Hello, GoldenGate community! I know we agreed this would be a regular thing, but I had to wait until I had enough news to share with you. Here's your monthly quarterly review of OCI GoldenGate updates that capped off an eventful 2021, and the first quarter of 2022!
Reminder: Update your deployments!
If there's an upgrade available for your deployments, ensure that you upgrade to stay within the support window for that GoldenGate build. Before you upgrade, it's always a good idea to review what's new.
New feature: Support for RAC databases
OCI GoldenGate now supports Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) databases and SCAN IP listeners when registering source and target databases. To register a RAC database, select Redirect for Session Mode, and then complete the rest of the fields as needed. When you select an OCI Database (Autonomous, DB System, or VM Cluster) OCI GoldenGate automatically sets the correct session mode for the database. For more information, see Registering a Database.
The OCI GoldenGate API was also updated to support this feature. See DatabaseRegistration Reference.
New feature: Storage limit display
The deployment details page now displays how much file system space (OCI File Storage) your deployment is using. Each deployment is allocated 250 GB of space per OCPU. Once your deployment reaches this limit, a message displays on the deployment details page notifying you of this soft limit, and recommends that you free up space by creating purge tasks to manage unused trail files.
OCI GoldenGate is available in new regions
OCI GoldenGate is now available in three new regions: Sweden Central (Stockholm), Singapore, and UAE Central (Abu Dhabi). The OCI GoldenGate REST API endpoints were updated to include these new region endpoints. See Oracle Cloud Infrastructure GoldenGate API Reference.
New quickstart added
Once you have a unidirection replication path set up and running, setting up a bidirectional replication is easy! Our new quickstart walks you through the steps to configure bidirectional replication. Learn more.
Other notable changes
A chapter outlining how to use Admin Client with OCI GoldenGate was added to the service guide.
Stay tuned!
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