Introduction Patch 19.30 is now available for Oracle Database Appliance series. Let’s find out what’s new and how to apply this patch. What’s new? The real new feature is the possibility to rollback a server component patch done by an odacli update-servercomponents. Until now, in the rare cases you would need to do a rollback, you could only rely on…
Introduction ODA X8-2 series was sold for 3 years, and I would have expected X9-2 series to be on the market for 2-3 years, but I was wrong. ODA X10 series has just been announced. Maybe Oracle has a different strategy for appliances now, I will explain my thought later. You will notice that Oracle removed the number 2 in…
Introduction Patching an Oracle Database Appliance is divided in 4 main steps with 4 odacli commands in this order: It’s always recommended to update all the components, but it’s possible to stop after storage update if you want to keep older versions of the DB homes. Normally, the update-server wouldn’t need looking into DB homes, but it requires your DB…
Introduction It’s been several months now that Oracle released new Oracle Database Appliance X9-2 series. And my first project with 4 of these servers is coming to an end as moving to production is planned for the next weeks. What is the real speed of the Xeon CPUs inside these new servers? Let’s find out. Intel Xeon and CPU speed…
Introduction Once your brand new Oracle Database Appliance is racked and connected to power, the first configuration step is to setup the static IP address on the management console (ILOM). Until ODA X6-2 generation, servers were equipped with a VGA connector, and it was possible to configure ILOM IP in the BIOS of each ODA node using a keyboard and…
