CrashSimulator V2.0.2 Beta Is Now Publicly Available

The Open-Source Oracle Database Resilience Validation Platform

Today marks a major milestone in the evolution of CrashSimulator.

After years of development, testing, refinement, and real-world validation, CrashSimulator V2.0.2 Beta is now publicly available as an open-source project.

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What is CrashSimulator?

CrashSimulator is an open-source resilience validation platform for Oracle Database environments.

By orchestrating controlled failure and recovery scenarios, it helps organizations continuously verify recoverability, strengthen operational readiness, validate HA/DR architectures, and demonstrate compliance with recovery objectives and regulatory requirements.

Unlike traditional recovery documentation or periodic disaster recovery exercises, CrashSimulator allows teams to safely practice, validate, measure, and document recovery capabilities in a repeatable manner.

 

Why CrashSimulator?

Many organizations have:

• RMAN backups
• Data Guard environments
• Oracle RAC clusters
• Disaster recovery plans
• Operational runbooks

But one question often remains unanswered:

Can we actually recover when something goes wrong?

CrashSimulator was created to answer that question through controlled resilience validation exercises.

What’s New in V2.0.2 Beta?

123 Scenarios Across 22 Domains

CrashSimulator now includes 123 scenarios covering:

• Core Database
• Oracle Multitenant (PDB)
• Backup and Recovery
• Corruption
• Configuration
• Oracle ASM
• Oracle RAC
• Oracle Grid Infrastructure
• Oracle Data Guard
• Oracle Active Data Guard
• Oracle Services
• Oracle APEX / ORDS
• Oracle GoldenGate
• Oracle Cloud Database Services
• Oracle Autonomous Database
• Security
• Compliance
• Recovery Validation
• Lifecycle Validation
• Network Components
• Logical Failures
• Additional resilience domains

 

Guided Workflow and CLI Modes

Users can operate CrashSimulator using:

Guided Workflow

A topology-aware guided experience that walks users through:

• Discovery
• Scenario selection
• Runbook generation
• Dry-run validation
• Protection workflows
• Scenario execution
• Recovery validation
• Reporting

Command Line Interface

For advanced users, automation, and integration workflows.

Automatic Environment Discovery

CrashSimulator automatically identifies:

• Database architecture
• RAC configurations
• ASM deployments
• Data Guard environments
• APEX/ORDS components
• GoldenGate readiness
• Oracle Cloud integrations
• Autonomous Database configurations

This enables intelligent scenario selection and topology-aware validation.

Recovery Runbooks

Every resilience exercise is accompanied by detailed recovery guidance designed to improve recovery confidence and operational readiness.

Compliance and Audit Reporting

CrashSimulator generates evidence that can support:

• Internal audits
• Operational reviews
• Regulatory compliance requirements
• Recoverability testing programs
• Business continuity initiatives

Looking Ahead

CrashSimulator’s roadmap continues to expand.

Future capabilities include:

• Oracle MAA Best Practices Assessment
• Automatic MAA Maturity Detection
• Application Continuity (AC/TAC) Awareness
• Fast-Start Failover (FSFO) Awareness
• DML Redirection Awareness
• Oracle Services Best Practices Assessment
• SLA-Based RTO/RPO Recommendations
• Advanced Resilience Scoring
• Enhanced Recoverability Analytics

The long-term vision is to help organizations move from reactive recovery testing to proactive resilience engineering.

Open Source and Community Driven

CrashSimulator is now an open-source project.

The Oracle community can:

• Use it
• Test it
• Contribute to it
• Improve it
• Help shape its future

The goal is to create the leading open-source platform for Oracle Database resilience validation and operational readiness.

Get Started Today

GitHub Repository:
https://github.com/fmunozalvarez/crashsimulator

Download V2.0.2 Beta:
https://github.com/fmunozalvarez/crashsimulator/releases/tag/v2.0.2-beta

Practice Today.
Recover Tomorrow.
Protect Always.