David Hueber

AWS re:Invent day 4 – Network & Resilience hub

Of course today’s highlight was Werner Vogels’ keynote with is amazing presentation skills and some great announcements. You will for sure you will find plenty of articles about it.On my side I will rather focus on 2 thematics which are(…)

AWS re:Invent day 3 – Gray failures mitigation

So again during the 3rd day of the re:Invent 2022 there were plenty of interesting information to take with us. However, the most interesting part was for sure the workshop about gray failures and how to mitigate them in a(…)

AWS re:Invent day 2: All about Lakes

As usual the day 2 with Adams Selipsky’s keynote is where most announcements are done…and they have been severals. As you will probably see plenty of articles about these, and by the way I recommend you to take few minutes(…)

AWS re.Invent day 1: Cloud WAN and a small tip…

Here we go, the 1st day of this 2022 edition of the AWS re:Invent is almost over and it was already a pretty busy day with 2 interesting hands-on workshop. Here some insights about Cloud WAN and to finish a(…)

ODA and KVM: Debugging of DBsystem creation failure

Debugging errors when working with ODA is not always the easiest thing do... :-P It may become a bit tricky and not a straightforward process. In this blog I wanted to show you and example we faced with the debugging(…)

ODA update-server to 19.12 fails on Patch GI with RHP

Sometimes giving a workshop is a good opportunities to test new things...this what happened to me today...  :-) While giving an ODA workshop, I thought it was a good opportunity to test patching to the new 19.12 release. However during(…)

ODA and CIS / GDPR features

We all know that security becomes...sorry, is one of the hottest topic when setting up IT environment. One basis for that is to be compliant with regulations or standards such as GDPR or CIS. What is not so well known,(…)

ODA migration challenges: Non-OMF to OMF + 11.2.0.3 to 11.2.0.4

To do some application and performances tests, I had to copy a database from a third party Linux server to an ODA X7-2M. Looks pretty simple on the paper, but 2 small challenges came into the game. The first was(…)

ODA – manually resetting a CPU alert using Fault Manager

While supporting since several years ODAs of different generations and versions, we faced time to time some hardware alerts sent back by the ILOM. However all of them are not related to real hardware issues and are false positive. To(…)

ODA 12.2.1.2.0: Some curious password management rules

While deploying an ODA based on the DCS stack (odacli), it is mandatory to provide a "master" password at appliance creation. The web GUI provides for that a small tooltip which describes the rules applied on password management. However it(…)