Tales from the Datacenter v2.0
Transforming Business with Oracle technologies
I was talking with a friend recently, and he was looking for a quick and easy way to virtualize a small lab system. We discussed a full out hypervisor and management system like Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager (OLVM and Oracle’s Continue reading Installing KVM on ARM with Oracle Linux
For a while people have been asking me, what’s going on with OEM? All your talking about these days is Oracle Management Cloud and it’s machine learning abilities. Even at conferences and client sites, I am being asked at every Continue reading Oracle Enterprise Manager 13.3
I often get asked why Oracle doesn’t include CDROM drives or old school VGA and PS2 ports on servers anymore. After all “Isn’t a CD and keyboard needed to install an OS?”. My answer to this, is unlike most commodity Continue reading Installing an OS on an Oracle X7 Server
OOPS… the worse words to hear when your working on a server. So, long story…. basically I Iost my main system that ran my virtualized Oracle VM Manager (OVMM) and my Enterprise Manager 13.2 (EM) systems. Being it’s just my Continue reading Recovering your Oracle VM Manager when you have no backup
Hidden in the February 2016 release ( 12.1.2.6 ) of the Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) new Oracle VM feature is enabled, called Driver Domains. Driver Domains are a new way to manage storage on the ODA, and show significance disk Continue reading Configuring Driver Domains on the ODA
Incase you missed the news, Oracle released Oracle VM 3.4.1 in the last week. This is a…major… release for Oracle with a few HUGE features being added, and some fairly significant performance features. I have had the opportunity to work Continue reading Oracle VM 3.4.1 released
While rebuilding my OVM at home, I hit a new bug with the 3.3.3 installer. Being a fresh rebuilt, I had decided to go with the latest and greatest version of OVM. This went great until I went to install Continue reading ERROR: Oracle VM Manager can not be installed on a 64 bit Oracle Linux version 6.7
This is the preparation work, required for the May 2015 Oracle Technology Network (OTN) Virtual Technology Summit (VTS) . Four times a year come OTN hosts this event, where you can join us to learn first-hand from Oracle ACEs, Java Champions, Continue reading RHEL to OL HOL Prep – Creating an RHEL6 VM in Virtual Box
This will be a short a sweet, at the request of several folks that wanted to know how to create Oracle VM templates without using the template builder. Part 1 will show how to make the template using Virtual Box. Continue reading Oracle VM templates, the easy way – Part 1of3 Creating the template
/minor rant on I was recently asked by a coworker why I knew so much about a wide variety of technologies. He was having an issue with java application performance and was surprised when I pointed him to a tool Continue reading But… your just a…. !!!!