1. Release Notes
  2. What’s New in This Release

1 What’s New in This Release

Oracle Database Appliance release 19.8 supports Oracle Database 19c functionality on Oracle Database Appliance hardware models.

New Features

This release supports Oracle Database Appliance models X8-2-HA, X8-2M, X8-2S, X7-2-HA, X7-2M, X7-2S, X6-2S, X6-2M, X6-2L, X6-2-HA, and X5-2. You can either create a bare metal or virtualized platform deployment on Oracle Database Appliance or patch your existing bare metal or virtualized platform deployment to Oracle Database Appliance release 19.8. Read the chapter Known Issues with Oracle Database Appliance in This Release for critical fixes before deploying Oracle Database Appliance release 19.8.

For Oracle Database 19c features, see the Oracle Database Documentation Library at https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/index.html.

The following new features are available in this release:

  • Provisioning and Patching of Oracle Database Appliance Bare Metal Deployments

    This release supports provisioning of bare metal deployments, and patching of bare metal deployments from Oracle Database Appliance releases 19.5 and later.

  • Provisioning and Patching of Oracle Database Appliance Virtualized Platform

    This release supports provisioning of virtualized platform, and patching of virtualized platform from Oracle Database Appliance release 18.8.

  • Support for Oracle Data Guard

    Oracle Database Appliance provides client interface through ODACLI commands for easy configuration and management of Oracle Data Guard for high availability, data protection, and disaster recovery. Oracle Data Guard provides a comprehensive set of services that create, maintain, manage, and monitor one or more standby databases to enable production Oracle databases to survive disasters and data corruptions.

    See the chapter Using Oracle Data Guard for Disaster Management and Recovery on Oracle Database Appliance in the Oracle Database Appliance Deployment and User's Guide for your hardware model for more information.

  • ODACLI Command Enhancements

    There are new commands to set policies for creation and retention of jobs for Oracle Database Appliance deployments. The commands odacli create-jobdata-retention-policy, odacli create-purge-jobdata-job, odacli delete-jobdata-retention-policy, odacli list-jobdata-retention-policy, and odacli list-purge-jobdata-job enable you to create, view, and delete job retention policies, and set jobs for retaining and deleting scheduled job data.

    There are new commands to view available disks and release disks. Use the command odacli list-dgdisks to display details about the available disks. You can use the odacli update-dgstorage command to release disks.

    The odacli update-database command is desupported. Instead, use the command odacli move-database to move databases from one Oracle Database home to another.

    The option --resetDBID, -rDBID in the odacli irestore-database command is deprecated in this release. The Database ID of a restored database is always reset to a value different from the Database ID of the source database.

    See the Oracle Database Appliance Command Line Reference chapter in the Oracle Database Appliance Deployment and User's Guide for your hardware model for more information.

  • Oracle Linux 7 on Oracle Database Appliance Virtualized Platform Deployments

    Oracle Linux 7.8 is supported with this release of Oracle Database Appliance virtualized platform. You also upgrade the operating system when patch your virtualized platform.

    For more information about upgrading the operating system and applying the server patches, see the Oracle Database Appliance Deployment and User's Guide for your hardware model.

  • Oracle Flex Redundancy Support for Oracle ACFS Disk Groups Using Browser User Interface

    Oracle Database Appliance supports database creation with Oracle Flex redundancy on Oracle ASM disk groups and Oracle ACFS disk groups using the Browser User Interface. You can specify the redundancy when you create a database at the time of creating the appliance, or when you create a database in your deployment, using the Browser User Interface.

    For more information, see the Oracle Database Appliance Deployment and User's Guide for your hardware model.

  • Modify Database using the Browser User Interface or ODACLI Commands

    You can edit database properties using the Browser User Interface or the odacli modify-database command.

    For more information, see the Modifying a Database topic in the Oracle Database Appliance Deployment and User's Guide for your hardware model.

  • Support for Standard Edition High Availability for Upgrade Database functionality in the Browser User Interface

    Oracle Database Appliance supports Standard Edition High Availability solution with Oracle Grid Infrastructure that provides cluster-based failover for Oracle Database 19c Standard Edition.

    With Standard Edition High Availability, when there is an instance or a node failure, the database automatically fails over to the other node, after attempting to restart on the local node. The database is restarted on the surviving node, thereby providing high availability for Oracle Standard Edition databases.

    For more information about this feature, see the Oracle Database Appliance Deployment and User's Guide for your hardware model.

  • Access to Oracle Database Appliance documentation from the Browser User Interface

    You can access the Oracle Database Appliance documentation set for this release from the Browser User Interface. For the latest updates to the documentation for a release, see the online Oracle Database Appliance documentation library at https://docs.oracle.com/en/engineered-systems/oracle-database-appliance/index.html.

  • Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle Database Updates

    The following Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle Database updates (July 2020 Oracle Database Release Update) for bare metal systems and virtualized platform deployments are available in this release:

    • 19.8.0.0.200714
    • 18.11.0.0.200714
    • 12.2.0.1.200714
    • 12.1.0.2.200714
    • 11.2.0.4.200714

Oracle Grid Infrastructure Clone, Oracle Database Clone, and ISO Image Patches

See the chapter Oracle Database Appliance Release 19.8 Patches for patch details and links.

Oracle Database Appliance patches are available in My Oracle Support. When selecting a patch, ensure that you select Oracle Database Appliance release 19.8 from the drop down list.

  • Oracle Database Appliance 19.8.0.0.0 Server Patch for ODACLI/DCS stack: Use patch 31481816 to update your bare metal deployment to Oracle Database Appliance release 19.8.

  • Oracle Database Appliance 19.8.0.0.0 GI Clone for ODACLI/DCS stack: Use patch 30403673 to perform an initial deployment of Oracle Database Appliance. The bundle contains the latest Oracle Grid Infrastructure components for deployment on an Oracle Database Appliance in the "shipped from factory" state, or an Oracle Database Appliance that has been re-imaged using the operating system ISO Image. This patch is for all Oracle Database Appliance Hardware Models (bare metal).

  • Oracle Database Appliance 19.8.0.0.0 RDBMS Clone File for ODACLI/DCS stack: Use the Oracle RDBMS 19.8.0.0.200714 Software Clone file to create 19.8.0.0.200714 Oracle Database homes. Patch 30403662 provides the database clone for this update. This patch is for all Oracle Database Appliance Hardware Models (bare metal).
  • Oracle Database Appliance 18.11.0.0.0 RDBMS Clone File for ODACLI/DCS stack: Use the Oracle RDBMS 18.11.0.0.200714 Software Clone file to create 18.11.0.0.200714 Oracle Database homes. Patch 27604558 provides the database clone for this update. This patch is forall Oracle Database Appliance Hardware Models (bare metal).

  • Oracle Database Appliance 12.2.0.1 RDBMS Clone File for ODACLI/DCS stack: Use the Oracle RDBMS 12.2.0.1.200714 Software Clone file to create 12.2.0.1.200714 database homes. Patch 27119402 provides the database clone for this update.

  • Oracle Database Appliance 12.1.0.2 RDBMS Clone File for ODACLI/DCS stack: Use the Oracle RDBMS 12.1.0.2.200714 Software Clone file to create 12.1.0.2.200714 database homes. Patch 23494992 provides the database clone for this update.

  • Oracle Database Appliance 11.2.0.4 RDBMS Clone File for ODACLI/DCS stack: Use the Oracle RDBMS 11.2.0.4.200714 Software Clone file to create 11.2.0.4.200714 database homes. Patch 23494997 provides this update.

  • Oracle Database Appliance 19.8.0.0.0 Server Patch for Virtualized Platform: Use patch 31481822 to update your Virtualized Platform to Oracle Database Appliance release 19.8.

  • Oracle Database Appliance 19.8.0.0.0 ISO Image (Virtualized Platform): Use patch 16186163 to re-image the server with an operating system that includes virtualization capabilities. After re-imaging, use the VM Template to deploy ODA_BASE for the Virtualized Platform. The bundle contains the latest Grid Infrastructure components for deployment.

  • Oracle Database Appliance 19.8.0.0.0 VM Template (ODA_BASE) for Virtualized Platform: Use patch 16186172 to deploy ODA_BASE for the Virtualized Platform.

  • Oracle Database Appliance 19.8.0.0.0 RDBMS Clone for Virtualized Platform: Use the Oracle RDBMS 19.8.0.0.200714 Software Clone file to create 19.8.0.0.200714 database homes for Virtualized Platform. Patch 30403653 provides this update.
  • Oracle Database Appliance 18.11.0.0.0 RDBMS Clone for Virtualized Platform: Use the Oracle RDBMS 18.11.0.0.200714 Software Clone file to create 18.11.0.0.200714 database homes for Virtualized Platform. Patch 28864456 provides this update.

  • Oracle Database Appliance 12.2.0.1 RDBMS Clone File for Virtualized Platform: Use the Oracle RDBMS 12.2.0.1.200714 Software Clone file to create 12.2.0.1.200714 database homes for Virtualized Platform. Patch 27449599 provides the database clone for this update.

  • Oracle Database Appliance 12.1.0.2 RDBMS Clone File for Virtualized Platform: Use the Oracle RDBMS 12.1.0.2.200714 Software Clone file to create 12.1.0.2.200714 database homes for Virtualized Platform. Patch 19520042 provides the database clone for this update.

  • Oracle Database Appliance 11.2.0.4 RDBMS Clone File for Virtualized Platform: Use the Oracle RDBMS 11.2.0.4.200714 Software Clone file to create 11.2.0.4.200714 database homes for Virtualized Platform. Patch 17770873 provides the database clone for this update.

Desupport Notice for Oracle Java Development Kit (Oracle JDK), available in the /bin/java directory

Starting with Oracle Database Appliance Release 19.6, Java is installed in a new location. Java Runtime environment (JRE) is installed in the /opt/oracle/dcs/java/ directory, and is updated during patching of Oracle Database Appliance. Patching of Oracle Java Development Kit (Oracle JDK), available in the /bin/java directory, during the Oracle Database Appliance server patching process is not supported. Oracle Java Development Kit (Oracle JDK), available in the /bin/java directory, is desupported.

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