Oracle Database Appliance vs Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
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...
View ArticleHow long does it take to redeploy an ODA X8-2M?
Introduction One of the advantage of Oracle Database Appliance is its fast deployment. Most often, the initial setup of a lite ODA (with a reimaging) only takes half a day, from unboxing until a first...
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CentOS 8 alternatives
Many people are unhappy about the decision from the CentOS Board of Directors, to switch from fix releases to Stream and cutting the support date from 2029 to 31st of December 2021 for CentOS 8. Many...
View ArticleNetwork configurations on ODA
Introduction ODA is an appliance, that means that everything is included in a box, and this box could eventually run its stuff only being connected to power. But it would be quite useless as nobody...
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SUSE Manager installation
In this Blog I will write the requirements and steps to install SUSE Manager Server. Maybe you heard about SUSE Manager but you could not understand why a SUSE Manager Server (SUMA) can help to manage...
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SUMA Server Part 2
In my previous Blog I wrote how to install and configure SUSE Manager. In this Blog I will go more in the deep like repository management and PXE boot configuration. Configuring repository To...
View ArticleOracle 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...
View ArticleODA: Move a DB to ASM after migrating from 11g to 19c
Introduction Modern Oracle Database Appliances still support 11gR2, but there are several drawbacks using this old version: if you want/need support for your databases, you should pay for Market Driven...
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Automating Linux patching with Ansible
Since the beginning of the year, several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux Kernel as well as in others important and widely-used packages. Among them, there was the famous CVE-2021-3156...
View ArticlePatching ODA HA from 19.8 to 19.10
In this blog I am describing the steps to patch an ODA HA from the version 19.8 to version 19.10. The patching was done with a customer. Thanks to Pierre. The name of the servers were changed The ODA...
View ArticleDoes it still make sense to deploy a virtualized HA ODA in 2021?
Introduction Starting from version 19.11 of the Oracle Database Appliance software bundle, OLVM will definitely replace OVM server as virtualization engine. This change has quite a big impact as there...
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De-Ubuntu Ubuntu
Canonical is consistently promoting Snap Integration in the Ubuntu world with all its market power. However, many do not like this development with Ubuntu. But what options do you still have as an...
View ArticleWhen to secure erase storage devices? How to do it on Oracle Database...
TL;DR If hardware stays inside your data center, it’s ok to secure erase storage devices. If it leaves your data center (decommission, move to another location), it’s best to physically destroy...
View ArticleManage 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...
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Deploying a KVM-based virtualized X8-2M ODA
Introduction Until now, High-Availability (HA) ODAs could have been deployed either in bare metal or in virtualized mode. Virtualized mode means that instead of installing a classic Linux system on the...
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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...
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Oracle Database Appliance 19.12 Deployment
In this blog I am describing the deployment of an ODA with the version 19.12 Following patches will be needed -Patch 30403643: Oracle Database Appliance ISO Image -Patch 30403673: Oracle Database...
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Oracle Database Appliance KVM Virtual Instance on ODA 19.12
KVM virtualization uses a kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) to create a virtualized environment for your Linux applications.In this blog I want to share some tasks I did at a client. The client is...
View ArticleConfiguring ODBC : SQLServer Access From Oracle
Sometimes you need to access to your SQLServer from your Oracle database. There is many ways and tools to do this. In this blog I am describing how to perform this task using ODBC. The configuration is...
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ODA update-server to 19.12 fails on Patch GI with RHP
Sometimes giving a workshop is a good opportunities to test new things…this what happened to me today… While giving an ODA workshop, I thought it was a good opportunity to test patching to the new...
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