This will be a short post, mainly just to guide where to look if you ever encounter this issue. Recently I was tasked on adding a database node on Exadata Cloud Service X8M. The new X8M has dynamic deployment options so if you need more storage or compute power for your database nodes, you can…
How I studied for the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2019 Certified Architect Professional 1Z0-997
Earlier this week I took the 1Z0-997 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2019 Certified Architect Professional. In this post I’ll try to share on how I studied on the test and what areas I feel helped me on passing the certification. I won’t be posting any questions or answers but rather want to help you on studying…
Configuring OCI Email Delivery with OCI Exadata to send emails
I had a task to configure email sending from our OCI Exadata recently and having done it earlier for on-premise Exadata I was expecting a trivial task. Not so fast! First of all OCI documentation for the Email Delivery is clear and available here. In short what you need to do is setup user with…
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and provisioning Exadata part 2
This is part 2 on provisioning Exadata on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, you can read part 1 from here. In this post I will focus on what the overall system looks like and database creation. After provisioning the Exadata you have it available in the console and can start using it. We had the 1/4 quarter…