Operating systems

Configure Oracle DB for using Large Pages on AIX

When it comes to deploying a new Oracle infrastructure, 90% of it is implemented on Linux. This makes sense, because Oracle runs very stable and performant on Linux and it is also Oracle’s own development platform. But since variety makes(…)

PostgreSQL on 80 core ARM Server

This Blog is about intallation and testing PostgreSQL 14 latest on an ARM based 80 core Server using Rocky Linux 8.6. Many thanks to Happyware for providing the machine used for this Blog. https://happyware.com/ The machine used for this(…)

Setup a Rocky Linux Repository server

This Blog is about a setup of a Rocky Linux Repository server. Many people whould complain that it will be the same than RHEL 8, but is is not, there are some differencies between AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, Oracle Linux(…)

Setup a AlmaLinux 8 Repository Server

This Blog is about to setup a AlmaLinux 8 Repository Server including EPEL and RPMFusion. Many people whould complain that it will be the same than RHEL 8, but is is not, there are some differencies between AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux,(…)

Setup a RHEL 8 Repository Server

This Blog is about a own Repository server for RHEL 8, Blogs for Repository Server for AlmaLinux, Oracle Linux, Rocky Linux, OpenSuse LEAP, SLES 15 and Debian 11 will follow. The base is a minimal installation.I have added EPEL and(…)

Configure Data Guard between 2 DB Systems with Oracle 21c

By Mouhamadou Diaw In this previous blog, I have configured 2 DB systems with Oracle 21c in an ODA 19.14. Now let’s continue and show how we can configure a Data Guard between these 2 servers.

Extract all DDL from an Oracle database

Introduction Extracting DDL is sometime useful for creating similar objects in another database without data. Basically everything can be extracted from a running Oracle database. The needs My customer asked me to replicate a database without any data. The goal(…)

How to setup a Consul Cluster on RHEL 8, Rocky Linux 8, AlmaLinux 8 part 1

This blog describes the setup of a Consul Cluster on RHEL 8 and clones, it will be the base for a Patroni HA setup using RPM Packages from postgresql.org. Many Patroni setups are using ETCD, but ETCD is not(…)

Migrating from CentOS 8 to AlmaLinux 8

In our blogs we already talked about Migrating a CentOS 7 EC2 instance to Rocky Linux 8 and CentOS 8 machine to Red Hat 8 , but how does it look(…)

Clone Oracle 21c Home

By Mouhamadou Diaw When deploying new Oracle Home on the same server or on a new server, you may use the downloaded Oracle binaries and do an install from scratch as usual. You may then apply any patch you have(…)