Marc Wagner

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(…)

Nutanix Era with oracle databases : Part 5 – Clone an oracle database

Now that we have our ORATEST database provisioned (see Nutanix Era blog part 3), that we could run snapshot and take Log Catch Up (see Nutanix Era Blog part 4), we will now see how we can clone(…)

Nutanix Era with oracle databases : Part 4 – Taking a snapshot and running Log Catch Up

Now that we have our ORATEST database provisioned (see Nutanix Era blog part 3), we will be looking how to run snapshot and Log Catch Up and how will this take effects on our oracle database. For more information(…)

Nutanix Era with oracle databases : Part 3 – Provision an oracle database

In the previous blog (Part 2) we have created a VM template for oracle database and we could successfully registered it in Nutanix Era. Now we are going to use it to provision an oracle database named ORATEST on a(…)

Nutanix Era with oracle databases : Part 2 – Create an oracle database template VM

This is the part 2 of Nutanix Era blogs related to the use with Oracle databases. Before using Nutanix Era with Oracle and be able to provision oracle databases, we need to create a template VM. To do so, we(…)

Nutanix Era with oracle databases : Part 1 – Introduction

I'm currently setting up a lab for Nutanix Era in order to be able to provide some presentation on this subject and see how Nutanix Era interacts with Oracle databases. I therefore thought it would be certainly helpful and a(…)

oracle update-dcscomponents failure during ODA patching to 19.11

You might know that since ODA 19.10, the ODA metadata database is now stored in a MySQL database and not in the apache derby database any more. During a patching to 19.10 or 19.11 from a release earlier than 19.10,(…)

odabr tool : how to resolve efi device backup failure?

During all my ODA projects where I need to perform patching operation, I'm using odabr tool. This tool is really easy to use and well designed. It offers the possibility to create snapshot on the /, /u01 and /opt LVM(…)

Building a network bonding between 2 cards on Oracle Linux

I recently needed to configure bonding between 2 network cards on a customer side and I wanted trough this blog to share my findings and how I built it showing some traces. I will also do a short comparison of(…)