I've been mostly busy with OCI-C and OCI in the past three years but occasionally I have to patch Exadata systems. That's what I have been doing every quarter for a Norwegian customer, patch their prod and non-prod Exadata systems in two consecutive weekends. The Exadata configuration was an X5-2

We live in exciting times, Oracle Database 12.2 for Exadata was released earlier today. The 12.2 database was already available on the Exadata Express Cloud Service and Database as a service for a few months now. Today, it has been released for Exadata on-premises, five days earlier than

This might not be relevant anymore, shame on me for keeping it draft for few months. However, there are still people running an older versions of Exadata storage software and it might still help someone out there. With the release of Exadata storage software 12.1.2.2.0, Oracle

Yes, this is well-known and the process has been described in Exadata Write-Back Flash Cache - FAQ (Doc ID 1500257.1) but what the note fails to make clear is that you do NOT have to restart cell services anymore hence resync the griddisks! I had to enable the WBFC

In the past year I've done a lot of Exadata deployments and probably half of them were eighth racks. It's one of those temporary things - let's do it now but we'll change it later. It's the same with the upgrades - I've never seen anyone doing an upgrade from