Database Professional Services
- Optimize your database and infrastructure ecosystem
- Eliminate the risk of potential data loss
- Meet service level agreements with your application users
- Obtain a rapid return on investment in your technology and its underlying infrastructure
Performance Tuning
Our standard performance assessment can take anywhere from 1-to 2 weeks, depending on your unique needs, and we will come back with our findings and best practices to optimize your processes.
Near-Zero Downtime Database Upgrades to Oracle 19c
Viscosity has a proven methodology to perform migrations and consolidations with near-zero downtime. We are the professional services arm of Quest SharePlex and perform dozens of near-zero downtime upgrades each year.
Performance Optimization
We can leverage your database environment and manage key elements of your systems 24/7.
Scalability
Achieving ideal performance requires the performance of the system stack to be optimal. Viscosity’s Proactive Healthcheck and assessment provides customers assurance that their systems are healthy and scalable. The goal is to help you save time and money and avoid unnecessary outages.
Viscosity has earned their place as a trusted advisor for our IT department. With their deep technical expertise, agile response time, and customer first approach, Viscosity has improved our business operations from the moment they arrived.
- IT Manager, ClubCorp USA, Inc.
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Our Comprehensive Review
- Address & assess data availability to provide access to data and prevent business interruption
- Address & assess data protection to prevent data loss that compromises the viability of the business
- Assess performance in order to deliver adequate response time to business applications and programs
- Address the risk of achieving the required service levels as the business evolves and adapts to the economy
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Backup and Recovery
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A comprehensive backup and recovery strategy to review and verify the status of backups
- Review Disaster Recovery strategy relative to RPO and RTO
- Review archive retention strategy
- Evaluation of the backup strategy against stated client requirements
- Identify a single point of failure
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A comprehensive backup and recovery strategy to review and verify the status of backups
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Deliverables
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We document assessment findings and industry best practices and outline a strategy to implement
- A summary presentation that includes the key findings and recommendations of the database workload
- Provide a findings report complete with discovered gaps and remediation recommendations if any are needed
- Recommend industry best practices
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We document assessment findings and industry best practices and outline a strategy to implement
Performance Assessment
Assess the key dimensions to achieve Oracle's Maximum Availability
The Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) and Performance Assessment from Viscosity
will chart the course, collaborating and partnering with clients like you to achieve a database and infrastructure ecosystem. We eliminate the risk of potential data loss in order to achieve service level agreements with your application users.
Oracle High Availability & Scalability RAC & Data Guard Implementations
Our engineers are certified database and infrastructure specialists.
Viscosity will systematically architect your RAC and Data Guard environment with performance, high availability, and scalability in mind, then outline a plan to address implementation and recommend industry best practices, including eliminating resource bottlenecks, balancing existing workloads, tuning ASM or storage, and assisting in application tuning.
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RAC Implementation
- Planning sessions to review project scope and expectations.
- Review of source and target compute, storage, and network infrastructure.
- Install, configure, and patch the Oracle Grid infrastructure.
- Configure Red Hat or Oracle Linux with industry best practices.
- Install, configure, and patch clustered RDBMS Home.
- Verify RAC interconnect readiness, and jumbo frames, including load balancing and interconnect scalability.
- Benchmark performance of Oracle infrastructure using standard industry tools.
- Knowledge transfer sessions with Viscosity’s team of RAC experts.
- Set up Transparent Application Failover.
- Collaborate with the customer to configure Application Continuity.
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RAC Application Tuning
Infrastructure is just one piece of the equation. Our engineers engage in tuning the application stack, including schema objects and queries. We know what must be re-factored for applications to run effectively on RAC.
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Data Guard Implementation
- Review redo generation rates to determine the network.
- Determine the adequate bandwidth-delay product.
- Size the appropriate send and receive buffers for the network protocol with RPO and RTO in mind.
- Set up kernel parameters on the OS for network bandwidth.
- Set up Data Guard Broker.
- Set up full integration with Oracle Enterprise Manager.
- Determine FSFO viability.
- Determine switchover/failover considerations.
Why Viscosity & OraPub?
Viscosity is a recognized premier consulting firm of database technologies. Viscosity was founded by industry and authoritative experts. Many of our experts are prominent thought leaders with backgrounds in Oracle, VMWare, and Cloud. These capacities include Oracle Database core technologies, RAC Data Guard, Engineered Systems (Exadata, ODA, ZFS), performance tuning, near-zero downtime database migrations & upgrades, virtualization, and data warehousing.
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