We do our share of database cloning for various purposes and usually the cloning process is fairly scripted. However lately we have been looking more and more into Ansible which as per their site is simple automation/orchestration tool. (Not so sure about simple!) Recently there has been also lot of presentations on automating your Oracle infrastructure…
How is my EBS instance using Exadata write-back flash cache?
When we were planning migration from commodity hardware to Exadata X5-2 one open topic we had was if it makes sense to enable write-back flash cache in Exadata. The default mode is write-through where read operations utilize flash cache but not the write operations. Write-back then uses the flash cache to both read AND write…