Operating systems

Huawei Dorado 6000 V3 benchmark

I had the opportunity to test the new Dorada 6000 V3 All-Flash storage system. See what the all-new Dorado 6000 V3 All-Flash Storage system is capable as storage for your database system.

SUSE Expert Days 2019 in Lausanne

dbi services is now SUSE Solution Partner. What better way to celebrate that than to attend an event? Last week I was at the SUSE Expert Days 2019 which took place at(…)

How to stop Documentum processes in a docker container, and more (part I)

Ideally, but not mandatorily, the management of Documentum processes is performed at the service level, e.g. by systemd. In my blog here, I showed how to configure init files for Documentum under(…)

Cause for looping sssd

In RedHat Enterprise Linux 7, the sssd daemons can connect to active directory servers. Default behaviour is to update DNS entries dynamically. If a statical DNS entry already exists this can lead to a CPU consuming sssd_nss daemon.

Compile additional packages for Oracle VM Server

I needed a special package on my OVM Server 3.4.6. The package is called fio and is needed to do some I/O performance tests. Unfortunately, OVM Server does not provide any package for compiling software and installing additional software(…)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 – Application Streams

You may have heard that : Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is available for downloading in beta version since few weeks… You want to download it ? Click here. A significant change coming(…)

Monitoring Linux With Nmon

By Mouhamadou Diaw I was looking for tools to monitor linux servers and I found an interesting one nmon ( short for Nigel’s Monitor). I did some tests. In this blog I am describing how(…)

Configure AFD with Grid Infrastructure software (SIHA & CRS) from very beginning.

Introduction : Oracle ASM Filter Driver (Oracle ASMFD) simplifies the configuration and management of disk devices by eliminating the need to rebind disk devices used with Oracle ASM each time the system is restarted. Oracle ASM Filter Driver (Oracle(…)

Kernel panic – not syncing: Out of memory and no killable processes

By Franck Pachot . This is a quick post to give a solution (maybe not the best one as this was just quick troubleshooting) if, at boot, you see something like: Trying to allocate 1041 pages for VMLINUZ [Linux=EFI, setup=0x111f,(…)

Automate OVM deployment for a production ready Oracle RAC 12.2 architecture – (part 02)

In this post we are going to deploy a R.A.C system ready to run production load with near-zero knowledge with R.A.C, Oracle cluster nor Oracle database. We are going to use the “Deploy Cluster Tool” which is provide by Oracle(…)