SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as a platform for databases: installation, configuration, patching, the High Availability Extension and what to watch when running databases on SLES.
Snapshot mechanism of VirtualBox With VirtualBox you can take snapshots of the current state (without snapshot functionality of a filesystem like btrfs) This kind of snapshot will create a kind of differential file and the original file will be untouched. Every changed block is written to this difference file in the Snapshot/ directory. If you will do tests with always…
In the last post about SUSE Multi Linux Manager we had a look at how you can schedule OpenSCAP reports using the API. In this post we’ll look into something very basic: How can you patch the server components of SUSE Multi Linux Manager. We speak about components because you need to patch the host (which is a SLE Micro…
As we’ve recently supported some customers on SUSE Multi Linux Manager I’d like share something which was not as easy to implement as it appeared to be in the first place. But first of all, what is SUSE Multi Linux Manager? It is basically a fork of Spacewalk which was also used as the upstream project by the Red Hat…
Last week, I hit a wall when my SUSE Linux Enterprise Server license expired, stopping all repository access. Needing PostgreSQL urgently, I couldn’t wait for SUSE to renew my license and had to act fast.I chose to disable every SLES repository and switched to the openSUSE Leap repository. This worked flawless and made my system usable in very short time.…
We all had that time where we needed to upgrade a ages old system that was running for years without any interruption. This sometimes can be quite tricky and take some time and nerves to do correctly. But since SUSE rocks its amazing YaST (Yet Another Setup Tool), you can nail this setup without deep shell skills. In this Blog…
SUSE Multi-Linux Manager, formerly known as SUSE Manager (SUMA), is an open-source infrastructure management solution designed to simplify and secure the management of many Linux distribution out there. It provides you with a web console to manage not only SUSE and its distributions but almost any Open Source or payed subscription distro! It’s already impressive that Multi Linux Manager can…
As part of the SUSE partner program, we were warmly invited to attend the SUSECON 24 in Berlin with my colleague Jean-Philippe Clapot. A two and half days event where we joined the SUSE family to learn more about their strategy and vision. “SUSE Make Choice Happens” with their Open Source Solutions extended with the PRIME support and advance offering.…
