You can now upgrade Grid Infrastructure to 19c on Gen2 Exadata Cloud@Customer

 You can now upgrade Grid Infrastructure to 19c on Gen2 Exadata Cloud@Customer.

This blog post by Prince Mathew Principal Product Manager at Oracle highlights this new announcement for Gen2 Exadata Cloud@Customer.

Here is a brief summary of this new upgrade to 19c capability on Gen2 Exadata Cloud@Customer.

• Run a precheck before upgrade to the 19c Grid Infrastructure version to identify and resolve compatibility issues in advance.
• Even if a precheck is not run, an implicit precheck will always be run as part of the GI upgrade workflow to ensure that the cluster is ready for an upgrade.
• Upgrade existing VM Clusters to 19c Grid Infrastructure version which is now a required step before upgrading databases on the cluster to 19c.
• The GI version upgrade to 19c is applied in a rolling manner across the cluster and does result in downtime for running database workloads. 

GI upgrade is a planned activity.

Enjoy this blog post announcing this much needed new upgrade capability for Gen2 Exadata Cloud@Customer.

Cheers.

Oracle Database In-Memory Youtube Channel and Summit Videos

Oracle Database In-Memory Youtube Channel and Summit Videos.

Session 1 & Session 2 Agenda:

• Oracle Database In-Memory: Warp Speed for the Enterprise!, Tirthankar Lahiri (40 minutes)
• Leverage Technology & Use In-Memory for Acceleration, Rich Niemiec (30 minutes)
• What’s new in Database In-Memory, Shasank Chavan (20 minutes)
• Best Practices for Getting Started, Andy Rivenes (20 minutes)

Session 3 Agenda:

• Utilizing Oracle In-Memory to improve Application Performance, Ahmed Alomari (30 minutes)
• Customer Presentations
  • Lufthansa - Oracle In-Memory Application for reduced latency in maintenance processes, Thorsten Pensky (40 minutes)
  • In-Memory Datawarehousing at STEF, Benoît Colas (40 minutes)

Session 4 Agenda:

• Utilizing Oracle In-Memory to improve Application Performance, Ahmed Alomari presentation (30 minutes)
• Customer Presentation
  • Hisense Database In-Memory case study (40 minutes), Dong Qu, Yu Xiao

Enjoy this blog post summarizing these very useful In-Memory Videos on their official Youtube Channel.

Cheers.