A while back, I noticed this session in the Open World 2013 content catalog. I didn’t think much of it at the time, other than that it had a catchy title. The other day, I downloaded the latest Exadata deployment utility via the OneCommand tool. I noticed something a little strange when I was going… Read More »
Just a quick reminder – I’ll be presenting my “Getting Ready for Exadata” seminar in London on July 1. We’ll cover various topics on what you need to know before you purchase an Exadata and how to manage one of these systems on a daily basis. We’ll have lots of time for Q&A, and most… Read More »
Rene Kundersma at Oracle just published a nifty new utility named dbnodeupdate.sh that will assist with the sometimes-cumbersome process of updating the compute nodes in an Exadata environment. Starting last year with 11.2.3.1.0, Oracle introduced yum updates for the Exadata compute nodes. Previously, each Exadata storage server patch came with a “minimal” or “convenience” pack… Read More »
When the 11.2.3.2.1 release of the Exadata Storage Server software was released, I was a little excited. There were numerous oneoff patches for the previous release, 11.2.3.2.0, which was the first version to support the Exadata X3, writeback flashcache, run UEK on the X#-2 systems, etc. With that many large changes introduced in one version,… Read More »
Well, it’s finally public, so we’re able to openly talk about the new Exadata X3 systems. Looking back on my pre-openworld predictions, I was pretty close on a few things. I was correct on the database servers, which will have Xeon E5-2690 CPUs (8 core, 2.9GHz) with 128GB RAM upgradeable to 256GB. It looks like… Read More »
There have been a couple of posts we’ve seen lately about expectations of an Exadata X3-2 and X3-8 release at Oracle Open World 2012. I mentioned in my previous post about the possible release of an X3-2 1/8th rack configuration. I had guessed that this would be similar to the old V2 basic system that… Read More »
With only a month away from Larry Ellison’s keynote at Oracle OpenWorld 2012, I thought that I would make a couple of wild guesses about new products that may or may not get announced this year. I’ll lump them into a few educated guesses and wild conjecture. Insert standard blogging disclaimer (please read this part, Oracle… Read More »
If you missed Andy Mendelsohn’s keynote at E4 last week, you may not have heard the hubbub that surrounded one of his last slides (tweeted by Frits Hooogland here). The mention of the write-back enticed Kevin Closson to talk about the potential ramifications of such a feature. There’s a lot of information on that slide to… Read More »
As you may have guessed, applying patches on the Oracle Database Appliance can be a little bit different from your standard Oracle environment. Oracle releases a software version that covers all aspects of the ODA – firmware, operating system, and Oracle software stack (grid infrastructure, rdbms). Versions are numbered like this (image courtesy MOS note… Read More »
Enkitec will be hosting the first annual Enkitec Extreme Exadata Expo (E4) this August at the Four Seasons Hotel & Resort in Irving, TX. While I would generally tell people to stay away from Texas in August, this event will definitely be worth it. Enkitec has managed to stockpile some of the greatest minds in… Read More »