Tales from the Datacenter v2.0
Transforming Business with Oracle technologies
When I discuss cloud, I often talk about what the cloud should do and not where it runs. First and foremost, the cloud should be secure. The last thing you want, is for your business or agency to be Continue reading Solaris 11.4, a secure OS to power your cloud
Worried about the security of your data? Did you know that SPARC+Solaris servers are not only Meltdown free, but also the ONLY platform that you can buy today that runs an Oracle Database that was not impacted by the Meltdown Continue reading Solaris+SPARC is Meltdown (CVE-2017-5754) free
“A LIE CAN RUN ROUND THE WORLD BEFORE THE TRUTH HAS GOT ITS BOOTS ON.”–TERRY PRATCHETT, THE TRUTH Recently there have been a ton of rumors being spread that Solaris is dead, SPARC is dead and that these technologies are Continue reading SPARC AND SOLARIS, THE PAST AND THE FUTURE
One of the abilities you get with the Oracle management Cloud, is the ability to explore all of the data points across all of the offerings. This allows you to use the data from multiple sources to not only analysis Continue reading Oracle Management Cloud: Data Explorer
If you have not heard, Oracle recently released some new management technology that lets you monitor resources about anywhere they are installed… on-premises, Amazon Cloud, Oracle Cloud… even systems in your basement lab! In this entry of the series I Continue reading OMC Infrastructure Monitoring– Linux Entities
If you are not familiar with the Oracle Management Cloud technology, please take a look at my summary here: HOW DO YOU MANAGE YOUR CLOUD? STRATEGIES FOR MULTI-VENDOR PUBLIC, PRIVATE & HYBRID CLOUD MANAGEMENT This BLOG will go over how Continue reading Oracle Management Cloud – Cloud Agent Install
Yup, you all read that headline correctly, I am HAPPY that Oracle Solaris 12 was recently killed. Let this sink in… Solaris 12’s “death” is a good thing… And this is why. Oracle finally wised up about Operating System names, Continue reading It’s about time Solaris 12 was killed!
I get asked this question all the time… “Can you please add 20 G to/u01 for me?” Many DBAs and Middleware admins are nervous about making changes to their Linux systems, especially if they do not understand how changes effect Continue reading How to grow a file system with Oracle Linux 6
Recently I was building a new Oracle Linux yum repository for a project, and had to kick off a uln-yum-mirror. This process is the key to making a local copy of an Oracle yum repository, enabling local hosts to use Continue reading How much bandwidth is my Linux system using, and other network info.
First, if you don’t already use Virtualbox for your local sandbox/development environment, you really should take a look at this very powerful notebook/desktop hypervisor. Not only is it free, but when you install the extensions into your guest VMs Continue reading vboxadd.sh: failed: Please check that you have gcc, make, the header files for your Linux kernel and possibly perl installed..