Of course today’s highlight was Werner Vogels’ keynote with is amazing presentation skills and some great announcements. You will for sure you will find plenty of articles about it.On my side I will rather focus on 2 thematics which are a bit closer and relevant for daily operational activities: Network “debugging” and the Resilience Hub. Network monitoring and tracing For…
Here we go, the 1st day of this 2022 edition of the AWS re:Invent is almost over and it was already a pretty busy day with 2 interesting hands-on workshop. Here some insights about Cloud WAN and to finish a small tips about a “funny” trap… Creating a large network: Cloud WAN When working over multiple VPCs as well as…
Oracle appliance is proposing various possibilities for creating databases either on the Bare Metal or using KVM DB System. Each DB System will host a single database in a separate VM. What about having each DB system running a separate network? In this blog I would like to share my tests and findings about how to create additional network on…
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 Disaster/Recovery solution for Oracle Database Standard Edition (aka Data Guard for poor people 😛 ). The reasons why I like this product are mostly…
I recently needed to configure bonding between 2 network cards on a customer side and I wanted trough this blog to share my findings and how I built it showing some traces. I will also do a short comparison of what is possible or not on the ODA. Why should I use bonding? Bonding is a technology which will allow…
During a past project, we were using ODA X8-2M with one additional network card. As per my knowledge, on an appliance, additional cards are used to extend connectivity to additional network. Customer was really enforcing to have network redundancy between the 2 cards. I then took opportunity for some tests. In this post, I would like to share my experience…
Sometimes it is required that you can react on state changes of your network interfaces. Maybe you want to get notified by mail or you want to execute a script that does something in case an event is trapped. As usual I will be using CentOS 7 for this little demonstration but as most distributions use systemd and NetworkManager nowadays…
Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) have become since several years a standard in enterprise class networks. Most enterprises are now segregating their network, especially for security reasons, between server and user or prod and test or applications and backup and aso. In the new release of ODA we finally get the support for VLAN on the bare metal platform. This…
Recently I exported an Oracle Virtual Box VM as an “.ova” file. When the file was imported again I faced issues with the network devices inside the VM. This post is about what I experienced and how I resolved it. In my example I have two networks devices configured for the VM in the Virtual Box: When I logged in…
Recently at a customer I was confronted with a problem of restarting the Oracle Database 12c automatically on a Windows Server 2008 R2 x64. I installed Oracle 12.1.0.1.0 with a user of service in a domain who has member of the Group ORA_DBA. The authentication service is correctly set with the NTS parameter in the sqlnet.ora file. This Installation has…
