If you are a DBA/Apps DBA planning to learn Database on Oracle Cloud or someone already working on Cloud wanting to have a high-level overview of Oracle Database options available on Oracle Cloud, then this blog post is for you.
Here are the 9 things every beginner should know to build, manage and migrate databases to Oracle Cloud:
1) The very first thing you should know before starting your Cloud journey is the Cloud Service Models i.e. SaaS, PaaS & Iaas. As a DBA, you will work on PaaS & Iaas. To know about Cloud Service Models, check Here.
2) IaaS in Oracle Cloud is available in two flavors: OCI & OCI-C. As a Cloud DBA, you work to manage Database on OCI. Cloud at Customer (C@C) is currently using OCI-C and is slowly transitioning to OCI.
To know more about the basic services in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), check Here and to understand the differences between OCI & OCI-C, check Here.
3) In OCI, there are two categories for the Database: User-Managed & Autonomous Database.
4) In the User-Managed Database, there are three deployment models: VM DB System, BM DB System, and the Exadata DB System.
- Virtual Machine DB Systems: Database is running on Virtual Machine & It supports both 1 -node, and 2-node RAC DB systems on Virtual Machine.
- Bare Metal DB System: Database is running on Bare Metal & It only supports only 1-node DB systems (RAC is not supported)
- Note: Where A bare metal server is a “single-tenant” physical server. This means that the server is dedicated to one customer and not shared between multiple customers & A virtual server is hosted in a “multi-tenant” environment. This is where multiple virtual servers share the same physical hardware.
- Exadata DB System: Exadata DB systems runs on Exadata on Cloud and consist of a quarter rack, half rack, or full rack of compute nodes and storage servers, tied together by a high-speed, low-latency InfiniBand network and intelligent Exadata software and it is always a 2-node RAC only.
5) Database Editions Supported In OCI
All 1- node RAC DB systems support the following Oracle Database editions:
- Standard Edition
- Enterprise Edition
- Enterprise Edition – High Performance
- Enterprise Edition – Extreme Performance (required for 2-node RAC DB systems)
Note: RAC is only supported in VM DB System & Bare Metal DB System
6) Autonomous Database: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure‘s Autonomous Database is fully managed by Oracle such as patching and another administrating task. Autonomous Database is further divided into types:
- ADW: ADW stands for Autonomous Data Warehouse and used for decision support or data warehouse workload.
- ATP: ATP stands for Autonomous Transaction Processing and used for a transactional workload.
To know more about Autonomous Database, Click here.
7) For the User-Managed Database, you will be performing the following tasks:
- Configuring DB systems on OCI.
- Managing DB system (Start, Stop Scale-Up/Down) & DBCLI.
- Patching DB system using Console & CLI.
- Configuring & Monitoring a DB on OCI.
- Backing up and Recovering a DB on OCI.
- Configuring Data Guard For HA
- Migrating (Lift & Shift) On-prem Database to Cloud (OCI). To know more about Migration, check Here.
8) For the Autonomous Database, the task you will perform includes:
- Provisioning ADW.
- Connecting DB with Application.
- Migrating from On-Prem to Cloud.
- Performance Tuning & Monitoring.
- Loading Data into the Autonomous Database. To know more, check Here.
- Configuring Reporting & Analytics.
- Backup & Restoring ADW & ATP.
- Scale-Up & Scale-Down.
9) Currently, there are 3 certifications available for Database on Cloud:
- For Autonomous Database, [1Z0-931] Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud Certified Specialist.
- For Database 0n OCI, [1Z0-998] Oracle Database Cloud Service Certification.
- For Database on OCI-C, [1Z0-160] Oracle Database Cloud Service Certification.
Related/Further Readings
- Database On Oracle Cloud (OCI): User-Managed and Autonomous Database
- OCI for DBAs & Apps DBAs: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Why Should You Learn & In What Order
- How To Create Database on Oracle’s Gen2 Cloud (OCI)
- [Video] Oracle Exadata Cloud Service (ExaCS): Overview for Beginners
- Role of Oracle DBA in Cloud: Transition from DBA to Cloud DBA
- Amazon AWS or Oracle Cloud (Confused ?): Right Choice for DBA’s
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