From December 1st to 3rd, 2024, I had the pleasure of attending the UK Oracle User Group Conference (UKOUG) in Birmingham. My workmate Stefan and I traveled from Zürich Airport on Saturday afternoon, flying to London Heathrow and continuing our journey by Metro and Train. We arrived later in the day, ready for an exciting few days. UKOUG isn’t just about tech topics; it’s also a fantastic chance to meet people, make connections, and enjoy interesting presentations about Oracle technology. This year, I met some colleagues from Accenture, including Rhianna from the US and Sai from the UK. It’s always nice to meet people in person and share ideas. Sunday evening was special as we attended the traditional Oracle ACE…
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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure – Resource Scheduler First Release
A long waiting functionality is now available in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: the Resource Scheduler. Now you can control the start and stop of OCI resources like Compute Instances and Autonomous Databases in OCI directly. This saves money and makes previous solutions with tags, cron commands by OCI-CLI, functions or 3rd-party tools unnecessary. The scheduler is located at tenancy level and can handle static or dynamic resources based on search criteria. As this is the First Release, sometime the schedule creation fails but the error box is empty, even when all required text field are filled out, creation was not possible. But again, for the first release not so bad. I miss actually the functionality to create more than one action…
Read MoreOracle Cloud Infastructure – Enable Multipath for Ultra High Performance UHP Storage
The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Block Volume service leverages NVMe-based storage for consistent performance and offers flexible and elastic performance options. You only need to provision the required capacity, and the performance scales according to the selected performance level, up to the service limits. There are four performance levels available who have a direct impact at performance. Four Levels of Performance Ultra High Performance: Ideal for workloads with the highest I/O demands, offering the best possible performance. This level allows you to purchase between 30 and 120 VPUs per GB/month. Higher Performance: Suitable for workloads with high I/O requirements that do not need the peak performance of the Ultra High Performance level. This level provides 20 VPUs per GB/month. Balanced: The…
Read MorePCA X9-2 – 3.0.2-b1010555: Changed Availability Domain Identifier
Following the application of the most recent patch set to our Oracle Private Cloud Appliance PCA X9-2, currently on version 3.0.2-b1010555, we encountered an issue with our OCI CLI script, which has been in use for some time to generate a block volume. It’s important to note that the script configures parameters such as profile, certificate, and compartment through the use of variables. The “NotAuthorizedOrNotFound” return code indicates that either a) the user’s IAM API key is incorrect, or b) one of the specified parameters is unavailable. Given that answer a) has been ruled out, as basic commands such as oci bv volume list are functioning correctly, the focus should shift to answer b). Among the parameters used, the one…
Read MoreOracle Database Appliance – let’s backup to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage
This blog post describes the setup for an Oracle Database Appliance ODA database backup by RMAN to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Basically there are three destinations for backup and recovery possible: • Oracle Fast Recovery Area (FRA) disk – the Internal FRA • Network File System (NFS) location – external FRA • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage – Oracle Object Storage When using backup to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage, the Oracle Database Backup Cloud Service module (opc_installer.jar) is configured in the background. A configuration can be created by the ODA browser interface or by command line tool odacli – what I prefer. When you have already worked with the Oracle Database Backup Service and the OPC module, the…
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