Practical Oracle Database Appliance

Practical Oracle Database Appliance is a hands-on book taking you through the components and implementation of the Oracle Database Appliance. Learn about architecture, installation, configuration, and reconfiguration. Install and configure the Oracle Database Appliance with confidence. Make the right choices between the various configurations in order to realize your performance requirements. Manage and monitor the appliance to meet business requirements. Protect your data through proper backup and recovery procedures.

Oracle Database is one of the most relied-up databases in industry. For many years Oracle Database was a software product that had to be installed and configured at no small expense. The Oracle Database Appliance makes Oracle Database into a plug-and-play proposition: Plug the appliance into the wall socket, and turn it on. That's it. You have a running database server. This book takes you through that beginning point and beyond, helping you to realize in your own organization the ease of deployment and management represented by the appliance.

• Covers the Oracle Database Appliance from architecture through configuration.
• Provides a technical resource for system and database administrators.
• Examines practical use cases for the Oracle Database Appliance.

What you’ll learn

• Assemble the Oracle Database Appliance.
• Understand the architecture and its implications for deployment.
• Configure network access and protect against intrusion.
• Monitor and troubleshoot the appliance.
• Identify and choose options for good performance.
• Diagnose problems and install patch sets when needed.

Who this book is for

Practical Oracle Database Appliance is for the Oracle database administrator or system administrator who currently manages, or will be implementing, the Oracle Database Appliance within a small- to medium-size business, or who is using the virtualization feature set to deploy numerous appliances within a large enterprise having many branch locations.

About the Authors

Bobby Curtis is an Oracle ACE, Senior Technical Consultant, and member of various Oracle User Groups. He specializes in creating, managing, and tuning enterprise databases. His specialties include Exadata, GoldenGate replication, and he is known for his work in Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c. Bobby's blog, and twitter handle, DBASolved, are respected as sources of information on solving complex issues related to Oracle products. He is either a lead author or co-author on various technical books, has published various technical articles in user group publications, and he's presented at conferences including Oracle Open World, Collaborate, and ODTUG KScope.

Yury Velikanov is an Oracle ACE Director who enjoys helping customers to leverage Oracle technology. He has worked as an Oracle DBA for over 16 years. Yury is a team technical lead at The Pythian Group. He is an OCP 7, 8i, 9i, 10g, 11g, an OCM (Oracle Certified Master). Yury is a frequent presenter at Oracle related conferences such as Collaborate, Hotsos, UKOUG, AUOUG, and others. Yury is passionate about technology and happily shares his knowledge with the community.

Erik Benner is a Solution Architect with BIAS Corp, and focuses on solutions that meet the customer’s business needs. Erik has worked with the Oracle Database Appliance prior to its official release, and continues to discover new ways to leverage the technology as not only a database server, but also as an application system when virtualized. Erik is a common speaker at Oracle events, focusing on the areas of Oracle Database Appliance, Linux, and Virtualization. When not working, Erik enjoys spending time with his family at their observatory, where the telescopes outnumber the people

Maris Elsins is an experienced Oracle Applications DBA currently working at The Pythian Group. His main areas of expertise are performance tuning and troubleshooting of Oracle Database and E-Business Suite systems. Maris has led or taken part in multiple Oracle Database and Oracle E-Business Suite implementation, maintenance, migration, and upgrade projects. He is a blogger and a frequent speaker at Oracle related conferences such as UKOUG, Collaborate, and others. Maris is an Oracle Database 10g Administrator Certified Master, an Oracle Database 9i, 10g, and 11g Administrator, and an Oracle Applications 11i, R12 Administrator Certified Professional (OCP).

Fuad Arshad is a senior database architect who has worked with Oracle Database technologies for more than 16 years. He has experience in all aspects of Oracle Database, from management to tuning, and he is an Oracle Certified Expert. He frequently blogs about Oracle. Fuad participates in online forums and social media. He is an active Twitter user. Fuad has presented at conferences such as Collaborate and Oracle OpenWorld on topics ranging from Oracle Real Application Clusters to Oracle Database Appliance. Fuad currently works for Oracle Corporation in its North American Sales organization. He is husband to Saba, and Father to Areej and Ammaar, whom he tries to spend all of his non Oracle related time with.

Pete Sharman is a Principal Product Manager with the Enterprise Manager product suite group in the Server Technologies Division at Oracle Corporation. He has worked with Oracle for the past 18 years in a variety of roles from Education to Consulting to Development, and has used Enterprise Manager since its 0.76 beta release. Pete is a member of the OakTable Network, and has presented at conferences around the world from Oracle OpenWorld (both in Australia and the US), RMOUG Training Days, the Hotsos Conference, Miracle Open World, and the AUSOUG and NZOUG conferences. He has previously authored a book on how to pass the Oracle8i Database Administration exam for the Oracle Certified Professional program. He lives in Canberra, Australia, with his wife and three children.

Matt Gallagher is a Lead Database Architect at a major Fortune 500 Company. He has 17 years of Oracle experience. He specializes in developing enterprise class database administration and architecture solutions. Matt's experience includes the Oracle Database Appliance, Exadata, Oracle RAC, Data Guard, and ASM. He has done work in the areas of developing solutions for all types of database requirements, including high-availability systems, transactional systems, and decision support systems.