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 which I had to resolve first before getting it to work. [DBT-05514] Failed to connect…

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 to create new content lately, but that actually made my motivation to go higher! Due…

Data Guard migration with ZDM

In the previous post I showed how to setup cloning or migration using offline physical option with Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM). This time let’s take a look what happens with ONLINE PHYSICAL option. Common migration requirement is to migrate with lowest amount of downtime and with all the latest data available and Data Guard is…

Oracle Database cloning in OCI – with ZDM!

I’ve been using Oracle’s Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM) tool lately, and given there are still some limitations on cloning your database in OCI, I was thinking could we use ZDM for this? Short answer – for sure! If you want to use native OCI capabilities for cloning your database, you are limited on restoring the…

Remote Cloning OCI DBCS PDB with OCI CLI

In previous post I showed how to perform remote clone with Resource Manager/Terraform/Ansible. What if you just want a quick remote clone to be done manually? Remember OCI Console doesn’t support Remote Cloning at the moment (February 2022) but you can do the remote clone through API’s as well. So let’s do it with OCI…