Introduction Oracle 23c is not yet available on Oracle Database Appliance (ODA), but it should be ready in 2024. As 23c is the next Long Term release, 19c databases will probably migrate to 23c in the coming years. If you decided to use DB Systems on your ODA, you might think that migration will not be that easy. But it’s…
Introduction Patch 19.15 is now available on Oracle Database Appliance. It’s time to test it. What’s new? This version brings April’s PSU to database and grid homes with their bug fixes, as usual. It also brings latest database 21.6 but only for DB Systems (21c being an innovation release). As you may know, new ODA X9-2 is here with 3…
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…
Oracle appliance is proposing various possibilities for creating databases either on the Bare Metal or using KVM DB System. Each DB System will host a single database in a separate VM. What about having each DB system running a separate network? In this blog I would like to share my tests and findings about how to create additional network on…
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 Benefits of going into the Oracle Cloud (OCI) are clear for most of us: no more datacenter and hardware to manage. But what else? On OCI, you can also decide to get rid of part of the DBA tasks (the less interesting ones, for sure). To create your Oracle database environment, you need to choose among these 3 solutions…
