I was doing some tasks off from my task list and one of the things exachk highlighted was that we should create user CELLDIAG on cells. Beginning with Exadata Storage Server Software version 12.1.2.2.0, the storage server user “CELLDIAG” is created during deployment which allows access to diagnostics without using a more privileged user. The…
Exadata & metric_iorm.pl
Our case where to gather information was actually related to two disks going OFFLINE at the same time. As I wasn’t sure if this is normal Exadata behavior I went and created Service Request for this. This is what we saw one day: 4_1 2017-01-04T18:54:05+01:00 warning “Data hard disk entered confinement offline status. The LUN…
Automated sundiag.sh for Exadata nodes
We recently had to collect sundiag.sh output to one of our Service Requests and I followed note “Oracle Exadata Diagnostic Information required for Disk Failures and some other Hardware issues (Doc ID 761868.1)“. And while there isn’t too much of work involved I thought perhaps I could reduce few steps. Below is short script which creates…
Automated exachk
I was speaking in December at UKOUG Tech’16 and attended Andy Colvin‘s session on “5 Quick Tips for Exadata Administrators”. Andy mentioned that it’s possible to automate your exachk which sounds really good idea. We have run it earlier on a semi-frequent schedule but always manually. Wouldn’t it be good to run it for example every…
Exadata, Oracle eBS and exachk
Nice feature which I wasn’t aware earlier is that when you run exachk for your Exadata it has eBS specific section as well. So not all content is related to Exadata or databases. There are million posts about exachk so I won’t go into details on it but exachk is as per Oracle: Oracle ORAchk and…
Impressions on Oracle Enterprise Manager 13.2 & Oracle VM Infrastructure Home
I’ve played around with OEM 13.2 Oracle VM Infrastructure Home few days and I think it definitely has potential to be standard tool for us instead of OVM Manager! There are still some areas which could be improved and leave me wondering if they are good. Things I like: New GUI is nice and responsive…
Start using Oracle VM 3.4.2 through Oracle Enteprise Manager 13.2
One of my main interests after setting up Oracle VM 3.4.2 and Oracle Enterprise Manager 13.2 was to test how OEM 13.2 looks when you use Oracle VM through it. With OEM 12c we tested it but it seemed always lacking lot of functionality so day-to-day administration usage was lot easier with OVM Manager. Preliminary tasks…
Installing Oracle VM 3.4.2 (Part 2)
On part 2 for OVM 3.4.2 I’ll show how to configure OVM up to running speed so you can create VM’s. It’s again really straightforward and doesn’t need much previous (or at all) knowledge. Networking As we use iSCSI for our storage I need to add our iSCSI networks to OVM and link them to…
Installing Oracle VM 3.4.2 (Part 1)
Moi! We currently use Oracle VM 3.3.3 quite heavily and look to improve our setup. So for that I decided to install latest Oracle VM 3.4.2. to see what improvements it brings. Oracle Virtualization blog has good summary on 3.4.2: https://blogs.oracle.com/virtualization/entry/oracle_vm_3_4_2 To install I had to download two files. One for OVM Manager and one…
Setup Oracle Enterprise Manager 13.2 from OVM template
Moikka! So this will be my first post. We currently use quite basic setup of OEM 12c but really want to see what 13.2 is capable as it has added some features to Exadata monitoring (or so I was told). Also what is really interesting is the improved manageability for OVM 3.4 directly through Enterprise Manager.…