OCI Storage gateway – For Rman backups

  Acronym  SG – Storage Gateway OSS – Object Storage Service Intro  Syncing data from on-prem to the cloud is always challenging. Oracle introduced a storage gateway to address the primary use case of Object Storage Service (OSS) Storage Gateway to Data Transfer between On-premises applications and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).  Apart from this, OSS Storage […]

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OCI Data Safe – Part 2 (Data Discovery)

  Intro We live in a digital era where the most valuable asset is data. Most organizations are investing in the cloud to take a business edge to become more competitive in the market. When their databases are migrated to the cloud next stride is taken to protect the data. But not having a proper monitoring […]

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OLVM – Glusterfs tuning to avoid split-brain

  Intro In any organization, data is the most valuable asset. Many technologies emerged to protect data and avoid a single point of failure.  When storing any critical data, having a single point of failure is very risky. While many databases and other software allow you to spread data out in the context of a […]

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OLVM Gluster data domain healing – (Addressing split brain)

  In recent years, the tremendous growth of applications, and these applications started generating huge volumes of data be it from mobile devices or be it from the web. As more and more such applications are being built, they needed to deliver the content directly to the user at a faster rate irrespective of if […]

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Azure template creation for DB – Part 2 ( Cloning new VM using snap disks)

Intro In this era, cloud technology is booming at a rapid pace and businesses are focusing on optimizing IT infrastructure workloads by adopting cloud models like AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI. Cloud technologies enable the organization to get on-demand services and get the advantage of quick environment provisioning. A few years back organizations were hesitant […]

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OLVM intergration with OEM 13c – (OLVM Monitoring)

  Intro Nowadays businesses heavily depend on online mission-critical databases and applications. The online market is 24X7 so it’s important they must be on top of the infrastructure monitoring. This helps system engineers, and database engineers to proactively react to alerts before they become major incidents. Monitoring and alerting play a vital role in enterprise […]

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Configure Storage domain (OLVM) – Part 4/6

  Intro I hope the last few articles were helpful to start a new journey with OLVM (Oracle Linux Virtual Manager). As we configured the KVM on the OLVM environment the next step is to configure the storage domain. VMs disks and snapshots are stored under storage domains.   OLVM supports 4 types of storage types. […]

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OLVM – Oracle VM hard partitioning – Addressing oracle licensing policy

Intro  Virtualized platform with x86 architecture is making an enormous impact on saving IT infrastructure expenditure. Successful implementation is determined by whether the virtualized system reflects an organization’s needs and goals. Some organizations lose their grip on compliance due to a lack of understanding of licensing policies. In my view, licensing plays a crucial role […]

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OLVM (Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager) – Change hostname

  Intro OLVM (Oracle Linux Virtual Manager) is the single point of GUI (web console) that enables system engineers to manage multiple KVMs, Vms, Storage domains and etc … .  Also note that Oracle Linux KVM is the same hypervisor used in the Oracle Cloud. To get more insight about OCI cloud infrastructure virtualization I […]

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