To do some application and performances tests, I had to copy a database from a third party Linux server to an ODA X7-2M. Looks pretty simple on the paper, but 2 small challenges came into the game. The first was that of course the source database was in Non-OMF while ODA works fully in OMF. The second was that the…
By Franck Pachot . When ODA Lite was introduced, with ODA X6-2 S/M/L, and now with ODA x7-2 S/M, a new ‘odacli’ was there to manage it. It will probably replace the oakcli for ODA HA as well in the future. One big difference: it uses a repository to record the configuration and the operations. I don’t really like it…
While supporting since several years ODAs of different generations and versions, we faced time to time some hardware alerts sent back by the ILOM. However all of them are not related to real hardware issues and are false positive. To get rid of them the solution is to reset them manually. When an hardware error occurs the first reaction is…
While deploying an ODA based on the DCS stack (odacli), it is mandatory to provide a “master” password at appliance creation. The web GUI provides for that a small tooltip which describes the rules applied on password management. However it looks like there is some flexibility with those rules. Lets try to check this out with some basics tests. First…
While playing with a brand new ODA X7-2M, I faced a strange behaviour after re-imaging the ODA with the latest version 12.2.1.2.0. Basically after re-imaging and doing the configure-firstnet the next step is to import the GI clone in the repository before creating the appliance. Unfortunately this command fails with an error DCS-10001:Internal error encountered: Fail to start hand shake…
The 12.2 finally arrived on ODA and is now available on all generations. Modern ODAs are now supporting 11.2.0.4, 12.1.0.2 and 12.2.0.1 database engines, and these 3 versions can work together without any problem. You probably plan to upgrade some old databases to the latest engine, at least those still running on 11.2. As you may know, 11.2 is no…
Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) have become since several years a standard in enterprise class networks. Most enterprises are now segregating their network, especially for security reasons, between server and user or prod and test or applications and backup and aso. In the new release of ODA we finally get the support for VLAN on the bare metal platform. This…
By Franck Pachot . There are 4 models of Oracle Database Appliance with the new ODA X6 which is for the moment the latest ODA hardware version. One is similar to the previous X5-2 one, and 3 smaller ones known as ODA Lite. They are 1 year old already, here is a small recap of the differences and links to…
When creating a DB on the ODA using # oakcli create database -db <db-name> a template is used to set a couple of DB parameters like e.g. _datafile_write_errors_crash_instance=FALSE _db_writer_coalesce_area_size=16777216 _disable_interface_checking=TRUE _ENABLE_NUMA_SUPPORT=FALSE _FILE_SIZE_INCREASE_INCREMENT=2143289344 _gc_policy_time=0 _gc_undo_affinity=FALSE db_block_checking=’FULL’ db_block_checksum=’FULL’ db_lost_write_protect=’TYPICAL’ filesystemio_options=’setall’ parallel_adaptive_multi_user=FALSE parallel_execution_message_size=16384 parallel_threads_per_cpu=2 use_large_pages=’ONLY’ In recent projects I saw a couple of DBs running on ODA, which did not have (all) those…
By Franck Pachot . The Oracle Database Appliance is shipped with a bare-metal installation which may not be the latest version. You may want to have it virtualized, or get the latest version to avoid further upgrade, or install an earlier version to be in the same configuration as another ODA already in production. The easiest for all cases is…
I got an interesting question today from a customer which created a database on ODA. He selected the template odb-04 which shows 32GB Memory but got a database with a 16GB SGA… Is it due to the PGA size, a limitation in the system, the huge pages usage which is reached or even a bug? Indeed, the answer is easier…
By Franck Pachot . What’s common with Standard Edition, simplicity, reliability, high performance, and affordable price? Dbvisit standby can be an answer because it brings Disaster Recovery to Standard Edition without adding complexity ODA Lite (the new X6-2S and 2M) is another answer because you can run Standard Edition in those new appliance. So it makes sense to bring them…
