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 »
I’ve been invited to speak at Miracle Open World 2012 in Billund, Denmark! My topic will be “Oracle Database Appliance Internals,” which I’ll try to make fun and exciting. I’m definitely looking forward to the experience, and it’ll be great to spend time with the other speakers and attendees. My session is currently scheduled for Thursday… Read More »
In part 1 of this series, we took a look inside the ODA to see what the OS was doing. Here, we’ll dig in a little further to the disk and storage architecture with regard to the hardware and ASM. There have been a lot of questions about the storage layout of the shared disks.… Read More »
We’ve had a few weeks to play around with the ODA in our office, and I’ve been able to crack it open and get to into the software and hardware that powers it. For starters, the system runs a new model of Sun Fire – the X4370 M2. The 4U chassis is basically 2 separate… Read More »
Oracle has announced a new product, the “Oracle Database Appliance,” or ODA (pronounced oh-duh) as I like to call it. Enkitec has been fortunate enough to get our hands on a test box. Be sure to check out my post on a deep dive (LINK GOES HERE) inside the ODA. The gist of the ODA… Read More »