Migrating to Oracle on HP: new solutions and demos show how to do the job smoothly.

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Migrating to Oracle on HP

 

by jacob.van-ewyk Monday

When you consider moving from one platform to another, for instance if you are standardizing one database for the entire organization, there is often a need to migrate your database from a legacy database to an up to date database.

I've had the opportunity to work with Oracle over the past few months. They have been helping ramp up some HP engineers on their database migration tools, as well as working with HP to ensure that Oracle runs well in HP environments.

If you are looking to move from one database to another, we've posted a few new demos. The first one, based around SQL Developer, shows how you can move the data structures  and tables from one database to another.

Once you've moved your data, you may need to synchronize the source and target databases, especially if they are running in parallel. Oracle's GoldenGate provides just that capability between many combinations of databases. I originally heard about GoldenGate years ago when it was regularly used to synchronize HP Integrity NonStop SQL databases with source databases. It is good to see it grow to become a key migration tool for customers switching from one database to another.

Speaking of moving databases, if you are a DB2 user who is considering moving to Oracle on HP, we've recently published a white paper discussing the advantages and methods of doing the migration. The good news is that a number of the HP migration teams have now been trained, by Oracle, on the migration tools mentioned in the white paper, meaning that you now have multiple organizations who can aid in any migration.

Finally, Oracle and HP have worked closely together to ensure that Oracle's software works well in an automated and virtualized HP Converged Infrastructure. At Oracle Open World, HP announced new BladeSystem Matrix reference architectures. They are now called HP Cloud Maps and contain templates, sizers, workflows, scripts and reference whitepapers to get your applications running quickly in a virtualized and automated infrastructure. There are Cloudmaps for Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle RAC database, Oracle Single Instance Database, and PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management.  This is another great example of how HP and Oracle work together to ensure that you can get your applications up and running quickly in an advanced environment like the HP Converged Infrastructure.

Jacob Van Ewyk