Nowadays, we’re used to the big X for the exadata’s. This stands for the x86 infrastructure they are running on. So in Exadata SL6-2, SL indicates “Sparc Linux”. You should follow the Oracle guys on twitter as well, you will see this product (Linux for sparc) is growing very rapidly. One of the questions which immediately pop…
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OEDA issues One of my customers has bought a new X5-2 Exadata and they asked me to help them with the pre-configuration tasks. Part of this is to run the OEDA configuration tool (clearly no Dutch speaker was involved in picking that name). Unfortunately I soon hit a first road block. Now, I’m pretty sure…
2 weeks ago, with the release of the April 2015 QFSP, it was time again to start patching our exadata. As we apply the QFSP 2 times a year, this was nothing new for us and at first everything seemed to go smoothly. Patching the storage servers completed in about 2 hours (we don’t use…