Operating systems

Should I go for ODA 19.5 or should I wait until 19.6?

Introduction As you may know, Oracle Database 19c is available for new (X8-2) or older Oracle Database Appliances since several weeks. Current version is 19.5. But when you go to the official ODA documentation , it(…)

Make Oracle database simple again!

Introduction Let’s have a look at how to make Oracle database as simple as it was before. Oracle database is a great piece of software, yes it’s quite expensive, but it’s still the reference and most of the companies can(…)

Install CentOS 8 on VirtualBox

Last days, I needed to test our DMK tool for the new MySQL and MariaDB releases on the most recent version of CentOS. Here you can find all important steps to configure(…)

odacli create-database error DCS-10802: Insufficient disk space on file system: database

Introduction I was reimaging an X6-2M ODA after various patching troubles, and everything was fine. After several databases created, the next ones could no more be created. DCS-10802: Insufficient disk space on file system: database. Expected free space (MB): {1},(…)

SLES15 SP1 – New features

With SLES15 SUSE introduced the Multimodal OS and the unified installer. Means, you only get what you really need. Your OS is flexible and you can easily add features you need and remove them as well. But this article shouldn't(…)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 – Stratis

The Initial Release (8.0.0) of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is available since May 2019. I’ve already blogged about one of its new feature (AppStream) during the Beta version. In this post I will present(…)

Managing Licenses with AWS License Manager

Introduction Computing environments became more and more agile over these last years. Companies need to provide solutions helping people to quickly set up new resources, starting and stopping them, scaling them according to the need and finally, removing them. In(…)

Useful Linux commands for an Oracle DBA

Introduction Oracle & Linux is a great duet. Very powerfull, very scriptable. Here are several commands that make my life easier. These tools seems to be widespread on most of the Linux distributions. watch with diff It’s my favorite tool(…)

Upgrading from OpenLeap to SLES15

Sometimes business plans change and maybe you need to move your OpenLeap 15 Server to the supported version SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15. Upgrade is getting really easy with version 15. It can be performed online. So your server does(…)

Patching or reimaging your ODA?

Introduction One of the key features of the ODA (Oracle Database Appliance) is the ability to patch the entire stack every three months, the goal being to keep all the components up-to-date. Most of the customers won’t patch so often,(…)