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, Database management, Hardware & Storage, Oracle ODA 19.9 software release is out 29.10.2020 by Jérôme Dubar Introduction 6 months after the 19.6, the first 19c production release, here comes the 19.9 Oracle Database Appliance patch with major improvements. Will my ODA supports this 19.9 patch? First, the 19.9 release will be the same for all ODAs,(…)
Database Administration & Monitoring, Database management, Hardware & Storage, Oracle 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(…)
Cloud, Database Administration & Monitoring, Database management, Development & Performance, Hardware & Storage Oracle Database Appliance vs Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 18.10.2020 by Jérôme Dubar Introduction Oracle Database Appliances are very popular these days. And not only among new customers for this kind of engineered systems. Almost all customers already using old generation ODAs are renewing their infrastructure by choosing again ODAs, meaning that the(…)
Database Administration & Monitoring, Database management, Development & Performance, Hardware & Storage, Operating systems Boost your CPU speed with Standard Edition 2 on ODA 24.08.2020 by Jérôme Dubar Introduction There is no need to decrease the number of cores on your ODA when using Standard Edition 2, because your license is based on the number of physical CPU. So why would you do that? Obviously, the more cores(…)
Database Administration & Monitoring, Development & Performance, Hardware & Storage, Operating systems, Oracle Oracle Database Appliance and CPU speed 13.08.2020 by Jérôme Dubar Introduction A complaint I heard from customers about ODA is the low core speed of the Intel Xeon processor embedded in the X8-2 servers: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 5218 CPU @ 2.30GHz. 2.30GHz only? Because of its comfortable number of cores(…)
Database Administration & Monitoring, Database management, Hardware & Storage, Operating systems, Oracle ODA: odacli now supports Data Guard in 19.8 28.07.2020 by Jérôme Dubar Introduction I’ve been dreaming of this kind of feature: just because most of the ODA configurations now include Disaster Recovery capabilities, through Data Guard or Dbvisit standy. If Dbvisit will obviously never be integrated to odacli, the lack of Data(…)
Cloud, Database Administration & Monitoring, Database management, Hardware & Storage, Operating systems Oracle Cloud basics for beginners 25.06.2020 by Jérôme Dubar Introduction Cloud, Cloud, Cloud. Everyone is talking about the Cloud but a lot of people are still in the fog with Cloud technologies. Let’s talk about basic features of the Oracle Cloud, called OCI for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. What is(…)
Cloud, Database Administration & Monitoring, Database management, Hardware & Storage, Operating systems 6 things Oracle could do for a better ODA 26.05.2020 by Jérôme Dubar Introduction With the latest ODA X8 range, at least 80% of the customers could find an ODA configuration that fits their needs. For the others, either they can’t afford it, either they are already in the(…)
Database Administration & Monitoring, Database management, Hardware & Storage, Operating systems, Oracle Oracle Database Appliance: which storage capacity to choose? 14.05.2020 by Jérôme Dubar Introduction If you’re considering ODA for your next platform, you surely already appreciate the simplicity of the offer. 3 models with few options, this is definitely easy to choose from. One of the other benefit is also the hardware support(…)