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September 2019 Oracle announced Oracle Database Appliance X8-2 (Small, Medium and HA). ODA X8-2 comes with more computing resources compared with X7-2 Models.

Let’s take a quick look at few benefits of ODA followed by the technical specification on ODA X8-2 Small/Medium and HA.

Oracle Database Appliance is an Engineered System. Software, server, storage, and networking, all co-engineered and optimized to run Oracle Database and applications.

Benefits of Oracle Database Appliance (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 Licensing – Reduced Cost.
Ease of deployment, patching, management, and support.
Increased performance and reliability with NVMe flash storage.
Reliable hardware architecture with redundant power, cooling, networking, and storage.
Browser User Interface (BUI)

In this article we will compare the technical specifications of ODA X8-2 model family (Small, Medium and HA). This comparison table comes handy when you want to quickly take a look at the resources available for a given model.

For more information on the technical specification loot at the ODA X8-2 HA and Small/Medium Data Sheet at:

https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-appliance/oda-x8-2-ha-datasheet-5730739.pdf

https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-appliance/oda-x8-2sm-datasheet-5730738.pdf

Component	ODA X8-2 Small	ODA X8-2 Medium	ODA X8-2 HA
Database Server	1	1	2
Storage Shelf	NA	NA	1 4U DE3-24C Storage Shelf per System Optional Second Storage Shelf for Expansion
Rack Size	1 2RU Server	1 2RU Server	2 2RU Servers & 1 4U Storage Shelf
Processor	One 16-core Intel Xeon Gold 5218	Two 16-core Intel Xeon Gold 5218	Two 16-core Intel Xeon Gold 5218 Per Server
Physical Memory	192 GB Expandable to 384 GB	384 GB Expandable to 768 GB	384 GB Expandable to 768 GB per server
Storage	Two 6.4 TB NVMe SSDs 12.8 TB (raw)	Base: Two 6.4 TB NVMe SSDs 12.8 TB (raw)	Base: Six 7.68 TB SSDs 46 TB (raw)
Storage Expansion	Not expandable	Expandable up to 76.8 TB (raw)	Expandable up to 369 TB SSD or up to 92 TB SSD / 504 TB HDD (Raw)
Network	4 x 10GBase-T ports (RJ45) expandable up to 12 x 10GBase-T ports or 2 x 10/25 GbE ports (SFP28) expandable up to 6 x 10/25 GbE ports	4 x 10GBase-T ports (RJ45) expandable up to 12 x 10GBase-T ports or 2 x 10/25 GbE ports (SFP28) expandable up to 6 x 10/25 GbE ports	4 x 10GBase-T ports (RJ45) expandable up to 12 x 10GBase-T ports or 2 x 10/25 GbE ports (SFP28) expandable up to 6 x 10/25 GbE ports
Oracle Database	Oracle Database 18c/19c EE & SE 2 Oracle Database 12c R1/R2 EE & SE 2 Oracle Database 11g R2 EE, SE & SE 1	Oracle Database 18c/19c EE & SE 2 Oracle Database 12c R1/R2 EE & SE 2 Oracle Database 11g R2 EE, SE & SE 1	Oracle Database 18c/19c EE & SE 2 Oracle Database 12c R1/R2 EE & SE 2 Oracle Database 11g R2 EE, SE & SE 1
Database Deployment	Single Instance	Single Instance	Single Instance, RAC & RAC One node
Virtualization	Oracle Linux KVM	Oracle Linux KVM	Oracle VM & Oracle Linux KVM
Operating System	Oracle Linux	Oracle Linux	Oracle Linux

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Exclusive First Look into Oracle Database Appliance X8 Model Family

By Netsoftmate on

September 24, 2019

- Database Management Services, Oracle Database Appliance - ODA, Oracle Database Management Solution, Oracle Databases, Remote Database Management, Technology Consulting Services

In September 2019, Oracle announced Oracle Database Appliance X8-2 (Small, Medium and HA). ODA X8-2 comes with more computing resources compared with X7-2 Models.

Let’s take a quick look at few benefits of ODA followed by the technical specification on ODA X8-2 Small/Medium and HA.

Oracle Database Appliance is an Engineered System. Software, server, storage, and networking, all co-engineered and optimized to run Oracle Database and applications.

Benefits of Oracle Database Appliance (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 Licensing – Reduced Cost
Ease of deployment, patching, management, and support
Increased performance and reliability with NVMe flash storage
Reliable hardware architecture with redundant power, cooling, networking, and storage
Browser User Interface (BUI)

Oracle Database Appliance X8-2 HA Benefits & Technical specification

Support mission-critical applications and consolidation of many databases
Built for high availability
Choice of high-performance flash or high-capacity drives
32 cores per server (64 cores in total for 2 servers)
384 GB physical memory per server expandable upto 768 (1.5 TB memory in total for 2 servers)
Storage Shelf
High Capacity: 46 TB SSD and 252 TB SDD raw capacity per shelf
High Performance: 184 TB SSD raw capacity per shelf
Choice of 10GBase-T or 10/25 GbE SFP28 public networking
25GbE interconnect for cluster communication

For more information on the technical specification loot at the ODA X8-2 HA Data Sheet at:
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-appliance/oda-x8-2-ha-datasheet-5730739.pdf

Oracle Database Appliance X8-2 Small Technical specification

One server
1 Intel Xeon processor, 16 Cores
192GB Physical memory expandable upto 384GB
Choice of 10GBase-T or 10/25 GbE SFP28 public networking
12.8TB NVMe raw storage

Oracle Database Appliance X8-2 Medium Technical specification

One server
2 Intel Xeon processor, 32 Cores
384 GB Physical memory expandable upto 768GB
Choice of 10GBase-T or 10/25 GbE SFP28 public networking
12.8 TB NVMe raw storage capacity with optional expansion to 76.8 TB NVMe raw storage

For more information on the technical specification loot at the ODA X8-2 S/M Data Sheet at:
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-appliance/oda-x8-2sm-datasheet-5730738.pdf

Conclusion

In this article we seen the benefits and the technical specification of latest Oracle Database Appliance X8 model family. ODA is the right choice for all type of Businesses as an on-premises solution and cloud ready option.

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Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) OAKCLI vs. ODACLI

By Netsoftmate on

June 17, 2019

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ODA is basically a 2-node RAC cluster database system running Oracle Linux operating (OEL), Oracle Database Enterprise Edition or Standard Edition, Oracle Grid Infrastructure (Clusterware and ASM). All these together provides the Oracle Database high availability running on ODA.

In 2016, Oracle added 3 new models to expand Oracle Database Appliance portfolio. These 3 new models are:

Oracle Database Appliance X6-2S (single-instance database)
Oracle Database Appliance X6-2M (single-instance database)
Oracle Database Appliance X6-2L (single-instance database)

The High Available ODA X6-2 is now known as X6-2 HA which consists of 2 nodes and a storage shelf and optionally an additional storage shelf.

In 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.

Oracle Database Appliance X7-2S (single-instance database)
Oracle Database Appliance X7-2M (single-instance database)
Oracle Database Appliance X7-2 HA

With ODA X7-2, the ODA Large configuration is discontinued.

With the different model families there is always a confusion that which command line tool to be used for managing, monitoring and administrating Oracle Database Appliance.

In this article we will explain different command line tools that can be used to manage and administer an Oracle Database Appliance Small, Medium, Large and HA models for both Bare Metal and Virtualized Platform environment.

Let’s look at the different command line tools available:

OAKCLI: oakcli stands for Oracle Appliance Kit Command Line Interface. oakcli utility is used to manage Oracle Database Appliance. 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.

ODACLI: It is used for Hardware and administrative tasks on the Oracle Database Appliance, Example: Hardware monitoring and Storage Configuration

ODAADMICLI: It is used for everyday task on the Oracle Database Appliance, Example: Database Creation, Patches and upgrades, Job creation and manage and so on.

The following table provides a quick reference on when to use oakcli Vs. odacli/odaadmcli

For Oracle Database Appliance software version 12.2.1.4 or older use the tools as shown in the following table

Oakcli	odacli/odaadmcli
ODA V1	ODA X6-2 S, M, L
ODA X3-2	ODA X7-2 S, M
ODA X4-2	ODA X7-2 HA (Bare Metal only)
ODA X5-2
ODA X6-2 HA
ODA X7-2 HA (VM Only)

For Oracle Database Appliance software version 18.3.0.0 and later user the tools as shown in the following table

oakcli	odacli/odaadmcli
All hardware versions running Virtualized platform	All hardware versions running Bare Metal (physical)

Examples using oakcli, odacli and odaadmcli:

[root@odanode1 ~]# odacli describe-appliance

Appliance Information

—————————————————————-

ID: 9aef262c-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-0d877c03d762

Platform: ODA

Data Disk Count: 2

CPU Core Count: 10

Created: May 23, 2017 3:08:03 AM CST

System Information

—————————————————————-

Name: odanode

Domain Name: netsoftmate.com

Time Zone: Asia/Pacific

DB Edition: EE

DNS Servers: 10.1.1.1

NTP Servers: ntp1.netsoftmate.com

Disk Group Information

—————————————————————-

DG Name Redundancy Percentage

————————- ————————- ————

Data Normal 80

Reco Normal 20

[root@odanode1 ~]# odaadmcli show disk

NAME PATH TYPE STATE STATE_DETAILS

pd_00 /dev/nvme0n1 NVD ONLINE Good

pd_01 /dev/nvme1n1 NVD ONLINE Good

[root@odanode1 ~]# odaadmcli show diskgroup

DiskGroups

———-

DATA

RECO

[root@odanode1 ~]# odaadmcli show env_hw

BM ODA X6-2 Small

[root@odanode1 ~]# odaadmcli show storage

==== BEGIN STORAGE DUMP ========

Host Description: Oracle Corporation:ORACLE SERVER X6-2

Total number of controllers: 2

Id = 0

Pci Slot = 10

Serial Num = xxxxxxxxxx

Vendor = Samsung

Model = MS1PC2DD3ORA3.2T

FwVers = KPYABR3Q

strId = nvme:19:00.00

Pci Address = 19:00.0

Id = 1

Pci Slot = 11

Serial Num = xxxxxxxxxxx

Vendor = Samsung

Model = MS1PC2DD3ORA3.2T

FwVers = KPYABR3Q

strId = nvme:1b:00.00

Pci Address = 1b:00.0

Total number of expanders: 0

Total number of PDs: 2

/dev/nvme0n1 Samsung NVD 3200gb slot: 0 pci : 19

/dev/nvme1n1 Samsung NVD 3200gb slot: 1 pci : 1b

==== END STORAGE DUMP =========

[root@odanode1 ~]# oakcli show env_hw

BM ODA X5-2

Public interface : COPPER

[root@odanode1 ~]# oakcli show oda_base

ODA base domain

ODA base CPU cores :36

ODA base domain memory :362

ODA base template :/OVS/template.tar.gz

ODA base vlans :[‘priv1’, ‘net1’]

ODA base current status :Running

[root@odanode1 ~]# oakcli show env_hw

VM-oda_base ODA X7-2 HA

Conclusion

In this article we have learned about Oracle Database Appliance X6-2 and X7-2 model family. Also, we have learned when to use different ODA command lines tools such as oakcli, odacli and odaadmcli to manage and administer an Oracle Database Appliance.

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Oracle Database Appliance: Resize CloudFS ACFS File System Using ASMCA

By Netsoftmate on

August 8, 2018

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During the Oracle Database Appliance Deployment you can optionally configure CloudFS file system. The default mount point is /cloudfs and set to default size of 50GB. Oracle Database Appliance uses the Oracle Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System (Oracle ACFS) for database and virtual machine files storage. ACFS can only be used to configure shared storage file system on ODA. Oracle ACFS provides both servers with concurrent access to /cloudfs shared file system. The default size of 50GB may not sufficient and must be increased to store big files for business requirement.

In this article we will demonstrate how to resize the /cloudfs file system using ASMCA GUI interface

Steps to resize the /cloudfs file system using asmca GUI Interface

Step 1: Get the current /cloudfs file system size

Step 2: Start VNC on node 1. Here I am starting VNC as root user. You can choose to start it as Grid or Oracle user.

[root@odanode1 ~]# rpm -qa *vnc*
tigervnc-1.1.0-18.el6.x86_64
tigervnc-server-1.1.0-18.el6.x86_64
[root@odanode1 ~]# ps -ef|grep vnc
root 23281 20754 0 13:32 pts/1 00:00:00 grep vnc

[root@odanode1 ~]# vncserver :1

You will require a password to access your desktops.

Password:
Verify:

New ‘odanode1:1 (root)’ desktop is odanode1:1

Creating default startup script /root/.vnc/xstartup
Starting applications specified in /root/.vnc/xstartup
Log file is /root/.vnc/odanode1:1.log

[root@odanode1 ~]# ps -ef|grep vnc
root 23399 1 1 13:32 pts/1 00:00:00 /usr/bin/Xvnc :1 -desktop odanode1:1 (root) -auth /root/.Xauthority -geometry 1024×768 -rfbwait 30000 -rfbauth /root/.vnc/passwd -rfbport 5901 -fp catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d -pn
root 23481 23480 0 13:33 pts/1 00:00:00 vncconfig -iconic
root 23636 20754 0 13:33 pts/1 00:00:00 grep vnc

Step 3: Start VNC viewer on desktop and enter the hostname/IP address on node 1. Enter the root password as we have started the VNC server using root user.

Step 4: Switch to grid user and verify the Grid Home

Step 5: Set Oracle Home to Grid home and start asmca

Step 6: Click on ASM Cluster File System Tab

Step 7: Right Click on /cloudfs and select Resize option

Step 8: Enter the desired new size. Here I am resizing the /cloudfs to 200GB

Step 9: Resize in progress

Step 10: Resize completed

Step 11: Verify the /cloudfs size

Conclusion

In this article we have learned how to resize/increase the size of /cloudfs ACFS file system on ODA using ASMCA GUI utility. The cloudfs file system is configured during the ODA deployment and it is set to 50GB which is not sufficient for storing the big files. The cloudfs is build using ACFS and it can be resized easily using ASMCA graphical interface.

Oracle Database Appliance : Monitor Hardware Components

By Netsoftmate on

July 18, 2018

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Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) is an entry level Engineered System. 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.

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.

ODA is basically a 2-node RAC cluster database system running Oracle Linux operating (OEL), Oracle Database Enterprise Edition, Oracle Grid Infrastructure (Clusterware and ASM). All these together provides the Oracle Database high availability running on ODA.

ODA consists of several hardware components such as Mother Board, Processor, Memory, Power Supply, FAN, Network cards and so on. You can monitor the hardware status of these components using OAKCLI command for both Bare Metal and Virtualized platform.

Note: ODACLI is used for Hardware monitoring and administrative tasks on the Oracle Database Appliance on X6-2 S/M/L & X7-2 S/M.

In this article we will demonstrate how to monitor different hardware component status on ODA nodes.

Using OAKCLI command to Get Hardware Status

Execute the following command to display ODA server details

[root@odanoden1 ~]# oakcli show server

Power State : On
Open Problems : 0
Model : ODA X4-2
Type : Rack Mount
Part Number : 33060862+1+1
Serial Number : 1440XXXXXX
Primary OS : Not Available
ILOM Address : 10.10.20.1
ILOM MAC Address : 00:10:E0:62:3F:F6
Description : Oracle Database Appliance X4-2 1440XXXXX
Locator Light : Off
Actual Power Consumption : 261 watts
Ambient Temperature : 18.500 degree C
Open Problems Report : System is healthy

[root@odanoden2 ~]# oakcli show server

Power State : On
Open Problems : 0
Model : ODA X4-2
Type : Rack Mount
Part Number : 33060862+1+1
Serial Number : 1440XXXXXX
Primary OS : Not Available
ILOM Address : 10.10.20.2
ILOM MAC Address : 00:10:E0:62:41:D6
Description : Oracle Database Appliance X4-2 1440XXXXX
Locator Light : Off
Actual Power Consumption : 269 watts
Ambient Temperature : 17.750 degree C
Open Problems Report : System is healthy

Execute the following command to display ODA model

[root@odanoden1 ~]# oakcli show env_hw
BM ODA X4-2
Public interface : COPPER

Execute the following command to display ODA software version details

[root@odanoden1 ~]# oakcli show version -detail
Reading the metadata. It takes a while…
System Version Component Name Installed Version Supported Version
————– ————— —————— —————–
12.1.2.10.0
Controller_INT 11.05.03.00 Up-to-date
Controller_EXT 11.05.03.00 Up-to-date
Expander 0018 Up-to-date
SSD_SHARED 944A Up-to-date
HDD_LOCAL A72A Up-to-date
HDD_SHARED A72A Up-to-date
ILOM 3.2.8.25 r114493 Up-to-date
BIOS 25040100 Up-to-date
IPMI 1.8.12.4 Up-to-date
HMP 2.3.5.2.8 Up-to-date
OAK 12.1.2.10.0 Up-to-date
OL 6.8 Up-to-date
GI_HOME 12.1.0.2.170117(2473 Up-to-date
2082,24828633)
DB_HOME 12.1.0.2.170117(2473 Up-to-date
2082,24828633)

Execute the following command to display ‘oakcli show’ help

[root@odanoden1 ~]# oakcli show -h
Usage:
oakcli show {disk|diskgroup|expander|fs|raidsycstatus|controller|server|processor|memory|power|cooling|network|enclosure|storage|core_config_key|version|dbhomes|dbstorage|databases|db_config_params|asr|env_hw} [<options>]
where:
disk – About the disk
diskgroup – ASM disk group
expander – Expander
fs – Filesystem
controller – Controller
storage – All storage components
version – Running software version
dbhomes – Installed oracle database homes
dbstorage – Details of ACFS storage setup for the databases
databases – Database names
db_config_params – db_config_params file
asr – ASR configuration
env_hw – Environment and Hardware information
server – Details of server sub-system
processor – Details of processor sub-system
memory – Details of memory sub-system
power – Details of power supply sub-system
cooling – Details of cooling sub-system
network – Details of network sub-system
enclosure – Details of enclosure sub-system
raidsyncstatus – RAID sync status information
core_config_key – Core configuration
For detailed help on each command and object and its options use:
oakcli <command> <object> -h

Execute the following command to monitor the Processor Status

[root@odanoden1 ~]# oakcli show processor

NAME HEALTH HEALTH_DETAILS PART_NO. LOCATION MODEL MAX_CLK_SPEED TOTAL_CORES ENABLED_CORES

CPU_0 OK – 060E P0 (CPU 0) Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697 2.700 GHz 12 NA
CPU_1 OK – 060E P1 (CPU 1) Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697 2.700 GHz 12 NA

Execute the following command to monitor the Memory Status

[root@odanoden1 ~]# oakcli show memory

NAME HEALTH HEALTH_DETAILS PART_NO. SERIAL_NO. LOCATION MANUFACTURER MEMORY_SIZE CURR_CLK_SPEED ECC_Errors

DIMM_0 OK – M393B2G70DB0-YK0 00CE03143317593248 P0/D0 Samsung 16 GB 1600 MHz 0
DIMM_1 OK – M393B2G70DB0-YK0 00CE0314331759238B P0/D1 Samsung 16 GB 1600 MHz 0
DIMM_10 OK – M393B2G70DB0-YK0 00CE031433175926CD P1/D2 Samsung 16 GB 1600 MHz 0
DIMM_11 OK – M393B2G70DB0-YK0 00CE031433175927AD P1/D3 Samsung 16 GB 1600 MHz 0
DIMM_12 OK – M393B2G70DB0-YK0 00CE031433175922C3 P1/D4 Samsung 16 GB 1600 MHz 0
DIMM_13 OK – M393B2G70DB0-YK0 00CE03143317593250 P1/D5 Samsung 16 GB 1600 MHz 0
DIMM_14 OK – M393B2G70DB0-YK0 00CE0314331759367A P1/D6 Samsung 16 GB 1600 MHz 0
DIMM_15 OK – M393B2G70DB0-YK0 00CE03143317593319 P1/D7 Samsung 16 GB 1600 MHz 0
DIMM_2 OK – M393B2G70DB0-YK0 00CE031433175927A8 P0/D2 Samsung 16 GB 1600 MHz 0
DIMM_3 OK – M393B2G70DB0-YK0 00CE03143317592B31 P0/D3 Samsung 16 GB 1600 MHz 0
DIMM_4 OK – M393B2G70DB0-YK0 00CE03143317592B35 P0/D4 Samsung 16 GB 1600 MHz 0
DIMM_5 OK – M393B2G70DB0-YK0 00CE03143317591C3C P0/D5 Samsung 16 GB 1600 MHz 0
DIMM_6 OK – M393B2G70DB0-YK0 00CE031433175922C7 P0/D6 Samsung 16 GB 1600 MHz 0
DIMM_7 OK – M393B2G70DB0-YK0 00CE0314331759324E P0/D7 Samsung 16 GB 1600 MHz 0
DIMM_8 OK – M393B2G70DB0-YK0 00CE0314331759324B P1/D0 Samsung 16 GB 1600 MHz 0
DIMM_9 OK – M393B2G70DB0-YK0 00CE0314331759331A P1/D1 Samsung 16 GB 1600 MHz 0

Execute the following command to monitor Power Status

[root@odanoden1 ~]# oakcli show power

NAME HEALTH HEALTH_DETAILS PART_NO. SERIAL_NO. LOCATION INPUT_POWER OUTPUT_POWER INLET_TEMP EXHAUST_TEMP

Power_Supply_0 OK – 7079395 476856Z+1435CE00EU PS0 Present 119 watts 32.250 degree C 36.562 degree C
Power_Supply_1 OK – 7079395 476856Z+1435CE00F6 PS1 Present 112 watts 37.000 degree C 40.375 degree C

Execute the following command to monitor Network Status

[root@odanoden1 ~]# oakcli show network

NAME HEALTH HEALTH_DETAILS LOCATION PART_NO MANUFACTURER MAC_ADDRESS LINK_DETECTED DIE_TEMP

Ethernet_NIC_0 OK – NET0 X540 INTEL 00:10:E0:62:3F:F2 yes (eth2) 46.250 degree C
Ethernet_NIC_1 OK – NET1 X540 INTEL 00:10:E0:62:3F:F3 no (eth3) 46.250 degree C
Ethernet_NIC_2 OK – NET2 X540 INTEL 00:10:E0:62:3F:F4 no (eth4) 51.000 degree C
Ethernet_NIC_3 OK – NET3 X540 INTEL 00:10:E0:62:3F:F5 no (eth5) 51.500 degree C
Ethernet_NIC_4 – – NET4 X540 INTEL 90:E2:BA:81:2B:B4 yes (eth0) –
Ethernet_NIC_5 – – NET5 X540 INTEL 90:E2:BA:81:2B:B5 yes (eth1) –

Execute the following command to monitor Storage Status

[root@odanoden1 ~]# oakcli show storage
==== BEGIN STORAGE DUMP ========
Host Description: Oracle Corporation:SUN SERVER X4-2
Total number of controllers: 3
Id = 1
Serial Num = 500605b008030030
Vendor = LSI Logic
Model = SGX-SAS6-EXT-Z
FwVers = 11.05.03.00
strId = mpt2sas:30:00.0

Id = 2
Serial Num = 500605b00802fbc0
Vendor = LSI Logic
Model = SGX-SAS6-EXT-Z
FwVers = 11.05.03.00
strId = mpt2sas:40:00.0

Id = 0
Serial Num = 500605b008071240
Vendor = LSI Logic
Model = SGX-SAS6-INT-Z
FwVers = 11.05.03.00
strId = mpt2sas:50:00.0

Total number of expanders: 2
Id = 1
Serial Num = 50800200019f0002
Vendor = ORACLE
Model = DE2-24P
FwVers = 0018
strId = Primary
WWN = 5080020001a6b97e

Id = 0
Serial Num = 50800200019f0002
Vendor = ORACLE
Model = DE2-24P
FwVers = 0018
strId = Secondary
WWN = 5080020001a6babe

Total number of PDs: 24
/dev/sdl LSI Logic HDD 900gb slot: 0 exp: 0
/dev/sdn LSI Logic HDD 900gb slot: 1 exp: 0
/dev/sdah LSI Logic HDD 900gb slot: 2 exp: 0
/dev/sdai LSI Logic HDD 900gb slot: 3 exp: 0
/dev/sdaj LSI Logic HDD 900gb slot: 4 exp: 0
/dev/sdak LSI Logic HDD 900gb slot: 5 exp: 0
/dev/sdal LSI Logic HDD 900gb slot: 6 exp: 0
/dev/sdam LSI Logic HDD 900gb slot: 7 exp: 0
/dev/sdan LSI Logic HDD 900gb slot: 8 exp: 0
/dev/sdao LSI Logic HDD 900gb slot: 9 exp: 0
/dev/sdap LSI Logic HDD 900gb slot: 10 exp: 0
/dev/sdaq LSI Logic HDD 900gb slot: 11 exp: 0
/dev/sdar LSI Logic HDD 900gb slot: 12 exp: 0
/dev/sdaa LSI Logic HDD 900gb slot: 13 exp: 0
/dev/sdab LSI Logic HDD 900gb slot: 14 exp: 0
/dev/sdac LSI Logic HDD 900gb slot: 15 exp: 0
/dev/sdad LSI Logic HDD 900gb slot: 16 exp: 0
/dev/sdae LSI Logic HDD 900gb slot: 17 exp: 0
/dev/sdaf LSI Logic HDD 900gb slot: 18 exp: 0
/dev/sdag LSI Logic HDD 900gb slot: 19 exp: 0
/dev/sda LSI Logic SSD 200gb slot: 20 exp: 0
/dev/sdb LSI Logic SSD 200gb slot: 21 exp: 0
/dev/sdc LSI Logic SSD 200gb slot: 22 exp: 0
/dev/sdd LSI Logic SSD 200gb slot: 23 exp: 0
==== END STORAGE DUMP =========

Execute the following command to monitor Shared Disk Status

[root@odanoden1 ~]# oakcli show disk
NAME PATH TYPE STATE STATE_DETAILS

e0_pd_00 /dev/sdl HDD ONLINE Good
e0_pd_01 /dev/sdn HDD ONLINE Good
e0_pd_02 /dev/sdah HDD ONLINE Good
e0_pd_03 /dev/sdai HDD ONLINE Good
e0_pd_04 /dev/sdaj HDD ONLINE Good
e0_pd_05 /dev/sdak HDD ONLINE Good
e0_pd_06 /dev/sdal HDD ONLINE Good
e0_pd_07 /dev/sdam HDD ONLINE Good
e0_pd_08 /dev/sdan HDD ONLINE Good
e0_pd_09 /dev/sdao HDD ONLINE Good
e0_pd_10 /dev/sdap HDD ONLINE Good
e0_pd_11 /dev/sdaq HDD ONLINE Good
e0_pd_12 /dev/sdar HDD ONLINE Good
e0_pd_13 /dev/sdaa HDD ONLINE Good
e0_pd_14 /dev/sdab HDD ONLINE Good
e0_pd_15 /dev/sdac HDD ONLINE Good
e0_pd_16 /dev/sdad HDD ONLINE Good
e0_pd_17 /dev/sdae HDD ONLINE Good
e0_pd_18 /dev/sdaf HDD ONLINE Good
e0_pd_19 /dev/sdag HDD ONLINE Good
e0_pd_20 /dev/sda SSD ONLINE Good
e0_pd_21 /dev/sdb SSD ONLINE Good
e0_pd_22 /dev/sdc SSD ONLINE Good
e0_pd_23 /dev/sdd SSD ONLINE Good

Execute the following command to monitor ODA server enclosure

[root@odanoden1 ~]# oakcli show enclosure

NAME SUBSYSTEM STATUS METRIC

E0_FAN0 Cooling OK 3450 rpm
E0_FAN1 Cooling OK 3070 rpm
E0_FAN2 Cooling OK 3070 rpm
E0_FAN3 Cooling OK 3070 rpm
E0_IOM0 Encl_Electronics OK –
E0_IOM1 Encl_Electronics OK –
E0_PSU0 Power_Supply OK –
E0_PSU1 Power_Supply OK –
E0_TEMP0 Amb_Temp OK 19 C
E0_TEMP1 Midplane_Temp OK 27 C
E0_TEMP2 PCM0_Inlet_Temp OK 32 C
E0_TEMP3 PCM0_Hotspot_Temp OK 38 C
E0_TEMP4 PCM1_Inlet_Temp OK 27 C
E0_TEMP5 PCM1_Hotspot_Temp OK 36 C
E0_TEMP6 IOM0_Temp OK 38 C
E0_TEMP7 IOM1_Temp OK 45 C

Using ILOM CLI to Get the Hardware Status

Execute the following command to connect to ILOM and monitor Hardware Status

[root@odanoden2 ~]# ssh odanoden2-ilom
Password:

Oracle(R) Integrated Lights Out Manager

Version 3.2.8.25 r114493

Copyright (c) 2016, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Warning: password is set to factory default.

Warning: HTTPS certificate is set to factory default.

Hostname: odanoden2-ilom

-> show -level all -output table /SP/faultmgmt
Target | Property | Value
——————————–+————————————–+———————————————————

-> show -l all /SYS type==’Hard Disk’

/SYS/DBP0/HDD0
Targets:
OK2RM
PRSNT
SERVICE
STATE

Properties:
type = Hard Disk
ipmi_name = HDD0

Commands:
cd
show

/SYS/DBP0/HDD1
Targets:
OK2RM
PRSNT
SERVICE
STATE

Properties:
type = Hard Disk
ipmi_name = HDD1

Commands:
cd
show

Using ILOM GUI to Get the Hardware Status

Conclusion

In this article we have learned how to monitor various hardware components status on ODA nodes using oakcli and ILOM. ODA server comes with different hardware components and monitoring them is key for ODA availability.

Oracle Database Appliance: Resize CloudFS ACFS File System Manually

By Netsoftmate on

July 17, 2018

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During Oracle Database Appliance Deployment you can optionally configure CloudFS file system. The default mount point is /cloudfs and set to default size of 50GB. Oracle Database Appliance uses the Oracle Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System (Oracle ACFS) for database and virtual machine files storage. ACFS can only be used to configure shared storage file system on ODA. Oracle ACFS provides both servers with concurrent access to /cloudfs shared file system. The default size of 50GB may not sufficient and must be increased to store big files for business requirement.

In this article we will demonstrate how to resize the /cloudfs file system manually using ACFS commands.

Steps to resize the /cloudfs file system

Step 1: Login to node 1 as grid user the owner of Grid Infrastructure software

[grid@odanoden1 ~]$ id
uid=1000(grid) gid=1001(oinstall) groups=1001(oinstall),1003(racoper),1004(asmdba),1005(asmoper),1006(asmadmin)

Step 2: Verify the existing size of /cloudfs. Here is my case the /cloufs is 200GB and it was resized in the past from 50GB to 200GB

[grid@odanoden1 ~]$ df -h /cloudfs
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/asm/acfsvol-23 200G 483M 200G 1% /cloudfs

Step 3: Set the ORACLE SID to +ASM1

[grid@odanoden1 ~]$ echo $ORACLE_SID

[grid@odanoden1 ~]$ . oraenv
ORACLE_SID = [grid] ? +ASM1
The Oracle base has been set to /u01/app/grid

[grid@odanoden1 ~]$ echo $ORACLE_SID
+ASM1

Step 4: List the ACFS Mounts. Here we can see that /cloudfs volume is /dev/asm/acfsvol-23

[grid@odanoden1 ~]$ mount |grep asm
/dev/asm/acfsvol-23 on /cloudfs type acfs (rw)
/dev/asm/datastore-272 on /u01/app/oracle/oradata/datastore type acfs (rw)
/dev/asm/datastore-97 on /u02/app/oracle/oradata/datastore type acfs (rw)
/dev/asm/datastore-23 on /u01/app/oracle/fast_recovery_area/datastore type acfs (rw)

Step 5: Get the size of the volume /dev/asm/acfsvol-23

[grid@odanoden1 ~]$ /sbin/advmutil volinfo /dev/asm/acfsvol-23
Device: /dev/asm/acfsvol-23
Interface Version: 1
Size (MB): 204800
Resize Increment (MB): 64
Redundancy: high
Stripe Columns: 8
Stripe Width (KB): 1024
Disk Group: RECO
Volume: ACFSVOL
Compatible.advm: 12.1.0.2.0

Step 6: Resize the /cloudfs as follows. Here we are increasing /cloudfs by 50GB

[grid@odanoden1 ~]$ /sbin/acfsutil size +50g /cloudfs
acfsutil size: new file system size: 268435456000 (256000MB)

Step 7: Verify the new size of the volume /dev/asm/acfsvol-23

[grid@odanoden1 ~]$ /sbin/advmutil volinfo /dev/asm/acfsvol-23
Device: /dev/asm/acfsvol-23
Interface Version: 1
Size (MB): 256000
Resize Increment (MB): 64
Redundancy: high
Stripe Columns: 8
Stripe Width (KB): 1024
Disk Group: RECO
Volume: ACFSVOL
Compatible.advm: 12.1.0.2.0

Step 8: Verify the new size of /cloudfs file system

[grid@odanoden1 ~]$ df -h /cloudfs
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/asm/acfsvol-23 250G 585M 250G 1% /cloudfs

Conclusion

In this article we have learned how to resize/increase the size of /cloudfs shared file system on ODA. The cloudfs file system is configured during the ODA deployment and it is set to 50GB which is not sufficient for storing the big files. The cloudfs is build using ACFS and it can be resized easily using ACFS commands.

Oracle Database Appliance: Create Database Using Database Configuration Parameter File

By Netsoftmate on

July 11, 2018

- Uncategorized

Introduction

In my previous articles, we have learned how to Create Oracle Database Appliance Database Configuration Parameter file.

If you want to create a database with different database configuration parameter then you must create a database configuration file with your desired parameters. You can use the ‘oakcli create db_config_params’ command to create a database configuration file. The configuration files are created under the locatoin ‘/opt/oracle/oak/install/dbconf’ with a default extension of ‘.dbconf’.

Refer to the blog post at on how to create a databsae configuration file
http://netsoftmate.blogspot.com/2018/05/oracle-database-appliance-database-configuration-file.html

In this article we will demonstrate how to create a database using custom configuration parameter file.

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.

Courtesy Oracle

Steps to Create a Database Using Configuration File

[root@odanode1]# oakcli create database -db testdb -oh OraDb12102_home1 -params ayx.conf
INFO: 2018-04-23 16:13:42: Please check the logfile ‘/opt/oracle/oak/log/odanode1/tools/12.1.2.10.0/createdb_testdb_94038.log’ for more details

Please enter the ‘root’ password :
Please re-enter the ‘root’ password:

Please enter the ‘SYSASM’ password : (During deployment we set the SYSASM password to ‘welcome1’):
Please re-enter the ‘SYSASM’ password:

Please select one of the following for Database type [1 .. 3] :
1 => OLTP
2 => DSS
3 => In-Memory
1 –> Enter 1 for OLTP and hit return
The selected value is : OLTP
Please select one of the following for Database Deployment [1 .. 3] :
1 => EE : Enterprise Edition
2 => RACONE
3 => RAC
3 –> Enter 3 for RAC and hit return
The selected value is : RAC

Specify the Database Class (1. odb-01 ‘1 core, 8 GB memory’ 2. Others) [1] : 2 –> Enter 2 for Others and hit return

Please select one of the following for Database Class [1 .. 9] :
1 => odb-01s ( 1 cores , 4 GB memory)
2 => odb-01 ( 1 cores , 8 GB memory)
3 => odb-02 ( 2 cores , 16 GB memory)
4 => odb-04 ( 4 cores , 32 GB memory)
5 => odb-06 ( 6 cores , 48 GB memory)
6 => odb-12 ( 12 cores , 96 GB memory)
7 => odb-16 ( 16 cores , 128 GB memory)
8 => odb-20 ( 20 cores , 160 GB memory)
9 => odb-24 ( 24 cores , 192 GB memory)
3 –> Enter 3 for odb-02
The selected value is : odb-02 ( 2 cores , 16 GB memory)
INFO : Logging all actions in the file /opt/oracle/oak/onecmd/tmp/odanode1-20180423161500.log and traces in the file /opt/oracle/oak/onecmd/tmp/odanode1-20180423161500.trc
INFO : Loading the configuration file /opt/oracle/oak/onecmd/create_database.params…
INFO : Creating the node list files…
INFO : Setting up ssh for root…
INFO : Setting up SSH across the Private Network…

…………Completed
INFO : Running as root: /usr/bin/ssh -l root 192.168.16.24 /root/DoAllcmds.sh
INFO : Background process 99086 (node: 192.168.16.24) gets done with the exit code 0
INFO : Running as root: /usr/bin/ssh -l root 192.168.16.25 /root/DoAllcmds.sh
INFO : Background process 99132 (node: 192.168.16.25) gets done with the exit code 0
INFO : Setting up SSH completed successfully
INFO : Running the command /usr/bin/rsync -tarqvz /opt/oracle/oak/onecmd/ root@192.168.16.25:/opt/oracle/oak/onecmd –exclude=*zip –exclude=*gz –exclude=*log –exclude=*trc –exclude=*rpm to sync directory</opt/oracle/oak/onecmd> on node <192.168.16.25>
SUCCESS: Ran /usr/bin/rsync -tarqvz /opt/oracle/oak/onecmd/ root@192.168.16.25:/opt/oracle/oak/onecmd –exclude=*zip –exclude=*gz —exclude=*log –exclude=*trc –exclude=*rpm and it returned: RC=0

……….Completed
INFO : Did not do scp for node : odanode1
INFO : Running as root: /usr/bin/ssh -l root odanode1 /root/DoAllcmds.sh
INFO : Background process 99840 (node: odanode1) gets done with the exit code 0
INFO : Running as root: /usr/bin/ssh -l root odanode2 /root/DoAllcmds.sh
INFO : Background process 99887 (node: odanode2) gets done with the exit code 0
INFO : Did not do scp for node : odanode1
INFO : Running as root: /usr/bin/ssh -l root odanode1 /opt/oracle/oak/onecmd/tmp/DoAllcmds-20180423161544.sh
INFO : Background process 99960 (node: odanode1) gets done with the exit code 0
INFO : Running as root: /usr/bin/ssh -l root odanode2 /opt/oracle/oak/onecmd/tmp/DoAllcmds-20180423161544.sh
INFO : Background process 307 (node: odanode2) gets done with the exit code 0
INFO : Setting up SSH for user oracle…
…INFO : checking nodes in /opt/oracle/oak/onecmd/tmp/db_nodes…
…
SUCCESS: All nodes in /opt/oracle/oak/onecmd/tmp/db_nodes are pingable and alive.
INFO : Checking SSH setup for user (oracle) on nodes in /opt/oracle/oak/onecmd/tmp/db_nodes…
INFO : Did not do scp for node : odanode1
INFO : This is root, will become oracle and run: /bin/su oracle -c /usr/bin/ssh -l oracle odanode1 /opt/oracle/oak/onecmd/tmp/DoAllcmds-20180423161609.sh
INFO : Running on the local node: /bin/su oracle -c /opt/oracle/oak/onecmd/tmp/DoAllcmds-20180423161609.sh
INFO : Background process 1220 (node: odanode1) gets done with the exit code 0
INFO : This is root, will become oracle and run: /bin/su oracle -c /usr/bin/ssh -l oracle odanode2 /opt/oracle/oak/onecmd/tmp/DoAllcmds-20180423161609.sh
INFO : Background process 1266 (node: odanode2) gets done with the exit code 0
INFO : Setting up ACFS storage
INFO : Did not do scp for node : odanode1
INFO : Running as root: /usr/bin/ssh -l root odanode1 /opt/oracle/oak/onecmd/tmp/acfsm_94038.sh
INFO : Running as root: /usr/bin/ssh -l root odanode2 /opt/oracle/oak/onecmd/tmp/acfsm_94038.sh
INFO : Background process 1669 (node: odanode1) gets done with the exit code 0
INFO : Background process 1715 (node: odanode2) gets done with the exit code 0
INFO: 2018-04-23 16:16:27: Successfully setup the storage structure for the database ‘testdb’
SUCCESS: Successfully setup ACFS storage for the database testdb
INFO : Creating Database using DBCA…
INFO : Did not do scp for node : odanode1
INFO : Running as root: /usr/bin/ssh -l root odanode1 /opt/oracle/oak/onecmd/tmp/DoAllcmds-20180423161627.sh
INFO : Background process 4974 (node: odanode1) gets done with the exit code 0
INFO : Running as root: /usr/bin/ssh -l root odanode2 /opt/oracle/oak/onecmd/tmp/DoAllcmds-20180423161627.sh
INFO : Background process 5026 (node: odanode2) gets done with the exit code 0
INFO : Running DBCA using /opt/oracle/oak/onecmd/tmp/dbca-testdb.sh on odanode1 as oracle…
INFO : Check output in /opt/oracle/oak/onecmd/tmp/dbca-testdb-20180423161500.log on odanode1
INFO : This is root, will become oracle and run: /bin/su oracle -c /usr/bin/ssh -l oracle odanode1 /opt/oracle/oak/onecmd/tmp/dbca-testdb.sh
INFO : Running on the local node: /bin/su oracle -c /opt/oracle/oak/onecmd/tmp/dbca-testdb.sh
Instance testdb1 is running on node odanode1
Instance testdb2 is running on node odanode2
INFO : One or more Instances running on the cluster nodes.
INFO : Running export ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/12.1.0.2/dbhome_1;/u01/app/oracle/product/12.1.0.2/dbhome_1/bin/srvctl setenv database -d testdb -t ‘TZ=America/New_York’ to set DB timezone
INFO : Running the command /u01/app/12.1.0.2/grid/bin/crsctl stat resource ora.testdb.db -p
.INFO : Did not do scp for node : odanode1
..
INFO : This is root, will become oracle and run: /bin/su oracle -c /usr/bin/ssh -l oracle odanode1 /opt/oracle/oak/onecmd/tmp/dbupdates-testdb.sh
INFO : Running on the local node: /bin/su oracle -c /opt/oracle/oak/onecmd/tmp/dbupdates-testdb.sh
INFO : Running export ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/12.1.0.2/dbhome_1;/u01/app/oracle/product/12.1.0.2/dbhome_1/bin/srvctl stop database -d testdb
INFO : Running export ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/12.1.0.2/dbhome_1;/u01/app/oracle/product/12.1.0.2/dbhome_1/bin/srvctl start database -d testdb
INFO: 2018-04-23 16:31:42: Successfully set the RMAN SNAPSHOT control file
.INFO : Did not do scp for node : odanode1
..
INFO : This is root, will become oracle and run: /bin/su oracle -c /usr/bin/ssh -l oracle odanode1 /opt/oracle/oak/onecmd/tmp/runDatapatch.sh
INFO : Running on the local node: /bin/su oracle -c /opt/oracle/oak/onecmd/tmp/runDatapatch.sh
SUCCESS: 2018-04-23 16:32:13: Successfully created the Database : testdb
INFO : Resecuring the environment… odanode1 odanode2
INFO : Removing the SSH setup for root…
INFO : Running as root: /usr/bin/ssh -l root odanode1 chmod 751 /opt/oracle/oak/onecmd/tmp
INFO : Running as root: /usr/bin/ssh -l root odanode2 chmod 751 /opt/oracle/oak/onecmd/tmp
INFO : Running as root: /usr/bin/ssh -l root odanode2 /bin/rm -rf /root/.ssh
INFO : Running as root: /usr/bin/ssh -l root odanode1 /bin/rm -rf /root/.ssh

Conclusion
In this article we have learned how to create a database on Oracle Database Appliance using Database Configuration parameter file. If you want to create a database with different database configuration parameter then you must create a database configuration file first with your desired parameters. Creating an Oracle Database on ODA is just one step process. OAKCLI utility takes care of everything for you to create the database.

Oracle Database Appliance Database Configuration Parameter file

By Netsoftmate on

May 3, 2018

- Uncategorized

When you create a database on Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) it uses a ‘default’ database configuration file which consists of a default parameters.

The default database configuration file uses the following parameters:

[root@odanode1 ~]# oakcli show db_config_params
The available DB configuration files are :
default

[root@odanode1 ~]# oakcli show db_config_params -conf default -detail
DATABASE_BLOCK_SIZE => 8192
DATABASE_LANGUAGE => AMERICAN
DATABASE_CHARACTERSET => AL32UTF8
DATABASE_TERRITORY => AMERICA
COMPONENT_LANGUAGES => en
NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET => AL16UTF16

If you want to create a database with different database configuration parameter then you must create a database configuration file with your desired parameters. You can use the ‘oakcli create db_config_params’ command to create a database configuration file. The configuration files are created under the locatoin ‘/opt/oracle/oak/install/dbconf’ with a default extension of ‘.dbconf’.

In this article we will demonstrate how to create a database configuration file.

Steps to generate/create a database configuration file

Step 1: List the Database Configuration files

[root@odanode1 ~]# oakcli show db_config_params
The available DB configuration files are :
default

Step 2: Create Database Configuration file

[root@odanode1 dumpfiles]# oakcli create db_config_params -conf newdbconf
Please select one of the following for Database Block Size [1 .. 4] :
1 => 4096
2 => 8192
3 => 16384
4 => 32768
2 –> Enter the value. Here I entered 2 for 8k block size
The selected value is : 8192

Specify the Database Language (1. AMERICAN 2. Others) [1] : 1 –> Here I entered 1 for AMERICAN database language
The selected value is : AMERICAN

Specify the Database Characterset (1. AL32UTF8 2. Others) [1] : 2 –> Enter 2 for Other Characterset

Please select one of the following for Database Characterset [0 .. 10] :
0 => Others
1 => AL32UTF8
2 => AR8ADOS710
3 => AR8ADOS720
4 => AR8APTEC715
5 => AR8APTEC715T
6 => AR8ARABICMACS
7 => AR8ASMO8X
8 => AR8HPARABIC8T
9 => AR8ISO8859P6
10 => AR8MSWIN1256

<<Hit enter to display more characterset>>

Please select one of the following for Database Characterset [0 .. 21] :
11 => AR8MUSSAD768
12 => AR8MUSSAD768T
13 => AR8NAFITHA711
14 => AR8NAFITHA711T
15 => AR8NAFITHA721
16 => AR8NAFITHA721T
17 => AR8SAKHR706
18 => AR8SAKHR707
19 => AR8SAKHR707T
20 => AZ8ISO8859P9E
21 => BG8MSWIN

<<Hit enter to display more characterset>>

Please select one of the following for Database Characterset [0 .. 32] :
22 => BG8PC437S
23 => BLT8CP921
24 => BLT8ISO8859P13
25 => BLT8MSWIN1257
26 => BLT8PC775
27 => BN8BSCII
28 => CDN8PC863
29 => CEL8ISO8859P14
30 => CL8ISO8859P5
31 => CL8ISOIR111
32 => CL8KOI8R

<<Hit enter to display more characterset>>

Please select one of the following for Database Characterset [0 .. 43] :
33 => CL8KOI8U
34 => CL8MACCYRILLICS
35 => CL8MSWIN1251
36 => EE8ISO8859P2
37 => EE8MACCES
38 => EE8MACCROATIANS
39 => EE8MSWIN1250
40 => EE8PC852
41 => EL8DEC
42 => EL8ISO8859P7
43 => EL8MACGREEKS

<<Hit enter to display more characterset>>

Please select one of the following for Database Characterset [0 .. 54] :
44 => EL8MSWIN1253
45 => EL8PC437S
46 => EL8PC851
47 => EL8PC869
48 => ET8MSWIN923
49 => HU8ABMOD
50 => HU8CWI2
51 => IN8ISCII
52 => IS8PC861
53 => IW8ISO8859P8
54 => IW8MACHEBREWS

<<Hit enter to display more characterset>>

Please select one of the following for Database Characterset [0 .. 65] :
55 => IW8MSWIN1255
56 => IW8PC1507
57 => JA16EUC
58 => JA16EUCTILDE
59 => JA16SJIS
60 => JA16SJISTILDE
61 => JA16VMS
62 => KO16KSC5601
63 => KO16KSCCS
64 => KO16MSWIN949
65 => LA8ISO6937

<<Hit enter to display more characterset>>

Please select one of the following for Database Characterset [0 .. 76] :
66 => LA8PASSPORT
67 => LT8MSWIN921
68 => LT8PC772
69 => LT8PC774
70 => LV8PC1117
71 => LV8PC8LR
72 => LV8RST104090
73 => N8PC865
74 => NE8ISO8859P10
75 => NEE8ISO8859P4
76 => RU8BESTA

<<Hit enter to display more characterset>>

Please select one of the following for Database Characterset [0 .. 87] :
77 => RU8PC855
78 => RU8PC866
79 => SE8ISO8859P3
80 => TH8MACTHAIS
81 => TH8TISASCII
82 => TR8DEC
83 => TR8MACTURKISHS
84 => TR8MSWIN1254
85 => TR8PC857
86 => US8PC437
87 => UTF8

<<Hit enter to display more characterset>>

Please select one of the following for Database Characterset [0 .. 98] :
88 => VN8MSWIN1258
89 => VN8VN3
90 => WE8DEC
91 => WE8DG
92 => WE8ISO8859P1
93 => WE8ISO8859P15
94 => WE8ISO8859P9
95 => WE8MACROMAN8S
96 => WE8MSWIN1252
97 => WE8NCR4970
98 => WE8NEXTSTEP
96 –> Enter 96 to select WE8MSWIN1252 as characterset
The selected value is : WE8MSWIN1252

Specify the Database Territory (1. AMERICA 2. Others) [1] : –> Here I entered 1 for AMERICA database Territory
The selected value is : AMERICA

Specify the Component Language (1. en 2. Others) [1] : –> Here I entered 1 for en Component Language
The selected value is : en

Please select one of the following for NLS Characterset [1 .. 2] :
1 => AL16UTF16
2 => UTF8
1 –> Here I entered 1 for AL16UTF16 NLS Characterset
The selected value is : AL16UTF16

Successfully generated the Database parameter file ‘newdbconf’

Step 3: Verify the configuration file is created

[root@odanode1 ~]# oakcli show db_config_params
The available DB configuration files are :
newdbconf
default

Step 4: List the parameters for newly created configuration file

[root@odanode1 ~]# oakcli show db_config_params -conf newdbconf -detail
DATABASE_BLOCK_SIZE => 8192
DATABASE_LANGUAGE => AMERICAN
DATABASE_CHARACTERSET => WE8MSWIN1252
DATABASE_TERRITORY => AMERICA
COMPONENT_LANGUAGES => en
NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET => AL16UTF16

Conclusion

In this article we have learned how to create a database configuration file with the desired parameters. The Default database configuration file parameters may not be applicable for all the databases. You can use the ‘oakcli create db_config_params’ command to create a database configuration file.

Delete Database On Oracle Database Appliance (ODA)

By Netsoftmate on

May 2, 2018

- Uncategorized

You want to drop a database on Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) that is no more required or used. Use the “oakcli delete database” command to delete a database from ODA.

In this article we will demonstrate how to delete a database on Oracle Database Appliance.

Steps to Delete Database on ODA

Step 1: List the database currently running on ODA

[root@odanode01 ~]# oakcli show databases
Name Type Storage HomeName HomeLocation Version
—– —— ——– ————– —————- ———-
newdb RAC ACFS OraDb12102_home1 /u01/app/oracle/product/12.1.0.2/dbhome_1 12.1.0.2.170117(24732082,24828633)
odatest RAC ACFS OraDb12102_home1 /u01/app/oracle/product/12.1.0.2/dbhome_1 12.1.0.2.170117(24732082,24828633)

Step 2: Get the syntax to delete the database

[root@odanode01 ~]# oakcli delete database -h
Usage:
oakcli delete database -db <db_name>

where:
db_name – name of the database to be deleted

Step 3: Execute the “oakcli delete database” command to delete the database

[root@odanode01 ~]# oakcli delete database -db newdb
INFO: 2018-04-22 15:28:56: Look at the log file ‘/opt/oracle/oak/log/odanode01/tools/12.1.2.10.0/deletedatabase_newdb_39297.log’ for

more details

Please enter the ‘root’ password :
Please re-enter the ‘root’ password:

Please enter the ‘SYS’ password :
Please re-enter the ‘SYS’ password:
INFO: 2018-04-22 15:29:30: Setting up SSH
…………Completed
SUCCESS: Ran /usr/bin/rsync -tarqvz /opt/oracle/oak/onecmd/ root@192.168.16.25:/opt/oracle/oak/onecmd –exclude=*zip –exclude=*gz —

exclude=*log –exclude=*trc –exclude=*rpm and it returned: RC=0

……….Completed
……
SUCCESS: All nodes in /opt/oracle/oak/onecmd/tmp/db_nodes are pingable and alive.
INFO: 2018-04-22 15:31:06: SSH has been successfully established
INFO: 2018-04-22 15:33:04: Successfully deleted the database ‘newdb’
INFO: 2018-04-22 15:33:09: Attempting to cleanup the SNAP entries for the database: newdb
INFO: 2018-04-22 15:33:09: Successfully deleted the SNAP entries

Step 4: Verify that the database is dropped

[root@odanode01 ~]# oakcli show databases
Name Type Storage HomeName HomeLocation Version
—– —— ——– ————– —————- ———-
odatest RAC ACFS OraDb12102_home1 /u01/app/oracle/product/12.1.0.2/dbhome_1 12.1.0.2.170117(24732082,24828633)

Conclusion

In this article we have learned how to Delete database on Oracle Database Appliance (ODA). Using oakcli delete database database is extremely simple and easy to drop a database which otherwise required to use database utilities like DBCA or SQL command to drop the database.

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