Blog

Featured

Oracle RAC on AWS: Tackling Licensing, Support, and Technical Hurdles

One common impediment we hear concerning moving Oracle workloads to AWS concerns Oracle RAC. Most of the Oracle customers that have purchased and implemented Oracle RAC are reluctant to try to live without the features that RAC provides. As a result, Oracle RAC support in AWS becomes a requirement for a cloud migration. Issues Unfortunately, there are at least three issues that will need to be addresses before migrating any Oracle RAC workloads. These issues

Read More
All Posts

Oracle ASM on vSphere VMFS

Jim Hannan (@jim_m_hannan), Principal Architect DBAs often ask me about the different layers involved when presenting storage to Oracle ASM on VMware. In the image

Read More

Active Data Guard Licensing

by Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect In Oracle Database version 11g, a new feature called Active Data Guard (ADG) was introduced.  This feature extends traditional Data

Read More