Tag Archives: ASM

Oracle Database Appliance – Problem Replacing Shared Disk (2.4)

Posted on May 23, 2013 by marcel

As with all systems, a disk failure can happen and so we had a failing disk on one of our ODA’s. As mentioned in the ODA documentation, replacing a disk is easy and OAK does everything for you. Actually it … Continue reading →

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Grid Infra – ASM 11.2.0.3 bug on Solaris – slice 2 CANDIDATE

Posted on August 24, 2012 by marcel

We recently ran into a bug (at least that how I look at it) that is introduced with ASM 11.2.0.3. As of this version, ASM shows slice 2 (the complete disk, starting a cylinder 0 thus inlcuding the VTOC) as … Continue reading →

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Oracle Database Appliance – Safely usable ASM diskgroup size

Posted on April 16, 2012 by marcel

Not long ago I got a warning from Oracle Enterprise Manager that the REDO diskgroup on one of our ODA’s exceeded the warning threshold of 75%. Looking at the number of database instances and configured online redo log sizes I … Continue reading →

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Oracle Database Appliance – Deployment Steps

Posted on January 1, 2012 by marcel

The installation (deployment) of an Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) is done by the ODA configuration manager. After you filled out all the information in the various screens (or you have loaded a parameter file and clicked next on all the … Continue reading →

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