Did you miss our webinar on the Oracle Database Appliance? Well, here’s your chance to watch it again. Interesting to know: If you order an ODA before the end of August you can get an extra discount! CONTACT US Did you like our webinar? What topics would you like to see next? Let us know…
We at Exitas love all things cloud but the truth is, so much of our workloads are still running happily in a local datacenter. To keep things running smoothly there, it is important to refresh your hardware before you get into all sorts of trouble like outages, spare parts that can’t be replaced, software upgrades…
When applying an ODA patch, you use a dedicated patch bundle which include the patches for all the different component ranging from the disk firmware and the OS to the database software itself. These patch bundles are then installed using oakcli (or odacli, depending on your ODA version). Given this patch methodology and given that…
Doing an ODA re-image 12.1.2.6 on an ODA X3-2 (the installed version was 2.10, as in 2.10 without 12.1 in front of it 🙂 ) seems like an easy task, but it isn’t. 12.1.2.6 doesn’t contain a firmware upgrade because it has the upgrade from OEL5 to EL6 and otherwise the patch would be too…