Exadata Bundle Patch 5 Gotcha's
A couple of months ago we became proud parents of a bouncing baby Exadata V2, (1/4 rack). I had about two weeks to configure it and get up to speed on the high points before we were to begin work on our first proof of concept (POC) for a local client. I had just enough time to patch the storage cells up to version 11.2.1.2.6 configure storage and create the databases. Well we’ve been working it pretty hard for the last couple of months with customer POC’s and our own testing but today I finally got a chance to get caught up on our patchsets for Exadata. The most current bundle patch releases are 4 and 5. After hearing about widespread problems with bundle patch 4 I decided BP5 was probably the best fit for us. I did a few searches and didn’t find any serious complications from BP5. However during the installation I did come across a couple of issues I thought I’d share here.
