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ODA: ASR Manager RPM update stuck

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

ODA version 19.18 is available: how to patch?

Applying 19.18 patch on your Oracle Database Appliance(…)

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(…)

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(…)

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(…)

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(…)