ODA

Patch 19.14 is out for ODA: new features and how to apply

Introduction Patch 19.14 is now available on Oracle Database Appliance. It’s time to test it. What’s new? This version brings January’s PSU to database and grid homes with their bug fixes, as usual. It also brings latest 21.5 but only(…)

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(…)

Separating database traffic on an ODA

I recently wrote a blog on how to separate database traffic on an ODA using KVM Database Systems on different VLAN : Creating KVM Database System on separate VLAN network on ODA As we could see there is pros(…)

Oracle Database Appliance: Install a DB Release Update manually

By Clemens Bleile Recently I upgraded an ODA X7-M from 19.12. to 19.13. After the dcs-, server- and storage-upgrade several databases on the machine had to be patched from 19.9. to 19.13. The [root@<node> ~]# odacli create-prepatchreport --dbhome --dbhomeid(…)

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(…)

Oracle Database Appliance (ODA): Adjusting to the new ORACLE_BASE-setting from 19.11. onwards

By Clemens Bleile From Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) version 19.11. onwards the ORACLE_HOMEs and ORACLE_BASE will be created on ACFS, i.e. take space from an ASM-diskgroup instead of taking filesystem space from /u01. See this blog concerning details. If(…)

ODA KVM Machines : Adding a Network Interface on a Virtual Machine

By Mouhamadou Diaw In a previous blog , I was talking about virtual machines on ODA servers. Sometimes it comes that we want to add another network interface for other purpose. In this blog I(…)

Upgrade AHF and TFA on an ODA

TFA (Trace File Analyzer) is part of AHF (Autonomous Health Framework). Those tools are preinstalled and part of ODA (Oracle Database Appliance). As you might know patching and upgrading are normally always going through ODA global Bundle patches. AHF can,(…)

Oracle Database Appliance 19.13: what’s new and how to patch?

Introduction Patch 19.13 is now available on ODA. It’s time to test it. What’s new? This version brings October’s PSU to database and grid homes with their bug fixes, as usual. It also brings 21.4 for DB Systems (21c being(…)

Move a PDB from a server to another one using NFS

Introduction Multitenant brings new possibilities regarding Oracle databases, and one of them is to move a database from a container to another quite easily. When containers are on the same server, it’s very easy, but when the containers are on(…)