OLVM – (Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager) – Part 1/5 (Installation and Configuration)

Intro Virtualization made a significant change in the IT (Information Technology) industry.  This technology helped many organizations to use server resources efficiently. Server virtualization revolutionized data center management and helped organizations cut the fat out of the IT infrastructure. This was a game changer for data center investments and optimization. Nowadays IT engineers are managing […]

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ODA X5 – DB home creation error (racclonepl.sh)

  Intro  ODA (Oracle Data Appliance) virtualized platform is orchestrated by oakcli tool, Changes like database creation, database home creation, deleting database homes, etc need to be performed by oakcli tool. As this is fully scripted, we should have a clear understanding of oracle internals to troubleshoot issues encountered via oakcli tool. Most of the […]

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Azure DB template image – Part 1 (VM creation, Oracle grid and db software only installation)

  Intro In the current era, businesses are focusing on optimizing  IT infrastructure workloads adopting cloud models like AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI.  Cloud environments provide many on-demand resources which enable organizations to unleash their full potential to expand their market share. Also moving to the cloud enables greater flexibility to control IT infrastructure costs. […]

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ODA – 18.8.0.0 – OVM upgrade issue

  ODA (Oracle Data Appliance) upgrades are challenging and need to be ready to spend more hours on upgrades due to unexpected failures.  As a proactive measurement, you should be ready to face these unexpected failures by creating a proactive SR with oracle. In this article, I will cover the upgrades issue encountered for 18.3.0.0 […]

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12.1.2.10 – 12.1.2.12 – ODA upgrade – Pre-patching issue

  ODA upgrades elevate technical knowledge to a different level for each upgrade. Each upgrade gives you a new obstacle to tackle in a limited time.  While upgrading ODA from 12.1.2.10 to 12.1.2.12 found some unusual issue that was hitting during the pre-patching stage. Patching was executed from the Master – node. The master node […]

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Rackware – Workload Migration (RMM) – Part 1

Migrating application and database servers from on-prem to cloud is really challenging. Current era organizations are focusing to stretch towards clouds to optimize their workloads.  This gives immense pressure on IT architects and administrators on how swiftly and smoothly they can migrate servers to the cloud.   After the migration, the next challenge is to have […]

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Clone 12c RDBMS Binary

  We are currently living in the cloud era and the majority of organizations want to expand their database workloads to the cloud. The cloud environment gives a clear picture of costs and gives more flexibility to optimize the workload. challenging parts come when the organization wants to migrate on-prem database workloads to cloud environments. […]

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ODA upgrade issues for – 12.1.2.6 to 12.1.2.10

    ODA(Oracle Data Appliance) upgrades are really challenging. There is a high possibility that server upgrades can give you a hiccups during the grid component upgrade. This occurs mostly due to oakcli orchestration tool because oakcli completes certain checks sequentially before moving to the patching section. Having a clear understanding of each and every […]

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TFA upgrade to address log4j vulnarability

 As you all aware all organization allocating more time to address this log4j vulnerability , every dba/Infrastructure engineer is working on mitigating the log4j issue, As per the oracle updates database side we need to upgrade tfa utility to mitigate log4j vulnerability.  This below mention link provides really good insight of how this log4j works […]

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