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Latest Realease of Oracle Exadata Exachk and HealthCheck
Announcing the release of Exachk Version 12.1.0.2.4_20150702. For more details on Oracle Exadata Exachk and healthcheck, take a look at the MOS article “Oracle Exadata Database Machine exachk or...
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Shrink/Grow Exadata diskgroups
One of the important tasks that I foresee after an initial Exadata deployment is, mostly prior to DB in production, is to balance/resize the Exadata diskgroups (DATA & RECO). Generally, the space...
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Exadata X5 PDU – CLI already in use
Exadata X5-2 and X4-8B racks are delivered with the “Enhanced” PDU metering units connected via the Cisco switch. Although the documentation says they should have static addresses, they don’t. You need...
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Top 8 Strategies to Thrive at Oracle OpenWorld
Yes! It’s that time of the year again when we start planning for the premier Oracle OpenWorld. So let’s get right into it! Read more here – Top 8 Strategies to Thrive at Oracle OpenWorld o o o o o o...
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How to move OEM12c management agent to new location
While working on another Exadata project recently I found that OEM12c agents on the compute nodes were installed on different locations on each of the three Exadatas. On one of them was under...
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Oracle SPARC M7 Processor Breaks the “Sacrifice Performance for Security”...
Oracle Executive Vice President John Fowler used the occasion of Open World 2015 to introduce Oracle's SPARC M7 processor, the fastest in the world. Learn more ...
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How to rename ASM disk groups in Exadata
Deployment of Exadata requires you to generate configuration using Oracle Exadata Deployment Assistant (OEDA). Within the same the default ASM disk groups names are DBFS_DG, RECOC1 and DATAC1. I...
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Best Practices for Exadata Plug-in for Enterprise Manager, and Real...
A friend asked "I am about to go live with Exadata. I want to ask if there are best practices to setting up Enterprise Manager and the Exadata plug-in."Sure. The following My Oracle Support documents...
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Enterprise Manager 13c - New Look and features
Friends,Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c has been released this Friday. This is what the new Self-Service screen looks like:Enterprise Manager 13c unifies hardware and software management. Important...
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Managing Virtualized Exadata with Oracle Enterprise Manager
A friend wrote:“I am interested in knowing about how Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c can manage a Virtualized Exadata.“First of all, would Enterprise Manager be aware of the different OVMs (Oracle...
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Enhancements to the Oracle Multitenant option in Oracle Database 12.1.0.2 –...
In this blog post series, we are looking at noteworthy enhancements to the Oracle Multitenant option of the Oracle Database in 12.1.0.2. In the previous post, we looked at the new Zone Maps feature,...
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Exadata onecommand fails at cell disk creation
I was installing another Exadata last month when I got an error on create cell disks step. I’ve seen the same error before when I was extending two to three rack Exadata configuration but thought it...
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Storage difference between 2 identical Exa boxes. How and why?
We noticed around 1.6TB storage difference between two Eight (1/8) Exadata boxes while configuring Data Guard. Wondered what went wrong. The Exa box configured for DR was around 1.6TB short compare to...
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Oracle Exadata X6 released
Oracle has just announced the next generation of Exadata Database Machine – X6-2 and X6-8.Here are the changes for Exadata X6-2:1) X6-2 Database Server: As always the hardware has been updated and the...
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Rent, don't buy your on-premise Exadata
As I described last week, Oracle recently announced that you can now put their hardware and cloud software inside your own datacenter with the Oracle Cloud Machine.They now seem to be going a step...
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How to resolve missing dependency on exadata-sun-computenode-minimum
I’ve been really busy last few months – except spending a lot of time on M25 I’ve been doing a lot of Exadata installations and consolidations. I haven’t posted for some time now but the good news is...
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Upgrade yourself from DBA to DMA
In any profession, learning never ends. From my very personal perspective and own exprience, I strongly beleinv in one who upgrade his skills always stays a step ahead from the rest. To stay...
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Oracle Database 12.2 available on Exadata Express Cloud Service (new features...
My friend told me today that Oracle 12.2 is available on the cloud on the following link: https://cloud.oracle.com/databaseI checked that link. The following database cloud services can be seen on that...
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Extending an Exadata Eighth Rack to a Quarter Rack
In the past year I’ve done a lot of Exadata deployments and probably half of them were eighth racks. It’s one of those temporary things – let’s do it now but we’ll change it later. It’s the same with...
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How to enable Exadata Write-Back Flash Cache
Yes, this is well-known and the process has been described in Exadata Write-Back Flash Cache – FAQ (Doc ID 1500257.1) but what the note fails to make clear is that you do NOT have to restart cell...
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