ExaCC: Start database with Small Pages after applying RU 19.27/23.8

With Release Update 19.27/23.8 (April 2025), Oracle removed the support to run a database with Small Pages on Engineered Systems. More details about this behavior change can be found in My Oracle Support Note Starting DBRU 19.27 and 23.8 Small Pages Are Not Allowed for RDBMS SGA In Exadata. (Doc ID 3081878.1). In this blog post I will show a way to still use Small Pages on an ExaCC environment.

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ExaCC: Prepare Infrastructure for Exascale

In December 2024 Oracle released Exascale, a new storage architecture optimized for Cloud deployments, for Exadata Cloud@Customer environments. The initial release was limited to a very small number of OCI regions. Nowadays the availability of Exascale is not limited anymore. In this blog post I will go through all required steps to prepare an Exadata Infrastructure for Exascale. Before you start check the requirements in the documentation.

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