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Create new PDB in a Data Guard environment on ExaCC

In this blog, I would like to share how to create a new PDB in one CDB in a Data Guard environment on the ExaCC. Naming Convention Following is the naming convention: Create new PDB I will create a new PDB named NEWPDB in the CDB named MYCDB using dbaascli. This will be run on the primary site. oracle@ExaCC-chz1-cl01n1:~/ [MYCDB1… 

Configure Dynamic Scaling as Grid HA resource

I have recently blogged about how to install and configure Dynamic Scaling as an Oracle Linux Service daemon. See my blog, https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/how-to-automatically-manage-ocpu-on-exacc-using-dynamic-scaling/ In this blog I would like to show how to configure it as an Oracle Grid HA resource. This is the way we decided to go with at customer site. This will be an installation on a 2… 

How to automatically manage OCPU on ExaCC using Dynamic Scaling

To automatically scale down and up the OCPU on ExaCC cluster according to the CPU utilisation, we can use dynamic scaling. Dynamic scaling engine can be installed on each cluster nodes VM, from a remote machine as master or from container like doker or podman. We can also installed dynamic engine as a Grid HA resource. In this blog I… 

First steps with Oracle Autonomous Database

By Mouhamadou Diaw In Oracle documentation we can find following lines about Oracle Autonomous Database Autonomous Database provides an easy-to-use, fully autonomous database that scales elastically, delivers fast query performance, and requires no database administration. You will need an account for Oracle cloud but you can get one free for testing (see in Oracle documentaion) In this blog I describe… 

Oracle Database Appliance vs Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Introduction Oracle Database Appliances are very popular these days. And not only among new customers for this kind of engineered systems. Almost all customers already using old generation ODAs are renewing their infrastructure by choosing again ODAs, meaning that the solution is good enough and probably better than anything else. But now, public clouds are a real alternative to on-premise… 

SQL Server on Oracle Cloud

By Franck Pachot . You can create a VM with SQL Server running in the Oracle Cloud. This is easy with a few clicks on the marketplace: Here are the steps I did above: Oracle Cloud -> Marketplace -> Application -> Category -> Database management You have multiple flavors. I’ve chosen the lastest cheaper “Microsoft SQL 2016 Standard with Windows… 

Oracle Cloud basics for beginners

Introduction Cloud, Cloud, Cloud. Everyone is talking about the Cloud but a lot of people are still in the fog with Cloud technologies. Let’s talk about basic features of the Oracle Cloud, called OCI for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. What is really OCI? OCI is physically a lot of servers in datacenters all around the world. These servers are not very… 

Oracle Java Cloud event 1st Septembre in Geneva

Tuesday, the 1st of September, we attended an Oracle’s Java Cloud Platform as a Service demonstration in Geneva. Presentation was organized by Arrow – Switzerland. Presentation aims to show us new opportunities of development in the Cloud, and we were invited to attend several live demonstrations of these new Oracle products. Java Cloud PaaS allows developers and managers to have… 

Migrating to Oracle OEM Cloud Control 12.1.0.2.0

I recently upgraded from Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12.1.0.1.0 to the most recent version 12.1.0.2.0. This document describes the migration procedure and the different problems encountered. The first point to know when you are about to upgrade an existing Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c is that Oracle Installer will create a new Middleware home. Thus, you will need to have… 

Oracle RunInstaller crashes while installing Cloud Control 12c on OEL 5.7

A few days ago I downloaded the Cloud Control 12c binaries for Linux x86_64 from the Oracle Technet.

My friend, Hervé Schweitzer, configured an OEL 5.7 VM for test purpose and I was quite eager to install this new software. I checked the O.S settings, the required parameters, aso …, everything was fine. My OMS repository database (11.2.0.3) was ready.

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