Database Administration & Monitoring, Database management, Hardware & Storage, Operating systems, Oracle 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 –(…)
Database Administration & Monitoring, Database management, Hardware & Storage, Operating systems, Oracle Oracle Database Appliance: ODA patch 19.10 is out 09.03.2021 by Jérôme Dubar Introduction 4 months after the 19.9, here comes the 19.10 version of the Oracle Database Appliance patch. Let’s have a look at what’s new. Will my ODA supports this 19.10 patch? The 19.10 release will be the same for all(…)
Database Administration & Monitoring, Database management, Hardware & Storage, Oracle How to configure additional listeners on ODA 03.03.2021 by Jérôme Dubar Introduction Oracle Database Appliance has quite a lot of nice features, but when looking into the documentation, at least one thing is missing. How to configure multiple listeners? Odacli apparently doesn’t know what’s a listener. Let’s find out how to(…)
Database Administration & Monitoring, Database management, Hardware & Storage, Oracle Oracle Database Appliance: what have you missed since X3/X4/X5? 25.02.2021 by Jérôme Dubar Introduction ODA started to become popular with X3-2 and X4-2 in 2013/2014. These 2 ODAs were very similar. The X5-2 from 2015 was different with 3.5 inches disks instead of 2.5 inches and additional SSDs for small databases (FLASH diskgroup).
Database Administration & Monitoring, Hardware & Storage, Operating systems, Oracle Network configurations on ODA 12.02.2021 by Jérôme Dubar Network configurations on ODA(…)
Database Administration & Monitoring, Database management, Hardware & Storage, Operating systems, Oracle How long does it take to redeploy an ODA X8-2M? 21.01.2021 by Jérôme Dubar Introduction One of the advantage of Oracle Database Appliance is its fast deployment. Most often, the initial setup of a lite ODA (with a reimaging) only takes half a day, from unboxing until a first test database is available. Trust(…)
Database Administration & Monitoring, Database management, Hardware & Storage, Oracle A typical ODA project (and why I love Oracle Database Appliance) 08.12.2020 by Jérôme Dubar Introduction You can say everything about Oracle infrastructure possibilities but nothing compares to experience based on the realization of real projects. I did quite a lot of ODA projects during the past years (on other platforms too), and I would(…)
Database Administration & Monitoring, Database management, Hardware & Storage, Oracle ODA 19.9 software release is out 29.10.2020 by Jérôme Dubar Introduction 6 months after the 19.6, the first 19c production release, here comes the 19.9 Oracle Database Appliance patch with major improvements. Will my ODA supports this 19.9 patch? First, the 19.9 release will be the same for all ODAs,(…)
Database Administration & Monitoring, Database management, Hardware & Storage, Oracle Disk usage on ODA – Free MB and usable MB 21.10.2020 by Jérôme Dubar Introduction Oracle Database Appliances rely on ASM to manage disk redundancy. And ASM is brilliant. Compared to RAID, redundancy is managed at the block level. For NORMAL redundancy, which is similar to RAID1, you need at least 2 disks, but(…)
Cloud, Database Administration & Monitoring, Database management, Development & Performance, Hardware & Storage Oracle Database Appliance vs Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 18.10.2020 by Jérôme Dubar Introduction Oracle Database Appliances are very popular these days. And not only among new customers for this kind of engineered systems. Almost all customers already using old generation ODAs are renewing their infrastructure by choosing again ODAs, meaning that the(…)