Oracle

ODA X10-L storage configuration is different from what you may expect

Introduction Oracle Database Appliance X10 lineup is available since September 2023. Compared to X9-2 lineup, biggest changes are the AMD Epyc processors replacing Intel Xeons, and new license model regarding Standard Edition 2, clarified by Oracle several weeks ago.

ODA patching: ASR manager stuck to old version

Introduction Patching an Oracle Database Appliance is mainly applying 3 patches: the system patch, including OS and Grid Infrastructure updates, the storage patch for data disks and disk controllers, and the DB patch for DB homes and databases. ASR manager(…)

REKEY operation on Oracle Database configured with Oracle Key Vault

REKEY Oracle database configured with Oracle Key Vault(…)

ODA X10 lineup now supports Standard Edition 2

Introduction 6 months ago, Oracle introduced the new Oracle Database Appliance X10 lineup. The biggest surprise came from the supported editions: these new ODAs were Enterprise Edition only! This was because Standard Edition 2 license conditions were not compatible with(…)

ZDM Physical Online Migration – A success story

I have been recently blogging about ZDM Physical Online Migration where I was explaining this migration method and preparing customer On-Premises to ExaCC migration. See my blog, https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/physical-online-migration-to-exacc-with-oracle-zero-downtime-migration-zdm/. I have now had the opportunity to migrate(…)

ZDM Physical Online Migration failing during ZDM_SWITCHOVER_SRC phase

When using ZDM for a Physical Online Migration, even in the last current version, 21.4.5.0.0, switchover is failing. In this blog, I will share the reason and the solution to solve the problem before moving forward with the migration.

Clone Oracle Database configured with Oracle Key Vault (OKV)

How to clone an Oracle Database which is configured to store the TDE (encryption keys) in the Oracle Key Vault (OKV)(…)

Patching Oracle databases with Nutanix NDB

A few years back I had the great opportunity to test Nutanix NDB, at that time called Nutanix Era, and I had written a few blogs about provisioning Oracle databases, taking snapshot, log catchup, cloning a database, restoring a database,(…)

Migration from Non-CDB to Multitenant : CDB is using local undo, but no undo tablespace found in the PDB

During a past migration test from on-premises to ExaCC, I faced a pdb violation, stating, CDB is using local undo, but no undo tablespace found in the PDB, after having run noncdb_to_pdb.sql script. Explanation The problem comes from the fact(…)

Migration from Non-CDB to Multitenant : Wallet Key Needed

I have been recently able to make several migration tests from On-Premises to Exadata, and during some of my tests I faced a PDB_PLUG_IN_VIOLATIONS with cause been “Wallet Key Needed” when converting a migrated Non-CDB to PDB. Explanation This violation(…)