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[Blog] If you are not scaling Oracle WebLogic like this, then you’re doing it wrong

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If you are not scaling Oracle Middleware like this, then you’re doing it wrong

 

We have all built an Oracle Middleware box from scratch once. But, if you ever build an Oracle Middleware box from scratch twice, you’re doing it wrong! (click to tweet). Okay, maybe that is a little extreme. Surely there are some business requirements that justify building multiple Middleware deployments from scratch, but you should certainly do everything in your power to avoid it. Here’s how you should be implementing Oracle Middleware with today’s tools. (If you don’t feel like reading, jump to the end to see how Blue Medora makes your life a whole lot easier).

Oracle Middleware is designed from the ground up to be both vertically and horizontally scalable. Unfortunately, most implementations of Oracle Middleware do not effectively leverage these capabilities and many admins focus only on scaling vertically. To maximize your Oracle Middleware investment, you must have an appropriate strategy to horizontally scale within your private/public crowd.

Continued: If you are not scaling Oracle Middleware like this, then you’re doing it wrong | Blue Medora

 


[Blog] Monitoring WebLogic J2EE on VMware with VMware vCenter Operations (vCOps)

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Monitoring WebLogic J2EE on VMware with VMware vCenter Operations

 

The Blue Medora vC Ops Management Pack for Oracle OEM was updated in early May (2014) to include enhanced support for Oracle WebLogic J2EE integration. All of the Oracle EM target types for WebLogic related components including WebLogic Server, J2EE Application Deployments, Oracle HTTP Server, as well as WebLogic Cluster are now available to be ingested into VMware vC Ops Enterprise Edition.

 

 

With the data available within these new vC Ops 'Resource Kinds', you have the ability to create WebLogic on VMware relationship views, WebLogic on VMware mashup dashboards, as well as leverage vC Ops anomaly detection and predictive analytics on your WebLogic J2EE landscape. Below are a number of example dashboards that were easily created using the WebLogic data available within the Management Pack.

 

The first dashboard, the WebLogic on VMware Relationship View -- helps you visualize your WebLogic environment running on VMware all the way down to the VMware VM, ESX, and even Datastore level.   This can useful for diagnosing critical J2EE applications running within the vSphere environment -- allowing you to quickly discern whether a problem exists in the Oracle WebLogic layer or one of the VMware virtualization layers.

vC Ops Management Pack for Oracle EM - WebLogic on VMware Relationship View

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Continued here: Monitoring WebLogic J2EE on VMware with VMware vCenter Operations | Blue Medora

[Blog] Navigating Up and Down the ‘Oracle on VMware’ stack using Oracle EM12c

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Navigating Up and Down the ‘Oracle on VMware’ stack using Oracle EM12c

 

This week Blue Medora released the latest version of the Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control (EM12c) Plugin for VMware.

Among other things this release adds is a key feature that our customers have been increasingly requesting asking us for over the past year – the ability to begin the process of troubleshooting / diagnosing 'Oracle on VMware' integrated stack issues starting from the Oracle Database target main screen for a particular Oracle database instance that is virtualized on VMware, and from that page logically navigate to any or all of the related VMware layers including Virtual Machine, ESX Hypervisor, Cluster, or Datastore.

Use Case #1 - Navigating from a VMware virtual machine to a related Oracle Database

 

Since the first release of the VMware plugin has supported navigation in the other direction – navigating from the VMware virtual machine target home page to a related Oracle database instance running on the virtual machine.  This existing capability is demonstrated in the screenshot below:

Navigating to a Oracle Database target from a VMware Virtual Machine "Mashup" Page within Oracle EM12c

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continued: Navigating Up and Down the Oracle on VMware stack using Oracle  EM12c | Blue Medora

multi-writer flag on Physical RDMs?

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Hi there.

 

I've seen a lot talking about VMDKs and Virtual RDMs being shared between RAC nodes with "multi-writer" flag.

I also found out that this is working out with Physical RDMs, but i didn't see any statements on that. Only, as by best practices using Physical RDMs with the "Shared" option on the SCSI Controller.

 

Can anybody say if it's also supported to use "multi-writer" on Physical RDMs?

Recommended vSphere Multi Path Policy for Oracle

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Dear Friends,

 

We have a 4 node Oracle RAC 11g R2 in vSphere 4. (I understand this being an Outdated version, we are working on upgrading it).

Meanwhile we are also addressing performance problem by making some tweaks but not much helpful.

Now the question been raised for a vSphere storage Multipath Policy change over from Fixed to Round Robin, but am worried about RAC stability post this change because of Voting Disks, your guidance in this case is much appreciated.

 

We are using HP EVA storage which is ALUA aware.

 

Thanks,

Kumar K

New Oracle Licensing due to vCenter 5.1 changes?

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There is a weird blog-entry at http://www.doag.org/home/aktuelle-news/article/oracle-aendert-lizenzierung-von-oracle-produkten-unter-vmware-vsphere-ab-version-51.html

 

DOAG is the German Oracle User Group

 

 

Oracle ändert Lizenzierung von Oracle-Produkten unter VMware vSphere ab Version 5.1

Oracle hat es in seinen Lizenzbestimmungen nirgendwo festgehalten, trotzdem gelten für die Lizenzierung von Oracle-Produkten unter VMware vSphere neue Regelungen: Nach Informationen der Oracle-Partner ist ab der Version 5.1 der Virtualisierungssoftware nicht wie bisher das Cluster zu lizenzieren, sondern das gesamte vCenter, in dem Oracle-Software installiert sind bzw. laufen.

Als Grund für diese Änderung nennt Oracle die neuen Fähigkeiten der Virtualisierungslösung ab Version 5.1: Virtuelle Maschinen können zur Laufzeit über die Cluster-Grenzen hinweg innerhalb eines vCenter verschoben werden.

Diese Regelung wurde auf Nachfrage der DOAG seitens der Oracle-Ansprechpartner bestätigt. Deswegen empfiehlt die DOAG, ein vCenter für Oracle-Produkte vorzusehen und 1-n vCenter für weitere Produkte zu nutzen.

Michael Paege, stellv. Vorstandsvorsitzender der DOAG und Leiter des Competence Center Lizenzierung, kritisiert diese Änderung der Lizenzbestimmungen und fordert weiterhin einheitliche Lizenzierungsregeln für alle Virtualisierungstechnologien. 

Diese Frage der Oracle-Lizenzierung unter VMware wird der Lizenz-Spezialist in seinem Vortrag auf der DOAG 2014 Konferenz + Ausstellung behandeln.

 

 

 

Ill try to tanslate this (i`m no native english speaker - so no guarantee for proper translation):

 

Oracle is changing licensing from oracle products under vSphere 5.1+

 

Oracle does not have it in detail in their licence clauses, tough for the licensing of oracle products under vmware vsphere there are new rules:  based on informations from the oracle partners, since version vmware 5.1 oracle does not only need to be licensed within the cluster but within the whole vcenter, in which oracle software is being installed or running.

 

oracle tells, the reason for this are the new features of vSphere 5.1:  virtual machines can be moved at runtime across cluster boundaries.

 

This rule was was asked by DOAG and was aknowledged by the oracle contact persons.   DOAG now recommends, one vcenter for oracle products and 1-n vcenter for further products.

 

Michael Page, assistant chairman of DOAG and leader of competence center licensing is critizising this change in the license regulations and demands uniform licensing rules for all virtualization technologies.

This question regarding oracle licensing under vmware will be discussed by the license specialist in his talk at "DOAG 2014 conference + exhibition".

Enabling HugePages

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I've opened a support call with HP/VMware on this issue and while I'm waiting on their response, I thought I'd try the community.  We've recently started virtualizing some of our more demanding Oracle environments and our DBAs reported that the latest VM we deployed (Oracle Linux 6.4) doesn't have HugePages enabled.  I would think this setting would need to be done at the Guest rather than the Host, but am not entirely sure.  Thank you in advance for any insight you can offer.

 

Scott

[Blog] Using VMware vROPs to monitor Oracle Database and WebLogic. Management Pack for Oracle EM, Hyperic Plugins, or Both?

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This blog post provides a suggested methodology for helping users of VMware vROps/vCOps decide which of the existing solutions, the vROps Management Pack for Oracle EM and the VMware vROps Hyperic Plugins for Oracle, should be used to monitor their Oracle workloads.

 

It’s been a nearly a year since VMware transferred the vCOps Adapter for Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) to Blue Medora and since that transfer Blue Medora has released a number of major updates as well as rebranded it the Blue Medora vROps Management Pack for Oracle EM. Over that same period of time VMware has continued to evolve their Oracle-focused (Oracle Database and WebLogic J2EE) Hyperic agent-based plugins culminating most recently with a October 2014 update to the Oracle Database plugin that provides support for Oracle Database 12c.

 

vROps for Oracle Database - Management Pack vs Hyperic comparison

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oracle 11g r2 report server on vmware esxi 5.1

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dear gurus

 

assist me we are facing issue with oracle 11g r2 report server on vmware esxi 5.1

 

see all of sudden report function, however we restart server then it work fine,

 

where it is on windows 2008 r2 sp1

 

our vendor say not certify by oracle this product, we have no rac just standalone env

1db 1 form 1 report server  all on VMs guest working

 

we could not find os vm oracle logs root causes

 

kindly assist or advise

Oracle DB Support on VMWare Environment

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VMware claims that it will Take Total ownership of Oracle DB on VMware ESXi, and they would align their own DBA to help resolving any issue related with DB. Oracle will only support for known issues or they will ask to reproduce the similar environment on native OS.

 

I am confused about its licensing part. Can any one clarify this?

 

What is support and subscription of Oracle on VMware environment. Do we have to buy a separate license for Oracle on VMware or the same physical license for oracle for x86 machine will work? What if we have oracle license on physical machine - can we get VMware DBA support for oracle related issues?

What will be the cost of the license?

What will be the SLA of support of there is any issue?

 

 

I appreciate your response. Many Thanks.

Oracle licensing in a Vmware Cluster

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My question is related with Oracle licensing in a Vmware Cluster.

 

We have two VMware cluster in our datacenter:  the first one (8 hosts – 16 sockets) is for not Oracle VM and the second (2 host – 3 sockets) only for Oracle VM. Both are connected to the same IBM V7000 with zoning and LUN masking that guarantees isolation.

 

In the Oracle cluster, DRS and HA are deactivated and VMotion logs are monitored for license compliance.

 

In this isolated environment, Oracle pretend to license every socket to any host connected to the V7000, regardless of the cluster that are connected the host.

 

Do you know how similar implementations with Oracle have been resolved (in terms of licensing)?

 

Thanks in advance!

Oracle ERP migration to VM

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Hi All,

 

Greetings. Hope everyone is doing great.

 

Just wanted to get some insights on the migration of an ERP from physical server to virtual machine.

 

We are going to retain the same host name and ip for the new virtual machine.  So i need some help and suggestions on the cut over from physical to virtual machines.

 

Since DB and ERP are in filesystem,  i see it is just copying of files from one server to other server.  Is there a way we can copy the files faster?

 

Is there any other way this migration can be done with less down time?  Since both machines will be with same ip and hostname how the transfer can be achieved?

 

Baskar.l

Oracle on vmware with EMC recoverpoint and SRM

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Hi,

 

I will setup a new Oracle environment on VMWare and want to protect these Oracle vm's with EMC Recoverpoint.

We also use SRM. The Oracle vm's will be stand-alone vm's, no RAC and running Oracle Linux as OS. So I will use VMDK's.

Is there anyone using Oracle with Recoverpoint and SRM ? I am looking for best practices or whitepapers about this topic before I start

the implementation. There is an oracle on VMWare guide and Oracle RAC guides on VMWare but I can't find much info about Oracle on VMWare with Recoverpoint.

 

 

Regards,

Kristof

Oracle on vSphere6

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Hi everyone, I was wondering if the new vsphere vmotion functionality (I mean, cross-vcenter-vmotion) could be a problem when I need to license an oracle virtual machine. Could someone help me to understand this tricky matter?

Multi-Writer Flag does not persist in Oracle RAC VM configuration parameter on VSAN 6.0 datastore

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I am visualizing ORACLE RAC on vSphere 6.0 VSAN datastore using this following this article VMware KB: Using Oracle RAC on vSphere 6.x VSAN Datastore .

 

In every ORACLE RAC VM, the SCSi controller type is VMware Paravirtual and SCSI bus sharing is Physical in which shared disks are connected.
When I am trying to add multi-writer flag in Edit virtual machine settings> VM Options > Advanced> Edit Configuration, the flag does not persist when I view the same configuration parameter list. I have tried both in vsphere Client and Web client, even tried with vi editor and echo command to add the parameter manually in vmx file in the host in which the vm is registered.
But one strange thing happens - if i write the syntax wrong (e.g an extra colon or double quotation is added) then it persist.

Can anyone help pls.


Must have documents for all discussions on Oracle Licensing on vSphere

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Oracle Licensing Discussion – The Definitive Collateral Collection-   http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2015/04/oracle-licensing-discussion-definitive-collateral-collection.html

 

 

  • Updated - Understanding Oracle Licensing, Certification and Support on VMware guide -

                http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/solutions/oracle/Understanding_Oracle_Certification_Support_Licensing_VMware_environments.pdf

 

 

 

Any available best practice documents for Oracle 12c database on VMware?

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I found the VMware guides for best practices of Oracle database 11.2 on VMware, anyone know or provide document

on best practices of Oracle 12c database on VMware, assuming OS is Linux. Also, anything on Oracle RAC 12c would

be great. Thanks

Protect Oracle Database Single Instance Virtual Machines by Vsphere Site Replication

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Hello,

 

I am very sorry if I put my question in wrong place. But Can someone help me. I couldn’t find any official information on the internet about protecting oracle database virtual machines with vSphere Site Replication. Can I replicate my single instance oracle database virtual machine to secondary site without any problem and inconsistency? Can be some inconsistencies from the perspective of Oracle with such replication?

 

Thank you very much, Any help is very appreciated.

 

Best Regards,

Rashad Afandiyev

vRealize Operations Management Pack for Oracle Database (Native)

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vROps Community Members:

 

Blue Medora is currently developing a new VMware vRealize Operations Management Pack for Oracle Database.  This Management Pack will provide native monitoring of Oracle 11g and 12c databases. 

 

Note: This Management Pack is distinct from Blue Medora's vROps Management Pack for Oracle Enterprise Manager (Oracle EM) that also provides connector-based visibility into Oracle workloads managed by OEM.  This new (native) Management Pack for Oracle will not require that Oracle EM exist in the environment in order to enable vROps integration.

 

We plan to release the vROps MP for Oracle Database is Q2/16.


If vROps integration with Oracle Database is something that is relevant to you, Blue Medora's product management team is very interested in talking to you about what aspects of Oracle Database integrations you like to see surfaced in vROps, which specific Oracle Database features (RAC, ASM, PDB/CDB, etc) your organization most commonly leverages, as well as any specific troubleshooting / diagnostic use cases you have around integration Oracle Database based metric and alert information into vROps.

 

Please drop us a line at beta@bluemedora.com if you'd like to participate in a pre-release program for the vROps MP for Oracle Database.

Oracle 11g data guard on vmware

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Hello,

 

I'm not all that familiar with Oracle databases. My DBA team is currently planning on configuring data guard for our 11g environment. Currently it is a single VM using VMDKs stored on iSCSI LUNs. I didn't set up the VM so I don't know why it is the way it is.

 

My Googling has not been productive, so does anyone have/know of any get instructions for 1. how you would normally set up an 11g VM and 2. how do you configure your VMware environment to support data guard.

 

Thanks!

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