Hello everyone, A few years back we had the boom of the “Private Cloud” rush, where everyone started to implement virtualization technologies to make a better use of it Infrastructure resources and improve high availability, scalability and innovation! Now to simplify any migration to the Cloud (VM2Cloud) initiatives we can make use of this fantastic…
Category: Migrations
Playing with Oracle Cloud – Creating a Hybrid DR Deployment
On this article, we will create a Hybrid Disaster Recovery (DR by using Data Guard) Oracle Database Cloud Service database deployment with a primary database on-premises and a standby database in the cloud. This can be used to implement an improve the high availability of your Database by taking advantage of the Cloud, and even to migrate your…
Playing with Oracle Database Cloud – Migrating to Cloud using an Oracle Cloud Backup
The idea for this scenario is to learn how to migrate an Oracle Database from on-premises to Oracle Cloud DBaaS by using a previously done backup using Oracle Cloud Backup Services. First, we will create an Oracle Database Cloud Services database deployment (DBaaS) whose database is instantiated from a cloud backup created by using Oracle Database Backup…
Problems when doing a V2V or P2V of a windows server to Oracle VM
Some time ago, I received the request to migrate some Windows 2008 Servers to my Oracle VM farm and after complete the P2V migration the newly create VM would not start. It would crash on boot with blue screen and error: STOP: 0x0000007B (0xXXXXXXXX,0xXXXXXXXX,0x00000000,0x00000000) This issue is related to the storage drivers needed for the guest…
Finally, Oracle 11gR2 is here!!
After months of tests, Oracle released today the newest release of 11g Database (11.2.0.1 – for Linux x86 and 64bit only), with more than 200 new features and a lot of excellent surprises. Oracle Database 11g Release 1 (11.1 – Released at August 2007) and Release 2 (11.2 – Released today) are the versions with…
Some News for RAT (Real Application Testing)
“Real Application Testing is Now Available for Earlier Releases“ Oracle Database 11g introduced Database Replay and SQL Performance Analyzer as part of the Real Application Testing option to enable businesses identifies issues with system changes before production deployment in other words, Oracle Real Application Testing facilitates the testing and validation of system changes by recording…
How to migrate from 32 bit to 64 bit using RMAN?
This procedure can be used for single instance or RAC (9i to 11g): In the 32 bit source server : Start making a full backup of the database including all archivelogs: RMAN> run { allocate channel c1 type disk; allocate channel c2 type disk; backup database plus archivelog; backup current controlfile; } In the target 64 bit server:1)…