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 It’s been 1 year now that 19c is available on-premise. Finally, 19c is now available today on ODA too, in a real production release. Let’s have a glance of what’s inside. Is 19.6 available for my old ODA? The 19.6 release, like most recent releases, is the same for all ODAs. But oldest ODAs will not support it. First-gen…
Introduction 19c will soon be available for your ODAs. But you may not be ready. Here is how to patch your ODA from 18.3 to 18.8, the very latest 18c release. This patch has here been applied on X7-2M hardware. Download the patch files Patch number is 30518425. This patch is composed of 2 zipfiles you will copy on your…
Introduction As you may know, Oracle Database 19c is available for new (X8-2) or older Oracle Database Appliances since several weeks. Current version is 19.5. But when you go to the official ODA documentation , it still first proposes version 18.7 not compatible with 19c databases. Here is why. 19c database is the final 12.2 First of all, 19c is…
Introduction One of the key features of the ODA (Oracle Database Appliance) is the ability to patch the entire stack every three months, the goal being to keep all the components up-to-date. Most of the customers won’t patch so often, but one patch a year is quite a good average. But when comes the time for patching, comes the time…
Even you don’t need 18c, or you’re not ready for this release, this patch will also update your 11gR2, 12cR1 and 12cR2 databases to the latest PSU available on ODA, it means for example the patchset from last July if you’re using 12cR1. Here is how to apply this latest patch for your ODA lite. In this example, the patch…
Introduction I am currently setting up a new “Base Image” virtual machine (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6) which will be used to create 6 brand new Oracle database servers requested by a customer. Besides installing and configuring the OS, I also have to install 3 Oracle Homes and one Cloud Control Agent 13c. An OMS13c server already exists including an…
Introduction X3-2 and X4-2 ODAs are still very capable pieces of hardware in 2018. With 256GB of RAM and at least 16 cores per node, and with 18TB RAW disk capacity as a standard these appliances are far from obsolete even you probably don’t have any more support on the hardware from Oracle. If you own several ODAs of this…
Here is how to apply the latest patch for your ODA. As usual the Oracle documentation is not 100% accurate. I applied this patch on 2 ODAs X7-2M previously deployed in 12.2.1.2.0, no intermediate patch was needed. 1) Download the patch The patch number is 28216794. This patch will update the following components: dcs (odacli), operating system, bios/firmwares, ilom, GI,…
By Franck Pachot . In a previous post, I explained the announcement of the new release model, with Release Updates and Release Update Revisions replacing Proactive Bundle Patch and PSUs. Here is a description that will help you to plan your patching activity. Which DBA are you? There are currently a lot of discussions about the different types of DBAs.…
We have Upgrade our Environment Oracle DBA Essentials Workshop of release 11.2.0.3 to 11.2.0.4. From now on, you can operates the various subjects on the new release. In this article, I present you the procedure to be followed for the upgrade of your database: Update DMK to the version 14-10 Upgrade database Install Oracle Patchset 11.2.0.4 and PSU Update DMK…
I ran into a strange issue by a customer. When trying to open a huge VD on the D2’s right panel the browser freezes. It seems to be due to an Internet Explorer security patch. It is introducing huge performance issues. So if you run into strange issues concerning your web browser check the patch version of IE. The security…
