Tag Archives: Exadata

Exadata Cell Patching – USB I/O Errors

I was playing around with the Exadata X2-2 in the Enkitec lab this weekend, and hit an interesting issue when patching the storage servers.  We were taking the system up to version 12.1.2.3.3 for testing purposes.  I fired off the patchmgr script, and one of the storage servers failed when beginning the first phase of the patching… Read More »

OTN Appreciation Day: dbnodeupdate.sh

In the wake of the great hospitality shown by the OTN crew at Open World, Tim Hall thought that getting the community together for a series of “OTN appreciation” blogs would be a good way to show our thanks back. Thinking about tools provided by Oracle that make my life easier, my mind went to dbnodeupdate.sh.  This tool helps… Read More »

Exadata and Bash Shellshock

There has recently been a lot of news about the exploit revealed in the bash shell.  While the fix is very quick to implement, there are a couple of tricks that are required to install this update on an Exadata environment.  According to Oracle support note #1405320.1, Exadata storage server versions 11.2.3.x.x and 12.1.1.x.x are susceptible… Read More »