This week is Oracle Cloud World in Las Vegas. Can’t make it in-person? Not a problem, there’s STILL a way to catch much of the content, digitally. And, I have a code you can use to get a free Cloud World Digital Pass!
The comp code to use at https://www.oracle.com/cloudworld/register/ is: OCWDIGITAL
Of course, do not miss this great opportunity to learn more about Oracle MAA (Maximum Availability Architecture) and get the latest updates on MAA and High Availability at Oracle CloudWorld 2022.
Below you’ll find our recommendations for sessions and activities around Oracle MAA and HA that you should not miss when attending CloudWorld.
Tuesdays, October 18
| 1:00 – 3:00 pm | Meet the teamAnil Nair / Ian Cookson / Sebastian Solbach / Sinan Petrus Toma Glen Hawkins / Ludovico Caldara / Philippe Fierens / Suraj Ramesh Lawrence To / Sanjay Singh / Suzanne Hollidayat one of our Oracle Demo booths:Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture with Oracle RAC and Active Data Guard – DB-01 Oracle Database Zero Downtime Migration to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure – DB-06 |
| 4:00 PM – 4:45 PM PDT | Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) Best Practices for OCI [LRN1472]Join Oracle Development for a deep dive on updates on high-availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) best practices. Learn how Oracle has integrated MAA best practices into Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to eliminate downtime, increase scalability, and ensure zero data loss. Explore critical HA and DR features such as Oracle Active Data Guard, Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), Oracle GoldenGate, application continuity, and Multitenant. Match your service-level agreements and best practices to the most suitable Oracle Cloud configuration to optimize business continuity. If you’re already familiar with Oracle MAA tiers, see how OCI automation empowers these reference architectures to get you to the next level. |
| 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM PDT | Protect Your Business Using Oracle Full Stack Disaster Recovery Service – Interactive Hands-On-Lab [HOL4089]Oracle Full Stack Disaster Recovery is a cloud native service in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) that provides full-stack disaster recovery (DR) orchestration between OCI regions. Using it, you can create and automate DR run books and make them more flexible, manage DR operations using a single pane of glass, provide comprehensive logs with error management and recovery, perform DR recovery drills, and provide a framework to customize DR operations. Learn how easily you can automate the Full Stack Disaster Recovery orchestration for a cloud native application deployed in OCI. |
| 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm | Visit us at one of our Oracle Demo booths during the Welcome Reception or at any other time during CloudWorld:Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture with Oracle RAC and Active Data Guard – DB-01 Oracle Database Zero Downtime Migration to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure – DB-06 |
Wednesday, October 19
| 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM PDT |  Oracle Real Application Clusters: HA and Scalability for Your Applications – Interactive Hands-On-Lab [HOL4052]In this hands-on lab, you create and modify services to manage different workload types (such as OLTP and analytical) in an Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) environment. Learn how easy it is to use services to connect to the database. Plus, learn how to change service attributes so the services can failover seamlessly—providing application failover capabilities for both planned and unplanned outages using Transparent Application Continuity without making any changes to your application. |
| 1:15 PM – 2:00 PM PDT | Oracle Data Guard—Active, Autonomous, and Always Protective [LRN3528]Get an in-depth look at the latest Oracle Autonomous Data Guard features that help you meet the most stringent recovery objectives while simplifying data protection both on-premises and in the cloud—during planned outages and unplanned downtime. Learn how the latest generation of Oracle Database provides more flexibility for Oracle multitenant-based configurations. Plus, see how Oracle cloud automation and integrated best practices provide fully self-sufficient disaster recovery with Oracle Autonomous Data Guard. |
| 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM PDT | Protect Your Data with Oracle Active Data Guard – Interactive Hands-On-Lab [HOL4054]Practice configuring Oracle Active Data Guard in this hands-on lab. Plus, explore features such as switchover, failover, automatic block recovery, and data manipulation language redirection. |
| 3:45 PM – 4:30 PM PDT | Edge Cases Are Real—Disaster Recovery for Catastrophic Cloud Failures [LRN3526]See how Oracle Database Cloud Service can be deployed in hybrid use cases—spanning on-premises and cloud—with fully integrated database high availability solutions and full-stack disaster recovery scenarios. Most importantly, discover how deep integration and automation enable Oracle to support your business during planned maintenance operations and even during rare edge failure cases. |
| 5:00 PM – 5:45 PM PDT | Under the Covers of Oracle Real Application Clusters Deployments [LRN1474]Learn from the combined experience of Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) customers, engineers, and product managers who have helped deploy thousands of Oracle RAC databases on-premises and in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Understand which configuration choices provide the highest availability and elastic scalability for the most challenging workloads by adding instances online while ensuring application response time remains unaffected. See how you can scale your applications across OCI availability zones and regions for disaster recovery by combining Oracle RAC with other Oracle technologies such as Oracle Active Data Guard. |
Thursday, October 20
| 11:00 AM – 11:20 AM PDT | Migrate with Ease—Zero Downtime Migration to Oracle Autonomous Database [LIT4034] – 20 minutes that can help you speed up your next migrationOracle Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM) is Oracle’s premier solution for a simplified and automated migration experience. Find out how it can result in zero to negligible downtime when migrating your production system to or between any Oracle-owned infrastructure. Learn how you can seamlessly migrate your on-premises Oracle Database to the Oracle Autonomous Database using ZDM’s Logical Online methodology. |
| 11:40 AM – 12:00 PM PDT | The Least-Known Facts About Oracle Data Guard and Oracle Active Data Guard [LIT4029] – 20 minutes that can save you millions in outage costsThis product management-led session focuses on how Oracle Data Guard and Oracle Active Data Guard have evolved over the past few years. We take a technical deep dive into new Oracle Data Guard 21c features, including the long-awaited Multitenant Data Guard (Oracle Data Guard per Pluggable Database) feature. Leave knowing tips, tricks, and best practices on how best to utilize the most common Oracle Data Guard features depending on the major release of the Oracle Database. |
| 2:30 PM – 3:15 PM PDT | Achieving Continuous Availability for Your Applications with Oracle MAA [LRN3527]Learn how Application Continuity and related technologies keep your applications available. Get technical insights into how Oracle Database can help protect your application workflows from interruptions caused by planned maintenance or unplanned outages. Hear from customers about which applications benefit the most right away without code changes—and when customization may be required. |
Have fun and enjoy OCW2022!!
Regards,
Francisco Munoz Alvarez