Cloud

VirtualBox 5.2 exports the VM to the Oracle Cloud

By Franck Pachot . The new release of Oracle VM VirtualBox (aka VirtualBox) is there with a new functionality to export a VM to the Oracle Cloud Compute (aka Oracle Cloud Infrastructure). That can be interesting(…)

Managing Oracle Big Data Cloud – CE with REST API

In this blog post, we will see how to manage Oracle Public Cloud Big Data service Compute Edition with REST API. Scheduling the start/stop/restart of a metered PaaS in the Oracle Cloud can be interesting for managing efficiently the consumption(…)

Oracle Big Data Cloud Service – Compute Edition

In this blog post, we will see how to create a Big Data cluster through the Oracle Cloud Services. If you want more details about the Oracle Big Data cloud services offering, you can refer to my previous blog(…)

Oracle Cloud: script to stop all PaaS services

By Franck Pachot . With metered cloud services, keeping all your instances running may become expensive. The goal is to start them only when you need them. Here is a script that stops all instances you have on the Oracle(…)

Oracle Database to SQL Server 2016 TCO Analyzer

Today, many enterprises are striving to transform their IT organization from a cost center into a strategic asset and looking for ways to get more value from their application and data platform investments. To deliver on(…)

DBSAT un outil pour la sécurité de vos bases de données Oracle

Qu’est-ce que DBSAT ? C’est un outil gratuit d’Oracle que vous pouvez télécharger sur My Oracle Support avec comme référence : Doc Id 2138254.1. Il a pour but d’évaluer la sécurité de vos bases de données Oracle en analysant(…)

Google Cloud Platform instances and Oracle Database

By Franck Pachot . When it comes to choose a cloud instance to run Oracle Database, you want to be able to run your workload on the minimum CPU cores. This is why in a previous(…)

Oracle 12cR2, RAC, Cloud, ACFS, PDB thin clones and asmadmin

By Franck Pachot . In the Oracle Public Cloud, fast provisioning gets all its meaning when creating a RAC database service: in one hour you can get an operational highly available multitenant database. You can even create it in Data(…)

Oracle Public Cloud: LIOPS with 4 OCPU in PaaS

By Franck Pachot . In the latest post I've run a cached SLOB workload on Oracle Cloud IaaS to measure logical reads per seconds on a system covered by 2 processor licences (so 4 OCPs). Just(…)

Oracle Public Cloud: 2 OCPU for 1 proc. license

By Franck Pachot . I've blogged recently about the Oracle Core Factor in the Clouds. And then, in order to optimize your Oracle licences, you need to choose the instance type that can run faster on(…)