Deployment and Data Provisioning Time Drastically Minimized Thanks to the ODA and OAKCLI
Upgrading from Oracle 11g to 12C took approximately an hour with the Oracle Database Appliance
The Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) is part of Oracle’s flagship Engineered Systems that are designed to optimize the entire hardware and software technology stack to deliver extreme performance, reliability and high availability. Now while there are many advantages, we want to highlight how much this system reduces deployment and database provisioning time down to a few hours compared to the multiple weeks it would take using traditional legacy systems.
As a database system, the ODA incorporates Oracle’s best practices, is highly optimized, prebuilt and ready to use. It is very easy to deploy, maintain and operate thanks to the Oracle Appliance Kit Command Line Interface commonly called “OAKCLI”. OAKCLI uses pre-defined interactive scripts to carry out all the operations and management tasks on an Oracle Engineered System which provides the following advantages.
- Optimized scripts for bundling all tasks together.
- Extremely fast output results.
- Eliminating the risk of errors in case of manual system commands.
In traditional systems and environments it is a hectic effort of network, storage, systems, and database teams to deploy a database system. If that database has to be upgraded to the next supported version of Oracle (e.g. from Oracle 11gR2 to Oracle 12C) it will double the amount of required man hours compared to a standard deployment.
Using OAKCLI, the deployment will take only a few minutes to deploy an Oracle 11gR2 Database and approximately 25 minutes to upgrade that database from 11g to 12C using a single resource without the involvement of other teams, saving time and money.
Upgrading from Oracle 11g to 12C took approximately an hour, a timeframe which is unfeasible in a multivendor environment running Oracle Databases.
ODA supports both Oracle’s 11gR2 as well as the Oracle 12C Database platform. The 11g database has entered into the extended support period while Oracle 12C is out there with all its new improved features and performance. ODA is a highly recommended platform for organizations with medium to high workloads who are looking to gain not only performance but the ability to upgrade their platform to the latest supported version of the Oracle 12C database.