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UKOUG RAC&HA SIG September 2010
Just a quick one to announce that I’ll present at said event. Here’s the short synopsis of my talk:Upgrading to Oracle Real Application Cluster 11.2With the end of premier support in sight mid 2011...
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Oracle Support-final update to SR
Just had a really pleasent exchange with Oracle support. I was after a way to purge the repository database of an OEM 11.1 Grid Control installation without having to blow it all away. Unfortunately,...
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Troubleshooting ora.net1.network on an 8 node cluster
It seems I am doing a lot of fixing broken stuff recently. So this time I have been asked to repair a broken 8 node RAC cluster on OEL 5.5 with Oracle RAC 11.2.0.2. The system has been moved into a...
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Troubleshooting Grid Infrastructure startup
This has been an interesting story today when one of my blades decided to reboot after an EXT3 journal error. The hard facts first:Oracle Linux 5.5 with kernel 2.6.18-194.11.4.0.1.el5Oracle 11.2.0.2...
View ArticleTroubleshooting Oracle agent 12.1.0.1.0
As you may have read on this blog I recently moved from Oracle Enterprise Manager 11.1 GRID control to the full control of the cloud-12.1 has taken its place in the lab.I also managed to install agents...
View ArticleAn interesting problem with ext4 on Oracle Linux 5.5
I have run into an interesting problem with my Red Hat 5.5 installation. Naively I assumed that ext4 has been around for a long time it would be stable. For a test I performed for a friend, I created...
View ArticleTale of a platform migration Solaris 10 SPARC 10.2.0.5 to Linux 11.2.0.2.6
This is as much a note to myself how to do this in the future as it is something hopefully worth reading for you. The requirement has been precise as always: migrate a database from 10.2 on SPARC to...
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