Fernando Simon Calling the DBCA is easy and we have a lot of options, the option initParams allows us to send any parameter that we want during database creation. But for ASMCA? Can we send parameters during the creation of the ASM instance? The answer is Yes and let’s check how to easily do this during the […] The post ASMCA_ARGS appeared first on Fernando Simon ..read more

Fernando Simon Probably you saw the note from Tim Hall and Julian Frey about the release of the new version of Enterprise Manager 24ai (24.1.0.0.0). It was released on the Oracle edelivery site, but the documentation is not out yet. But I recommend registering at Oracle Enterprise Manager Technology Forum 2024 to check what it is the […] The post Upgrade EM from 13.5 to 24ai (24.1.0.0.0) appeared first on Fernando Simon ..read more

Fernando Simon Keeping your EM/OMS updated is an essential task to avoid performance and security issues of your monitoring/observability tools. Here you can see the steps to patch your EM from 13.5.0.20 to 13.5.0.24 (the last patch for now). And I also updated the agent running in the EM server to the latest version too. Where to […] The post Update EM from RU 13.5.0.20 to 13.5.0.24 appeared first on Fernando Simon ..read more

Fernando Simon My two last posts (about the GI update) used the GOLD IMAGE (link post#1, and post#2), where we basically deploy a patched image of the desired version. But this is different when we use the Release Update patch. Below I will describe how to do this, covering all the steps, using the silent install (easily adapted for […] The post 23ai, Zero-Downtime Oracle Grid Infrastructure Patching using Release Update with Silent Install appeared first on Fernando Simon ..read more

Fernando Simon My previous post was about the Zero-Downtime Oracle Grid Infrastructure Patching (ZDOGIP) for 23ai using the gold image. In that case, I used the GUI interface to do the installation and patch, but as you know, this is not good for the automation process. So, here in this post, I will describe how to do […] The post 23ai, Zero-Downtime Oracle Grid Infrastructure Patching – GOLD IMAGE with Silent Install appeared first on Fernando Simon ..read more

Fernando Simon As you know, the 23ai was released for Cloud and Engineered Systems (Exadata and ExaCC) first, I already explored these in previous posts as well. And since the patches already started to be released, now with the patch for 23.6, we can re-test the feature Zero-Downtime Oracle Grid Infrastructure Patching (ZDOGIP). The steps here are […] The post 23ai, Zero-Downtime Oracle Grid Infrastructure Patching – GOLD IMAGE appeared first on Fernando Simon ..read more

Fernando Simon Recently I shared several posts about the process to upgrade the GI from 19c to 23ai at ExaCC. My last post summarizes a lot of this, please read it here. But as you know, to use the 23ai you need to be running with OEL 8, and for ExaCC, the upgrade is quite simple. The […] The post ExaCC, Upgrading from OEL 7 to OEL 8 appeared first on Fernando Simon ..read more

Fernando Simon With the official release of Oracle 23ai to Exadata on-prem, it is now possible to manually upgrade Grid Infrastructure (GI) from 19c to 23ai. Nowadays the process is simpler than it was in the past, and I already published several examples of how to do this: Upgrading to GI 23ai at ExaCC using CLI Upgrading […] The post Manually upgrading Oracle GI from 19c to 23ai appeared first on Fernando Simon ..read more

Fernando Simon Recently I was playing with 23ai at ExaCC and got a strange error reporting format mismatch for the password file for my standby. Digging over it I saw that the orapwd has a different default value than dbca. First, check below my database created with dbca (the same process that I described in the previous […] The post 23ai, orapwd and the format value appeared first on Fernando Simon ..read more

Fernando Simon With the 23ai it is possible to create a database protected with TDE from the beginning. In a previous post, for OCI Cloud and ExaCC, was already described what are the options and what can be used. Here, let’s discuss other options, and troubleshoot some other details. OCI Cloud and ExaCC To contextualize. The OCI, by default, requires that databases are encrypted. When calling the dbca for 23ai, it detects that it is executing in the cloud, and forces it to use TDE. And since ExaCC is considered cloud, it is needed there as well. The previous post already described this in det ..read more