Automated exachk

I was speaking in December at UKOUG Tech’16 and attended Andy Colvin‘s session on “5 Quick Tips for Exadata Administrators”. Andy mentioned that it’s possible to automate your exachk which sounds really good idea. We have run it earlier on a semi-frequent schedule but always manually. Wouldn’t it be good to run it for example every…

Exadata, Oracle eBS and exachk

Nice feature which I wasn’t aware earlier is that when you run exachk for your Exadata it has eBS specific section as well. So not all content is related to Exadata or databases. There are million posts about exachk so I won’t go into details on it but exachk is as per Oracle: Oracle ORAchk and…

Installing Oracle VM 3.4.2 (Part 2)

On part 2 for OVM 3.4.2 I’ll show how to configure OVM up to running speed so you can create VM’s. It’s  again really straightforward and doesn’t  need much previous (or at all) knowledge. Networking As we use iSCSI for our storage I need to add our iSCSI networks to OVM and link them to…

Installing Oracle VM 3.4.2 (Part 1)

Moi! We currently use Oracle VM 3.3.3 quite heavily and look to improve our setup. So for that I decided to install latest Oracle VM 3.4.2. to see what improvements it brings. Oracle Virtualization blog has good summary on 3.4.2: https://blogs.oracle.com/virtualization/entry/oracle_vm_3_4_2 To install I had to download two files. One for OVM Manager and one…