Implementation of Exadata for a global business group

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The Client

The Client

The company has offices in 42 countries including the United Kingdom, the United States, France, and Germany with a worldwide network of R&D, “innovation labs” and “delivery centers”, and 137,000+ employees. Its customers include 250 of the Fortune 500 and 650 of the Global 2000 companies. It operates across varied sectors including aerospace and defense, automotive, banking, capital markets, energy and utilities, healthcare, hi-tech, industrial manufacturing, consumer goods, insurance, life sciences, mining and natural resources, oil and gas, retail, telecom, logistics & hospitality.

The Objective

The client needed support for the implementation, and migration of Exadata VM’s and underlying databases. HIPL was required to migrate PROD and Non-PROD DBs from existing Exadata VMs to new Oracle Exadata X6 VMs. To follow best practices and to capitalize on the resources provided by the X6-2 system to extract optimum performance and resource utilization

The Objective

The HIPL Edge

  • Oracle Exadata X6-2 Machine initial Infrastructure review.
  • Reviewing all the old VM’s and it’s ASM disks that needs to be removed from the DB nodes as well as cell nodes.
  • Decommission of all the VM’s and ASM disks to release the space on the Exadata Machine.
  • Creation and installation of new VM’s, ASM disks over the Exadata X6-2 node as per the OEDA report.
  • Installation of Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle 12c software over Exadata X6-2 VM’s.
  • Migration of the databases to new VM’s from old VM’s starting with non-Prod instances and proceeding further with production instances.

The Outcome

Oracle Database Patching was applied to ensure the environment performed well and was secure. Technical training to on-site IT staff was provided to ensure the combined team is familiar with new technologies and tools.

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