ODA

How long does it take to redeploy an ODA X8-2M?

Introduction One of the advantage of Oracle Database Appliance is its fast deployment. Most often, the initial setup of a lite ODA (with a reimaging) only takes half a day, from unboxing until a first test database is available. Trust(…)

Building a network bonding between 2 cards on Oracle Linux

I recently needed to configure bonding between 2 network cards on a customer side and I wanted trough this blog to share my findings and how I built it showing some traces. I will also do a short comparison of(…)

NTP is not working for ODA new deployment (reimage) in version 19.8?

Having recently reimaged and patched several ODA in version 19.8 and 19.9, I could see an issue with NTP. During my troubleshooting I could determine the root cause and find appropriate solution. Through this blog I would like to share(…)

A typical ODA project (and why I love Oracle Database Appliance)

Introduction You can say everything about Oracle infrastructure possibilities but nothing compares to experience based on the realization of real projects. I did quite a lot of ODA projects during the past years (on other platforms too), and I would(…)

odacli create-database -io doesn’t work for older databases in 19.9

Introduction On ODA, you create your databases with odacli create-database. You can create a complete database, and it takes about 10 minutes, and you can also create an instance-only database. It will simply and quickly create a record in the(…)

Configure Data Guard with odacli on ODA

Introduction I always thought integration of Data Guard was a missing feature on Oracle Database Appliance. For sure, you can configure Data Guard manually as you do on a classic server, but as an appliance, ODA should have proposed an(…)

Patching Oracle Database Appliance to 19.9

ODA 19.9 has just been released for Bare Metal yesterday, and I had the opportunity to already patch a customer production ODA to this latest version. Through this blog I wanted to share my experience on patching an ODA to(…)

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,(…)

Disk usage on ODA – Free MB and usable MB

Introduction Oracle Database Appliances rely on ASM to manage disk redundancy. And ASM is brilliant. Compared to RAID, redundancy is managed at the block level. For NORMAL redundancy, which is similar to RAID1, you need at least 2 disks, but(…)

Oracle Database Appliance vs Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Introduction Oracle Database Appliances are very popular these days. And not only among new customers for this kind of engineered systems. Almost all customers already using old generation ODAs are renewing their infrastructure by choosing again ODAs, meaning that the(…)