This package consists of a PDF (i.e. "AWR Sizing Instructions.pdf
") containing a set of instructions for extracting a small set of metrics from an Oracle AWR report into a spreadsheet. The spreadsheet (i.e. "AWR Analysis (template) YYYYMMDD.xls
") will then summarize and extrapolate these metrics into estimates used for sizing the on-prem database on Azure virtual machines and storage.
At present, the spreadsheet does not use the estimated recommendations for CPU, RAM, IOPS, and I/O throughput to automatically pull recommended Azure instance types and storage options; creating recommendations from the calculations is still quite manual, unfortunately.
To obtain the most accurate observed information from an AWR report, please consider using output from the SQL script "busiest_awr.sql
" to find peak workloads with the Oracle AWR repository from which to calculate sizing, using a minimum of extrapolation and guesswork.
Because the Oracle AWR report does not contain any information about database size, please consider running and sharing output from the SQL*Plus script "dbspace.sql
", which summarizes datafile, tempfile, controlfile, online redo logfile, and block change tracking file sizes. It also summarizes information about archived redo logfiles and RMAN backupsets by day, to provide a sense of the actual data change rate in the database.