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: Continue failed upgrade of Grid Infrastructure to 23ai
In this blog post I will show how to identify and fix the root cause of a failed Grid Infrastructure upgrade to 23ai and how to complete the upgrade to get the VM Cluster back to the AVAILABLE state.
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In May 2024 Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle 23ai on ExaCC. In this blog post, I will upgrade an existing VM Cluster to 23ai using the OCI CLI.
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