Exadata + OMCS
- From: "Stephens, Chris" <Chris.Stephens@xxxxxxx>
- To: "'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 15:05:02 -0600
My employer went big with Oracle engineered systems in the last year and due to
lack of in-house experience, contracted with Oracle Managed Cloud Services to
assist in managing the environment which consists of Exalytics, Exalogic,
Exadata.
I get the impression that it's not common for OMCS to manage systems that
reside in a customer's data centers vs at Oracle data centers but that's what
we have.
At this point, all I care about are the Exadata machines which are currently
just two ¼ racks.
After recently managing to get some access to the dev/test Exadata machine,
I've discovered that they are doing a number of things which I believe will
become a maintenance nightmare down the road. ...probably about the same time
we bring administration of these machines back in house
Each database (currently 9) is installed under a different OS user under a
unique Oracle home. They claim this is necessary so that each database can be
patched separately and maintained at different versions. I strongly prefer the
default to be all databases reside in a common home under a common OS user
(oracle) with case by case decisions being made to migrate databases to a new
home for legitimate business reasons.
Actually, I would prefer more discretion in the decision to create a new
database for each new application but that's more my company's fault vs OMCS.
OMCS is also steamrolling us with their database naming conventions which
appear to start with P|D|T followed by my employers initials followed by random
numbers or letters with include upper case O's and zeros. This is infuriating.
They are doing this to make it easier for them to manage our databases in their
environment. These are our databases and we would like names that give some
indication of their purpose. The ending in a number is a pain in the butt with
RAC databases and the letter O vs number 0 is killing me too. They say this
isn't negotiable.
I have several more complaints but I'll refrain from making this too long.
What do you think of these standards? Is there anyone out there that uses OMCS
to manage their Exadata environment? Any comments on how that is going?
Any comments/input are appreciated.
Chris
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