migration

Dry Run with ZDM Physical Online with no Downtime for the source

I have been sharing my experience migrating On-Premises database to ExaCC using ZDM Physical Online, see my previous blog : https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/zdm-physical-online-migration-a-success-story/ In this blog I will share how you can make a Dry Run migration on your(…)

M-Files, Migrate Vaults to a High Available environment

If you read my previous blog, you know why I’m doing a migration 🙂 If not let’s explain it a bit, since 1 year I play with M-Files using an VM in the cloud,(…)

ZDM Physical Online Migration – A success story

I have been recently blogging about ZDM Physical Online Migration where I was explaining this migration method and preparing customer On-Premises to ExaCC migration. See my blog, https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/physical-online-migration-to-exacc-with-oracle-zero-downtime-migration-zdm/. I have now had the opportunity to(…)

ZDM Physical Online Migration failing during ZDM_SWITCHOVER_SRC phase

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.

Database Check for a one-to-one Migration with OMrun

Procedure to check a one-to-one migration between different database types autogenerated and generically with OMrun.

Oracle Zero Downtime Migration : Offline logical database migration from on-premises to Autonomous DB 

I have recently written a blog introducing the Oracle ZDM (Zero Downtime Migration) tool : https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/zero-downtime-migration-zdm-to-oracle-cloud-infrastructure-oci/ I have also done some tests performing an offline logical database migration from a database running on an OCI(…)

Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM) to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

The question to migrate or not to the Cloud comes more and more often now. There are some added values to go to the Cloud as analytics capabilities, scalability and flexibility, cost saving, no dedicated hardware and its related maintenance,(…)

New features in OMrun 5.0

We are excited to announce several new features that will be coming with OMrun soon. These features have been developed with the feedback of our customers in mind. In addition we also made a lot of small improvements. Many(…)

Azure SQL Managed Instance link feature overview

In one of my last blog-posts I spoke about Striim which is a data replication platform that can be used for migrations but also for offloaded reporting or even real-time analytics.A new Azure feature, currently on preview, named(…)

Migrating CentOS 8 to Oracle linux OL8

As you might be aware, CentOS 8 is end of life since the 31st of December 2021. If you are still using and running CentOS 8, you might want to migrate to some alternative distributions in order to keep a(…)