ODA Health Check
Your Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) is at the heart of your database architecture as a simplistic and reliable platform, but are you utilizing it at its full potential? When you leverage Viscosity, an Oracle Platinum Partner and certified ODA expert, you gain leaders in end-to-end design, implementation, and support for ODA.
Viscosity’s health check assesses the entire stack from ODA hardware, OS, RAC environment, and the database. Our goal is to assess the ODA environment for redundancy and availability. Upon completion of the health check, Viscosity will provide detailed documentation with findings, methodology, and recommendations to help you implement best practices and procedures.
Viscosity ODA Health Check Includes:
Review of ODA Utilization & Capacity
- Review of general health of the ODA compute nodes and storage
Assessment of OVM Environment
- Analysis of patches
- Analysis of OVM performance issues
- Migration from OVM to KVM
Review of RAC Configuration
- Patches for Grid Infrastructure and for RDBMS home
- ASM Disk Group attributes and ASM initialization parameters
Review of Operating System Environment
- Software versions, patch levels, and OS packages installed
- Kernel parameters and shared memory configuration
- ASM configuration
- Hugepages settings
- Access points and security configurations
Review of Database Environment
- Check undocumented parameter settings and initialization parameters
- Check database release, PSU/RU/BP, and one-off patches
- Review of database configuration and resource allocation
- Review TNS configuration
- Review database statistics, backup procedures, IOPs, and throughput
- Review security of the database environment
Why Choose Us
Our Expertise
Viscosity was formed by former Oracle employees, each of whom worked in various capacities within Oracle Corporation. These capacities include Oracle Database, RAC Development, Oracle Consulting, Oracle Technical Architects, Design, and Performance Tuning experts. Viscosity's Oracle Center of Expertise has developed best practices and tight partner relationships to implement world-class solutions. Our vast experience and intellectual property give customers insight into what is driving IT complexity. We can deliver a set of practical, executable plans for simplifying IT infrastructure, helping reduce operating costs while freeing up resources for new business initiatives.
Other Viscosity Services Include:
- Virtualization of Oracle on VMware / VBlock
- Real Application Clusters (RAC)
- Data Guard / ASM
- GoldenGate / Shareplex
- Database Performance Tuning
- Database Managed Services
- Database Upgrades with Zero Downtime and Zero Risk
- E-Business Suite Administration and Upgrades
- Exadata
- Exadata Managed Services
- Data Warehousing
- Big Data (Cloudera with Hadoop and NoSQL)
- Consolidation
- SOA / ADF
- License and Asset Management Services
Viscosity's core expertise includes:
Data Transformation, Emerging Technology, High Availability & Scalability Solutions, Cloud Migrations, Performance Tuning, Data Integrations, Machine Learning, APEX Development, and Custom Application Development.