Introduction I wrote this article to show how you can integrate Legacy OEM with your Cloud environment in this case Oracle ExaCC.To have overall view on your Exadata X9M Cloud Infrastructure, statistics related to CPU/Memory/ASM Storage usage. Your on premise monitoring OEM can read data from Oracle cloud using OCI libraries and present them in combination with your standard DB/VMs…
Introduction This is upgrade procedure to release update from 07 Aug 2024. 13.5.0.23 Its also one of prerequisites for integrating OEM with OCI Exadata Cloud@Customer solution available on my other post under this link: https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/exacc-oci-integration-with-oem-13-5-cloud-control-installed-on-premises Patching procedure and process is basically regular with usage of standard OMSPatcher. We updating from version 13.5.0.16 to 13.5.0.23 This update release bring some improvements…
When using ZDM for a Physical Online Migration, even in the last current version, 21.4.5.0.0, switchover is failing. In this blog, I will share the reason and the solution to solve the problem before moving forward with the migration. Problem description We are using last version of ZDM : [zdmuser@zdmhost migration]$ /u01/app/oracle/product/zdm/bin/zdmcli -build version: 21.0.0.0.0 full version: 21.4.0.0.0 patch version:…
Working in a project where the customer migrates from an on-premises environment to Exadata Cloud at Customer provides insights about the decisions to take and what to consider when using the Exadata Cloud at Customer environment. In a series of blogs I want to talk about the different aspects when going to the Exadata Cloud at Customer (ExaCC). Let’s start…
Introduction Cloud often raises in the top 3 solutions when thinking about Oracle infrastructure renewal. For obvious reasons: you do not need to buy any server, platform is already available, you pay as a subscription, you drastically reduce time to go to production and you can scale up and down. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, or OCI, is a Cloud provider you…
I would like to share some personal thoughts. September 28th 2021, Oracle released the eleventh Exadata data machine called “X9M-2” (2 CPU sockets), X9M-8 (8 sockets) and ZDLRA X9M. Exadata is a computing platform to run Oracle RDBMS, zero data loss recovery appliance (ZDLRA) is a platform to backup Oracle RDBMS and based on Exadata hardware. Combining hard- and software…
Introduction It’s the first edition of the Techdays, the Oracle community event in Belgium. This event happened in Antwerp these past 2 days, and a lot of speakers came from around the world to talk about their experience on focused subjects. Really amazing to heard such high-level conferences. And it was a great pleasure for me because I’ve been working…
By Franck Pachot . Since X4 we can do Capacity on Demand on Exadata: disable some CPU cores to lower cost of Oracle Database licenses. Depending on the models, and the configuration, there are different minimums and here is a recap table about those. Here is the summary of Capacity on Demand minimum, maximum and increment. Those numbers come from the…
By William Sescu Yesterday (15th of March), the 10th Switzerland Exadata Community Meeting took place. It was not a meeting only about Exadata, but also about the Oracle Database Appliances which became more and more popular. It is interesting, how many companies in Switzerland already use Exadata’s or ODA’s. A big topic was the Exadata 12.2.1.1.0 software release which includes…
By Franck Pachot . The separation of roles between system DBA and application DBA is the way to go for agile development and the PDBaaS managed service is an excellent way to play with this concept: You are PDB administrator but not the CDB administrator. Here is an example about tablespace creation/deletion, and the kind of problems that may arise…
By Franck Pachot . The Exadata Express Cloud Service is a managed PDBaaS: Oracle is the system admin and the CDB database administrator, you are the PDB administrator. You connect with a local user, PDB_ADMIN, which is no SYSDBA privilege but has a PDB_DBA which has nearly all DBA rights, but with some features disabled by lockdown profile. I have…
By Franck Pachot . The Exadata X5 can be installed Bare Metal or Virtualized. The latter one, Oracle VM allows to create multiple clusters on one machine, is more complex for installation and for storage capacity planning. But it allows a small flexibility on options licencing. Those are the real challenges behind the choice. However, when we talk about virtualization,…
