It was a long journey of hard work and team work that now has finished, as a result you will find my book Oracle Database 12c Backup and Recovery Survival Guide that I wrote with the help of my good friend Aman Sharma. I would also take this opportunity to recognize the great work done…
Category: Tutorials
Playing with VirtualBox, Oracle 12c (12.1.0.1) and OEL 6.4 – Part 2
We will complete our lab by installing the Oracle Database software, create a Pluggable database and take a look in the Oracle Enterprise Manager Database Express. The steps to install and create an Oracle Database 12c are: 1 – Go to the database directory created when unzipped the 2 Oracle Database Files and run /runInstaller…
Playing with VirtualBox, Oracle 12c (12.1.0.1) and OEL 6.4 – Part 1
Now that 12c was released it’s time to install in on OEL 6.4 64 bits OS. Let’s start playing with this. Before we start with the creation of the VM we will need to download some software first, such as: The VirtualBox for Windows: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads The OEL 6.4 OS: https://edelivery.oracle.com/linux The Oracle Database 12c Release…
Improving VM Performance, Converting repository disk to LUN
If using OVM virtual disks, you can easily improve your VM performance by replacing the virtual disks for raw LUN’s. It gives an extra boost in the performance specially if using the PVM mode. Note that here we are using OVM 3.1 and the guest VM is using OEL 5.7. On this scenario we will…
OVM V2V – Converting ESX VM to OVM using ISO boot CD
In this blog post we will learn how to convert an ESX VM to OVM 3.1 (V2V) using an ISO boot CD. Basically all you need to do to achieve this objective is to follow the following steps: 1. Uninstall VMtools from VM 2. Attache OVS-3.1.1-524.iso to the VM. 3. Boot VM from CD 4….
What was new for Oracle Backup and Recovery at 11g?
Oracle 12c is around the corner and due that I have received many questions from fellow DBAs about what was new about Backup and Recovery at 11g I have decided to write a small white paper about it. Hope you will enjoy reading it as much I enjoyed writing it. What_is_new_at_11g Cheers, Francisco Munoz Alvarez
Back to Basics – USER MANAGED BACKUPs part 1
In the past few weeks I have received many questions regarding user managed backups, and due to this, I decided to write a little regarding this topic. User managed backups are basically all backups you can make without the use of RMAN and no automatic metadata record of the backup is generated anywhere in the…
Playing with Oracle VirtualBox : How to add a new Disk
In this small Tutorial we will learn how to add a new disk to our Virtual Machine created in our previous tutorial. Add a new disk to the virtual machine is very easy, just follow the tasks bellow: First, with your virtual machine off click on Settings, than go to Storage , than you will…
Playing with Oracle 11gR2, OEL 5.6 and VirtualBox 4.0.2 (Final Part)
The idea of this tutorial is to show you how you can create an Oracle Database 11gR2 using Oracle VirtualBox and OEL. This installation should never be used for Production or Development purposes. This installation was created for educational purpose only, and is extremely helpful to learn and understand how Oracle works if you do…
Playing with Oracle 11gR2, OEL 5.6 and VirtualBox 4.0.2 (3rd Part)
Project Name 11gR2/2011 Author Francisco Munoz Alvarez Software Used Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.6 Oracle VirtualBox 4.0.2 Oracle 11.2.0.2 Database and Infrastructure Software Date 02/02/2011 The idea of this tutorial is to show you how you can create an Oracle Database 11gR2 using Oracle VirtualBox and OEL. This installation should never be used for Production or…