What Should Be The Order of Exadata Machine Patching?

In earlier post we have given overview for downloading and extract patch on database system.

Now lets have an overview of patching order for Oracle Exadata Machine with list of utility which need to be used to apply it, as it is not compulsory to maintain this order but usually we should follow it to mitigate risk.

We have give the patch location of particular component based on patch number 19625719 (QFSDP).

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1. InfiniBand Switch 

• It will be available with storage server patches
• First apply it on spine switch than leaf switches

Exadata Patching - Download, Extract, Prepare

Let's go through the Exadata machine patching procedure in bullet points based on our patching experience.

Initially planned to write a article for entire patching activity for all database machine components in single post but it will look bit nasty so thought to write a post for each database machine component separately which would be easy to understand.

Exadata patching activity is very easy task if you plan it well.

Well, let's start from downloading the bundle patch and extract it to compute node. 

1. First go to the Oracle Document ID 888828.1, this is the first read requirement for any exadata database machine patching activity.