OEM : Agent installation ( Agent registration password issue )

  Intro  Monitoring plays a major part in mission-critical environments. As the environments are critical IT administrators need to make sure database and application servers are up and running 24X7. OEM (Oracle Enterprise Manager) plays a critical role in monitoring and administration, For the Oracle database this best product for addressing issues proactively.  Migrating everything […]

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OCI OEM Installation – ( Using Market place Image )

  Intro Monitoring plays a major part in mission-critical environments. Most businesses depend on IT infrastructure.  As the environments are critical IT administrators need to make sure database and application servers are up and running 24X7.  OEM (Oracle Enterprise Manager)  plays a critical role in monitoring and administration, For the Oracle database this best product for […]

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Virtualized ODA 19.13 – Scale down cpu core count on oda_base

  Intro Hope previous blog posts were useful to address ODA upgrade issues for the virtualization platforms. If you are planning on the 19.8 journey please read the below-mentioned article to ease the 19.8 journey. Article about the upgrade and issues:  ODA upgrade 12.1.2.12 to 18.3.0.0 — Journey to 19.9.0.0 – Part 1 Virtualized ODA […]

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OVM : Troubleshoot process of adding OVM hypervisor back to cluster.

  Intro  It has been ages since when Oracle released its own hypervisor (OVM). OVM technology is based on paravirtualization and uses Xen-based hypervisor. OVM’s latest release version 3.4.6.3 is the latest one available. Oracle announces extended support for OVM and the support period is March 2021 and will end on March 31, 2024. Oracle’s […]

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Oracle Base Database patching to 19.17 using DBCLI

  OCI – (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) Intro Cloud platforms are booming and many organizations are planning on a cloud journey to get a competitive advantage.  The cloud market is vast, with a diverse selection of services. It’s not easy to select a suitable cloud platform for an organization.  There are certain criteria you need to […]

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OVM – Remove stale cluster enties

  Intro  It has been ages since when Oracle released its own hypervisor (OVM).  OVM   technology is based on paravirtualization and uses Xen-based hypervisor.  OVM’s latest release version 3.4.6.3 is the latest one available. Oracle announces extended support for OVM and the support period is March 2021 and will end on March 31, 2024. If you need […]

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OLVM : Create FC shared data domain

  Intro  Nowadays all the business markets are highly competitive and organizations want to take competitive advantages over others. When business is highly critical databases and application servers need to be up and running 24X7  . Virtualization is the technology that helps to maximize the IT infrastructure cost. High availability of VM can be achieved […]

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ODA – Virtualized – DB upgrade (oakcli)

  ODA virtualized eases the database upgrade process using oakcli orchestration utility. This tool became more stable after 19.8. All the ODA components can be orchestrated via this oakcli utility. However, 19.13 will be the last upgrade for the virtualized platform, After that oracle going to discontinue OVM and they are moving to KVM-based virtualization. This […]

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OLVM Upgrade 4.4.8 – 4.4.10

  Intro  OLVM (Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager) releases 4.4 is based on the oVirt 4.4.0 through 4.4.10 release. Ovirt already released version 4.5, But Oracle is behind on releasing the 4.5. Currently, they are working on testing the 4.5 release for bugs.  If you are planning to upgrade OLVM and KVMs make sure to upgrade […]

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OLVM – Disk state stuck in finalizing state

  Intro It’s essential to have a proper backup mechanism for virtualization infrastructure. Also, we need to test the backup and recovery method at least once in 3 months to validate that everything is working as expected. Also documenting the recovery procedure helps to avoid surprises when there is a recovery scenario.  Organizations should be […]

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