0 Shares 0 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 Linkedin 0 Facebook-messenger 0 Whatsapp 0 Email 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…
Once again, How to Improve your Oracle Career
0 Shares 0 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 Linkedin 0 Facebook-messenger 0 Whatsapp 0 Email The main question about the DBA job I hear all the time is: How can I became a successful DBA? Most of the people that I talk to who have difficulties starting out in their DBA career really have an issue…
Oracle VM 3.1 Disaster Recovery (HA)
0 Shares 0 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 Linkedin 0 Facebook-messenger 0 Whatsapp 0 Email On this scenario we will talk about how to implement HA (High Availability) for OVM 3.1 between a Primary Site (Production) and a Secondary Site (DR) located at 800 km away. On this post we will only talk about the storage…
Improving VM Performance, Converting repository disk to LUN
0 Shares 0 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 Linkedin 0 Facebook-messenger 0 Whatsapp 0 Email 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…
OVM V2V – Converting ESX VM to OVM using ISO boot CD
0 Shares 0 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 Linkedin 0 Facebook-messenger 0 Whatsapp 0 Email 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…
What was new for Oracle Backup and Recovery at 11g?
0 Shares 0 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 Linkedin 0 Facebook-messenger 0 Whatsapp 0 Email 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…
Back to Basics – USER MANAGED BACKUPs part 1
0 Shares 0 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 Linkedin 0 Facebook-messenger 0 Whatsapp 0 Email 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…
Are you getting short of SCN?
0 Shares 0 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 Linkedin 0 Facebook-messenger 0 Whatsapp 0 Email Did you know that Oracle has determine that some software bugs (affecting databases between version 10.1.0.5 and 11.2.0.3) could cause the database to attempt to exceed the current maximum SCN value (The limit is currently 281 trillion) causing a transaction to…
What is new in 12c for Backup and Recovery?
0 Shares 0 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 Linkedin 0 Facebook-messenger 0 Whatsapp 0 Email OOW has announced the new Oracle Database 12c, and this new version of the database product as expected has introduced many new features and enhancements for Backup and Recovery, on this post I will introduce you to some of them. Of…
DB Control/DB Console (OEM) Changing Hostname or IP Address
0 Shares 0 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 Linkedin 0 Facebook-messenger 0 Whatsapp 0 Email I just got a client that changed his server hostname and discovered that after this change he was unable to use the DB Control. To solve this problem you will just need to follow these simple steps: 1) Set $ORACLE_HOSTNAME to…