A few months ago I came into possession of two Oracle Database Appliance X7-2S. How did that happen? A migration project that I was assisting with was completely cancelled due to the takeover of the company and the new organization had no interest in Oracle hardware and software. They kindly gave me the two machines free of charge. Here they are: Both ODAs have no valid Customer Support Identifier (CSI), there is no current contract. We all know that without a CSI there is no support and therefore no Oracle software. As far as I know, there is no license clause that allows the operation of Ora ..read more

From December 1st to 3rd, 2024, I had the pleasure of attending the UK Oracle User Group Conference (UKOUG) in Birmingham. My workmate Stefan and I traveled from Zürich Airport on Saturday afternoon, flying to London Heathrow and continuing our journey by Metro and Train. We arrived later in the day, ready for an exciting few days. UKOUG isn’t just about tech topics; it’s also a fantastic chance to meet people, make connections, and enjoy interesting presentations about Oracle technology. This year, I met some colleagues from Accenture, including Rhianna from the US and Sai from the UK. It’s a ..read more

Vom 19. bis zum 22. November 2024 war Nürnberg einmal mehr der Treffpunkt für Oracle-Experten, Anwender und Partner. Aber nicht nur Oracle war Thema, auch PostgreSQL, Soft Skills und vieles mehr stand auf der Agenda. Die DOAG Konferenz bot auch in diesem Jahr eine Plattform, um Wissen auszutauschen, neue Entwicklungen zu präsentieren und Kontakte zu knüpfen. Ich hatte die Ehre, selbst mit vier Vorträgen vertreten zu sein und meine Erfahrungen rund um Themen wie Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Security, Automation mit Oracle Linux Automation Manager, sowie Red Hat Ansible Automation zu teilen. Mein ..read more

In blog post Part 1, I described how to subscribe to the PAYG service to use the Oracle Autonomous Database in Azure. Now it’s time to provision a new ADB. As prerequisites, a resource group, a virtual network and several subnets are created. When provisioning an Autonomous Database on Oracle Database@Azure, it is essential to use a delegated subnet. A delegated subnet is a subnet within a virtual network that is specifically designated for use by a particular service. Using a delegated subnet ensures enhanced security, better network control, simplified management, compliance, and optimi ..read more

In early September, an exciting development was announced on azure.microsoft.com: Oracle Autonomous Database is now available on Azure as a Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) offering. This marks a significant shift from the previous approach, where customers were required to engage with Oracle’s sales team to secure a private offering for Oracle Autonomous Database on Azure. The introduction of the PAYG model means that businesses can now directly access Oracle Autonomous Database as a native Azure resource without the need for extensive sales negotiations or long-term commitments. This streamlined process ..read more

In this blog post, we will guide you through the process of setting up Oracle Linux 8.10 in Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to effectively work with the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Ansible Collection. We’ll cover installation, necessary packages, OCI CLI setup, and a test of the setup. One of the great features of WSL is its seamless integration with Visual Studio Code (VS Code). This powerful code editor provides excellent support for remote development, allowing you to edit files, run commands, and manage your environment directly within the editor. Table of Contents Installing Oracl ..read more

Sometimes it’s hard to cleanup old unused compartments. There are a lot of resources still available, and some of them like the CSS scans from Vulnerability Scanning are not visible in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure console. But for most of them, there is a command-line solution available for OCI command-line tool or you can solve it with some line of codes in Python. And when using the OCI Cloud Console, you can execute the code immediately without provisioning any additional server. The Case – Compartment Delete Workflow failed When verifying the workflow, we see the deletion is failed accordin ..read more

A long waiting functionality is now available in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: the Resource Scheduler. Now you can control the start and stop of OCI resources like Compute Instances and Autonomous Databases in OCI directly. This saves money and makes previous solutions with tags, cron commands by OCI-CLI, functions or 3rd-party tools unnecessary. The scheduler is located at tenancy level and can handle static or dynamic resources based on search criteria. As this is the First Release, sometime the schedule creation fails but the error box is empty, even when all required text field are filled o ..read more

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Block Volume service leverages NVMe-based storage for consistent performance and offers flexible and elastic performance options. You only need to provision the required capacity, and the performance scales according to the selected performance level, up to the service limits. There are four performance levels available who have a direct impact at performance. Four Levels of Performance Ultra High Performance: Ideal for workloads with the highest I/O demands, offering the best possible performance. This level allows you to purchase between 30 and 120 VPUs per GB ..read more

In a project actually we are looking for several methods how to monitor the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance hardware stack. There are some metrics who are gathered in the Grafana environment like memory and CPU usage, but we are not able to recognize when a compute or management node has a hardware failure. Some of the hardware events are visible in the Service Enclave User Interface, but there is still no mechanism at work to get an alert. And as there is still no EM13c plugin available for the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance X9-2 (no clue if this ever will released as it worked for X8), we nee ..read more