Console: https://OL7mpress01:32769
If you have already configured an OSCSA FileSystem via the Management Console,
you can access the NFS share using the following port.

NFS Port: 32770

Example: mount -t nfs -o vers=4,port=32770 OL7mpress01:/ /local_mount_point

real    0m19.945s
user    0m0.875s
sys     0m1.063s
[docker-test@OL7mpress01 oscsa-onprem]$

Now I could use a BUI:
ocabuisetup

Now let’s try it with a client:

root@psvsparc1:~ # uname -a
SunOS psvsparc1 5.11 11.3 sun4v sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise-T5120
root@psvsparc1:~ # mkdir /oraclecloud
root@psvsparc1:~ # mount -F nfs -o vers=4,port=32770 10.52.72.82:/oraclecloud /oraclecloud/
root@psvsparc1:~ # df -h  /oraclecloud
Filesystem             Size   Used  Available Capacity  Mounted on
10.52.72.82:/oraclecloud
                       8.0T   4.0T       4.0T    50%    /oraclecloud
root@psvsparc1:~ #
root@psvsparc1:~ # ls -alh /downloads/EIS*iso
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        7.4G Aug 29 12:28 /downloads/EIS-DVD-ONE-08JUN16.iso
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        7.6G Aug 29 12:29 /downloads/EIS-DVD-TWO-08JUN16.iso
root@psvsparc1:~# time cp /downloads/EIS-DVD-* /oraclecloud/

real    27m54.958s
user    0m0.032s
sys     6m36.771s
root@psvsparc1:~# 
root@psvsparc1:~# bc
15*1024/28/60
9

So that’s arount 9 MB/s and that’s ok… I am not alone in the company 🙂

root@psvsparc1:~# speedtest-cli
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Testing from next layer (92.60.12.82)...
Selecting best server based on latency...
Hosted by NEXT LAYER GmbH (Vienna) [1.07 km]: 1800000.0 ms
Testing download speed........................................
Download: 563.94 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed..................................................
Upload: 69.71 Mbit/s
root@psvsparc1:~#

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