Re: Rapid Home Provisioning vs Database Fleet Maintenance

Hi

Just to give an alternative, it is also quite easy (and no license required) to achieve the same thing (and more) using Ansible, git + jenkins. Additional benefits: no gold images required and all configuration is treated as code.
You can read more (plus the code) here:
https://ilmarkerm.eu/blog/2018/05/oracle-home-management-using-ansible/

On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 11:15 AM Jay Hostetter <hostetter.jay_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> John,
>
> I attended this session. Your team did an excellent job. Did you folks
> learn on your own, attend training, or engage Oracle consulting in order to
> learn how to use this feature of EM? Patching is one of our biggest pain
> points at the moment.
>
> Thank you,
> Jay Hostetter
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Oct 23, 2018, at 3:54 AM, Norman, John A <NORMANJ8_at_nationwide.com>
> wrote:
>
> Our company uses Fleet Maintenance for Oracle Home provisioning and
> Database Patching. We plan on using it for Database Upgrades too in the
> next year.
>
>
>
> Gary Henderson and Vaithianathan Soundararajan presented on our company’s
> use of Fleet Maintenance yesterday at OOW. Hopefully, you were able to
> attend their presentation.
>
>
>
> The actual patching process runs roughly 6-10 minutes per database for us
> (would be quicker, but patching the OJVM component requires bouncing the
> database to put it in upgrade mode, and bouncing it again after patching is
> complete to open it read/write).
>
>
>
> We have well over 1,000 databases, and patch each database at least twice
> per year. What used to take an entire staff of 10 DBAs is now handled by
> 1-2 DBAs.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>
>
>
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> *Subject:* [EXTERNAL] Rapid Home Provisioning vs Database Fleet
> Maintenance
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> I’m curious to know how many are using Rapid Home Provisioning in their
> organization and how you are using it. Have you compared RHP to Database
> Fleet Maintenance? Are you considering using Database Fleet Maintenance to
> patch and upgrade your databases over RHP?
>
>
>
> We have been using RHP for roughly the past year. In our environment, RHP
> is used mainly to provision Oracle Homes for our databases and to create
> the databases (CDBs). Our original plan was to use it for database
> patching as well. The creation of Oracle Home images and working copies
> has worked well overall across our various clusters. However, the
> performance of the working copy creation is not good. The process runs
> over 90 minutes in a four node cluster. It runs much longer in our larger
> clusters. The database creation process works, but in some cases we wish
> we had more customization options. The database patching (“rhpctl move
> database”) has been very buggy in our environment. Given the various
> issues we have with RHP, we are considering a switch to Database Fleet
> Maintenance.
>
>
>
> I’m at OOW this week. If you’d like to meet up to discuss it further,
> send me a message.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Mike
>
>
>
> ---
>
> Michael J Pecoraro
>
> University at Buffalo
>
> mikejp_at_buffalo.edu
>
>
>
>

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