In last article[click here] - we learnt how to remove quorum disk from the Exadata system, now here we would see it we add and configure that. Before we are adding quorum disk configuration in the system, you need to have IB switches interface names, ASM binary owner and group handy as that is required to create the config. [root@exa01dbadm01 oracle.SupportTools]# /opt/oracle.SupportTools/quorumdiskmgr --create --config --owner=oragrid --group=asmadmin --network-iface-list="ib0, ib1"[Info] Successfully created iface exadata_ib0 with iface.net_ifacename ib0[Info] Successfully created iface ..read more

  In this blog post, we would see how to remove quorum disks in Exadata machine. We have one 1/8th Rack Exadata machine for Lab activity where ran into missing quorum disks for Voting Disk and I had to fix that in order to get the system patched in Rolling fashion to maintain high availability. To patch the Exadata system in rolling fashion, it requires voting disks to reside on HIGH redundancy diskgroup which is not possible in 1/8th Rack Exadata system since there is only 3 cell nodes in there, and for High redundancy it requires five copies of voting disk. So, in this scenario - we ad ..read more

Pleased to inform you all that I passed 1Z0-1072 : Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2019 Architect Associate. It's generosity of Oracle that it made its official training videos of  "Cloud Infrastructure 2019 Architect Associate" public and also offered to appear for the exam at free of cost in this time of pandemic crisis around the globe, it given us an opportunity to learn and scale our skills to enhance our career as well as expanding our area of expertise. At this time of writing, Oracle has offered multiple Oracle cloud related training and certifications at free of cost ..read more

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure vs. AWS Read here to know great insights on how Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services price are much cheaper with greater performance as compared to AWS Cloud services. Read here - https://www.oracle.com/cloud/economics/ Hope it helps, thanks for reading, please subscribe to this blog to stay updated with latest news on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud Services and new articles. Twitter : https://twitter.com/rajsoft8899 Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/raj-kumar-kushwaha-5a289219/ Facebook : https://www.facebo ..read more

As most of the Oracle enthusiasts are aware of free Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Autonomous database training and certifications being offered by Oracle until 15th May 2020, you must start your learning today and don't miss your train. Oracle has given one of the best gift to all Oracle aspirants to learn new skills and earn the valuable certificate for free of cost - it is BIG gift. Make a target, when you come out of this pandemic lock-down, you have new skills to show to your employer. Below are the list of free Oracle cloud training one would be interested to learn. Oracle Auto ..read more

Oracle Critical Patch Update for April 2020 =============================== Critical Patch Update Advisories are available at the following location: Oracle Technology Network: https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/ Oracle Cloud Customers should review: https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/#cloud The Critical Patch Update Advisory for April 2020 is available at the following location: Oracle Technology Network: https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html Important information can also be found at: https://blogs.oracle.com/security/ Oracle's Security Fixing Policies are ..read more

Here in this article, I would demonstrate how we can create a new Pluggable Database using Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c. 1 - Login to the Oracle Enterprise Manager to go the Container Database target Home Page in which you want to create the new Pluggable Database. 2 - From the drop-down Menu of Cluster Database, Navigate to Provisioning > Provision Pluggable Databases. 3 - Create Pluggable Database : Creation Options page opens, Select "Create a new PDB" and provide oracle software owner credentials in the "Host Credentials" property. Click Next. Click Next. It ..read more

Here in this article, I would summarize how easily we can do the "Database Cloud Service" patching online just via few clicks from the "Oracle Cloud Service Console". Login to the Cloud Console and go to the DBCS instance page. Click on the DBCS instance you want to patch, Instance Overview page opens. In my below example, there is a primary and standby Cloud instances. At left side, click on the "Administration" tab, Patching page opens up which has list of all Available Patches for the underline DBCS instance. Choose the right PSU Update and click on the right ..read more

One of the most awaited feature every Oracle Cloud Admin, developers were waiting for is now released by Oracle - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure "Cloud Shell". Cloud Shell is a web based browser terminal accessible from the Oracle Cloud console. Cloud Shell provides Linux shell with a pre-authenticated OCI CLI. This feature is available for all Oracle Cloud users and accessible from console.  Cloud Shell provides: * An ephemeral machine to use as a host for a Linux shell, pre-configured with the latest version of the OCI Command Line Interface (CLI) and a number of useful tools * 5G ..read more

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure OS Management service provides simple and very robust tool for general operation system maintenance activities for the compute instances running on Oracle Cloud OCI. Using this OS management service, you can monitor the packages installed on compute instances, you can do the linux packages maintenance works i.e. adding/installing new packages, removing the existing packages or updating the existing one when that becomes available to its public yum repository. OS management service is not enabled by default. It is an agent based service that you have to enable by ..read more