I want to thank Ludovico Caldara [FPP & Cloud MAA Product Manager @Oracle] for accepting the publication of this interview which is based on a conversation we had some time ago. It is mainly focused on the Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning (FPP) βFUNDAMENTALSβ, but I hope this could help the community to glean a …
Intro I have been asked to read about Oracle database fleet management at work but the turnoff was that it relied entirely on OEM. Aggregating both functionalities makes provisioning, in my opinion, cumbersome and unattractive for shops that only want to manage the fleet. Luckily for me, I got acquainted with an even better framework …
Read more “My Vagrant fork of Oracle Fleet Patching and provisioning (FPP)”
Intro First, before anyone starts sending me print screens about their successful Autoupgrade, or flexing about how their 100+ databases were smoothly migrated to PDBs over the weekend, I am stopping you right there. This is my honest feedback on the experience I had when trying the tool on a windows environment. It is obviously …
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Intro One of the advantages of Oracle grid Infrastructure is to restart all managed resources (databases, asm, listeners,β¦etc) automatically whenever you (re)start the cluster service (crs) or reboot the whole server. I recently had to patch an oda where the client still had few listeners (with non default ports) managed locally and not through grid. …
Read more “Convert local listeners to Oracle Grid managed listeners”
Intro Infrastructure teams are usually more keen to maintain a network stability rather than altering their existing configuration every other day.This means that once the application and database hosts are provisioned and running, the DBA won’t witness a topology change unless a migration of the servers/applications are in the pipes. But for highly available environment …
Read more “Add SCAN VIPs to Oracle RAC with zero βlistenerβ downtime”