kvm

ODA: Migrating from bare metal to CPU pools

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(…)

Creating KVM Database System on separate VLAN network on ODA

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(…)

ODA 19.12: How can you manage DB Systems with odacli?

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.

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.

Does it still make sense to deploy a virtualized HA ODA in 2021?

Introduction Starting from version 19.11 of the Oracle Database Appliance software bundle, OLVM will definitely replace OVM server as virtualization engine. This change has quite a big impact as there will be no more virtualized specific deployment. Bare metal will(…)

ODA 19.9 software release is out

Introduction 6 months after the 19.6, the first 19c production release, here comes the 19.9 Oracle Database Appliance patch with major improvements. Will my ODA supports this 19.9 patch? First, the 19.9 release will be the same for all ODAs,(…)