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Configuring OVM Networks Before we can present our iSCSI and NFS storage to our Oracle VM Server we need to configure a network. Oracle VM Manager provides a simple to use interface which can maintain the /etc/sysconfig/networking-scripts without the need of manual editing. In my lab I have a number of VLAN's configure on an... Continue Reading →
Background Today, I found myself needing to add 3 new disks to one of my Oracle database server VMware VM's, unfortunately I was unable to re-boot the server so I followed the steps below to add the new devices. Create LUN's using your storage platform and add add them to your Virtual Machine using... Continue Reading →
You may have read one of my previous posts Oracle 12c on Docker where I described how you can get hold of official Oracle images from the Docker Store. In this post I will share how you can now use the Oracle Container Registry to obtain Docker images for all licensable Oracle products. To access the Oracle... Continue Reading →
A question which I frequently get asked is, how do I a resize my Oracle XFS file system ? As I needed to resize an Oracle FRA area today, I thought this would make a great topic for a Blog post. Ok, lets start be checking the current size and geometry using the Linux df... Continue Reading →
Resizing Oracle ASM disks with pure storage
Installing Package Groups I came across an Oracle Linux 7.2 server this week that was missing some required prerequisite packages for my Oracle Database install. This was easily fixed with yum and package groups, package groups allows you to install a group of dependent packages in one go rather than individually. A package group has a... Continue Reading →
Preparing to use udev rules on VMware Fusion Before you can use udev rules with your new VMware Hard Drives you need to update the Virtual Machines .vmx file and set the following. disk.EnableUUID = "TRUE" Without this setting the '/usr/lib/udev/scsci_id' command will no values. As with all configuration files it's best practice to create a... Continue Reading →
Background I have seen several great Linux install guides for Oracle's free VirtualBox but have never come across a version specifically for VMware Fusion, so here goes lets's put that right. What is VMware Fusion ? VMware Fusion is a sofware hypervisor for Mac OS X , it's VMware's Mac equivalent of VMware Workstation for Windows and... Continue Reading →
Oracle Linux 7.2 Installation To get ready for this Blog I performed a standard Linux 7.2 installation, during the 'Software Selection' part of the wizard selected 'Base Environent' of 'Server with GUI' and the following 'Add-Ons for Selected Evironment' Compatibility LibrariesDevelopment Tools If you need further install details, I have a seperate Blog posting on... Continue Reading →