Tag: Exadata

Exadata is a great platform for Oracle E-Business suite, providing great performance, scalability, and reliability. Though every EBS application DBA knows that EBS requires a lot of unique settings at the database level. In this presentation, we will go through the details and best practices for running EBS on Exadata, providing references to Oracle MOS…

SAS Analytics combined with Oracle Exadata and Big Data Appliance (BDA) deliver an improved customer experience. This session will describe SAS Architecture Modernization and deployment with Oracle Exadata and Big Data Appliance. The SAS Enterprise Analytics Option - Data Management, Analytics, Visualization and Discovery – leverages a Data Lake with Exadata and BDA. The SAS…

Security configuration and features are available at many levels in Oracle Exadata Database Machine. This session will focus on the storage and OS layers with an overview of the database-layer security options and best practices. We'll outline necessary requirements for system maintenance so the system will remain stable while offering suggestions on how security can…

Take a plunge into the technical details of the latest Oracle Exadata X6. This session describes what has been done to enhance Oracle Exadata and its integrated database architecture, and how to take maximum advantage of some of the new capabilities. This session examines in detail Oracle Exadata hardware and software architecture, database extensions for…

Customers are faced with challenges in their business, which include taking real time data driven decisions and reducing costs. Exadata’s extreme performance combined with Database In-Memory answer the real time data driven decisions. Elastic configurations and an updated subscription model (IaaS – Private Cloud) for Exadata hardware and software accompanied the launch of Exadata X5–2.…

This article, part three of a three-part series, explores Exadata storage maintenance.
Managing an Exadata Server is a great way to jump from being a normal DBA to great DMA (Database Machine Administrator), and get into the nitty-gritty details of storage administration. This tip will share some Exadata Storage maintenance jobs, how to manage them and at which logs to look.

This talk will build out the full solution architecture block diagram showing the end-to-end stack of Oracle cloud security features for Exadata and how to use them to protect data in public, private, and hybrid clouds.  Topics will include ssh access, network firewalls and software defined networks (SDN) in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, platform firewalls (iptables),…

Nearly every conversation with Oracle surrounding hardware includes a discussion about their various cloud offerings.  In the Exadata world, there are typically three choices: the traditional arrangement, an Oracle-hosted Exadata Cloud service, and the Exadata Cloud Machine.  The latter option, also known as "Cloud @ Customer," proclaims to offer the flexibility of a cloud offering,…

This session provides 360–degree insight into Exadata performance. Learn how to identify and remediate common performance problems across your entire Exadata system, correlate Exadata-specific metrics in a single pane of glass, rapidly troubleshoot problems using Exadata logs, and analyze resource usage in order to gain insight into consumption patterns and utilization. Purpose-built machine learning provides…

When storage indexes kick in, the number of blocks that need to be returned from the storage cells drop dramatically. Since the storage cells can provide many blocks very quickly most of the time in big accesses is usually loading that information into the compute nodes. But storage indexes don't always kick in the way…