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 my experience with you. Symptom/Analysis ODA version 19.6 or higher is coming with Oracle Linux 7. Since Oracle Linux 7…
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 like to tell you why I trust this solution. And for that, I will tell you the story of one…
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 ODA registry, start the instance with a basic pfile, and that’s it. Then you’re supposed to do the next step:…
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 easier way for configuring that. After years of waiting for this feature, it’s now available, and I just tested it.…
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 19.9 as well as a new tricky skip-orachk option. Patching requirement To patch the Bare Metal ODA to 19.9 version…
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, as usual. Like 19.6, the oldest ODA compatible with this release will be the X5-2. Don’t expect to install 19c…
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 it can also work with 3 disks, 4 disks, 5 disks and so on. There is no need for parity…
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 solution is good enough and probably better than anything else. But now, public clouds are a real alternative to on-premise…
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 some interesting troubleshooting that I wanted to share hoping it might be helpful for someone. Why patching an ODA after…
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. Error in creating the appliance After reimaging both node0 and node1 from the ODA X8-2-HA, running the configure-firstnet and updating the repository I was going to create the appliance. On ODA X8-2-HA the appliance creation…
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 Edition 2. One of the advantage here would be to use the Standby Database as fallback in case there would…
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 Oracle home to another of the same database version odacli update-dbhome to update a specific RDBMS home to the latest…
