Re: Moving 2-node RAC to AWS

I meant to say *VMWare cloud on AWS *below.

Thanks
Ramsankar Cheruvattath (Ram)
4072096276

On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 3:52 PM Ramsankar Cheruvattath < ram.cheruvattath_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> 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)
> 4072096276
>
>
> 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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