Marc Wagner

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.

Snapshot solutions with Oracle Standard Edition SE2

Would you like to quickly provide your engineering team with a real production environment database with updated data to develop new features? Does your operational team need a copy of the production database to test a new release or a(…)

Separating database traffic on an ODA

I recently wrote a blog on how to separate database traffic on an ODA using KVM Database Systems on different VLAN : Creating KVM Database System on separate VLAN network on ODA As we could see there is pros(…)

Creating KVM Database System on separate VLAN network on ODA

Oracle appliance is proposing various possibilities for creating databases either on the Bare Metal or using KVM DB System. Each DB System will host a single database in a separate VM. What about having each DB system running a separate(…)

Upgrade AHF and TFA on an ODA

TFA (Trace File Analyzer) is part of AHF (Autonomous Health Framework). Those tools are preinstalled and part of ODA (Oracle Database Appliance). As you might know patching and upgrading are normally always going through ODA global Bundle patches. AHF can,(…)

Nutanix Era with oracle databases : Part 6 – Refresh an oracle clone database

Now that we have cloned our ORATEST source database into a clone database named ORATCL1 (see Nutanix Era Blog part 5), we will see how we can refresh it and see the impacts on the oracle database itself. For(…)