Cloud computing

About SSH keys in Oracle Public Cloud

When working with resources on the Oracle public cloud, whatever it is IaaS or PaaS, the principle access method is based on SSH keys exchange. Once our instance is created this is going to be the first and only way(…)

Launching a VM with the Amazon AWS command line tools

The cool thing with Amazon AWS is that you can use command line tools on your workstation to bring up and manage your services. In this post I’ll look into how you can launch a Linux VM from(…)

Oracle OEM Cloud Control 12.1.0.4 – agent upgrade & patch

The new Oracle OEM Cloud Control 12.1.0.4 release migration makes it necessary for the DBA to migrate the old agent version to 12.1.0.4. If your infrastructure has a huge number of agents and if you want to apply the agent(…)

Oracle OEM Cloud Control 12.1.0.4 – the new features

This document describes the main new features of Cloud Control 12.1.0.4. A lot of new features are coming with the 12.1.0.4 version I will describe the most important ones, but you can also refer to this Oracle documen: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E24628_01/doc.121/e25353/whats_new.htm#CEGFFGBI(…)

Oracle Cloud Application Foundation for next-generation applications

On 11 July 2013, Oracle launched the so-called Cloud Application Foundation. An online launch event was organized on 31 July 2013 to introduce this new term in the Oracle Stack. This event had two parts: Keynote and Customer &(…)

High availability and disaster recovery on Windows Azure VMs

To be honest, I am not a specialist of Windows Azure. In order to learn a little bit more about this subject, I decided to follow a TechEd Europe 2013 session about High Availability and Desaster Recovery on Windows(…)

Discovering Oracle database 12c targets (CDB, PDB) in Cloud Control 12c

In my consultant’s activity at dbi services, I had the opportunity to test the new databasion version Oracle 12c. As an Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c fan, when the 12.1.0.3.0 Oracle database plugin was made available, I decided to(…)

Migrating to Oracle OEM Cloud Control 12.1.0.2.0

I recently upgraded from Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12.1.0.1.0 to the most recent version 12.1.0.2.0. This document describes the migration procedure and the different problems encountered. The first point to know when you are about to upgrade an existing Enterprise(…)

Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c: Administration Groups & Template Collections

This document describes the implementation of theadministration groups and template collections with Oracle EnterpriseManager Cloud Control 12c.   Administration Groups (improvement of Grid 11g Target(…)

Replace a voting disk is so easy with Grid Infrastructure 11.2 & ASM!

For a few day we had a quick request at a customer which was to replace a voting disk in an ASM disk group. The current ASM disk group (redundancy normal) had 3 disks : two located in one data(…)