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Oracle OpenWorld 2013 Community Discussion
Oracle OpenWorld 2013 Community Discussion
Oracle OpenWorld is right around the corner. What are you most excited for at OOW 2013 in San Francisco? We want to know! Have questions? We'll answer them.
Use this discussion thread to share what you're looking forward to, ask questions, and most importantly to share your experience at the show!
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AnkitMehta
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Posted September 24th, 2013 01:00
Daniel_Polombo
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Posted September 25th, 2013 03:00
I'm rather curious about how Oracle will integrate Openstack into its product offering, and whether it will work with non-Oracle Openstack implementations.
DaveHenry1
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Posted October 2nd, 2013 12:00
Sad to have missed the opportunity to go to Oracle Open World, but glad I was able to follow along from home with everybody's online coverage.
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Posted October 3rd, 2013 09:00
There is more to follow from InFocus blogs - https://infocus.emc.com/mark_browne/emc-at-oracle-open-world-chronicling-emc-elects-part-in-its-success-part-3/
slucido
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Posted October 2nd, 2013 15:00
Oracle Database Backup Logging Recovery Appliance: Just databases?
One of the big announcements at Oracle OpenWorld was the new “Oracle Database Backup Logging Recovery Appliance” or ODBLRA. This does sound like an interesting announcement with one big gap: everything outside the database. As an example, let’s use the Oracle’s E-Business suite which is comprised of:
Certainly, there is more to the E-Business directory architecture however; the database is only one component of the overall application. In my years as an Oracle Applications DBA there were more than a few times we had to restore from a backup. The job of restoring the entire application suite was simple if the database and application files were in a consistent state. If the application are in an inconsistent state then the Application DBA might have to run scripts like ‘CMCLEAN.SQL’ (My Oracle Support Article: 134007.1) and of course there is other caches (My Oracle Support Article 742107.1) like the $OA_HTML and the ‘mod_plsql’ directory under the $IAS_ORACLE_HOME/Apache/modplsql/cache directory. Adding these steps lengthens the application recovery time and that’s important as the business most likely will not recognize a full recovery has been achieved until the application is available.
Having the database backed up to the ODBLRA appliance and the applications backed up to another destination could mean an unnecessarily complex restore process and restoring the applications environment to a consistent state may not be possible without some of the additional steps discussed above. This might also require two backup administers to restore one copy of the applications. All this could lengthen the overall recovery of the application. Please keep in mind that I wasn’t able to find documentation for ODBLRA so the key assumption of having to use two backup solutions to restore the E-Business suite couldn’t be validated. Most of the benefits of the ODBLRA are here today with Data Domain and if you want true active/active availability without having to do a recovery, because sometimes seconds matter, then consider EMC VPLEX with Extended Oracle RAC.
So would you consider using two backup solutions?
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