Tales from the Datacenter v2.0
Transforming Business with Oracle technologies
I’m getting more and more interest in OLVM and oVirt these days. Customers really want to dump proprietary virtualization stacks and more to Open Source solutions. Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager ( OLVM) is Oracle’s distribution of oVirt, a popular open-source Continue reading Installing Windows 11 on OLVM/oVirt 4.5
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
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
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
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..
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
Admittedly, I do not do much VMWare these days, but on occasion I have clients that need to use it. Recently I was installing ESXi 6 on my personal lab to do some testing, when the installation got stuck, the Continue reading ESXi 6 install stuck on “Relocating modules and starting up the kernel…”