With the dead of Adobe Flash Player, I decided it was a good time to get a new OEM system so I can test OEM without flash and test couple of things on it. With this guide just wanted to make sure I have all the details in case I need to make a new... » read more
Like I mentioned on my previous post about Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning I got to install BrokeDBA FPP Vagrant Fork as a test for this new (for me at least) Oracle management system. A good place to start checking about the benefits of Oracle FPP: Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning – Introduction and Technical... » read more
I didn’t have the opportunity yet to test anything related to Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning but a BrokeDBA’s tweet, made me realised I really should check it out: Blog #20 💡🚀💡 ✅Try my Vagrant build fork of Oracle Fleet Patching and provisioning (FPP) .✅ Deploy an FPP environment in one command on your laptop... » read more
This recent post by Michael Dinh for pythian.com – HOW TO EASILY PURGE LOGS FOR GI AND DB reminded me that I have never posted anything about this great tool for housekeeping. I actually discovered it after a customer requested more information about it, and couldn’t be more grateful about it since is a very... » read more
I recently changed Centos 8 for Fedora due some issues my Server has with Storage drivers (my old Dell Raid drivers are not longer supported in Centos 8, so any update was a bit of a nightmare…) Since I wanted to try to use Vagrant with VirtualBox, I tried to install it without checking much,... » read more
One of the best things about the Oracle Community is the amount of people willing to share cool information and tools they develop on their own. I guess we could say "Sharing is caring" 🙂 One of the people you should start following (but I’m sure you already do..) is Kamil Stawiarski. He recently created... » read more
Ok, so after installing Vagrant + Libvirt lets see if we can deploy some VMs in parallel adding also some Ansible magic. For this test, will be using Oracle Linux Boxes. The first step is to get the Oracle Linux Boxes and do a simple test to make sure the VM creation is working fine.... » read more
Has been a while since I have used vagrant and when I did, I just used the default virtualbox to test oracle-base RAC installations Now that I’m thinking about how to create a Oracle RAC cluster using Ansible (there are few places you can find how to do it, but the fun part is to... » read more