The roll-out of the newest Oracle Enterprise Manager 13 Release 4 is a few days old, about time to try out the upgrade process in my ESXi lab environment. First: This blog post about the OEM upgrade process is based on my own experience. Software https://www.oracle.com/enterprise-manager/downloads/cloud-control-downloads.html Documents https://docs.oracle.com/en/enterprise-manager/cloud-control/enterprise-manager-cloud-control/13.4/emupg/index.html The Environment Oracle Enterprise Manager 13.3 running on Oracle Linux 7.6 – OEM Patchlevel January 2020 – Non-HA Oracle Enterprise Edition Repository 19.6.0 Single Tenant Database Oracle Restart / ASM 19.6.0 Additional Oracle Linux Server with 19.3.0 Container Databases All targets up and running My Oracle Support connected Software staged directory in /u01/app/oracle/stage/em13cr4 and permission changed to execute bin file (chmod u+x em13400_linux64.bin). oracle@kestenholz:/u01/app/oracle/stage/em13cr4/ [oms1303] ll total 12429656 drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall…
Read MoreOracle Cloud Infrastructure – Change a Compute Instance Shape – Tested
There is a new feature available in Oracle Cloud infrastructure since the 13th of January 2020, now you can change the shape of a Compute instance. It replaces all the manual steps like stopping the existing instance, create a new one, attach the block device etc. – this is a short summary how it works. From the OCI Release Notes : You can change the shape of a virtual machine (VM) instance without having to rebuild your instances or redeploy your applications. This lets you scale up your Compute resources for increased performance, or scale down to reduce cost. My existing Compute Instance The existing machine has the shape VM-Standard2.1 – one OCPU and 15GB of memory. [opc@webserverpublic01 ~]$ cat…
Read MoreMV2ADB – One-Click Move of your Data into OCI Autonomous Databases – Auto Operation
In the previous blog post MV2ADB – One-Click Move of your Data into OCI Autonomous Databases – Step by Step I wrote about the new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure tool to transfer local data into Autonomous Databases step by step. There you see how to install and configure mv2adb and how to transfer your data to ADB step by step. The auto operation parameter is now “all in one”, one parameter and all required steps like export, transfer etc. are done fully automated. Prerequisites mv2adb rpm package installed, always get the newest version from My Oracle Support (Doc ID 2463574.1) HTTP/SQL*Net Connectivity from the on premises server to the Autonomous Database Autonomous Database Wallet (can be downloaded from the ATP main…
Read MoreMV2ADB – One-Click Move of your Data into OCI Autonomous Databases – Step by Step
There is a new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure tool available called MV2ADB – (ADB) MV2ADB: move data to Autonomous Database in “one-click” (Doc ID 2463574.1). All steps which have to be executed manually to transfer data into an Autonomous Database are now automated: Advisor for local schemas Oracle Data Pump local export Transfer into Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Store Create Autonomous Database Credentials to get access on the Object Store Oracle Data Pump local import Verify Oracle Data Pump import logfile The data transfer job can be done fully automated or step by step (autonomus schema advisor, export data, create bucket, upload dump files etc.). In this blog post I describe the manual steps. How it works Image from My Oracle…
Read MoreOCI Database Backup Service Configuration – Avoid 401 Unauthorized Error
While I a preparing new exercises for an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure training, I ran into an issue while configuring the Oracle Database Backup Service for the Object Storage. The OCI backup module installer returns an error 401. My Environment Oracle Linux 7 Virtual Box Machine Oracle 19c RDBMS Backup Service Module Installation Error The installation was done according the documenation https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/db-backup-cloud/csdbb/oracle-database-cloud-backup-module-oci.html oracle@ocivm01:~/ [ONPREM] java -jar oci_install.jar -host https://objectstorage.eu-frankfurt-1.oraclecloud.com -pvtKeyFile /home/oracle/.ssh/oci_api_backup_key.pem -pubFingerPrint 1c:79:c5:d5:e4:3a:6e:f5:07:xx:xx:xx -uOCID ocid1.user.oc1..aaaaaaaanqt5qrcbwwseeud7cjfxqcip123456789abcdefghi -tOCID ocid1.tenancy.oc1..aaaaaaaac3gjl7xgpxu3wmmqh2ha123456789abcdefghi -walletDir $ORACLE_BASE/opc_wallet -libDir $ORACLE_HOME/lib -configFile /u01/app/oracle/admin/ONPREM/opc_config/ONPREM.ora -bucket db_backup_doag00 Error Message – java.io.IOException: testConnection: 401 Unauthorized Oracle Database Cloud Backup Module Install Tool, build 12.2.0.1.0DBBKPCSBP_2018-11-09 Error: Could not authenticate to Oracle Database Cloud Backup Module Exception in thread “main” java.lang.RuntimeException: java.io.IOException: testConnection: 401 Unauthorized. at…
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