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ODA X9-2: it’s finally here!

08.06.2022 by Jérôme Dubar

Updated the 10th of June, 2022: add PMEM option on X9-2L. Introduction It’s been nearly 3 years that Oracle Database Appliance X8-2 reached the market, and in 2022 it’s still a great performer. But now it’s time for a refresh:(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring

Patch 19.14 is out for ODA: new features and how to apply

01.03.2022 by Jérôme Dubar

Introduction Patch 19.14 is now available on Oracle Database Appliance. It’s time to test it. What’s new? This version brings January’s PSU to database and grid homes with their bug fixes, as usual. It also brings latest 21.5 but only(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring

ODA: Migrating from bare metal to CPU pools

22.02.2022 by Jérôme Dubar

Introduction Oracle Database Appliance now fully supports virtualization with KVM, and this could be interesting for some of us. If you’re using Enterprise Edition, you probably decreased the number of cores to comply with your licenses. Now you can increase(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring

Oracle Database Appliance 19.13: what’s new and how to patch?

11.12.2021 by Jérôme Dubar

Introduction Patch 19.13 is now available on ODA. It’s time to test it. What’s new? This version brings October’s PSU to database and grid homes with their bug fixes, as usual. It also brings 21.4 for DB Systems (21c being(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring

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

Manage ODA patching with Data Guard or Dbvisit Standby

19.07.2021 by Jérôme Dubar

Introduction Building an Oracle infrastructure today without thinking about a Disaster Recovery solution (DR) is quite rare. This became obvious that a backup or a dump will not help if you do not know where to restore or import once(…)

Database management

Does it still make sense to deploy a virtualized HA ODA in 2021?

14.05.2021 by Jérôme Dubar

Introduction Starting from version 19.11 of the Oracle Database Appliance software bundle, OLVM will definitely replace OVM server as virtualization engine. This change has quite a big impact as there will be no more virtualized specific deployment. Bare metal will(…)