Operating systems

Oracle Database Appliance: ODA patch 19.10 is out

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(…)

SUMA Server Part 2

In my previous Blog I wrote how to install and configure SUSE Manager. In this Blog I will go more in the deep like repository management and PXE boot configuration. Configuring repository To syncronize(…)

SUSE Manager installation

In this Blog I will write the requirements and steps to install SUSE Manager Server. Maybe you heard about SUSE Manager but you could not understand why a SUSE Manager Server (SUMA) can help to manage your(…)

Network configurations on ODA

Network configurations on ODA(…)

CentOS 8 alternatives

Many people are unhappy about the decision from the CentOS Board of Directors, to switch from fix releases to Stream and cutting the support date from 2029 to 31st of December 2021 for CentOS 8. Many applications in productive environments(…)

How long does it take to redeploy an ODA X8-2M?

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(…)

Oracle Database Appliance vs Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

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(…)

Duplicate Database on ODA X4

By Mouhamadou Diaw The ODA X4 is still in use for some customers. The last time I was asked to validate the backups . Let me explain the context. Actually the backups are done via RMAN on local in a(…)

SELinux for beginners

Do you know the following situation: You are following a step by step tutorial on the web and on your environment does not work as expected because of SELinux. Your looking on search engines command how you can disable the(…)

Reimaging an ODA to 19.8 Part II

By Mouhamadou Diaw In my previous blog, I described the steps to deploy an ODA 19.8 by reimaging. The ODA was reimaged with the latest available version 19.8 but some components were not up-to-dated. 1(…)