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Hardware & Storage

Why you should consider keeping your ODA more than 5 years

09.03.2023 by Jérôme Dubar

ODA is a long-lifetime platform!(…)

Hardware & Storage

ODA version 19.17 is available: how to patch?

02.12.2022 by Jérôme Dubar

How to patch your ODA to 19.17(…)

Hardware & Storage

Warning: ODA HA disk enclosure is not smart!

25.11.2022 by Jérôme Dubar

Introduction Apart from the number of servers (1 vs 2), the main difference between Oracle Database Appliance lite (S/L) and High-Availability (HA) is the data disks location. They are inside the server on lite ODAs, and in a dedicated disk(…)

Database management

When unreachable NFS share mess up your Dbvisit Standby configuration

09.12.2021 by Joël Cattin

If I had to rank my favorite Oracle-related tools and software, Dbvisit Standby would likely be at the top of the list. You are reading this post, so you probably know that Dbvisit Standby is a(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring

ODA update-server to 19.12 fails on Patch GI with RHP

04.11.2021 by David Hueber

Sometimes giving a workshop is a good opportunities to test new things...this what happened to me today... :-) While giving an ODA workshop, I thought it was a good opportunity to test patching to the new 19.12 release. However during(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring

Exadata X9M release

29.09.2021 by Casimir Schmid

I would like to share some personal thoughts. September 28th 2021, Oracle released the eleventh Exadata data machine called "X9M-2" (2 CPU sockets), X9M-8 (8 sockets) and ZDLRA X9M. Exadata is a computing platform to run Oracle RDBMS, zero data(…)

Hardware & Storage

When to secure erase storage devices? How to do it on Oracle Database Appliances?

16.06.2021 by Casimir Schmid

TL;DR If hardware stays inside your data center, it's ok to secure erase storage devices. If it leaves your data center (decommission, move to another location), it's best to physically destroy (shredder) it. Storage devices are not only hard drives,(…)

Database management

Does it still make sense to deploy a virtualized HA ODA in 2021?

14.05.2021 by Jérôme Dubar

Introduction Starting from version 19.11 of the Oracle Database Appliance software bundle, OLVM will definitely replace OVM server as virtualization engine. This change has quite a big impact as there will be no more virtualized specific deployment. Bare metal will(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring

Clone a Terabyte Database in Seconds

01.04.2021 by Dieter Henig

Introduction Have you ever cloned a database using RMAN? Have you ever gotten the advice not to clone during daytime to avoid performance downgrade on the entire storage or network? For a proof of concept, we wanted to(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring

ODA: Move a DB to ASM after migrating from 11g to 19c

12.03.2021 by Jérôme Dubar

Introduction Modern Oracle Database Appliances still support 11gR2, but there are several drawbacks using this old version: if you want/need support for your databases, you should pay for Market Driven Support (11gR2 is even no more under extended support –(…)