Hardware & Storage

ExaCC OCI integration with OEM 13.5 Cloud Control installed On-premises.

Introduction I wrote this article to show how you can integrate Legacy OEM with your Cloud environment in this case Oracle ExaCC.To have overall view on your Exadata X9M Cloud Infrastructure, statistics related to CPU/Memory/ASM Storage usage. Your on premise(…)

Why you should consider keeping your ODA more than 5 years

ODA is a long-lifetime platform!(…)

ODA version 19.17 is available: how to patch?

How to patch your ODA to 19.17(…)

Warning: ODA HA disk enclosure is not smart!

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(…)

When unreachable NFS share mess up your Dbvisit Standby configuration

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(…)

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

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(…)

Exadata X9M release

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(…)

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

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,(…)

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

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(…)

Clone a Terabyte Database in Seconds

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(…)