Operating systems

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(…)

ODA KVM Machines : Adding a Network Interface on a Virtual Machine

By Mouhamadou Diaw In a previous blog , I was talking about virtual machines on ODA servers. Sometimes it comes that we want to add another network interface for other purpose. In this blog I(…)

Automating Linux patching with Ansible – How to keep all your environments consistent ?

Your may want to patch your Linux servers on a regular basis (e.g using “yum/dnf update”). As always, it’s obviously recommended to : 1) Patch the TEST systems 2) Check if there is no side effects 3) Wait(…)

Oracle Database Appliance 19.13: what’s new and how to patch?

Introduction Patch 19.13 is now available on ODA. It’s time to test it. What’s new? This version brings October’s PSU to database and grid homes with their bug fixes, as usual. It also brings 21.4 for DB Systems (21c being(…)

When unreachable NFS share mess up your Dbvisit Standby configuration

If I had to rank my favorite Oracle-related tools and software, Dbvisit Standby would likely be at the top of the list. You are reading this post, so you probably know that Dbvisit Standby is a(…)

ODA 19.12: How can you manage DB Systems with odacli?

Introduction As virtualization is available for all ODAs now, you could ask yourself if it’s a good idea to use this virtualization or not. Databases can be created as bare metal, but also within a DB System for better isolation.

Dbvisit 10 on Oracle Database Appliance

By Mouhamadou Diaw Dbvisit Standby can also be installed on Oracle Database Appliance (ODA). The installation is the same that on any other Linux box. I did an install of Dbvist 10 on an ODA 19.12 for a customer and(…)

Install Enterprise Manager 13c R5: Check the db edition Failed

By Mouhamadou Diaw A few days ago, I was setting an Enterprise Manager 13c R5 for a client. The configuration used is the following -The EM binaries are installed in a separate server than the database -The database(…)