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Want to easily test Dbvisit StandbyMP for Oracle SE?

As you might know Dbvisit StandbyMP is a great Disaster Recovery solution for Oracle SE databases. Dbvisit recently communicated, providing now, a Test Drive system for customer to easily try the product and for partner to easily have a Demo environment. In less than 2 minutes, an environment with a Control Center host and multiple database server hosts with either… 

Can we benefit from Oracle SEHA relocate and failover with dbvisit StandbyMP switchover?

I recently wrote an article about how to combine Oracle SEHA database running on ODA 2-HA and dbvisit StandbyMP solution. See my article here : https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/combine-oracle-seha-on-oda-with-dbvisit-standbymp/. But are really all those high availability and disaster recovering solutions working together? Do Oracle SEHA relocate and failover functionalities work in conjunction with dbvisit StandbyMP switchover? Let’s see and try it! Test environment… 

Combine Oracle SEHA on ODA with Dbvisit StandbyMP?

I recently blog on Oracle SEHA on ODA, see my article https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/seha-on-oda/. Oracle SEHA is used for High Availability for Standard Edition. Dbvisit Standby is a Disaster Recovery well known application designed for Oracle Standard Edition. Dbvisit guarantees database continuity, and will reduce RTO and RPO. With Dbvisit we will limit business impact in case of failure like hardware, operating… 

High Availability VMs on ODA

Virtualisation is now possible on the ODA whatever it is an ODA Lite or HA. The virtualisation is based on KVM and integrated with odacli for Bare Metal installation. Virtualisation has got the advantage to allocate resources to databases and applications on the same physical server. But what is the High Availability solution I have for virtualization on the ODA?… 

Does it still make sense to deploy a virtualized HA ODA in 2021?

Introduction Starting from version 19.11 of the Oracle Database Appliance software bundle, OLVM will definitely replace OVM server as virtualization engine. This change has quite a big impact as there will be no more virtualized specific deployment. Bare metal will come as a standard for all ODAs, and creating VMs for applications, or even databases, will be possible on top… 

Oracle MAA reference architecture and HA, DR, RTO, RPO

By Franck Pachot . I may have mentioned in some previous blog post that, in my opinion, the names of Oracle Database features make sense on the vendor product management context more than in a user context. I’m not saying that it is good or bad. There are so many features, that can be combined, and that evolved for many… 

How to migrate High Availability databases on an ODA?

Through this blog, I would like to show, with a real customer case, how I have been migrating databases in High Availability environment on an ODA. High Availability using Data Guard for Oracle Enterprise Edition or dbvisit for Oracle Standard Edition 2. One of the advantage here would be to use the Standby Database as fallback in case there would… 

Documentum story – HA configuration best practice

We went to a performance issue and some failed failover regarding the content server and the JMS. Thus we asked EMC for recommendations and it seems that the configuration can be slightly different than the official documentation. Here are the steps for the High Availability configuration for the content server and JMS. At this point you must already have a… 

Documentum Multiple ADTS: Switching rendition queue

As part of my previous posts about having 2 rendition servers for one docbase (see below), I’ll show you how to simply switch a rendition queue item to the other server – http://dbi-services.com/blog/documentum-multiple-adts-ratio-of-rendition-creations-between-instances-part-1/ – http://dbi-services.com/blog/documentum-multiple-adts-ratio-of-rendition-creations-between-instances-part-2/ I had an issue by a customer where one of the two rendition server was stuck since 2 days. As I explained in my previous…