Johannes MichlerSenior Vice President – Head of Platforms & DevelopmentOracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is used by many of our customers to run their Oracle E-Business Suite workload. Especially when not just running development and testing systems on OCI obviously...
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Quickstart to running E-Business Suite on OCI with Terraform
When recently bringing one of our customers to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) with their Oracle E-Business Suite Environment I quickly scrolled through the latest My Oracle Support Note 2434500.1, describing the procedure – mainly looking for changes.
Using latest flexible OCI E3 shape with E-Business Suite on OCI
Recently Oracle announced the availability of a new CPU shape E3. Flex in its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - see here. The announcement promises an increase in performance of around 50% compared to the current Intel CPU (e.g. in VMStandard2.x) at the same cost. Reason enough for me to take a closer look at this in the area of operating the E-Business Suite on such instances.
Moving Oracle Configurator Development Environment to a new P2T-Copy (on OCI)
When using the Oracle Configurator of Oracle E-Business Suite usually a dedicated “development” environment is used to create and update the configuration models. From this Configurator Development environment the configuration projects (called models) can be published to different E-Business Suite instances – usually first to a testing and then to the production environment.
E-Business Suite Cloud Manager 20.1.1 available
Johannes MichlerSenior Vice President – Head of Platforms & DevelopmentOracle recently released version 20.1.1 of the E-Business Suite Cloud Manager – see their blog https://blogs.oracle.com. The main new feature of this release is support for the Oracle Database 19c....
Horus Business Modeler and Horus 3.0 are now certified on Oracle Autonomous Cloud
The business process management tool Horus Business Modeler as well as the new Tool Horus 3.0, which is currently in development by our friends and partners @Horus, are now both certified to run on an Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud instance. This comes in handy if you do not have a spare database instance or if you do not want to perform the management of an ordinary (Oracle) Database.
Some notes on licensing EBS@OCI
When doing my OCI Architect Associate certification it came to my mind that I never wrote anything on licensing on my blog - probably since this is a technical blog and I don’t want to deal with legal topics. Nevertheless I think it makes sense to write some basics on licensing E-Business Suite on OCI and cover two aspects a bit more in detail. Note: I'm not a lawyer, so please take this post just as a overview and refer to your license contracts for binding information!
Monitoring and Managing EBS@OCI environments with Cloud Control
The Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager provides only very basic management and no monitoring functions for E-Business Suite environments: essentially for creating, restoring, deleting and backing up the environment. The underlying hosts (including storage and network) can also be conveniently monitored with the OCI console. However, when it comes to the application (and especially database) itself, these tools do not really help. This is where Oracle Cloud Control comes into play - as it was on premise as well. This article describes how easy it is to setup a Cloud Control environment on OCI and to connect all E-Business Suite Apps- and DB-Tiers to it.
RMAN: Manually cataloging a file from OCI object storage
Have you ever tried to "inject" another archivelog into a backup residing on OCI? See here how we managed to solve this.
Experiences while Upgrading to E-Business Suite Cloud Manager 19.3.1(.1)
Oracle recently made the release 19.3.1 available. For one of our customer using E-Business Suite on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) I just upgraded to this latest release. This post gives an overview on the experiences seen.