Oracle Apps DBA: Keeping E-Business Suite Alive · Module 14 · Upgrades and platform moves
Moving EBS to a cloud VM
Lesson 149 of 184 · 3 min
What GENUINELY changes about the DBA job, what DOES NOT, and THE NETWORK QUESTIONS THAT ARRIVE WITH IT. Module 1 Lesson 5 said this in outline; here is what it means for the work itself. WHAT GENUINELY CHANGES IS CAPACITY AND COST BECOMING THE SAME DECISION. Resizing is minutes rather than a purchase order, which is a real improvement — and it makes adding resource cheaper than diagnosing a problem. Two more cores is a monthly cost bought to avoid an afternoon of Module 11's work, and it works, which is what makes it a trap. SNAPSHOTS ALSO CHANGE THE SHAPE OF RISK. A snapshot before a patch is a rollback that takes minutes, which is genuinely better than what Module 7 Lesson 8 describes. It is not a backup — it lives with the instance and dies with it — and treating it as one is how an estate…
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In this module: Module 14 · Upgrades and platform moves
- 1Upgrade, migration, or move
- 2Why estates fall behind
- 3Assessing what an upgrade will touch
- 4The rehearsal, and how many you need
- 5Timing the outage
- 6The go or no-go decision
- 7Moving to a different platform
- 8Moving EBS to a cloud VM
- 9What breaks: three upgrade failures
- 10Lab briefing · Plan an upgrade you will not run