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ODA X9-2 and CPU speed

Introduction It’s been several months now that Oracle released new Oracle Database Appliance X9-2 series. And my first project with 4 of these servers is coming to an end as moving to production is planned for the next weeks.

Exadata X9M release

I would like to share some personal thoughts. September 28th 2021, Oracle released the eleventh Exadata data machine called "X9M-2" (2 CPU sockets), X9M-8 (8 sockets) and ZDLRA X9M. Exadata is a computing platform to run Oracle RDBMS, zero data(…)

NTP is not working for ODA new deployment (reimage) in version 19.8?

Having recently reimaged and patched several ODA in version 19.8 and 19.9, I could see an issue with NTP. During my troubleshooting I could determine the root cause and find appropriate solution. Through this blog I would like to share(…)

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(…)

ODA appliance creation error and cleanup.pl with option force

I had recently faced an interesting issue deploying ODA X8-2-HA. I would like to share my experience here hoping it could help some of you.

How to configure additional network card on an ODA X8 family

During a past project, we were using ODA X8-2M with one additional network card. As per my knowledge, on an appliance, additional cards are used to extend connectivity to additional network. Customer was really enforcing to have network redundancy between(…)

Patching ODA from 18.3 to 18.8

Introduction 19c will soon be available for your ODAs. But you may not be ready. Here is how to patch your ODA from 18.3 to 18.8, the very latest 18c release. This patch has here been applied on X7-2M hardware.

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},(…)

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,(…)

Why ODA reimaging doesn’t work on the first try?

Introduction Reimaging an ODA is a good practice for a lot of reasons. To make your ODA cleaner if it’s running for many years and if you patch regularly. To simplify patching because if you’re late you could have to(…)