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Author: Jérôme Dubar

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

Move a PDB from a server to another one using NFS

03.12.2021 by Jérôme Dubar

Introduction Multitenant brings new possibilities regarding Oracle databases, and one of them is to move a database from a container to another quite easily. When containers are on the same server, it’s very easy, but when the containers are on(…)

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 management

5 things that aren’t true about RMAN

22.11.2021 by Jérôme Dubar

Introduction RMAN backups are not a hot topic today. This is because it didn’t evolve that much in 12c/18c/19c, and most of the databases are now protected by a good backup strategy since years, and no changes are needed. Furthermore,(…)

Cloud

Get prepared to move your Oracle databases to OCI

14.11.2021 by Jérôme Dubar

Introduction Cloud often raises in the top 3 solutions when thinking about Oracle infrastructure renewal. For obvious reasons: you do not need to buy any server, platform is already available, you pay as a subscription, you drastically reduce time to(…)

Cloud

First contact with OCI’s Autonomous Database

15.10.2021 by Jérôme Dubar

Introduction Benefits of going into the Oracle Cloud (OCI) are clear for most of us: no more datacenter and hardware to manage. But what else? On OCI, you can also decide to get rid of part of the DBA tasks(…)

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(…)

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(…)