Deploying Oracle active Data Guard 12c on Windows servers part I

1. INTRODUCTION Data Guard started with a very simple database function designed to keep a synchronized database copy with a lot of manual work. It has now become a tool with automation, recovery and failover features. Oracle Data Guard remains the only solution available today with the best RPO and RTO benefits for businesses. This …

Deploying Oracle active Data Guard 12c on Windows servers Part III (FAST START FAILOVER)

7. FAST START FAILOVER 7.1 CONFIGURATION FAST START FAILOVER Fast start failover allows Data Guard to automatically failover to a previously selected standby database without human intervention. Data Guard monitors the status of the configuration continuously and triggers a failover if necessary.This architecture makes the fast-start failover ideal for high availability and disaster recovery. ยป …

Restore standard naming of network interfaces on Red Hat enterprise linux 7

Disabling consistent network device naming To disable The consistent network device naming feature and create your own manual ma,ing scheme ,for example eth0,internet0 or lan0. Follow the below steps so that all network device names will be eth followed by an integer. Log in as root, or as a user with superuser privileges. Edit the GRUB 2 general settings file. …

12c Data Guard : Resolve Log gap Error: ORA-16724: “cannot resolve gap for one or more standby databases”

This error happened while my Lab standby server was unreachable for few days. Although my setup was built on top of a Windows environment, the resolution process stays the same here for fixing this error (using an RMAN incremental backup) . For more details about the Data Guard setup used in this example please refer …

Deploying Oracle RAC Database 12c Lab on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 with Virtual Box -racattack Repack

Introduction: This document provides a step-by-step deployment procedure with some of best practices to install and configure an Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) Database 12c Release 1 (12.1)* with Oracle ASM on Linux RedHat Entreprise 7 virtual machines (Virtualbox). Most of it is inspired by the RACAttack project  that was written collaboratively by many authors …