Ron Ekins' – Oracle Technology, DevOps and Kubernetes Blog
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If your keen to develop your knowledge around Containers a great place to start is by downloading OpenShift onto your laptop from the RedHat CodeReady Containers site. Once you have downloaded the file ~2.3GB file and untared the file you are ready to go. crc help $ crc help CodeReady Containers is a tool that... Continue Reading →
Background One of the most exciting announcements at last years Oracle Open World #OOW19 was around multi-tenancy and Oracle change of licensing allowing non multi-tenant users to have up to 3 user-created PDB's in a container database at any time. https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/19/dblic/Licensing-Information.html#GUID-AB354617-6614-487E-A022-7FC9A5A08472 With the above, and the announcement of de-support of non-CDB architecture from 20c there... Continue Reading →
In my Getting started with Oracle BigData Blog I shared how you can obtain an example Avro file, if you don't have access to a Avro file you can visit my previous Blog to get started. Bigdata Tools The Apache Avro file stores data in a row-based binary format and therefore not human readable, fortunately we can... Continue Reading →
In my Getting started with Oracle BigData Blog I shared how you can obtain an example parquet file and set-up a FlashBlade s3 bucket, if you want to follow this Blog and don't have access to a parquet file you can visit my previous Blog to get started. Bigdata Tools The parquet file format is... Continue Reading →
In this Blog Post I will show Oracle's CloneDB, dNFS and Pure Storage FlashBlade snapshots can be used to create space efficient Oracle database clone(s) on a sparse file system. Oracle RMAN backup Source database dNFS mount I will start be taking an RMAN image backup of my Oracle ASM 'labs' database to my dNFS... Continue Reading →
Before we take the Oracle BigData solution out for a test run I will create an s3 bucket and put some test data into the bucket. In this Blog series I will be using the Oracle BigData SQL and Pure Storage FlashBlade which includes support for s3. Make a Bucket I have previously installed and... Continue Reading →
Background Before we start if you are new to the Oracle ASM Filter Driver (ASMFD) you may want to visit a couple of my previous Blog posts where I detailed how to set-up the ASM Filter Driver (ASMFD) via Oracle 19c Grid Infrastructure installer or the Linux command line interface (CLI). In this Blog I... Continue Reading →
I have previously Blogged about configuring the Oracle ASM Filter Driver (ASMFD) using the command line and also the Oracle 19c Grid Infrastructure installer, if you enjoy this video you may want to visit the links above to help you get started. If you're still unsure or not had a good reason to use the... Continue Reading →
Getting ready for Python3 In this Blog, I will share how you can use the python to manage and automate Pure Storage FlashBlade File System snapshots. Before we can start we need to install the Pure Storage FlashBlade Python SDK, also as Python2 is now deprecated so let's start using Python3. Below are the steps... Continue Reading →
Following a discussion on the options on how to reclaim space (TRIM/Unmap) on Oracle database using flash storage I though this would make a good topic for a new Blog post. If your Oracle database is using a modern file system it's pretty straight forward, use the 'discard' option. However for the majority of us... Continue Reading →