Simplifying Patching for Production Oracle Databases

Patching a production Oracle database or cluster is often a complex, multi-step process. A team of DBAs--with Ops experts on standby--must verify each stage of the update and then verify the system can safely be brought back into production mode. For some organizations, successful completion of this many hour, operational task requires carefully scheduled downtime over the weekend.

In a fast-paced demo session for Equinix PRXMTY, Kamal will show how Nutanix Era dramatically reduces the time and effort to patch production Oracle datatases, bringing a multi-hour manual process down to an hour-long task.


Chapters
0:00 Introduction
1:08 What Tesla feature would you add?
2:15 What Nutanix does with databases
3:10 Nutanix Era dashboard
4:26 Patching to highest level possible
5:34 More than 350 distinct configs
6:12 Profiles sections as "blueprints"
8:13 Operating system details
8:48 Expand details to look at bugs and fixes
9:24 Availability Zones
10:25 Database Server VMs
11:01 Server cluster summary
12:10 Updating the server cluster
13:30 API equivalent
14:40 How to monitor the activity
16:00 Recovering from a failure
18:05 Most memorable upgrade disaster
19:30 Patching an Oracle DB
21:00 IaC tooling
22:40 Cheatsheet.txt for running scripts
24:10 Will non-tech companies ever be normal again?
26:30 Which DB can you use?
26:50 Provisioning, patching, backups, cloning
27:20 Outro

Kamal Khanuja
Nutanix

Jeremy Tanner
Developer Advocate
@Penguin

Zachary Smith
Global Head of Edge Infrastructure Services

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