Feels like I’m jumping bit from topic to another but I had some testing ongoing with OCI Load Balancing service so thought to write a post on it. I’ll also throw few comparisons with AWS ELB so it gives an idea how Oracle has done it’s service. In OCI the Load Balancing (LB) service is…
OCI network with public and private subnets
When you create your VCN (Virtual Cloud Network) in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure so that you have a virtual network for your compute servers you then create subnets under the VCN. The subnets will contain part of CIDR block you have allocated for the VCN. If you are not familiar with VCN then good place to…
Attended Oracle Cloud Infrastructure seminar – part 1
I had the opportunity to attend half a day seminar about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) what Oracle offers. Here are some notes about it and some comparison to Amazon Web Services which I have been using a lot lately as well. Content The seminar was divided in to few different topics which were: Introduction to…
Oracle OVS, Broadcom Netextreme II and 10G network
We recently upgraded our LAN network from 1G to 10G but the Oracle OVS servers network cards showed only 1G link even though the advertised link was 10G. [root@ovs1 ~]# ethtool em1 Settings for em1: Supported ports: [ FIBRE ] Supported link modes: 1000baseT/Full Supported pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link…