OCI – (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) Intro Cloud platforms are booming and many organizations are planning on a cloud journey to get a competitive advantage. The cloud market is vast, with a diverse selection of services. It’s not easy to select a suitable cloud platform for an organization. There are certain criteria you need to […]
ContinueIntro It has been ages since when Oracle released its own hypervisor (OVM). OVM technology is based on paravirtualization and uses Xen-based hypervisor. OVM’s latest release version 3.4.6.3 is the latest one available. Oracle announces extended support for OVM and the support period is March 2021 and will end on March 31, 2024. If you need […]
ContinueIntro Nowadays all the business markets are highly competitive and organizations want to take competitive advantages over others. When business is highly critical databases and application servers need to be up and running 24X7 . Virtualization is the technology that helps to maximize the IT infrastructure cost. High availability of VM can be achieved […]
ContinueODA virtualized eases the database upgrade process using oakcli orchestration utility. This tool became more stable after 19.8. All the ODA components can be orchestrated via this oakcli utility. However, 19.13 will be the last upgrade for the virtualized platform, After that oracle going to discontinue OVM and they are moving to KVM-based virtualization. This […]
ContinueIntro OLVM (Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager) releases 4.4 is based on the oVirt 4.4.0 through 4.4.10 release. Ovirt already released version 4.5, But Oracle is behind on releasing the 4.5. Currently, they are working on testing the 4.5 release for bugs. If you are planning to upgrade OLVM and KVMs make sure to upgrade […]
ContinueIntro It’s essential to have a proper backup mechanism for virtualization infrastructure. Also, we need to test the backup and recovery method at least once in 3 months to validate that everything is working as expected. Also documenting the recovery procedure helps to avoid surprises when there is a recovery scenario. Organizations should be […]
ContinueIntro OLVM is a mighty engine that reduces administration overhead in managing multiple KVMs.As engineers, you clearly understand the maintenance activities and VM recovery procedures. VM changes are very sensitive and there are changes you may face startup issues. In this article, I will elaborate on the issue I faced while moving VM from […]
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