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Background Historically most of the conversations I have regarding Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) are around the use of NFS storage such as a Pure Storage FlashBlade, and Oracle Direct NFS (dNFS). However, with more Oracle customers deploying databases in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and / or using Object Storage for backups I thought it was... Continue Reading →
In this post I am going to show how we can take volume and volume group snapshots with Portworx. I have previous blogged on how you can run an Oracle 19c on Kubernetes with Portworx and will use the PVCs created that blog within this post. Inspect existing Statefulset Before we start let's looks out... Continue Reading →
I have previous blogged on how you can run an Oracle 19c on Kubernetes with Portworx, if you want to check out the code examples you can find them here. In this post I am going to show how we can use a Portworx Storage Class and Persistent Volume Claims (PVCs) to resize a containers... Continue Reading →
Background In this post I am going to share how you can obtain the official Oracle 19.3 Enterprise Edition (EE) Docker image and deliver an Oracle 19c database on Kubernetes 1.17.0 with Portworx 2.6 storage. Kubernetes Cluster Info Before we start let's have a look at our Kubernetes environment $ kubectl cluster-info Kubernetes master is... Continue Reading →
So if you read my Getting Started post and have already created your first Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) Clustered File System (ACFS) or have been using it for a while. You may have found yourself needing to resize the ACFS File System, this is easily completed with acfsutil utility. As you can see below... Continue Reading →
Background There are many times when a shared file system is a hard requirement or is needed to make life easier. If you don't have access to Pure FlashBlade or other NFS server and need a shared filesystem then Oracle Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System (ACFS) maybe worth considering. Starting with Oracle Automatic Storage... Continue Reading →
Background If you have followed Part 1 and Part 2 you should have a already downloaded the Oracle 19.3 Docker image from the Oracle Container Registry and have tried it out in your environment. In this post I will be using Minikube and VirtualBox to run an Oracle 19c database within Kubernetes environment. Kubernetes -... Continue Reading →
Oracle 19c Docker Image In Part 1 of this Blog series I showed how you can obtain the official Oracle 19.3 Docker image from the Oracle Container Registry, if you missed the you can read more about getting the Oracle 19c image here. You can still use the Oracle provided Docker build scripts to roll... Continue Reading →
Backgroud If you are a frequent visitor to my Blog site you may have already read one of the many Oracle on Docker / Kubernetes posts which I have written over the last few years. I have posts showing how you can deploy different versions of the Oracle database on Docker and Kubernetes clusters, with... Continue Reading →
Background One of the most exciting announcements at last years Oracle Open World #OOW19 was around multi-tenancy and the changes to Oracle licensing allowing non multi-tenant users to have up to 3 user-created PDB's in a container database at any time for free. With the above, and the announcement of de-support of non-CDB architecture from... Continue Reading →