Marc Wagner

ODA vnetwork bridge with no IP address

It is not mandatory to setup an IP address on a bridge interface. A bridge forwards packets at MAC layer. But of course, if I would like to reach the DB System or the Compute Instance from the ODA, then(…)

Want to easily test Dbvisit StandbyMP for Oracle SE?

As you might know Dbvisit StandbyMP is a great Disaster Recovery solution for Oracle SE databases. Dbvisit recently communicated, providing now, a Test Drive system for customer to easily try the product and for partner to easily have a Demo(…)

ODA and Dbvisit : Create a SNAPSHOT database?

As you might know, Oracle doesn't offer any disaster recovery solution for their Oracle Standard Edition databases. Oracle Data Guard ensures high availability, data protection and disaster recovery for Oracle Enterprise Edition database only. Dbvisit is a great disaster recovery(…)

Can we benefit from Oracle SEHA relocate and failover with dbvisit StandbyMP switchover?

I recently wrote an article about how to combine Oracle SEHA database running on ODA 2-HA and dbvisit StandbyMP solution. See my article here : https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/combine-oracle-seha-on-oda-with-dbvisit-standbymp/. But are really all those high availability and disaster recovering(…)

Combine Oracle SEHA on ODA with Dbvisit StandbyMP?

I recently blog on Oracle SEHA on ODA, see my article https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/seha-on-oda/. Oracle SEHA is used for High Availability for Standard Edition. Dbvisit Standby is a Disaster Recovery well known application designed for Oracle Standard Edition.

OCI : How to change VCN Name?

Starting my first experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, I played with my lab and wanted to change my VCN name. I thought it might be more than easily with the Web Console, but could realise this was not possible. I(…)

SEHA on ODA?

SEHA means Standard Edition High Availability. SEHA is fully integrated with Oracle Grid Infrastructure starting with Oracle Grid Infrastructure 19c, and more specifically since RU 19.7. SEHA provides then cluster-based failover for single-instance Standard Edition Oracle Databases using Oracle Clustware.

Configuring a SMTP relay on Oracle Linux Server v8

For some internal DMK (https://www.dbi-services.com/fr/produits/dmk-management-kit/) development I had to configure a SMTP relay on my VM. Purpose of the SMTP relay is to send the email locally from DMK without any authentication. This Email will be(…)

High Availability VMs on ODA

Virtualisation is now possible on the ODA whatever it is an ODA Lite or HA. The virtualisation is based on KVM and integrated with odacli for Bare Metal installation. Virtualisation has got the advantage to allocate resources to databases and(…)

ODA – HDD manual firmware patching

I recently patched ODAs X7-2-HA and X8-2-HA from version 19.8 to version 19.12 and then 19.16 at one of our customer environment. I faced some HDD firmware that was not patched during storage patching, and I had to manually patched(…)