Oracle Database Appliance — What Does It Mean for You and Your Business?
When I first heard about Oracle Database Appliance and what it does, I got really excited — I saw great potential in this product. When we got our hands dirty and started testing the appliance, I...
View ArticleOracle Database Appliance: Storage Performance — Part 1
Today I want to show what kind of IO performance we can get from Oracle Database Appliance (ODA). In this part, I will focus on hard disks. That’s right — those good old brown spinning disks. I often...
View ArticleOracle Database Appliance (ODA) Patch Bundle 2.1.0.3.0 Fixes CPU Performance...
If you are using Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) then this patch is very important to apply. The patch bundle 2.1.0.3.0 has been published just this week and the most important fix from my perspective...
View ArticleRAC One Node 12c-revisited on ODA 12.1.2.1.0 featuring database on ACFS
Thanks to Andy Colvin (@acolvin) and the Enkitec lab I have been able to get my hands on an ODA X4-2. And since that’s a lot quieter than turning on my own lab server, and also a lot faster I used the...
View ArticleODA X6 installation: re-image
The Oracle Database Appliance is shipped with a bare-metal installation which may not be the latest version. You may want to have it virtualized, or get the latest version to avoid further upgrade, or...
View ArticleODA X6 2S 2M 2L HA: Small Medium Large and High Availability
There are 4 models of Oracle Database Appliance with the new ODA X6 which is for the moment the latest ODA hardware version. One is similar to the previous X5-2 one, and 3 smaller ones known as ODA...
View ArticleODA Lite: What is this ‘odacli’ repository?
When ODA Lite was introduced, with ODA X6-2 S/M/L, and now with ODA x7-2 S/M, a new ‘odacli’ was there to manage it. It will probably replace the oakcli for ODA HA as well in the future. One big...
View ArticleDuplicating a Database on ODA
IntroductionEvery so often, we get a request to duplicate a database for one of our customers using an Oracle Database Appliance (ODA). The process for doing that is relatively straightforward, but...
View ArticleDuplicating a Database on ODA
IntroductionEvery so often, we get a request to duplicate a database for one of our customers using an Oracle Database Appliance (ODA). The process for doing that is relatively straightforward, but...
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