Introduction Oracle Database Appliance now fully supports virtualization with KVM, and this could be interesting for some of us. If you’re using Enterprise Edition, you probably decreased the number of cores to comply with your licenses. Now you can increase your core configuration with more cores, some being dedicated to your databases, and some for user-managed VMs. Let’s find out…
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. And both can be used on the same ODA. If you’re looking for how to deploy an ODA with KVM…
Introduction Cloud often raises in the top 3 solutions when thinking about Oracle infrastructure renewal. For obvious reasons: you do not need to buy any server, platform is already available, you pay as a subscription, you drastically reduce time to go to production and you can scale up and down. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, or OCI, is a Cloud provider you…
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 how does it work? ORACLE_BASE and ORACLE_HOME on ACFS When installing an ODA from scratch then ORACLE_BASE and ORACLE_HOME are…
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. This hypervisor had at least one VM, a special one called ODA BASE, holding all the databases and having direct…
