Operating systems

ODA KVM Machines : Adding a Network Interface on a Virtual Machine

By Mouhamadou Diaw In a previous blog , I was talking about virtual machines on ODA servers. Sometimes it comes that we want to add another network interface for other purpose. In this blog I(…)

Automating Linux patching with Ansible – How to keep all your environments consistent ?

Your may want to patch your Linux servers on a regular basis (e.g using “yum/dnf update”). As always, it’s obviously recommended to : 1) Patch the TEST systems 2) Check if there is no side effects 3) Wait(…)

Oracle Database Appliance 19.13: what’s new and how to patch?

Introduction Patch 19.13 is now available on ODA. It’s time to test it. What’s new? This version brings October’s PSU to database and grid homes with their bug fixes, as usual. It also brings 21.4 for DB Systems (21c being(…)

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 19.12: How can you manage DB Systems with odacli?

Introduction As virtualization is available for all ODAs now, you could ask yourself if it’s a good idea to use this virtualization or not. Databases can be created as bare metal, but also within a DB System for better isolation.

Dbvisit 10 on Oracle Database Appliance

By Mouhamadou Diaw Dbvisit Standby can also be installed on Oracle Database Appliance (ODA). The installation is the same that on any other Linux box. I did an install of Dbvist 10 on an ODA 19.12 for a customer and(…)

Install Enterprise Manager 13c R5: Check the db edition Failed

By Mouhamadou Diaw A few days ago, I was setting an Enterprise Manager 13c R5 for a client. The configuration used is the following -The EM binaries are installed in a separate server than the database -The database(…)

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(…)

Configuring ODBC : SQLServer Access From Oracle

By Mouhamadou Diaw Sometimes you need to access to your SQLServer from your Oracle database. There is many ways and tools to do this. In this blog I am describing how to perform this task using ODBC. The configuration(…)

Oracle Database Appliance KVM Virtual Instance on ODA 19.12

By Mouhamadou Diaw KVM virtualization uses a kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) to create a virtualized environment for your Linux applications.In this blog I want to share some tasks I did at a client. The client is using ODA 19.12.