If you have followed my previous Oracle VM Blog posts you should have by now a working OVM deployment using either Block, NFS or both. I am now going to provide a walkthrough on how to import an Oracle VM Template. First start by visiting Oracle Technology Network and navigating to the Oracle VM Overview... 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 5 – OVM NFS Storage
Oracle VM NFS Storage If you been following my series of Blog Post on OVM you should by now have a working OVM Server and Manager. However, if you a new to this series you can catch-up using the links below: Oracle VM Server installationOracle VM Manager installationOracle VM Network configurationOracle VM Storage configurationOracle VM... 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 →
Creating Oracle support diagnostics for OVM 3.4.6
How to create Oracle support diagnostic details for OVM 3.4.6
Oracle VM 3.4.6 : Part 3 – OVM Networks
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 →
Oracle VM 3.4.6 : Part 1 – OVM Server
Oracle VM Server Oracle VM is a free to download virtualisation technology and for many deployments could provide a great alternative to VMware. In this series of Blog Posts I am going to give OracleVM a spin, and document my experiences. Oracle VM Server is a Bare-Metal install unlike Oracle VM Manager which is installed... Continue Reading →
Oracle EBS R12.2.6 on Virtual Box Pt2
If you followed my previous post Oracle E-Business Suite R12.2.6 on Virtual Box you will have already downloaded the 19 required zip files, and be ready to go. Ok, change directory to the location of the downloaded files, unzip and concatenate them into a single OVA file using the following: $ unzip 'V*.zip' $ cat Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.2.6_VISION_INSTALL.ova.* >... Continue Reading →
Oracle EBS Cloning with Delphix 5.0
History of Delphix and Oracle Oracle EBS non-Production environments often have complex topologies, usually with separate database and application tiers, often with multiple Application servers. The recent Delphix v5.0 releases addressed this challenging requirement with the introduction of support for multiple Application Servers 'Multi-Node'. I thought it was a good time to revisit how Delphix... Continue Reading →
Virtualising Oracle EBS R12.1 using Delphix v.4.1
Oracle EBS R12.1 Virtualisation Since v4.0 Delphix has had the ability to Virtualise Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) environments - (Database, Database Tech Stack & Apps Tier), in this post I will provide a quick walkthrough on how you can configure Delphix to Virtualise your EBS environment. For this walkthrough I have built an R12.1.1 VIS... Continue Reading →