What’s New With Exadata – September 2011
Over the past few weeks, I've been working on some new (and older) installations of Exadata, and came across a few items that piqued my interest. Each of these things had been on my mind for a while,...
View ArticleExadata Critical Issues with 11.2.2.4.0 Patch
Oracle has upgraded the supplemental note for 11.2.2.4.0 (1348647.1) with a handful of critical issues. First, there is an issue mentioned by Vishal Gupta here regarding 10 gigabit ethernet on the...
View ArticleNew Exadata Full Stack Patches
Oracle has announced a new patching strategy for Exadata, starting with databases running 11.2.0.3. Oracle will be moving away from the monthly bundle patch philosophy, which was panned by many...
View ArticleYum Repository for Oracle Enterprise Linux
One of the new requirements of the Exadata Storage Server patches (starting with 11.2.3.1.0) is that the compute nodes will be patched through yum. Previously, the minimal pack was bundled with the...
View ArticleUpgrading the Oracle Database Appliance to Version 2.3.0.0.0
As you may have guessed, applying patches on the Oracle Database Appliance can be a little bit different from your standard Oracle environment. Oracle releases a software version that covers all...
View Articledbnodeupdate.sh on Exadata Compute Nodes
Rene Kundersma at Oracle just published a nifty new utility named dbnodeupdate.sh that will assist with the sometimes-cumbersome process of updating the compute nodes in an Exadata environment....
View ArticleExadata and Bash Shellshock
There has recently been a lot of news about the exploit revealed in the bash shell. While the fix is very quick to implement, there are a couple of tricks that are required to install this update on...
View ArticleRedirecting ILOM Console Via SSH Tunneling With Putty
While preparing for a virtualized Exalytics upgrade, I was testing the various connection methods that would be needed. Last on the list was to validate that I could connect to the ILOM’s web...
View ArticleSCAN Listener Crash After Applying July 2016 PSU
I ran in to a small issue while applying the July 2016 quarterly patch to a couple of Exadata racks last week. The systems were running GI 12.1.0.2, previously with the January 2016 PSU. The patches...
View ArticleExadata Cell Patching – USB I/O Errors
I was playing around with the Exadata X2-2 in the Enkitec lab this weekend, and hit an interesting issue when patching the storage servers. We were taking the system up to version 12.1.2.3.3 for...
View ArticleParallelizing datapatch execution
When applying quarterly PSUs to an Oracle database, there are generally two steps – one step that applies updates to the binaries inside the Oracle home, and one step that updates objects inside the...
View ArticleExadata Storage Server Patching in 18.1.1 and Above
One of the cool new features that was introduced with 18.1.0.0.0 was a subtle change in the Exadata storage server patching process. While not required, this new functionality removes the need to use...
View ArticleExadata and WebLogic CVE-2019-2725
I can still remember the surprise when Frits Hoogland pointed out that Oracle had replaced the old OC4J instance on Exadata storage servers with a WebLogic service. I wasn’t quite sure what to make of...
View ArticleOEDA Virtualized Cluster Discovery With SSH Keys
As part of the Oracle Exadata Deployment Assistant (“OEDA”), Oracle includes a command line utility to read and modify the XML files used for deployment of an Exadata cluster. Typical use cases are to...
View ArticleSlow Exadata Compute Node Upgrades to Oracle Linux 7
One of the cool things that Oracle has done with Exadata is give users the ability to upgrade from Oracle Linux 6 to Oracle Linux 7 with an in-place upgrade process. This comes automatically when you...
View Article19c Grid Infrastructure Upgrade Failures with OEDACLI
As part of an ongoing project, I’ve been performing a fair amount of upgrades to 19c on Exadata systems. Several of those systems are virtualized, running Oracle VM (based on Xen). I’ve previously...
View ArticleOJVM and DBA_REGISTRY_SQLPATCH
I woke up this morning and did what I do most days - doomscroll through twitter. One of the benefits of being in the US is that there are usually some interesting discussions going on with people I...
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