Starting and stopping a virtual EBS instance

This topic describes the process of starting and stopping a virtual Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) instance.

You can start and stop virtual EBS instances through the Delphix Management application or through the standard Oracle command-line interface (CLI) utilities, adstrtal and adstpall. The Delphix Engine will show the dbTechStack and appsTier as running as long as there are processes using the dbTechStack and appsTier filesystem mounts on the target environments.

Be careful! Services running on the appsTier depend on the availability of services on the dbTier. The steps below are explicitly ordered with these dependencies in mind. Executing steps out of order may lead to errors in accessing the virtual EBS instance.

Stopping

1. Login to the Delphix Management application.

2. Click Manage.

3. Select Datasets.

4. Select the appsTier vFiles for your EBS instance.

5. Click the Stop icon. 

   

   Stopping the appsTier will run Oracle’s adstpall.sh utility. For multi-node appsTier, secondary nodes will be stopped sequentially, followed by the primary node.
   Note: Stopping the appsTier may take a long time. The Delphix Engine will wait for all Oracle application processes to exit before declaring the appsTier as stopped.

6. Select the VDB utilized by your EBS instance.

7. Click the Stop icon. This action will shutdown the database instance.

8. Select the dbTechStack vFiles hosting your virtual EBS database.

9. Click the Stop icon. Stopping the dbTechStack will shutdown the database listener.

Starting

1. Login to the Delphix Management application using Delphix Admin credentials.

2. Click Manage.

3. Select Datasets. 

4. Select the dbTechStack vFiles hosting your virtual EBS database.

5. Click the Start icon.  

   

   Starting the dbTechStack will start the database listener.

6. Select the VDB utilized by your EBS instance.

7. Click the Start icon. Starting the database will open the database.

8. Select the appsTier vFiles for your EBS instance.

9. Click the Start icon. Starting the appsTier will run Oracle’s adstrtal.sh utility. For multi-node appsTier, the primary node will be started first, followed by secondary nodes sequentially.