101 Series of Oracle in Google Cloud – Part IV: Setup an NFS Mount from a GCP Filestore for RMAN Backups

Staying with the GCP 101 series, I will now explain how you set up an NFS mount from a GCP Filestore for RMAN backups. I want… Read more

Google Bare Metal – How to start

In the previous post, I put some of my thoughts on why you would use the Google Bare Metal Service (BMS) and my first impression… Read more

101 Series of Oracle in Google Cloud – Part III : Using Google Cloud Platform Snapshots to Clone a DB in a VM

Continuing on the GCP 101 series. I will explain how is it that you use GCP (Google Cloud Platform) Disk Snapshots to clone… Read more

The not so AutoUpgrade (Oracle AutoUpgrade in Windows)

Intro First, before anyone starts sending me print screens about their successful AutoUpgrade, or flexing about how… Read more

My Vagrant fork of Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning (FPP)

Intro I have been asked to read about Oracle database fleet management at work but the turnoff was that it relied entirely… Read more

Google Bare Metal for Oracle

Since the first days of working in the Google Public Cloud, there have been debates about the possibility to move an Oracle… Read more