Monthly Archives: February 2019

Checking Flash Cache Mode in Exadata Cloud

While looking at an exachk report for an Exadata rack running in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, I saw an interesting finding: Since this is an Oracle cloud environment, we don’t have any access to view the storage servers – they are managed and maintained by Oracle.  For several reasons, I believed this to be a false… Read More »

Changing IP Addresses on InfiniBand Network with 12.2 GI on Exadata

I was tasked a while back with modifying the IP addresses assigned to the InfiniBand network on an X6-2 rack.  We were configuring a ZFS appliance to share between 2 Exadata clusters, and we wanted to keep them on separate network ranges.  In this case, we were moving the interfaces from 192.168.10.x/22 (the Exadata default… Read More »