Infrastructure at your Service
Nowadays I have been working on an interesting customer project where I had to migrate windows oracle standard databases to ODA. The ODAs are X7-2M Models, running version 18.5. This version is coming with Red Hat Enterprise Linx 6.10 (Santiago). Both windows databases and target ODA databases are running PSU 11.2.0.4.190115. But this would definitively also be working for oracle 12c and oracle 18c databases. The databases are licensed with Standard Edition, so migrating through…
The Initial Release (8.0.0) of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is available since May 2019. I’ve already blogged about one of its new feature (AppStream) during the Beta version. In this post I will present Stratis, which is a new local storage-management solution available on RHEL8. Introduction LVM, fdisk, ext*, XFS,… there is plenty of terms, tools and technologies available for managing disks and file systems on a Linux server. In a general way, setting…
When it comes to troubleshooting processes or to get a deeper look of how SQL Server works internally , I always used debugging tools as windbg on Windows and since SQL Server is available on Linux, I switched to strace tool. But let’s add containers in the game now. I didn’t want to touch any based image for applications including SQL Server with debugging tools added. So, my concern was to figure out how to…
Introduction Oracle & Linux is a great duet. Very powerfull, very scriptable. Here are several commands that make my life easier. These tools seems to be widespread on most of the Linux distributions. watch with diff It’s my favorite tool since a long time. watch can repeat a command indefinitely until you stop it with Ctrl+C. And it’s even more useful with the – -diff parameter. All the differences since last run are highlighted. For…
I had the opportunity to test the new Dorada 6000 V3 All-Flash storage system. See what the all-new Dorado 6000 V3 All-Flash Storage system is capable as storage for your database system.
Today (actually right now) we are a proud sponsor of the Red Hat Forum Switzerland 2019 in Geneva. With around 300 people attending this is quite a huge event and we had a lot of interesting discussions with other partners as well as existing customers or just people we met and didn’t know before.
You may have heard that : Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is available for downloading in beta version since few weeks… You want to download it ? Click here. A significant change coming with this new version is the way the applications packages are provided. As you know, up to RHEL7 packages were downloaded via repositories listed in .repo files located by default under /etc/yum.repos.d/. This is still the same with RHEL8, but two new…
It happens within the blink of an eye. A delete command was executed and half a second after you hit the enter button you knew it. That was a mistake. This is the scenario which leads to this blog entry in where I show you how you can get your files back if you are lucky…
I tried to apply a patch to my 18.3.0 GI/ASM two node cluster on RHEL 7.5. The first node worked fine, but the second node got always an error…
This is the start of a series of posts I wanted to write for a long time: Getting started with Red Hat Satellite. Just in case you don’t know what it is, this statement from the official Red Hat website summarizes it quite well: “As your Red Hat® environment continues to grow, so does the need to manage it to a high standard of quality. Red Hat Satellite is an infrastructure management product specifically designed…
