10012026 - TechTalk Recap - Oracle Resiliency—Choosing the Right Data Protection Approach🛡️
If you missed our latest TechTalks session, Lester Wells and I explored an important reality for Oracle teams: there is no single data-protection feature that covers every failure scenario. Keeping Oracle resilient means looking beyond a simple “backup or HA” decision. The right approach layers protection for local failures, site failures, operational recovery, and logical corruption—then aligns each layer to the application’s business requirements. What you missed 👇 🧭 HA and DR are different problems. High availability helps applications continue through infrastructure failures; disaster recovery protects against a broader site-level event. Both matter, but not every database needs the same RPO or RTO. ⚡ Snapshots improve operational recovery. Fast, space-efficient snapshots can help reduce backup and recovery pressure, refresh dev/test environments, support reporting copies, and provide recovery points for ransomware or user errors. 🏢 ActiveCluster is designed for continuous availability. For metro-distance deployments that meet latency requirements, synchronous replication can provide zero RPO and zero RTO protection against array or site failure. 🌍 ActiveDR extends protection across distance. Continuous, asynchronous replication supports disaster recovery where synchronous replication is not practical—and enables non-disruptive DR testing. 🧩 Layered protection covers more failure modes. Oracle RAC, ActiveCluster, ActiveDR, Data Guard, Flashback, and snapshots each address different risks. Combining the right layers helps protect both availability and recoverability. 🔎 Replication does not replace logical recovery. A bad write, accidental delete, or corruption can replicate correctly. Point-in-time snapshots and database-level recovery tools remain important parts of the plan. One of the best practical examples was using ActiveDR to bring up and validate a DR environment without disrupting production. That makes it easier to test your recovery plan more often—before you need it. 🎥 Catch up on the session HERE🎥 💬 Which Oracle resilience challenge is top of mind for your team: backup windows, recovery time, site-level availability, DR testing, or protection from logical errors? Share your perspective in the comments.
Migration options of rdms from Dell storage array to Pure storage array
We have physical Oracle servers and a couple of virtual Oracle servers. The databases disks for the databases are mounted to their Oracle server(s) as rdms on the virtual servers and raw disks on the physical Oracle servers. Currently these database disks are on a Dell storage array and we will migrate them to a Pure //X90 R4 storage array. What options do we have to do this? I read using Oracle ASM is one way but was curious of other ways anyone has used to do this type of migration.Pure Report Podcast: Databases!!!
Catch up with Anthony Nocentino on the latest episode of the Pure Report podcast where we dive into trends in database operations and the impact of AI on DBA roles - plus how new Pure platform announcements and Fusion drive better efficiency and performance for SQL Server and Oracle. Anthony tackles the pressing challenges faced by database environments today, including fragmented storage infrastructure, manual provisioning, and the complexities of compliance, disaster recovery, and hybrid cloud strategies. He sheds light on how these issues contribute to real-world burnout among DBAs and infra team members. The discussion will also cover the evolving roles of these professionals as they increasingly become platform performance engineers, cloud strategists, and data ops troubleshooters in a world of multiple database engines and unpredictable resource needs driven by AI workloads.
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