Overview In this Blog I am going to provide a walthrough of my fully automated Oracle 18 Express Edition (XE) build on a Vagrant managed Oracle Linux VirtualBox virtual machine using Ansible and the Pure Storage FlashArray Ansible collection. I use vagrant up to start my Oracle VirtualBox virtual machine with the latest Oracle Linux... Continue Reading →
Oracle VM 3.4.6 : Part 6 – OVM Block Storage
Oracle VM Block Storage In my last Blog post I presented NFS storage to my Oracle VM Server, in this post I will show how block storage can also be configured for use with OVM. Create Pure FlashArray volume Our first step is to create a volume and connect it to our Oracle VM Server.... Continue Reading →
Oracle VM 3.4.6 : Part 4 – OVM Storage
Configuring OVM Storage If you have followed Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 you should now have a working networked OVM Server and Manager ready to have storage presented to it. Before you start, logon to the OVM Server and add your NFS and / or iSCSI fully qualified domain named servers to the... Continue Reading →