Marc Wagner

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)(…)

Applying archive log on a standby is failing with error ORA-00756: recovery detected a lost write of a data block

During one last ODA project, I was deploying dbvisit software version 9.0.10 on Oracle database SE Edition version 18.7. From time to time I was getting lost write of a data block with type KTU UNDO on the standby. Through(…)

Error getting repository data for ol6_x86_64_userspace_ksplice, repository not found

During ODA deployment I could see that starting 18.7, immediately after reimaging or patching the ODA, I was getting some regular errors in the root mail box. The error message came every hour at 13 minutes and 43 minutes.

How to add storage on ODA X8-2M

Recently I had to add some storage on an ODA X8-2M that I deployed early February. At that time the last available release was ODA 18.7. In this post I would like to share my experience and the challenge I(…)

Issue deleting a database on ODA?

I have recently faced an issue deleting database on an ODA. I was getting following error whatever database I wanted to delete : DCS-10001:Internal error encountered: null. Through this blog, I would like to share with you my experience on(…)