Marc Wagner

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(…)

NTP is not working for ODA new deployment (reimage) in version 19.8?

Having recently reimaged and patched several ODA in version 19.8 and 19.9, I could see an issue with NTP. During my troubleshooting I could determine the root cause and find appropriate solution. Through this blog I would like to share(…)

Patching Oracle Database Appliance to 19.9

ODA 19.9 has just been released for Bare Metal yesterday, and I had the opportunity to already patch a customer production ODA to this latest version. Through this blog I wanted to share my experience on patching an ODA to(…)

ODA X8-2-HA cluster issue and NTP configuration

I have been recently deploying some new ODA X8-2-HA. After reimaging and creating the appliance, I had to patch the ODA. The day after, checking status, I could realize that my node 0 was not working as expected. I did(…)

ODA appliance creation error and cleanup.pl with option force

I had recently faced an interesting issue deploying ODA X8-2-HA. I would like to share my experience here hoping it could help some of you.

How to migrate High Availability databases on an ODA?

Through this blog, I would like to show, with a real customer case, how I have been migrating databases in High Availability environment on an ODA. High Availability using Data Guard for Oracle Enterprise Edition or dbvisit for Oracle Standard(…)

How to synchronize the appliance registry metadata on an ODA?

Databases administration on a Bare Metal ODA will be done as root user by running odacli commands : odacli create-database to create a database odacli upgrade-database to upgrade a database between major releases odacli move-database to move databases from one(…)

POUG 2020 Workshop Day 1

I had the opportunity to participate to POUG day 1 and wanted through this blog to share some of my feedback on the interesting sessions I could follow. First of all, I would like to mention the great introduction done(…)

Dbvisit – Switchover failing with ORA-00600 error due to Unified Auditing been enabled

I have been recently deploying dbvisit version 9.0.10 on Standard Edition SE2 18.7. Graceful switchover failed with error : ORA-00600: Interner Fehlercode, Argumente: [17090], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [],[], [] (DBD ERROR: OCIStmtExecute)(…)