Weekend Learning: Oracle Exalytics - Information Center

Make sure that you check out MOS document "Information Center: Oracle Exalytics" this weekend from note ID 1505330.2 if you want to get up to date on this platform, and add it as a favorite in MOS if you are on it and need to stay updated on news for Exalytics!

Exalytics and leap seconds

As my original post about leap seconds is now my most viewed post I'll assume the topic is popular and share with you what I just found in MOS note "Leap Second Issue on Exalytics" via document ID 2017196.1 as some kernels supporting Exalytics ARE affected by the leap second difference that is coming up on June 30th!

Weekend Learning: Oracle Database - Information Centers

Do you enjoy finding new Information Center documents on My Oracle Support?  If so, tonight is your night!  I introduce not just a single Information Center, but a bevy of them if you follow article "Index of Oracle Database Information Centers" via document ID 1568043.2!  This document has many different facets about Oracle's flagship database product in addition to many different things like Engineered Systems such as Exadata, Exalytics, Exalogic, Big Data, and SPARC plus Embedded Database systems like TimesTen or NoSQL!  Looking for GoldenGate, Audit Vault, or MySQL?  You are in luck!  Documents for these are found here too!

Exalytics: Stability problems after 208 days uptime

Last year, I learned a very good lesson about letting your servers go too long before reboot but this surprising issue affects the latest and greatest Oracle product: Exalytics.  My Oracle Support note 1579194.1 details what version of Linux OS are susceptible to "Oracle Exalytics Stability and Performance Issues on Compute Nodes Running Linux After Uptime of More Than 208 Days" which affects all releases and PSUs of Exalytics.

Symptoms include kernel panics, task scheduler issues, and CPU soft lockup errors!