Jérôme Dubar

ODA patching: ASR manager stuck to old version

Introduction Patching an Oracle Database Appliance is mainly applying 3 patches: the system patch, including OS and Grid Infrastructure updates, the storage patch for data disks and disk controllers, and the DB patch for DB homes and databases. ASR manager(…)

ODA X10 lineup now supports Standard Edition 2

Introduction 6 months ago, Oracle introduced the new Oracle Database Appliance X10 lineup. The biggest surprise came from the supported editions: these new ODAs were Enterprise Edition only! This was because Standard Edition 2 license conditions were not compatible with(…)

How to patch your ODA to 19.21?

Introduction Patch 19.21 is now available for Oracle Database Appliance series. Let’s find out what’s new and how to apply this patch. What’s new? The most important new component is Linux 8. X10 series were already running on Linux 8(…)

ODA hybrid patching: 19.20/19.19

Introduction Patching your Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) is highly recommended: once a year being the minimum you could do. It prevents security risks, fixes some bugs and eventually provides new features. And it also keeps your appliance supported: according to(…)

Easy PDB migration with ODA and DB Systems

Introduction Oracle 23c is not yet available on Oracle Database Appliance (ODA), but it should be ready in 2024. As 23c is the next Long Term release, 19c databases will probably migrate to 23c in the coming years. If you(…)

Vdisk backup on ODA

Introduction Oracle Database Appliance now includes a powerful virtualisation layer based on KVM and fully integrated with odacli. For sure, an ODA is mostly dedicated to Oracle databases, but you can also benefit from unused cores to run application VMs(…)

ODA X10: the new Oracle Database Appliances are already there

Introduction ODA X8-2 series was sold for 3 years, and I would have expected X9-2 series to be on the market for 2-3 years, but I was wrong. ODA X10 series has just been announced. Maybe Oracle has a different(…)

How to apply patch 19.19 on your ODA?

Introduction It’s been several weeks that patch 19.19 is available on ODA. And I finally had the possibility to test it. What’s new? This version brings latest PSUs to database and grid homes, with their bug fixes as usual. It(…)

ODA: Check your DB homes before applying server patch

Introduction Patching an Oracle Database Appliance is divided in 4 main steps with 4 odacli commands in this order: odacli update-dcs[admin|components|agent]: the easiest part dedicated to update the ODA tooling, including odacli itself odacli update-server: the most complex part. It(…)

ODA: ASR Manager RPM update stuck

When updating ODA, ASR Manager RPM update is stuck(…)