ODA

ODA X8-2-HA cluster issue and NTP configuration

I have been recently deploying some new ODA X8-2-HA. After reimaging and creating the appliance, I had to patch the ODA. The day after, checking status, I could realize that my node 0 was not working as expected. I did(…)

ODA appliance creation error and cleanup.pl with option force

I had recently faced an interesting issue deploying ODA X8-2-HA. I would like to share my experience here hoping it could help some of you.

How to migrate High Availability databases on an ODA?

Through this blog, I would like to show, with a real customer case, how I have been migrating databases in High Availability environment on an ODA. High Availability using Data Guard for Oracle Enterprise Edition or dbvisit for Oracle Standard(…)

How to synchronize the appliance registry metadata on an ODA?

Databases administration on a Bare Metal ODA will be done as root user by running odacli commands : odacli create-database to create a database odacli upgrade-database to upgrade a database between major releases odacli move-database to move databases from one(…)

Duplicate Database on ODA X4

By Mouhamadou Diaw The ODA X4 is still in use for some customers. The last time I was asked to validate the backups . Let me explain the context. Actually the backups are done via RMAN on local in a(…)

Reimaging an ODA to 19.8 Part II

By Mouhamadou Diaw In my previous blog, I described the steps to deploy an ODA 19.8 by reimaging. The ODA was reimaged with the latest available version 19.8 but some components were not up-to-dated. 1(…)

Reimaging an ODA to 19.8 Part I

By Mouhamadou Diaw Recently I was deploying some ODA X8-2M. To install the 19.8 software, I decide to reimage the server with the 19.8 image. In this blog I describe the main steps I did. First, we will need to(…)

Boost your CPU speed with Standard Edition 2 on ODA

Introduction There is no need to decrease the number of cores on your ODA when using Standard Edition 2, because your license is based on the number of physical CPU. So why would you do that? Obviously, the more cores(…)

Oracle Database Appliance and CPU speed

Introduction A complaint I heard from customers about ODA is the low core speed of the Intel Xeon processor embedded in the X8-2 servers: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 5218 CPU @ 2.30GHz. 2.30GHz only? Because of its comfortable number of cores(…)

ODA: odacli now supports Data Guard in 19.8

Introduction I’ve been dreaming of this kind of feature: just because most of the ODA configurations now include Disaster Recovery capabilities, through Data Guard or Dbvisit standy. If Dbvisit will obviously never be integrated to odacli, the lack of Data(…)