Re: ODA Harddrive replacement

This answer comes with no guarantees attached and at your own risk - but it should be hot-swappable. Of course, I don't know which ODA you have - just the generation - but in general you should be okay with no outage - assuming things work as designed - which it does not always because of bugs, firmware issues, human error, and such - so if you are running a critical workload you should not do this during peak hour probably. However, this is a customer-replaceable action kind of an event.

https://docs.oracle.com/en/engineered-systems/oracle-database-appliance/19.5/cmsvn/oracle-database-appliance-service-manual.pdf

There are step-by-step instructions in there with pictures just make sure you pick the right version e.g. model etc.

Good luck!

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On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 2:16 PM Mark Davidson <wdavidsmc_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We have an old out of support X5-2 ODA where a hard drive has failed. We
> are running 12.1.0.2 Oracle on Linux VM 6. Luckily we are triple-mirrored.
> What we need to do is replace the drive with a drive from a retired X5-2
> ODA but we have never done this before. So my questions are:
> 1. Has anyone else done this or did you let Oracle support or a 3rd party
> perform the work?
> 2. Is down-time involved
> 3. Is there completed documentation (I'm still looking) that describes
> what steps need to be taken?
>
> Just looking to save money if possible.
> Thank you,
> Mark
>

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