Category: Oracle Cloud

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Storage Software Appliance – Installation and Configuration

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Storage Software Appliance – also known as Oracle Storage Cloud Software Appliance OSCSA – acts as a gateway between classic storage and the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage Service. The appliance can be installed on an on-premises Linux system or in an Oracle Compute Cloud machine and runs in a Docker container. It offers a local cache where clients can place their files before the OSCSA moves them into the Storage Service. The communication between a client with a filesystem to the OSCSA works with NFSv4, from the OSCSA to the Object Storage Service, Oracle is using their REST interface. Traffic from the OSCSA to and from the Oracle cloud can be encrypted and compressed. In this blog post…

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Oracle 12.2 – New Features I like – Part 1: Multitenant “Hot Clones”

I like the Oracle Multitenant architecture which was introduced in 12.1. But the concept to clone a source database to multiple copies in a small step had one big problem.  In Oracle 12.1, to clone a pluggable database the source database had to be in state read-only. In 12.2 is it not longer necessary to set the source pluggable database in state read-only, the source database has not to be modified to create a clone. Oracle calls it in the documentation “Hot Clone”. Link to the official Oracle documentation: https://docs.oracle.com/database/122/ADMIN/creating-and-removing-pdbs-with-sql-plus.htm#ADMIN13584 Here is a clone of the pluggable database PDB1 into PDB2 in the Oracle Database Cloud Service. Verify existing Pluggable Databases and States – PDB1 is in state READ-WRITE SQL>…

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Connect your Enterprise Manager 13cR2 with the Oracle Database Backup Service

In EM13cR1, it was the first time when the Oracle Database Backup Service was integrated . In Release 2 the configuration menu was extended, a storage container can be defined now e.g. for a better organization and overview of the backups. This blog post shows you how to configure the Oracle Database Backup Service in Enterprise Manager 13cR2 and how to prepare a database for a cloud backup. All you need is the Oracle Database Backup Service, a trial works too. Configure Service Settings           Enter your domain and login information. Optional: Set a backup container. A backup container is an organiziation unit like a subdirectory on a server. Configure the Database Select the database which…

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Enterprise Manager 13c – Let’s use the Hybrid Agent for Amazon EC2 and Azure Instances

I like the concept behind the Oracle Enterprise Manager Hybrid Cloud Architecture to connect my on-premise OMS with targets in the Oracle cloud. The Agent communicates via SSH tunnel to target servers, no other ports than SSH 22 are open against the world wide web. An I was interested to find out, if the installation of such an agent works for other cloud providers than Oracle too. Create a Oracle Linux Instance in Amazon AWS I have created a small Oracle Linux instance in Amazon AWS and inserted the public IP into the /etc/hosts file of the Oracle Management Server. Why I have used an Oracle Linux? According the documentation, at the moment only Oracle Linux x86-64 is supported to…

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