Jérôme Dubar

Introduction Apart from the number of servers (1 vs 2), the main difference between Oracle Database Appliance lite (S/L) and High-Availability (HA) is the data disks location. They are inside the server on lite ODAs, and in a dedicated disk(…)

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ODA X9-2 and CPU speed

23.11.2022 by Jérôme Dubar

Introduction It’s been several months now that Oracle released new Oracle Database Appliance X9-2 series. And my first project with 4 of these servers is coming to an end as moving to production is planned for the next weeks. What(…)

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ODA: how to configure ILOM IP without DHCP?

19.08.2022 by Jérôme Dubar

Introduction Once your brand new Oracle Database Appliance is racked and connected to power, the first configuration step is to setup the static IP address on the management console (ILOM). Until ODA X6-2 generation, servers were equipped with a VGA(…)

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Patching your ODA may enable all cores!

17.08.2022 by Jérôme Dubar

Introduction If you use Enterprise Edition on your Oracle Database Appliance environment, and if you don’t have unlimited licences, you probably lowered the CPU cores available on each server to dispatch your licences accross your environment. This operation is normally(…)

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ODA: How to use Data Preserving Reprovisioning?

22.07.2022 by Jérôme Dubar

Introduction Oracle Database Appliance has a global patch available each quarter, so all the components can be patched together on a regular basis. Most of the time, applying the patch on your ODA will be OK, but sometimes you will(…)