Kellyn Pot’vin-Gorman shows the process of moving from an Exadata system to Oracle on Azure:
An Exadata is an engineered system- database nodes, secondary cell nodes, (also referred to as storage nodes/cell disks), InfiniBand for fast network connectivity between the nodes, specialized cache, along with software features such as Real Application Clusters, (RAC), hybrid columnar compression, (HCC), storage indexes, (indexes in memory) offloading technology that has logic built into it to move object scans and other intensive workloads to cell nodes from the primary database nodes. There are considerable other features, but understanding that Exadata is an ENGINEERED system, not a hardware solution is important and its both a blessing and a curse for those databases supported by one. The database engineer must understand both Exadata architecture and software along with database administration. There is an added tier of performance knowledge, monitoring and patching that is involved, including knowledge of the Cell CLI, the command line interface for the cell nodes. I could go on for hours on more details, but let’s get down to what is required when I am working on a project to migrate an Exadata to Azure.
Click through for the process.