When you try to shrink an ASM diskgroup that holds Oracle Clusterware files (OCR and voting disks), you may hit errors like: Why it happens Even though Oracle bugs 24568147 and 37688474 mention fixes in newer releases (19.27 RU+), this issue still reproduces in 19.28 and 23.8. The voting files are persisted in the ASMContinue reading “Resizing an ASM Diskgroup on Exadata When OCR/Voting Files Are on It”
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Be Careful: EX80 Issue Can Wipe Out Your Exadata/ZDLRA X8/X9 Data!
Recently, our ZDLRA X8-2 was impacted by the EX80 issue, resulting in the loss of three disks within a very short time. Two of these disks were partner disks, causing the DELTA disk group to unmount and all customer data to be lost. Oracle Support confirmed that recreating the DELTA disk group was not anContinue reading “Be Careful: EX80 Issue Can Wipe Out Your Exadata/ZDLRA X8/X9 Data!”
How to fix “DROPPED” griddisk in Cell
You may encounter a situation where a grid disk is in a dropped status in oracle exadata cell storage. This issue can be identified using the following command: Additionally, the ASM alert log may show errors like: This error indicates that the grid disks do not have the same size, which is causing issues inContinue reading “How to fix “DROPPED” griddisk in Cell”
Benefits of Zstandard Compression in Oracle 23ai HCC
In Oracle Database 23ai, significant improvements have been made to Hybrid Columnar Compression (HCC), with the default compression method now utilizing Zstandard (Zstd) instead of the previous algorithms, zlib and bzip2. But what exactly is Zstandard, and how does it differ from zlib and bzip2? Zstandard is a lossless data compression algorithm developed by YannContinue reading “Benefits of Zstandard Compression in Oracle 23ai HCC”
How to patch Exadata PDU
Recently, I collaborated with a colleague to promote our Exadata system to a new Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) server. However, we encountered issues when attempting to promote the Power Distribution Unit (PDU). After consulting My Oracle Support (MOS), we decided to address potential bugs by applying the latest PDU patch before proceeding with the promotionContinue reading “How to patch Exadata PDU”
Exadata, How to unlock ilom’s root account
After upgrading to ILOM 5.x, password locking is enabled. So root account could be locked after you change password, especially you forgot change it in oem. You can find more detail in Doc ID 2670512.1 . If the root account is locked, you must unlock and changing password cannot unlock the account. As you cannotContinue reading “Exadata, How to unlock ilom’s root account”
Exadata, How to change ilom root password
For security raison, we need to change dbnode/cell ilom root password regularly. Let’s login to Ilom and change password. > ssh exa01-ilom Password: Oracle(R) Integrated Lights Out Manager Version 4.0.4.52.a r139829 Copyright (c) 2021, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Warning: HTTPS certificate is set to factory default. Hostname: exa01-ilom -> set /SP/users/root passwordContinue reading “Exadata, How to change ilom root password”
Exadata, how to change ilom nameserver by ipconf in cell
You have to stop cell service properly before you change ilom network config in cell. You can find the procedure at How to restart cell services properly I propose you use ipconf to update your network config in exadata system. Don’t use ilom command line , because it doesn’t change /opt/oracle.cellos/cell.conf file, and you will haveContinue reading “Exadata, how to change ilom nameserver by ipconf in cell”
Exadata, how to backup domU
Backup user domaine machine (domU) is quite easy in Exadata system. 1. Pause the DomU [root@db01-m ~]# xm list Name ID Mem VCPUs State Time(s) Domain-0 0 8571 4 r—– 15546936.0 vm01db01.mydomaine.local 48 180227 22 -b—- 56705.8 … root@db01-m ~]# xm pause vm01db01.mydomaine.local [root@db01-m ~]# xm list Name ID Mem VCPUs State Time(s) Domain-0 0Continue reading “Exadata, how to backup domU”
Exadata, ILOM DNS server xxx in system configuration must match xxx in /opt/oracle.cellos/cell.conf
I got a error during exadata patchmgr precheck on cell storage. # ./patchmgr -cells cells -log_dir auto -patch_check_prereq -rolling … cel01: [ERROR] Can not continue. Runtime configuration is not consistent with values configured in /opt/oracle.cellos/cell.conf. cel01: [ERROR] Run ipconf to correct the inconsistencies. Failed check: /root/<em>cellupd_dpullec</em>/<em>p</em>/ipconf -check-consistency -at-runtime -semantic -verbose cel01: [ERROR] Details: cel01: ILOMContinue reading “Exadata, ILOM DNS server xxx in system configuration must match xxx in /opt/oracle.cellos/cell.conf”
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