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Helping to troubleshoot with OCI VCN Flow Logs

I’m a huge fan of using tools available to help troubleshoot any issues there are. Luckily OCI has many free tools available such as Network Path Analyzer, which I’ve touched in the past. This time we’re going to look on…

  • Simo
  • May 1, 2024
  • 3 Comments
  • cloud, network, OCI, Oracle

OCI Routing checklist when using 3rd party firewall

This post will be checklist for items you’ll need when you have Firewall (or Hub) VCN where you route traffic to and have 3rd party firewall appliance (such as Palo Alto) inspecting traffic. You have to understand different route tables…

  • Simo
  • April 27, 2023
  • cloud, Database, Exadata, OCI, Oracle

OCI ExaCS Database Upgrade Rollback

Recently I was testing OCI database upgrade from 12c to 19c and ran into an issue I wanted to fix. I was doing this via dbaascli (on Exadata) and the upgrade hit Bug 34455245 – db12c upgrade to 19c fails…

  • Simo
  • April 21, 2023
  • cloud, Database, Exadata, OCI, Oracle

Issues with OCI ExaCS PDB cloning

This is mostly just to document if you hit similar issues and how to get past them. I had to perform some remote cloning in ExaCS (from one CDB to another CDB) within same VM cluster, but hit few issues…

  • Simo
  • January 4, 2023
  • 2 Comments
  • cloud, Database, MySQL, OCI, Oracle

OCI Tips and Tricks – Managed MySQL Database in OCI (and trying out Heatwave)

Here I’m looking on how to provision MySQL DB on OCI, see how read replicas work and how to add Heatwave Cluster to your DB. After that, I’m running some test queries to try out Heatwave, interesting results!

  • Simo
  • December 12, 2022
  • cloud, Database, OCI, Oracle

OCI Tips and Tricks: Create 19c Oracle Database (and manage it)

This time I go over on how to create 19c Oracle Database on OCI (hint: It’s super easy!). But what I feel is more important, where to find relevant log files after you’ve provisioned the database and how to use…

  • Simo
  • November 28, 2022
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OCI Tips and Tricks: Troubleshooting with Network Path Analyzer

This time I’m looking on OCI Network Path Analyzer, how you can use it to debug connectivity issues in OCI. It’s one of my go-to tools now whenever I have to start debugging an issue and it’s completely free!

  • Simo
  • November 1, 2022
  • cloud, Linux, OCI, Oracle, Oracle VM

OCI Tips and Tricks: Three ways to login to your Compute VM

New video! This time I’m showing how to login to your OCI Compute VM in three different ways: Public Compute Bastion Service Cloud Shell Hope you like the video – leave a feedback in the comments of the video if…

  • Simo
  • October 27, 2022
  • cloud, OCI, Oracle

I’m back! Something new.. and more blog posts!

I attended Oracle Cloud World last week, and was positively surprised how much fun I had there! I really appreciate the folks who came and said they like reading my blog, I’ve been telling folks I haven’t had much motivation…

  • Simo
  • October 25, 2022
  • cloud, Database, OCI, Oracle

WORM compliance with custom OCI Database backups

When you move your databases to cloud, many times the (current) standard backup configuration what Oracle offers is not enough. That’s when you configure OCI Cloud Database backup module which allows more flexibility with your RMAN configuration and also allows…

  • Simo
  • May 9, 2022
  • 2 Comments
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