Vagrant: Create a Red Hat 8 base box packaged for Oracle 19c (Vbox)

Intro Vagrant is an opensource tool for working with virtual environments (VirtualBox,HyperV,Vmware..etc). It provides a simple command-line client for managing these environments, using a text-file (VagrantFile) defining the attributes of each environment.   To know more about vagrant you can try their getting started guide or consult the Vagrant official documentation. Vagrant cloud already offers a …

Clone a RAC 12c VM environment with Virtualbox (import/export)

  Intro Have you ever finished a lab in your laptop with several virtual machines connected to each other and thought โ€œWell that was neat! but how can I create a backup in my external hard drive and run it again at work or in any other computer?โ€ The answer lays in this very article. …

Oracle Cloud 2nd gen DBAAS Tutorial: Deploy a 2 Nodes RAC database service

Intro Oracle Database Cloud Service (DBaaS) provides a platform to create full Oracle database instances in a virtual machine (VM). It’s the same familiar Oracle Database, now in Oracle cloud. Oracle made things even easier since you can now Sign Up for Free Oracle Cloud service and Get $300 of free credits good for up …

MAA setupโ€“ Creating Single instance Physical Standby for RAC Primary – 12c

Introduction: Oracle provides many options for preventing downtime and data loss, all of which make up the Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA). The Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture offers a set of standard reference architectures–Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum Solutions– that comply with Customer Business Objectives. With multiple instances, the RAC system gives a transparent HA and …