Hi Readers Finally, I’ve successfully passed 1Z0-1072, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2019 Architect Associate. It was almost more than 2-3 months that I’ve been preparing for this. The Exam contains 66 questions related to OCI which includes storage, VCN, IAM, Compute, DNS etc.. To earn this certification you need to get 65% marks. This was the result of […]
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Oracle Data Guard Switchover in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
To view how to configure Data Guard in OCI please check Configuring Data Guard in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Assumptions: Oracle Data Guard is configured in OCI and it is up, running and synchronized. You can check the dgmgrl configuration before starting switchover by login to the server using Public IP. You can see SKANTORC_iad19m […]
New Feature: Changing the shape of a virtual machine DB system OCI
Finally, Oracle OCI come up with new feature of changing the shape of VM in Database system without termination. For an instance, you are running DB system on OCI VM, as time passes, you may required more CPU or less CPU to reduce the costAfter you provision a virtual machine DB system, you can change […]
Patch the 2 node RAC in OCI with DBCLI
In this post, we will perform patching on BM (Bare Metals) and VM ( Virtuals Machine) database systems by using DBCLI on the 2-Node RAC running on Oracle Database 19c. Note: This tool is not applicable to Exadata DB systems. Prerequisites The /u01 directory has at least 15 GB of free space. The Oracle Clusterware […]
Configuring Data Guard in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
In previous article, we saw the creation of Oracle RAC on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Installation of Oracle RAC on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure(OCI) In this post, we will see how to configure data guard with RAC on OCI. Assumption : Oracle RAC database is already installed and configured on OCI. Click on Displa Name: DBSVM […]
Installation of Oracle RAC on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure(OCI)
In this post, we will see the creation of Oracle RAC on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) After login to your OCI account, Click on the Menu and choose Bare Metal, VM, Exadata option under Database category. First, you need to select the compartment name and then click on “Create DB System” As shown in the […]
Apply latest PSU (Jan 2020) on Oracle Home
In this article we will apply the latest PSU applied to Database Home. Latest Patch : Database Jan 2020 Release Update : 12.2.0.1.200114 (30593149) We need to initially download the desired PSU and My Oracle Support compatible OPatch utility (support.oracle.com). Doc ID 2118136.2 -> Quick References to Patch Numbers for Database / GI PSU, SPU (CPU), […]
Upgrade Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) 13.4
As Oracle annouced that new Oracle Enterprise Manager 13.4 release is now available for download! To download it, you can either visit the Oracle Enterprise Manager downloads page or visit the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud. We are going to upgrade from OEM 13.3 to OEM 13.4 with repository database 12.2.0.1. Prerequisites for Upgrading to Enterprise Manager Cloud Control […]
Monitoring OCI with Grafana
In previous post, we installed Grafana on server. Now, we are going to install OCI Plugin for Grafana and set up monitoring. Login to server and check grafana cli is working or not. login as: opc Authenticating with public key “rsa-key-20200220” [opc@grafanaoci ~]$ sudo -i [root@grafanaoci ~]# grafana-cli NAME: Grafana cli USAGE: grafana-cli [global options] […]
Installation of Grafana on OCI Instance
In this post, we will show you how to install Grafana from the repository on a OCI Instance which Oracle Linux 7.7 running. First, connect to the server with private key and the fetch the latest package of Grafana from https://grafana.com/grafana/download. login as: opc Authenticating with public key “rsa-key-20200220” [opc@grafanaoci ~]$ sudo -i [root@grafanaoci ~]# […]