Background: Cyber-crimes and the annual costs incurred by business are on the rise year over year. In 2017, the average cost of a data breach alone in North America is $1.3 million for enterprises and $117,000 for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), according to a report from Kaspersky Lab. So what can an organization do to reduce their risk? The most common response is to recommend technology overkill, and mostly that is address with a balance of intelligent security tools, governance practices and focused training of team members. In this article, I will explain aboutSEE DETAILS

Oracle Released Exadata Storage Software version 18.1.0.0.0 on October 2nd 2017. Patch (25342756) for Storage server software and Infiniband Switch software For more details review the MOS note 2288392.1 ESS version 18.1.0.0.0 supports the following Oracle Database software releases: 12.2.0.1.0 12.1.0.2.0 12.1.0.1.0 11.2.0.4.0 11.2.0.3.0 Exadata 18.1.0.0.0 Software and Image files for upgrade are: Patch 25342756 – Storage server software (18.1.0.0.0.170915.1) and InfiniBand switch software (2.2.7-1) Patch 26829586 – Database server bare metal / domU ULN ISO image (18.1.0.0.0.170915.1) Patch 26829591 – Database server dom0 ULN OVM channel ISO image (18.1.0.0.0.170915.1)

Another Exadata Storage Software 18c update released!! Oracle Released Exadata Storage Software version 18.1.1.0.0 on October 26th 2017. Earlier release was ESS version 18.1.0.0.0 on October 2nd 2017. – Patch (26875767) for Storage server software and Infiniband Switch software For more details review the MOS “Exadata 18.1.1.0.0 release and patch (26875767) (Doc ID 2311786.1)” ESS version 18.1.1.0.0 supports the following Oracle Database software releases: – 12.2.0.1.0 – 12.1.0.2.0 – 12.1.0.1.0 – 11.2.0.4.0 – 11.2.0.3.0 Exadata 18.1.1.0.0 Software and Image files for upgrade are: – Patch 26875767 – Storage server softwareSEE DETAILS <span clas...

Introduction I was working on a hardware (Processor) failure on Exadata X5-2 Compute node. There was an Automatic SR generated for the hardware failure, Oracle Field Engineer contacted us for hardware  replacement and replaced the faulty hardware. Everything went smooth until this point. But we noticed that even after the hardware replacement the fault was not cleared automatically. So we ended up clearing the hardware fault manually. In this article I will demonstrate how to clear a hardware (Processor) fault manually. The same steps can be used for clearing all type ofSEE DETAILS

Introduction I was testing Exadata Compute node snapshot restore procedure on an Exadata X5-2. As per of testing I had to start the machine in special mode using diag.iso, the easiest option is to use WEB ILOM to mount he diag.iso, but for some technical reason or BUG I was unable to mount diag.iso using WEB ILOM. Oracle provided a procedure to mount the diag.iso image using an NFS server. In this article I will demonstrate step by step procedure on how mount diag.iso image using NFS Server along withSEE DETAILS

Introduction ODA consists of two physical servers (Node 0 and Node 1), a storage shelf and optionally an additional storage shelf. The two independent physical servers are interconnected and direct attached to SAS and SSD storage. You can deploy ODA in one of the following model: Bare Metal Deployment Virtualized Platform Deployment By default, ODA ships with the latest version of Bare Metal Operating System. To deploy Oracle Database Appliance Virtualized platform, you must re-image ODA using Virtualized OS ISO image. To identify ODA deployment type, execute the following command:SEE DETAILS </sp...

Oracle Database Appliance X7-2 HA – First look October 2017 Oracle announced Oracle Database Appliance X7-2 (Small, Medium and HA). ODA X7-2 comes with more computing resources compared with X6-2 Models. Let’s take a quick look at few benefits of ODA followed by the technical specification on ODA X7-2 Small/Medium and HA. Benfits of ODA: Software, server, storage, and networking engineered and optimized to run Oracle Database and applications. Supports Oracle Database Standard Edition, Standard Edition One, Standard Edition 2, and Enterprise Edition. Optimized for Cloud Capacity on Demand LicensingSEE DETAILS ...

Exadata Database Machine X7-2 On October 2nd at Oracle Open World, Oracle announced the next-generation Oracle Exadata Database Machine X7 with significant hardware and software enhancements in overall performance, storage capacity, network bandwidth, and automation. Exadata X7 delivers extreme performance and reliability to run the largest, most business-critical database workloads. Exadata X7-2 quick glance: Latest Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (384 core in a Full Rack) 50% increase in Physical memory (upto 12TB in a full Rack) 100% increase in the capacity of Extreme Flash storage (716.8TB in a full Rack) 25%SEE DETAILS <span class="more-link-hover-ima...

Oracle Database Appliance Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) is a pre-configured, highly available Oracle Database Engineered system. ODA system consists of hardware, software, storage and networking. The hardware configuration is designed to provide redundancy and protection against single points of failures in the system. The Oracle Database Appliance saves time and money by simplifying deployment, maintenance, and support of high availability Database solutions. ODA consists of two physical servers (Node 0 and Node 1), a storage shelf and optionally an additional storage shelf. The two independent physical servers are interconnected andSEE DETAILS <span class="more-l...

Introduction Oracle introduced odachk with ODA version 2.3. Later in ODA 12.10 it was renamed to orachk. Oracle ORAchk tool provides a lightweight and non-intrusive health check framework for the Oracle stack of software and hardware components. ORAchk is available for Oracle Database and Oracle Database Appliance. For all other Engineered systems use EXAchk. ORAchk Utility ORAchk is a Configuration Audit tool developed by Oracle to audit various important configuration settings within Real Application Clusters (RAC), Oracle Clusterware (CRS), Automatic Storage Management (ASM) and Grid Infrastructure environments. Benefits of ORAchkSEE DETAILS <span class="more-...

Introduction oakcli stands for Oracle Appliance Kit Command Line Interface. oakcli utility is used to manage Oracle Database Applaince. It used to carry out management tasks such as, Deploying, Patching, validating, monitoring, troubleshooting, Create Database, Create database homes, Configuring core key, manage Virtual machines and so on.  oakcli utility is located under the direcoty /opt/oracle/oak/bin/oakcli oakcli logs oakcli commands output under the directory /opt/oracle/oak/log/<hostname>/client/oakcli.log Few things that you can do with oakcli but not limited to are: Deploy Oracle Database Appliance Configure network for Oracle Database Appliance deployment Patching Oracle Database<a class="more-link" href="https://netsoftmate.com/oracle-database-appliance-kit-comma...

Introduction Oracle Database Appliance uses the Oracle Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System (Oracle ACFS) for database and virtual machine files storage. Oracle ACFS provides both servers with concurrent access to some or all of the shared storage on Oracle Database Appliance. It supports space-efficient storage snapshots, which provides fast provisioning databases and virtual machines within Oracle Database Appliance. To check Storage used for database running on ODA, execute the following: [root@dzuro614001nor ~]# oakcli show databases Name     Type       Storage   HomeName        SEE DETAILS <span cl...

Introduction You can manage entire Oracle Database Appliance stack using oakcli command-line interface. There are several options available using oakcli, you can use the “oakcli -h” to list the options that you can use to manage ODA. Validating an ODA is an important task for ODA administrator. [root@odanode1 ~]# oakcli -h Usage:  oakcli show       – Shows disk, diskgroup, expander, controller, server, processor, memory, power, cooling, network, enclosure, storage, version, fs, raidsyncstatus, dbhomes, dbstorage, databases, db_config_params, core_config_key, env_hw, ASR         oakcli configure  – Configures the Network or ASR or additional Net<a class="more-link" href="https://netsoftmate.co...

Introduction There are quite a few health check tools provided by Oracle for both Engineered and Non-Engineered Systems. This article explains which tool is a best choice for a given system. Table showing different Health Check Tools available for Engineered and Non-Engineered Systems ORAchk (1268927.2) Exachk Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) Exadata Database Machine (1070954.1) Non-Engineered Systems Exalogic (1449226.1)   Exalytics (1566134.1)   BIG Data Appliance  (BDA)  (1643715.1)   Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance (ZDLRA) (1643715.1) Examples executing Health Check utilities ORAchk   Download ORAchk using MOS – ORAchk – HealthSEE DETAILS <span class="more...

In today’s era technology is changing dynamically with great pace. Most organizations are looking forward to reduce their workload by opting their day-to-day applications to be in cloud which is well known as “Software-as-a-Service” (SaaS) model. As SaaS is playing a crucial role in helping organizations to focus on their core business rather than focusing on developing, implementing and managing required infrastructure for their day-to-day business application usage on other hand it is becoming challenging and questionable for them on how to trust SaaS providers about their business data beingSEE DETAILS

Introduction In my previous articles, we have learned how to Deploy an Oracle Database Appliance.  One can use OAKCLI or DBCA utility to create the database on ODA. But it is recommended to use OAKCLI on ODA to create the database. With OAKCLI, creating database is very easy and it is just one command. Let’s see how to quickly create a database on ODA. Steps to create Database on ODA List the existing RDBMS Oracle Homes. With OAKCLI it is very easy to get the Oracle Homes Printed. [root@odanode1 ~]#SEE DETAILS

Introduction Deploying an Oracle Database Appliance consists of several basic steps. It is very important to plan the ODA deployment properly before performing the actual steps, this helps you to avoid issues during deployment and save time. In this article I will layout the high level steps required to perform a successful ODA deployment. Pre-Deployment Steps Gather Network details. Fill the ODA Pre-Install Checklist form with details like, Cluster name, Hostname, IP Address etc. Allocate IPs and Submit DNS and firewall requests Other network details required are, Domain name, DNS,SEE DETAILS

Introduction ODA Congigurator can be run in offline or online mode. Offline: Use the standalone ODA configurator to create an offline deployment plan and validate your network settings before the actual deployment. You can download the ODA configurator for offline deployment at: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-appliance/overview/oda-configurator-1928685.html Online: You can configure your system at the time of deployment. In that case, you can use the online ODA Configurator which is part of the base Oracle Database Appliance software. In this article I will demonstrate how to perform a Bare Metal Deployment online. Before startingSEE DETAILS <spa...

Introduction In my previous article we have learned how to Reimage an Oracle Database Appliance to 12.1.2.10. It is important to note that the Reimage process doesn’t update the firmware (BIOS, ILOM, Local and Shared HDD) on ODA nodes. The below screen shot show the output post Re-imaging an ODA X4-2. There is nothing wrong with reimage process and it is completely expected as the reimage process doesn’t update the firmware. We can see that the ILOM, BIOS, HDD _Local and HDD_Shared are not up-to-date. In this article I willSEE DETAILS

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