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Exascale (3/3) – New ExaDB-XS OCI Service
This three-part series on Exascale highlights its role in enhancing Oracle’s Exadata services. The Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure (ExaDB-XS) offers virtual infrastructure, lower minimum resource commitments, and easier scaling compared to dedicated infrastructure. Exascale software is transformative, aiming to streamline storage and optimize resource management for varying workloads.
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Exascale (2/3) – New Exascale Architecture
The article highlights advancements and limitations of Automatic Storage Management (ASM) in Exadata systems over 20 years. It discusses areas needing improvement, including resizing diskgroups, thin cloning, and redundancy. Oracle’s new Exascale software aims to address these issues, promising enhanced capabilities for storage management. Future articles will detail Exascale’s architecture and cloud services.
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Exascale (1/3) – Why ASM Needed an Heir Worthy of the 21st Century
The article highlights advancements and limitations of Automatic Storage Management (ASM) in Exadata systems over 20 years. It discusses areas needing improvement, including resizing diskgroups, thin cloning, and redundancy. Oracle’s new Exascale software aims to address these issues, promising enhanced capabilities for storage management. Future articles will detail Exascale’s architecture and cloud services.
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Moving to OCI: On-premises Non-CDB to OCI PDB in a single step and minimum downtime
The content discusses the migration of Non-CDB databases to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) while minimizing downtime. It outlines a simple procedure for converting Non-CDB to PDB, emphasizing the use of the noncdb_to_pdb.sql script. Key aspects include creating refreshable PDBs from Non-CDBs, managing archive logs, and ensuring compatibility between databases. It also highlights the importance of…
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Asymmetric dataguard with multitenant (part 3/3)
This series concludes with insights on managing PDB behavior in physical dataguard, emphasizing the importance of thoughtful strategies before executing an operation. It discusses proactive steps to address potential problems and works through examples of how to ensure dataguard synchronization without unnecessary downtime. The importance of detailed planning, adjustment of ENABLED_PDBS_ON_STANDBY parameters, and possible alternatives…
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Asymmetric Dataguard with multitenant (Part 2)
This is the second part of the article series on asymmetric physical dataguard with multitenant. You can find the first part in this link. We begin this second part with a clear understanding of two concepts that we have learned when creating PDBs and performing UNPLUG/PLUG operations in a physical DG primary CDB: To these…
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