Transportation Provider Case Study – Viscosity is the ODA Partner of The Year

Transportation Case Study

Learn How This Transportation Company Utilized Viscosity for On-Site ODA Training

BACKGROUND

A major company that provides transportation services for the Dallas, Texas metroplex and its 12 surrounding cities. With the company’s modern public transit and facilities, the customer made the decision to begin the process of replacing their legacy HP-UX servers and re-platforming onto two Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) X7-2-HA with RAC and Active Data Guard.

The customer leveraged Oracle Platinum Partner, Viscosity North America (Viscosity), as a strategic partner for an on-site training for their DBA team.

Viscosity’s ODA Training Deliverables:

Upgrading to Oracle Database 18c and unlesahing the value of Hybrid Columnar Compression (HCC)
Unleashing Viscosity’s integrated software and automated provisioning on the ODA
Prepare for the Oracle Database installation and deployment
Use Oracle Appliance Configuration Manager
Power on the system for the first time and define network options
Configure Oracle Integrated Lights-Out Manager (ILOM)
Validate the current Oracle Appliance Manager software version and re-image the Operating System
Installing the latest ODA Patch-Set bundle and End-User bundle for bare metal deployments
Network and system configuration
System resource and network tuning
System monitoring and logging
Valiadte platform deployments
Perform ODA post installation tasks
Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) fundamental on ODA
Validate seamless application failover with Oracle Data Guard
OEM fundamental on ODA
Creating and managing databases on ODA
Review and recommend backup and recovery operations on ODA
Managing storage on ODA
Review of ODACLI commands to manage ODA infrastructure
ODA hardware (system and storage)
ODA Linux
Oracle Linux package management
Ksplice
Kernel module configuration
User, group, security, and storage administration