Demystifying WebLogic and Fusion Middleware Management

Author : Porus Homi Havewala (પોરસ હોમી હવેવાલા)      Blog : Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control      Date : 5/17/2013 6:46:00 AM

'Demystifying WebLogic and Fusion Middleware Management --- by Glen Hawkins, Senior Director, Product ManagementBy R A Sanyal on Apr 16, 2013This week, we are going to switch gears and talk about something that is near and dear to everyone responsible for running applications and middleware in their environment and that is monitoring and management with specific emphasis on the Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control solution. Often, this particular topi(...)'

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Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c for Exalogic: Setting up Apps-to-Disk Monitoring

Author : Porus Homi Havewala (પોરસ હોમી હવેવાલા)      Blog : Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control      Date : 4/11/2013 2:29:00 PM

'By Gagan ChawlaExalogic is the logical choice for running Business Applications and provides an excellent consolidation platform hosting wide range of application workloads. It’s important to have a comprehensive Apps-to-Disk monitoring of Exalogic system enabled including monitoring of business applications, software and hardware components together from a single Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c console.There are two Exalogic configuration flavors specifically in the way(...)'

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Database as a Service: Glad that you asked these!

Author : Porus Homi Havewala (પોરસ હોમી હવેવાલા)      Blog : Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control      Date : 4/11/2013 2:26:00 PM

'By Sudip DattaThanks for visiting my earlier blog post on the new Database as a Service (DBaaS) features which got released in Enterprise Manager 12cR2 Plugin Update 1.Our first public webcast on DBaaS since the release was pretty well attended with peak attendance going well over our expectation. I wish we had more time to handle the technical Q&A, but since we didn't, let me use the blogosphere to answer some of the questions that were asked. I am repeating some of the questio(...)'

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Great Grassroots Charity in India

Author : Porus Homi Havewala (પોરસ હોમી હવેવાલા)      Blog : Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control      Date : 3/27/2013 11:26:00 AM

'Dear Friends,This is a great grassroots charity in India. Please Help.They build an entire bore well for only a few thousand rupees. Rotary club has a recent story about them.  http://rotarystories-nzandpacific.blogspot.sg/2012/06/district-9940-rotary-clubs-provide.htmlThis is a photo of a well the Enterprise Manager Blog sponsored:Please write directly to Mr. Rao below if you wish to give water to the thirsty poor people. God Bless.Regards,Porus.Contact Details:N.Srinivasa(...)'

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March 2013 Issue of EM Newsletter

Author : Porus Homi Havewala (પોરસ હોમી હવેવાલા)      Blog : Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control      Date : 3/13/2013 3:58:00 AM

'My Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c book has been mentioned prominently in the March 2013 issue of the Enterprise Manager Newsletter from Oracle, which goes out to thousands of subscribers:Oracle Information InDepth: Oracle Enterprise Manager Edition http://www.oracle.com/us/dm/nsl100158435-index-1914876.htmlRegards,Porus.'

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New Release of Oracle Enterprise Manager Introduces Key Enhancements for Deploying and Managing Clouds

Author : Porus Homi Havewala (પોરસ હોમી હવેવાલા)      Blog : Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control      Date : 2/25/2013 2:38:00 AM

'By Sudip Datta on Feb 24, 2013It has been a little more than a year, since we released our first cloud management features as a part of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c. As customers started adopting our solution for a broad spectrum of workloads including production, QA, and development needs, we gained invaluable experience into the various use cases and requirements. Based on that experience, Oracle has released new and updated Management Plug-ins that precisely address the ab(...)'

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Good Feedback

Author : Porus Homi Havewala (પોરસ હોમી હવેવાલા)      Blog : Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control      Date : 1/31/2013 4:08:00 AM

'Good Feedback on my book from a reader in the USA:"I must  mention that this is THE book I have ever read and digested in the field of cloud control through Oracle Enterprise Manager, I am very impressed how categorically  it has explained the core details."Thanks Friend. http://www.packtpub.com/oracle-enterprise-manager-12c-cloud-control/book'

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Answers to Your Common Database Performance Questions

Author : Porus Homi Havewala (પોરસ હોમી હવેવાલા)      Blog : Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control      Date : 1/17/2013 9:38:00 AM

'By Scott McNeil on Jan 15, 2013An Interview with Oracle Database Manageability Expert, Deba ChatterjeeThroughout the year we hear from lots of customers and get many questions about managing Oracle Database. In this blog, I thought I would try and provide some answers to common diagnostics and tuning questions with the help of our product manager and residence expert for Oracle Database Manageability, Deba Chatterjee. Deba has a wealth of database performance tuning experience (...)'

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Printing Errata

Author : Porus Homi Havewala (પોરસ હોમી હવેવાલા)      Blog : Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control      Date : 1/12/2013 10:51:00 AM

'I have received a copy of my new EM12c bookand while going through it, I found a printing error on page 308.This is in Chapter 10 which is titled "Ease the Chaos withExadata Management". On page 308, there are two paragraphs on the page(2nd and 3rd paragraphs from the top of the page) that mention thatthe “BP1” patch is recommended. The same page also mentions in the fourthparagraph that Release 2 is recommended. The paragraphs mentioning BP1were supposed to be removed during the fi(...)'

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My new EM12c Book Now Available

Author : Porus Homi Havewala (પોરસ હોમી હવેવાલા)      Blog : Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control      Date : 12/20/2012 2:57:00 AM

'Friends,I am pleased to say that my new EM12c book has finally been published and is now available, both as a printed book and as an e-book.  http://www.packtpub.com/oracle-enterprise-manager-12c-cloud-control/bookOracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c: Managing Data Center ChaosPlease have a look at the updated chapter of contents:Table of ContentsPrefaceChapter 1: Chaos at Data Centers Chapter 2: Enter Oracle Cloud ControlChapter 3: Ease the Chaos with Performance Ma(...)'

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Latest List of Published White Papers and Articles

Author : Porus Homi Havewala (પોરસ હોમી હવેવાલા)      Blog : Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control      Date : 11/29/2012 4:32:00 AM

'A number of my readers have asked me for a full list of all my published technical articles/white papers on the Oracle Technical Network (OTN), for easy reference. Here is the latest list as of November 2012. I have placed the white papers at the top, and the articles are in chronological order in the article list. The latest article on Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c, published in October 2012, is right at the bottom of the list. A couple of these arti(...)'

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New Enterprise Manager Article published on Oracle Technical Network (OTN)

Author : Porus Homi Havewala (પોરસ હોમી હવેવાલા)      Blog : Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control      Date : 10/22/2012 3:21:00 AM

'Friends,I am pleased to announce that a new article of mine has been published in October 2012 on the Oracle Technical Network (OTN).Ease the Chaos with Automated Patching: Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/oem/havewala-patching-oem12c-1864147.htmlThis is excerpted from my new book "Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c: Managing Data Center Chaos", published by Packt Publishing. Enjoy the world of Enterprise Manage(...)'

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Private Cloud: Putting some method behind the madness

Author : Porus Homi Havewala (પોરસ હોમી હવેવાલા)      Blog : Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control      Date : 10/15/2012 5:44:00 AM

'By Sudip Datta on Oct 09, 2012Finally, I decided to join the blogging community. And what could be a better time to start than the week after OpenWorld 2012. 50K+ attendees, demonstrations, speaker sessions and a whole lot of buzz on Oracle Cloud..It was raining clouds in this year's Openworld. I am not here to write about Oracle's cloud strategy in general, but on Enterprise Manager's cloud management capabilities. This year's Openworld was the first after we announced th(...)'

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HDFC Bank about their DBaaS Implementation in India

Author : Porus Homi Havewala (પોરસ હોમી હવેવાલા)      Blog : Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control      Date : 10/15/2012 5:07:00 AM

'HDFC Bank in India (2nd largest private sector bank) went live recently on a combination of Exadata and Enterprise Manager 12c, to run their internal Databases as a Service (DBaaS) cloud. They were very successful in this venture and presented on the same at the recent Oracle Open World (OOW). You can download their very interesting presentation from either of the following links:MediaFire: http://www.mediafire.com/file/fc3tqpc9ek8etcc/HDFC_Bank_DBaaS_Presentation_in_OOW.pdfGe.tt:htt(...)'

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Capacity Planning for the Cloud, and General Capacity Planning

Author : Porus Homi Havewala (પોરસ હોમી હવેવાલા)      Blog : Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control      Date : 9/28/2012 2:53:00 AM

'A friend wrote " I could not find any information on capacity planning (database) in Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c. The only information i could get is that, it is part of the "Chargeback and Capacity Planning" plugin. There is no documentation available on this. One of my customer was using this feature in 10g and 11g.. and now have moved to 12c and are unable to figure it out.  Any pointers would be of great help."My answer:There is no capacity planner in&n(...)'

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Oracle EM 12c Release 2 Now Available

Author : Porus Homi Havewala (પોરસ હોમી હવેવાલા)      Blog : Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control      Date : 9/18/2012 4:44:00 AM

'Last week, on September 13 2012, Oracle announced general availability of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Release 2. The release introduces unique capabilities for deploying and managing business applications in an enterprise private cloud, such as Java Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), enhanced business application management, and integrated hardware-software management for Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud. Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Release 2 is now available on the(...)'

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Photos and Download PDF for Bangkok Customer and Partner Seminars on EM Cloud Control 12c

Author : Porus Homi Havewala (પોરસ હોમી હવેવાલા)      Blog : Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control      Date : 9/18/2012 3:38:00 AM

'Friends,Here are some photos on the EM Cloud Control 12c Overview/New Features seminar that we recently conducted in Bangkok, Thailand. The first day was for Oracle Partners, the second for Oracle Customers.We covered the EM Cloud Control 12c Overview, Architecture, Database Lifecycle Management pack, Test Data Management pack, Oracle Cloud Overview, and New features of Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c in all of these. We also spoke on the Diagnostics/Tuning packs and Data Maski(...)'

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Oracle Cloud Builder Summit—Your Fast Track to the Enterprise Private Cloud

Author : Porus Homi Havewala (પોરસ હોમી હવેવાલા)      Blog : Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control      Date : 8/17/2012 3:49:00 PM

'Oracle customers are invited to the Oracle Cloud Builder Summitevents happening across the region.  We’ll show them how to build—in only two hours—an enterprise cloud environment, as well as how to:·       Build and operate cloudsEfficiently consolidate onto shared, scalable cloud platforms and infrastructureSecure and integrate clouds This content-rich event will feature multiple demonstrations, customers will learn how to fast-track app(...)'

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Bangkok, September 12: Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c Overview and New Features Workshop

Author : Porus Homi Havewala (પોરસ હોમી હવેવાલા)      Blog : Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control      Date : 8/13/2012 10:06:00 AM

'If you are in Bangkok, Thailand on September 12, this is my upcoming seminar. Please register if you would like to attend. Totally free!! http://www.oracle.com/webapps/events/ns/EventsDetail.jsp?p_eventId=155823&src=7599523&src=7599523&Act=19 Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c Overview and New Features Workshop Wednesday, September 12, 20129:30 AM – 1:00 PMOracle ThailandConference Room 1 & 216th Floor, Ramaland Bldg,952 Rama IV Road, Bangkok 10500O(...)'

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Incident Management in Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c

Author : Porus Homi Havewala (પોરસ હોમી હવેવાલા)      Blog : Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control      Date : 8/4/2012 3:41:00 AM

'By Anand Akela on Jul 24, 2012Contributed by Pete Sharman , Principal Product Manager, Oracle Enterprise ManagerEnterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c (EM12c) is a huge release, both in terms of its adoption rate (that is, its uptake in the market) and the amount of functionality included in the product. For those of us that have been around for a long time, it’s very reminiscent of the massive functionality leap from Oracle RDBMS version 6 to version 7 – a quantum leap that make(...)'

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