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Deploy application volume group for Oracle using Azure Resource Manager

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This article describes how to use an Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template to deploy Azure NetApp Files application volume group for Oracle.

For detailed documentation on how to use the ARM template, see ORACLE Azure NetApp Files storage.

Prerequisites and restrictions using the ARM template

  • In order to use the ARM template, you need to ensure that resource group, NetApp account, capacity pool, and virtual network resources are available for deployment.

  • All object such as the NetApp account, capacity pools, vNet, and subnet need to be in the same resource group.

  • As the application volume group is designed for larger Oracle databases, the database size must be specified in TiB. When you request more than one data volume, the size is distributed. The calculation is done in integer arithmetic and may lead to lower-than-expected sizes or even errors as the resulting size of each data volume being 0. To prevent this situation, instead of using the automatic calculation, you can select size and throughput for each of the data volume by changing the fields Data size and Data performance to numerical values instead of auto. Doing so prevents the automatic calculation.

Steps

  1. Log in to the Azure portal.

    Screenshot that shows the Resources list of Azure services.

  2. Search for service Deploy a custom template.

    Screenshot that shows the search box for deploying a custom template.

  3. Type oracle in the Quickstart template the search dropdown.

    Screenshot that shows the Template Source search box.

  4. Select template quickstart/microsoft.netapp/anf-oracle/anf-oracle-storage from the dropdown menu. Screenshot that shows the quick template field of the custom deployment page.

  5. Choose Select template to deploy.

  6. Select Subscription, Resource Group and Availability Zone from the dropdown menu. Proximity Placement Group Name and Proximity Placement Group Resource Name must be blank if the Availability Zone option selected.

    Screenshot that shows the basic tab of the custom deployment page.

  7. Enter values for Number Of Oracle Data Volumes, Oracle Throughput, Capacity Pool, NetApp Account and Virtual Network.

    Note

    The specified throughput for the Oracle data volumes is distributed evenly across all data volumes. For all other volumes, you can choose to overwrite the default values according to your sizing.

    Note

    All volumes can be adapted in size and throughput to meet the database requirements after deployment.

    Screenshot that shows the required fields on the custom deployment page.

  8. Click Review + Create to continue.

    Screenshot that shows the completed fields on the custom deployment page.

  9. The Create button is enabled if there are no validation errors. Click Create to continue.

    Screenshot that shows the Create button on the custom deployment page.

  10. The overview page denotes "Your deployment is in progress" then "Your deployment is complete."

  11. You can display a summary for the volume group. You can also display the volumes in the volume group under the NetApp account.

Next steps