TLS for Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC)

Since there is not much out there in terms and easy guide to follow, on this activity we are going to configure an Oracle RAC cluster to allow TLS encrypted connections.Because SCAN listeners redirect you to the local listeners on each server, we also need to setup the local listeners. Here we are going to... » read more

How to Upgrade Oracle 12c to 19c on a Window Failover Cluster Manager environment

On this post we are going to upgrade Oracle 12c to 19c on an ACTIVE/PASSIVE setup on Windows Failover Cluster Manager: Server Name DBNAME 12c Oracle Home 19c Oracle Home win-rac1 DBPROD C:\oracle\app\product\12.1.0\dbhome_1 C:\oracle\app\product\19c\dbhome_1 win-rac2 DBPROD C:\oracle\app\product\12.1.0\dbhome_1 C:\oracle\app\product\19c\dbhome_1 This is the current patch level of both 12c and 19c homes (on both nodes!): Its worth... » read more

How to create an Oracle ACTIVE/PASSIVE environment on Windows Failover Cluster Manager

We are going to create an environment to have an Oracle database in Failover Cluster Manager. To have this, we need 3 Windows Servers ( 1 Working as controller) Server Name Public IP: Private IP: ORACLE_HOME win-rac1 192.168.56.151 192.168.10.151 C:\oracle\app\product\12.1.0\dbhome_1 win-rac2 192.168.56.152 192.168.10.152 C:\oracle\app\product\12.1.0\dbhome_1 win-rac-control 192.168.56.153 192.168.10.153 For how to install Windows VM’s here (in... » read more