Infrastructure at your Service
Introduction Cloud, Cloud, Cloud. Everyone is talking about the Cloud but a lot of people are still in the fog with Cloud technologies. Let’s talk about basic features of the Oracle Cloud, called OCI for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. What is really OCI? OCI is physically a lot of servers in datacenters all around the world. These servers are not very different from the servers you probably have in your own datacenter. Some of these servers…
By Franck Pachot . I used to have many VirtualBox VMs on my laptop. But now, most of my labs are in the Cloud. Easy access from everywhere. GCP There’s the Google Cloud free VM which is not limited in time (I still have the 11g XE I’ve created 2 years ago running there) being able to use 40% of CPU with 2GB of RAM: top – 21:53:10 up 16 min, 4 users, load average:…
In the last year working with/on AWS has become an almost daily task in my life as a consultant and trainer. From a trainer perspective there is not much to say about it because we use a very limited amount of services (EC2, mostly) and we have a limited amount of trainers that use the platform to deliver our trainings. When the amount of services you use is small and the amount of people managing…
When you go for AWS EC2 instances to host your PostgreSQL deployments and you want to rapidly clone PostgreSQL instances for development or testing purposes you can make use of AWS EBS snapshots. In this post we’ll look at how you can quickly spin up EC2 instances that use these snapshots as a base for new PostgreSQL clusters. Although we’ll be using the AWS console to show how this can be done you should use…
In the last post we had a look on how you can use AWS Storage Gateway as File gateway to store your PostgreSQL backups safely offsite on AWS S3. Another method of doing that would be to use “Cached Volume gateway” instead of the File gateway we used in the last post. The volume gateways does not provide access via NFS or SMB but does provide a volume over iSCSI and the on-prem machines will…
In the last post we had a quick look at AWS Kinesis data streams and how you can push data to AWS S3 using AWS Firehose. Another great AWS service is AWS Storage Gateway and in this post we’ll use that to push our PostgreSQL backups to AWS. The primary usage of AWS Storage Gateway is to extend you local storage to AWS so that you do not have to extend your local storage on…
If you followed the last two posts in this little series (here and here) this is the current status of this demo migration project: We have converted the Oracle SH schema and applied it to the target AWS Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility instance. This worked quite well but a few objects (mostly PL/SQL procedures) would need manual actions. The next and final step is to replicate the data from Oracle to the Aurora instance using…
By Franck Pachot The Oracle Cloud is not only for Oracle Database. You can create a VM running Oracle Linux with full root access to it, even in the free tier: a free VM that will be always up, never expires, with full ssh connectivity to a sudoer user, where you are able to tunnel any port. Of course, there are some limits that I’ve detailed in a previous post. But that is sufficient to…
Today, with my colleague Christophe, we follow the Microsoft Azure Training Day: Data and Analytics @ Microsoft Zürich (Wallisellen to be exact). After a presentation of SQL Server 2019, we begin with the First Lab about SQL Server 2019 and new features and we going through intelligent query processing, Data Discovery and Classification for personally identifiable information (PII) and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and secure enclave. One of my favorites part of the lab…
Some days ago we had a very good training on Nutanix. Nutanix is a Hyper-converged infrastructure and that means that all is software driven and the system can be deployed on many hardware configurations. I will not go into the details of the system itself but rather look at one component/module which is called Era. Era promises to simplify database deployments by providing a clean and simple user interface (and an API) that provides deployment…
