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You also need to decide how backups will be taken. The default configuration of the ODA assumes the fast
recovery area for the database is used and it's configured to use the ASM disk group +RECO, but this does not cover
the VMs and the shared file system for e-Business Suite. You might consider and find it more convenient to use an
external NFS-mounted file system for both the database backups and the backups of the e-Business Suite file system;
this way, the backups of the whole system would be logically kept together, and if a recovery situation occurs, it
would be easier to retrieve the required backups from the same location, compared to extracting them from different
locations.
Summary
This chapter explains how to convert the Oracle Database Appliance into an Oracle e-Business Suite Appliance.
It proposes a configuration, which allows creating a highly available e-Business Suite system fully configured on a
single ODA. The configuration utilizes ASM for the database storage, RAC for the database availability and workload
balancing, two virtualized application tier servers for availability of the middle tier services, shared application tier file
system on ACFS for simplified management of e-Business Suite, and a virtual IP address for the failover of the front-
end services. The nonstandard steps for implementing such configuration are explained in details.
The chapter also outlines the installation process of e-Business Suite Release 12.2 and can be used as a reference for
installations and conversions of e-Business Suite into a highly available configuration on any supported hardware. The
installation and migration of older releases to ODA are not covered, but the proposed architecture and the configuration
steps to prepare the ODA for such architecture are still valid for e-Business Suite R12.1, R12.0, and even 11i.
