Marc Wagner

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(…)

Oracle CloudWorld 2022 – Day 4 : final day!

After having fun with my ACE friends on previous day ACE dinner and Oracle CloudWorld party (next pictures might speak by themselves) it was time to be back on sessions and meetings for the last day at Las Vegas. Without(…)

Oracle CloudWorld 2022 – Day 3 : More sessions and meetings!

Let's go for my third day in Las Vegas with more Oracle sessions and meetings. Also I was more than surprised this morning to meet for the first time, in the lift of the hotel, Carlos Ortiz, Sr. Principal Product(…)

Oracle CloudWorld 2022 – Day2 : Sessions begin!

Full day of sessions! I have been able to participate to some really good and great sessions I would like to share with you.

Oracle CloudWorld 2022 – Day 1 : Arriving in Las Vegas

What a chance for me to be able to participate to this great event! First of all I would like to thank dbi management to have given me the chance to go there and to participate to it. Las Vegas(…)

Migrating CentOS 8 to Oracle linux OL8

As you might be aware, CentOS 8 is end of life since the 31st of December 2021. If you are still using and running CentOS 8, you might want to migrate to some alternative distributions in order to keep a(…)

ODA : Appliance creation failing in version 19.14 due to missing known_hosts file

I have recently deployed a new ODA with last version 19.14 at customer side, and we could face an interesting failure deploying the appliance, which I would like to share with you.