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By Franck Pachot . When ODA Lite was introduced, with ODA X6-2 S/M/L, and now with ODA x7-2 S/M, a new ‘odacli’ was there to manage it. It will probably replace the oakcli for ODA HA as well in the future. One big difference: it uses a repository to record the configuration and the operations. I don’t really like it…
A recent commit announced new SHA-2 functions coming up in PostgreSQL 11. Until now you can use the md5 function to generate hashes for test data or whatever you want. This commit adds more functions you can use for that. Let’s see how they work. When you want to try what follows make sure you are on the development version…
When RMAN backups archivelogs, it does a logswitch before backing up all archivelogs. In some cases this log switching should be suppressed. This can be done with expression “until time ‘sysdate’”, which actually filters nothing. For example: backup archivelog until time ‘sysdate’;
While supporting since several years ODAs of different generations and versions, we faced time to time some hardware alerts sent back by the ILOM. However all of them are not related to real hardware issues and are false positive. To get rid of them the solution is to reset them manually. When an hardware error occurs the first reaction is…
While deploying an ODA based on the DCS stack (odacli), it is mandatory to provide a “master” password at appliance creation. The web GUI provides for that a small tooltip which describes the rules applied on password management. However it looks like there is some flexibility with those rules. Lets try to check this out with some basics tests. First…
This is a step by step demonstration on how to migrate any ASM disk groups from a cluster to another. May be use, with or without virtualization and may be used with storage layer snapshot for fast environment provisioning. Step 01 – Shutdown source database(s) on VMWARE servers Shutdown all databases hosted in the targeted Disk groups for which you…
While playing with a brand new ODA X7-2M, I faced a strange behaviour after re-imaging the ODA with the latest version 12.2.1.2.0. Basically after re-imaging and doing the configure-firstnet the next step is to import the GI clone in the repository before creating the appliance. Unfortunately this command fails with an error DCS-10001:Internal error encountered: Fail to start hand shake…
The 12.2 finally arrived on ODA and is now available on all generations. Modern ODAs are now supporting 11.2.0.4, 12.1.0.2 and 12.2.0.1 database engines, and these 3 versions can work together without any problem. You probably plan to upgrade some old databases to the latest engine, at least those still running on 11.2. As you may know, 11.2 is no…
Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) have become since several years a standard in enterprise class networks. Most enterprises are now segregating their network, especially for security reasons, between server and user or prod and test or applications and backup and aso. In the new release of ODA we finally get the support for VLAN on the bare metal platform. This…
By Franck Pachot . This is the big new feature of Oracle 18c about database software installation. Something that was needed for decades for the ease of software deployment. Piet de Visser raised this to Oracle a long time ago, and we were talking about that recently when discussing this new excitement to deploy software in Docker containers. Docker containers…
My Linux experience started back in 1999 when we needed a router for our ISDN connection in our shared apartment when we were students. I don’t remember the hardware we used for that but I am sure at that time it was a SUSE operating system. Not sure about the version, but based on this it must have been version…
Recently we had the situation that the Veritas cluster (InfoScale 7.3) showed interfaces as down on the two RedHat 7.3 nodes. This e.g. can happen when you change hardware. Although all service groups were up and running this is a situation you usually want to avoid as you never know what happens when the cluster is in such a state.…
