Tales from the Datacenter v2.0
Transforming Business with Oracle technologies
Recently I saw some discussion about storage performance on Raspberry PIs, with the focus being on performance between the MicroSD card vs. USB performance for the storage. This short series of BLOGs will compare several performance options for the Raspberry, Continue reading Raspberry PI Storage Performance: Part 1 USB vs SD Card
If you know me, you likely know where this is headed. But before we get there, lets chat a little bit about the bomb that IBM RedHat dropped on the Linux community the other day. As soon as the news Continue reading Centos and the bomb that IBM Red Hat dropped
First, lets chat about Oracle Linux on ARM! Having a single Enterprise Operating System on all Linux systems has several advantages, like using the same tools across all servers and access to the same commercial support for your systems. The Continue reading Install Oracle Linux 8 on a Raspberry Pi
As more and more people move to the cloud, they start to use ssh keys to authenticate to their cloud instances. This is great, as keys are generally considered more secure than passwords. But, with many new users to ssh, Continue reading How to automatically load ssh keys when Windows 10 boots using putty pagent
I have been recently working on a few interesting projects, one which requires sending emails from servers with some attached files, while using Office365 email. While trying to make things easier I started to look for a better way to Continue reading A better way to send emails from Linux
A question I get asked more and more, is how do you create a filesystem larger than 2TB on a linux server. Most admins know how to use fdisk, and then mkfs, but fdisk limits you to a 2T partition Continue reading How to create a Linux partition larger than 2TB
I get asked this all the time, how do I make a bootable USB drive on my Windows notebook. Natively Windows 10 does not have a great way to burn an ISO to a USB device with out installing additional Continue reading How to make a bootable USB using VirtualBox
First you need to login in and get a terminal. The su – to root and cd to the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts directory This is where the network configuration files are; Eth0 is the ethernet port that is used for server access, Continue reading How to change the IP of an Oracle Linux OS 6.X server
I’m asked all the time about what the numbers in top mean, Most admins understand the basics like Memory and tasks but other fields are often miss understood or ignored. Lets take a look at the following top from one Continue reading What are those numbers in Linux top command?
Controlling Oracle Management Cloud agent to startup at boot can be a little complicated. Often admins KLUDGE up shell scripts to make it work, but there is a cleaner way using systemd commands.systemd is one of the core components of Continue reading How to control OMC cloudagent using systemd on Oracle Linux 7