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ODA 19.12: How can you manage DB Systems with odacli?

26.11.2021 by Jérôme Dubar

Introduction As virtualization is available for all ODAs now, you could ask yourself if it’s a good idea to use this virtualization or not. Databases can be created as bare metal, but also within a DB System for better isolation.

Database Administration & Monitoring

ODA: Quickly solve ILOM and BIOS update errors

09.08.2021 by Jérôme Dubar

Introduction Patching an Oracle Database Appliance is sometimes quite tough and you often struggle to solve failures at different steps. Regarding ILOM and BIOS patching errors, a simple workaround is possible. Errors when patching ILOM and/or BIOS This is(…)

Oracle

ODA 19.11.: ORACLE_HOMEs on ACFS

04.08.2021 by Clemens Bleile

Introduction Beginning with Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) 19.11. the ORACLE_BASE and ORACLE_HOMEs are created on ACFS. That’s good news, because there is much more space on ASM than on the internal disks, i.e. no space issues with /u01 anymore. So(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring

Deploying a KVM-based virtualized X8-2M ODA

03.08.2021 by Jérôme Dubar

Introduction Until now, High-Availability (HA) ODAs could have been deployed either in bare metal or in virtualized mode. Virtualized mode means that instead of installing a classic Linux system on the nodes, an OVM hypervisor (based on Xen) was deployed.

Database Administration & Monitoring

Oracle Database Appliance: ODA patch 19.10 is out

09.03.2021 by Jérôme Dubar

Introduction 4 months after the 19.9, here comes the 19.10 version of the Oracle Database Appliance patch. Let’s have a look at what’s new. Will my ODA supports this 19.10 patch? The 19.10 release will be the same for all(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring

How to configure additional listeners on ODA

03.03.2021 by Jérôme Dubar

Introduction Oracle Database Appliance has quite a lot of nice features, but when looking into the documentation, at least one thing is missing. How to configure multiple listeners? Odacli apparently doesn’t know what’s a listener. Let’s find out how to(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring

A typical ODA project (and why I love Oracle Database Appliance)

08.12.2020 by Jérôme Dubar

Introduction You can say everything about Oracle infrastructure possibilities but nothing compares to experience based on the realization of real projects. I did quite a lot of ODA projects during the past years (on other platforms too), and I would(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring

odacli create-database -io doesn’t work for older databases in 19.9

20.11.2020 by Jérôme Dubar

Introduction On ODA, you create your databases with odacli create-database. You can create a complete database, and it takes about 10 minutes, and you can also create an instance-only database. It will simply and quickly create a record in the(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring

Configure Data Guard with odacli on ODA

18.11.2020 by Jérôme Dubar

Introduction I always thought integration of Data Guard was a missing feature on Oracle Database Appliance. For sure, you can configure Data Guard manually as you do on a classic server, but as an appliance, ODA should have proposed an(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring

Disk usage on ODA – Free MB and usable MB

21.10.2020 by Jérôme Dubar

Introduction Oracle Database Appliances rely on ASM to manage disk redundancy. And ASM is brilliant. Compared to RAID, redundancy is managed at the block level. For NORMAL redundancy, which is similar to RAID1, you need at least 2 disks, but(…)