Re: Moving 2-node RAC to AWS

Hi Sandra

Here are couple of good docs you can refer to on setting up Oracle on EC2. It is possible to setup a data guard standby and switchover to it if you are on a compatible OS on premises. As far as RAC is concerned, you can use FlashGrid or VMWare cloud on Oracle.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/oracle-database-aws-best-practices/oracle-database-aws-best-practices.html
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/using-amazon-ebs-elastic-volumes-with-oracle-databases-part-3-databases-using-oracle-asm/
https://aws-quickstart.github.io/quickstart-oracle-database/

Thanks
Ramsankar Cheruvattath (Ram)

Thanks
Ramsankar Cheruvattath (Ram)
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On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 2:00 PM Sandra Becker <sbecker6925_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Current OS: RHEL6
> Oracle version: 11g (11.2.0.3 and 11.2.0.4)
>
> We have started a project to move our 50 or so on-prem RAC databases to
> AWS EC2 servers. Some use ASM, others do not. (I think the motto of
> previous DBAs was "consistency is for the weak.".) We cannot upgrade the
> databases (or the OS) due to a host of constraints put on us by the
> applications and stakeholders. Using FlashGrid also is out of the question
> since it would be an additional software cost.
>
> I'm looking for good documents to read/follow that would tell us how to
> set up ASM on the EC2 instances as well as the best method to move the RAC
> databases. Has anyone done this that can point me to good documentation?
> I also have some non-RAC databases to move. I was thinking of creating the
> standby on the EC2 then doing a switchover during a migration window to
> minimize downtime. Is this approach feasible? Would another approach be
> preferable?
>
> Thank you for any suggestions,
>
> --
> Sandy B.
>
>

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