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ODA 19.11.: ORACLE_HOMEs on ACFS

Introduction Beginning with Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) 19.11. the ORACLE_BASE and ORACLE_HOMEs are created on ACFS. That’s good news, because there is much more space on ASM than on the internal disks, i.e. no space issues with /u01 anymore. So(…)

Deploying a KVM-based virtualized X8-2M ODA

Introduction Until now, High-Availability (HA) ODAs could have been deployed either in bare metal or in virtualized mode. Virtualized mode means that instead of installing a classic Linux system on the nodes, an OVM hypervisor (based on Xen) was deployed.

Alfresco – ActiveMQ not starting, blocking Alfresco

As already mentioned in a previous blog, ActiveMQ has been used in the scope of Alfresco since quite some time. Initially, as an optional component but then, it became mandatory. Just like for the Database, if ActiveMQ(…)

JENKINS – some ways to restart manually Jenkins services

Hi Team, Depending on your actions performed on your master,sometimes Jenkins needs to be restarted,for that,we have many alternatives,it is not supposed to be a tough task but it can be helpful to know how to do that…..So let’s see(…)

SQL Server: “Cannot resolve the collation conflict” in a Stored Procedure

This week I have a new little challenge by a customer. By executing a “standard” stored procedure, I have the error: Msg 468, Level 16, State 9, Procedure Get_logsessions, Line 56 [Batch Start Line 119] Cannot(…)

SQL Server SCOM database: A lot of errors 777970008 in the errorlog file

Few weeks ago, during a audit, I have a lot of error 777970008 in the errorlog file from the SCOM instance. All 5 minutes, we had 4 lines more in the ErrorLog and the file growth a lot.

oracle update-dcscomponents failure during ODA patching to 19.11

You might know that since ODA 19.10, the ODA metadata database is now stored in a MySQL database and not in the apache derby database any more. During a patching to 19.10 or 19.11 from a release earlier than 19.10,(…)

odabr tool : how to resolve efi device backup failure?

During all my ODA projects where I need to perform patching operation, I'm using odabr tool. This tool is really easy to use and well designed. It offers the possibility to create snapshot on the /, /u01 and /opt LVM(…)

Manage ODA patching with Data Guard or Dbvisit Standby

Introduction Building an Oracle infrastructure today without thinking about a Disaster Recovery solution (DR) is quite rare. This became obvious that a backup or a dump will not help if you do not know where to restore or import once(…)

Creating an Oracle Snapshot Copy PDB on top of ASM

Creating a snapshopt copy Pluggable Database (PDB) on top of Automatic Storage Management (ASM) is not possible, because you need to have a filesystem which supports sparse files. According the following MOS-Note sparse files are supported on Automatic Storage Management(…)