The Exadata patching process is relatively simple compared to everything
that would have to be patched in a non-Exadata environment. Oracle puts
thousands of hours into doing regression testing around the quarterly
patches which helps to minimize risk and ensure there aren't
incompatibilities between patches. In fact, it's just one download
(QFSDP)... Could the process be simpler? They are always working on that.
Today though, if you do take advantage of platinum, then it's really easy
after you get the platinum services gateway setup and configured. You just
schedule with Oracle when you would like to get your Exadata patched.
On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 3:39 PM, Chris Stephens <cstephens16@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
"during my years of Exadata patching"
that is painful to read. patching seems to be a major piece of working
with Exadata. that is really odd to me. if oracle controls the whole
stack, why can't they simplify the patching process?
On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 2:29 PM, Robert Freeman <
rfreeman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If used properly, I think Platinum is a great resource. The quality of
the technicians are sometimes of question – I agree there. However, if you
don’t like the one you have, then you can always request another. I also
think that the biggest problems I’ve seen were with the customers who were
the most hands off. I think one place people miss out on when engaging
Platinum support is by taking advantage of the material and process that
they have and learn about what they are doing. Be as involved in the
process and ask questions. Let them do the heavy lifting but use the freed
time to learn about the whole patching process. At first, patching can seem
daunting, but once you have done it a couple of times (and have really dug
into the dirty details like checking for bugs in the current patch set,
etc) then it ends up not being all that complex.
I have a great checklist that I built during my years of Exadata
patching. In it, more time is probably spent reading documentation (and
subtle changes in the process do occur during various time so you always
need to re-read the numerous documents). The volume of material can be so
daunting that sometimes Platinum will miss something subtle in a new patch.
I have a couple of fun stories there but I can’t really tell them.
*From:* oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Mayen Shah
*Sent:* Friday, March 11, 2016 11:30 AM
*To:* rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Subject:* RE: Oracle Exadata Top Three Selling points
Even though quality of oracle platinum team support/monitoring/patching
is questionable, that is added benefit.
*From:* oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [
mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ;<oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>] *On
Behalf Of *rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Sent:* Friday, March 11, 2016 12:19 PM
*To:* oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Subject:* Oracle Exadata Top Three Selling points
I've put in a request for (2) Exadata 1/2 rack server (prod / dr ) and
(2) 1/4 rack Exadata servers (SIT / DEV). My negotiation stated with full
racks (really wanted 1/2 racks). It's moving forward to what I really want.
Our current environment is 40+ Oracle 9i - 11g databases on what ever
hardware the customer could pull together. So, there are a couple solaris
boxes, quite a few windows database server and a linux server. each
database running on it's own server. My evil plan is to pull the customer
into 2016 kicking and screaming, migrating all these databases to 12C PDB
to create a private DB cloud. The DBA, development staff and director is
supporing my efforts.
Now my director is asking for the three top bullet points to take to his
boss. On why we should go to Exadata.
What are your top three reasons to move to exadata. I want this to be
strong; so there is quite likely some things I have not thought about.
- Performance.
- Operational maintenance (one big server as apposed to 40+ servers
scattered over diffrent versions and OS's)
- Make the DBA staff happy. :-)
-Rob
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