Re: Oracle Exadata Top Three Selling points

From: Thomas Roach <troach_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 17:36:26 -0500
Message-ID: <CAM6TEvKbm-3YjaVq4t0s-QKiqbTaic_m6G4t1wFZaW+HF+xajg_at_mail.gmail.com>

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_at_gmail.com> 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_at_businessolver.com> 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.
>>
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>> 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.
>>
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>> I have a couple of fun stories there but I can’t really tell them.
>>
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>> *From:* oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:
>> oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] *On Behalf Of *Mayen Shah
>> *Sent:* Friday, March 11, 2016 11:30 AM
>> *To:* rob_at_oraclewizard.com; oracle-l_at_freelists.org
>> *Subject:* RE: Oracle Exadata Top Three Selling points
>>
>>
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>> Even though quality of oracle platinum team support/monitoring/patching
>> is questionable, that is added benefit.
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>> *From:* oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [
>> mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org <oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org>] *On
>> Behalf Of *rob_at_oraclewizard.com
>> *Sent:* Friday, March 11, 2016 12:19 PM
>> *To:* oracle-l_at_freelists.org
>> *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.
>>
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>> 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.
>>
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>> 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.
>>
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>> - Performance.
>>
>> - Operational maintenance (one big server as apposed to 40+ servers
>> scattered over diffrent versions and OS's)
>>
>> - Make the DBA staff happy. :-)
>>
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>>
>> -Rob
>>
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>>
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