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Marc Wagner

Dec 22 2021
Marc Wagner

Upgrade AHF and TFA on an ODA

By | Oracle | 4 Comments

TFA (Trace File Analyzer) is part of AHF (Autonomous Health Framework). Those tools are preinstalled and part of ODA (Oracle Database Appliance). As you might know patching and upgrading are normally always going through ODA global Bundle patches. AHF can, without any problem, be upgraded independently. In this blog I wanted to share with you how I upgraded TFA with latest v21.4 version. The upgrade is performed with root user. This version addresses CVE-2021-45105/CVE-2021-44228/CVE-2021-45046. For…

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Aug 13 2021
Marc Wagner

Nutanix Era with oracle databases : Part 2 – Create an oracle database template VM

By | Oracle | No Comments

This is the part 2 of Nutanix Era blogs related to the use with Oracle databases. Before using Nutanix Era with Oracle and be able to provision oracle databases, we need to create a template VM. To do so, we will need to use prism. This template VM will only be used as a reference each time we will provision a database mainly to get the operation system and the Oracle environment. The cpu cores…

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Aug 12 2021
Marc Wagner

Nutanix Era with oracle databases : Part 1 – Introduction

By | Oracle | No Comments

I’m currently setting up a lab for Nutanix Era in order to be able to provide some presentation on this subject and see how Nutanix Era interacts with Oracle databases. I therefore thought it would be certainly helpful and a good opportunity to share the feedback I’m getting from this experience. The lab has been built using Nutanix Cluster free trial integrated with our AWS Cloud account. This fist blog intends to provide only a…

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Jul 21 2021
Marc Wagner

oracle update-dcscomponents failure during ODA patching to 19.11

By | Oracle | No Comments

You might know that since ODA 19.10, the ODA metadata database is now stored in a MySQL database and not in the apache derby database any more. During a patching to 19.10 or 19.11 from a release earlier than 19.10, the apache derby database will be migrated to a mysql database. This is performed during the odacli update-dcscomponent command. Starting 19.10, DCS Agent will then use MySQL server to display any metadata information, as for…

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Jul 21 2021
Marc Wagner

odabr tool : how to resolve efi device backup failure?

By | Oracle | No Comments

During all my ODA projects where I need to perform patching operation, I’m using odabr tool. This tool is really easy to use and well designed. It offers the possibility to create snapshot on the /, /u01 and /opt LVM file systems as well as a physical copy (rsync) of the files to an external destination storage as NFS. This is powerful in case you would like to get just one file back. The tool,…

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