odacli update-server

ODA: Check your DB homes before applying server patch

Introduction Patching an Oracle Database Appliance is divided in 4 main steps with 4 odacli commands in this order: odacli update-dcs[admin|components|agent]: the easiest part dedicated to update the ODA tooling, including odacli itself odacli update-server: the most complex part.

ODA: ASR Manager RPM update stuck

When updating ODA, ASR Manager RPM update is stuck(…)

Patching ODA HA from 19.14 to 19.16

By Mouhamadou Diaw Patching an ODA is always exciting. Preparing a patch of an ODA HA may seem more complicated that an single ODA. But it’s the same processus. All patching operations should be run on(…)

Patching your ODA may enable all cores!

Introduction If you use Enterprise Edition on your Oracle Database Appliance environment, and if you don’t have unlimited licences, you probably lowered the CPU cores available on each server to dispatch your licences accross your environment. This operation is(…)

Patch 19.15 is available for your ODA

Introduction Patch 19.15 is now available on Oracle Database Appliance. It’s time to test it. What’s new? This version brings April’s PSU to database and grid homes with their bug fixes, as usual. It also brings latest database(…)

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(…)

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(…)

ODA: Quickly solve ILOM and BIOS update errors

Introduction Patching an Oracle Database Appliance is sometimes quite tough and you often struggle to solve failures at different steps. Regarding ILOM and BIOS patching errors, a simple workaround is possible. Errors when patching ILOM and/or BIOS This is(…)

Manage ODA patching with Data Guard or Dbvisit Standby

Introduction Building an Oracle infrastructure today without thinking about a Disaster Recovery solution (DR) is quite rare. This became obvious that a backup or a dump will not help if you do not know where to restore or import once(…)

Oracle Database Appliance: ODA patch 19.10 is out

Introduction 4 months after the 19.9, here comes the 19.10 version of the Oracle Database Appliance patch. Let’s have a look at what’s new. Will my ODA supports this 19.10 patch? The 19.10 release will be the same for all(…)