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Background Earlier in the year at the excellent OUgf Finnish Oracle User Group Harmony 17 conference, I performed a Live demo where I refreshed an Oracle 12c database using an Ansible Playbook in just over a minute, 1min 16sec to be more precise. Once I had completed my presentation Frits Hoogland mentioned that he had recently used... Continue Reading →
How to the Pure Storage plugin to present persistent storage to an Oracle 12c running in a Docker container
How to get started with the Pure Storage Docker Volume plugin
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 →
Introduction In my previous post An introduction to Ansible I shared some reasons why companies are adopting Ansible and described some of the advantages of using Ansible over other configuration management tools. Now we know what Ansible is, let's start using it. Setting up an Ansible Control Machine The simplest and quickest way to get up and running... 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 →
Why Cross Platform Provisioning (XPP) As a consultant I am fortunate to get the opportunity to work and speak with many customers across the whole of EMEA, a topic which is often discussed is the use of the Linux or the 'Cloud' for Development and Test teams. I will cover how you can migrate data... Continue Reading →