This blog post describes the lift and shift of an on-prem Oracle 11g Enterprise Edition to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure by using Oracle RMAN paired with OCI Object Storage. Works for other versions > Oracle 11g / Enterprise Edition too (the tablespace encryption method may change). Architecture Q&A What’s the motivation of the lift and shift of a good old on-prem Oracle 11g database to Oracle Database Service? Hardware runs out of lifecycle Out scoping of an on-prem database which is…
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Never stop Learning – why I love Oracle LiveLabs
Since over one and a half year, this week I was back in an onsite training, live people, live teaching. With a motivated junior DBA class, we started with all about Oracle architecture based on our Trivadis training O-AI – Oracle Architecture and Internals. The training is a mix between slides, demos and labs. Therefore during the course we run the training environments in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, build by Terraform (Credits to Stefan Oehrli from oradba.ch which has ramped up…
Read MoreLet’s IPSec VPN – How to connect your Unifi Security Gateway to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
When I connect from home to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure normally I used a Bastion Host, an Open VPN compute instance or Public IPs. Some of the cool stuff like MV2OCI (which transfers data from on-premises to OCI) or integration of an ADB instance in my local running Oracle Enterprise Manager are referred to direct cloud connections. A SSH reverse tunnel works fine, but this cannot be a permanent solution for my lab environment. At home I have an Unifi…
Read MoreOracle Cloud Infrastructure – Security first: Cloud Guard and Security Zones – a first View
Two new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Security Services Good news: Oracle has provided two new services for cloud security. Cloud Guard to get an overview of existing possible security breaches and Security Zones, which allows to create a full restricted compartment. In this blog, I will give you a short overview about this brand new services. Cloud Guard The Cloud Guard service helps you to identify security issues in your tenancy. Before the first use, it has to be enabled…
Read MoreEnterprise 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…
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