Configuring the Export Appliance

When the shipping vendor delivers your export appliance, Oracle updates the status as Delivered and provides the date and time the appliance was received in the Appliance Information section.

Your export appliance arrives in a transit case with a telescoping handle and wheels. The case amenities allow for easy movement to the location where you intend to place the appliance to upload your data.

Here are the tasks involved in unpacking and getting your export appliance ready to configure.

1. Inspect the tamper-evident security tie on the transit case.

   If the appliance was tampered with during transit, the tamper-evident security tie serves to alert you.

   Caution
   
   

   If the security tie is damaged or is missing, do not plug the appliance into your network! Immediately file a Service Request (SR).

2. Remove and compare the number on the security tie with the number logged by Oracle.

3. Open the transit case and ensure that the case contains the following items:

   • Appliance unit and power cable (two types of power cables provided: C14 and C13 to 14)

   • USB to DB-9 serial cable

   • Return shipping instructions (retain these instructions)

   • Return shipping label, label sleeve, tie-on tag, and zip tie

   • Return shipment tamper-evident security tie (use this tie to ensure secure transit case back to Oracle)

4. Compare the number on the return shipment security tie with the number logged by Oracle.

5. Remove the export appliance from the case and place the appliance on a solid surface or in a rack.

   Warning
   
   

   Oracle recommends assistance lifting the export appliance out of the transit case and placing the appliance in a rack or on a desk top. The total shipping weight is about 64 lbs (29 kg) and appliance weight is about 38 lbs (17 kg).

6. Connect the appliance to your local network using one of the following:

   • 10GBase-T: Standard RJ-45

   • SFP+: The transceiver must be compatible with Intel X520 NICs

7. Attach one of the provided power cords to the appliance and plug the other end into a grounded power source.

8. Turn on the appliance by flipping the power switch on the back of the appliance.

oci dts appliance show --job-id job_id --appliance-label appliance_label

Connect the appliance to your designated Terminal Emulation Host computer using the provided USB to DB-9 serial cable.

Setting Up Terminal Emulation

Set up terminal emulation so you can communicate with the appliance device through the appliance's serial console. This communication requires installing serial console terminal emulator software. We recommend using the following:

• PuTTY for Windows

• ZOC for OS X

• PuTTY or Minicom for Linux

Configure the following terminal emulator software settings:

• Baud Rate: 115200

• Emulation: VT102

• Handshaking: Disabled/off

• RTS/DTS: Disabled/off

Note

PuTTY does not allow you to configure all of these settings individually. However, you can configure the PuTTY default settings by selecting the Serial connection type and specifying "115200" for the Serial Line baud speed. This is sufficient to use PuTTY as a terminal emulator for the appliance.

When the appliance boots up, an appliance serial console configuration menu is displayed on the Terminal Emulation Host to which the appliance is connected.

    Oracle Cloud Data Transfer Appliance 
      - For use with minimum dts version: dts-0.4.140
      - See "Help" for determining your dts version

1) Configure Networking
2) Show Networking
3) Reset Authentication
4) Show Authentication
5) Show Status
6) Collect Appliance Diagnostic Information
7) Generate support bundle
8) Shutdown Appliance
9) Reboot Appliance
10) Help

Select a command:

The appliance supports a single active network interface on any of the 10-Gbps network ports. If only one interface is cabled and active, that interface is chosen automatically. If multiple interfaces are active, you are given the choice to select the interface to use.

After completing the tasks in this topic, send the following appliance information IP address of the export appliance to the Data Administrator:

• Appliance IP address

• Access token

• SSL certificate fingerprint

You are now ready to copy your data from the export appliance to your data center. See Copying Data from the Export Appliance.