This time I’m looking on OCI Network Path Analyzer, how you can use it to debug connectivity issues in OCI. It’s one of my go-to tools now whenever I have to start debugging an issue and it’s completely free!
It’s that time of the year – new OCI Certified Architect Professional exam came out with new questions so I decided to take the test and see what’s changed from last year. Summary – not much. Honestly, the quality of…
Hello blog! Sorry I’ve been lacking with my posts but let’s kick it off again and with a bang! I’ve had few cases previously where I’m using Terraform modules and the blocks need to support one to many different values.…
This is part 2 on provisioning Exadata on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, you can read part 1 from here. In this post I will focus on what the overall system looks like and database creation. After provisioning the Exadata you have…
For already quite some time I’ve thought it would be great to discuss on interesting topics with some of the Oracle experts out there and now I’m happy to say my first episode on FinnishingThoughts Podcast is out! …
Happy new year! I’ll continue with Ansible topic with one more post as it has helped our small operations team quite a lot lately. We still run Oracle e-Business Suite 12.1.3 and the amount of customizations we have is really…
We do our share of database cloning for various purposes and usually the cloning process is fairly scripted. However lately we have been looking more and more into Ansible which as per their site is simple automation/orchestration tool. (Not so sure…
When we were planning migration from commodity hardware to Exadata X5-2 one open topic we had was if it makes sense to enable write-back flash cache in Exadata. The default mode is write-through where read operations utilize flash cache but…
Wow few upgrades and summer vacation kept me busy past few months. Lately I have been looking on automation and started to look into ChatOps. So what is ChatOps? If you look from various sources you get different explanation but…
One of the reasons why we started using Oracle VM was due to Oracle’s licensing policy with their products running on top of Oracle VM. If you “pin” (or hard partition) the virtual machine to specific cores you don’t need…