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…
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…
There was no exadata install partner in Belgium & Luxembourg. Until now… We are proud to announce that we are the first oracle partner to specialize in Exadata hardware installation & software configuration. This means that we are now officially able to install YOUR Exadata. If you would like to know more feel free to…
A quick note and work-around for a ASM problem I encountered while adding a RAC node to our 12c labo setup: The environment in question was a new 2 linux (OL 6.6) node 12.1.0.2 RAC (on OVM 3.2.2) with the April 2015 PSU. ASM is used to provide the shared storage. When running the “cluvfy…
LAMP = Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP Last week we hosted another one of our technical lunches. This time it was about High Availability in the LAMP stack. To get more info about LAMP we suggest you visit the wikipedia page first. As it was such beautiful weather, we quickly moved the lunch outside. Unfortunately we…
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…