Re: Oracle ODA suggestions.

The only real difference is the support. The ODA has a phone home feature for hardware failures, much like the exadata.

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> On Mar 30, 2021, at 21:18, Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi Jack!
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> What is the difference between a big Dell box with many cores and NVME drives and ODA? What you are describing sounds like a very big and fast PC with Linux and Oracle per-installed.
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>> On 3/30/21 4:59 PM, Jack Applewhite wrote:
>> Our X8s are Bare Metal, single server machines with 100% SSD storage and a joy. After I re-imaged them to 18.8, patching to 19.6 presented a few problems. mainly going from OEL 6 to 7, but, with Oracle Support, we worked them out. We are very happy with 19.6 ODA version and RDBMS version.

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