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 »
I’ve got a handful of presentations coming up in the latter part of the year, so I thought I’d add a quick post with where all I’m going to be. Seems like I’m all over the map and I couldn’t stop thinking of a game that I played way back when I was in elementary… 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 »
One of the things that I’ve touched on before that tends to bother me – role separated grid infrastructure installations – gave me another reason to show my dislike a few weeks ago. While working on a system that was being upgraded from 11.2.0.2 to 11.2.0.3, we ran into a strange issue. After upgrading from… Read More »
One of the new requirements of the Exadata Storage Server patches (starting with 11.2.3.1.0) is that the compute nodes will be patched through yum. Previously, the minimal pack was bundled with the storage server patch and applied directly to the database servers. Instead of having the compute node directly receive updates from Oracle’s yum repository… Read More »
For some reason, I’ve been working on lots of Exadata V2 systems in the past few months. One of the issues that I’ve been coming across for these clients is a failure in the battery that is used by the RAID controller. It was originally expected for these batteries to last 2 years. Unfortunately, there… Read More »