Using Vagrant and shell scripts to further automate setting up my demo environment from scratch, including ElasticSearch, Fluentd and Kibana (EFK) within Minikube

Marc Lameriks April 23, 2019 Containers No Comments

For training and demo purposes, on my windows laptop, I needed an environment with a guest Operating System, Docker and Minikube available within an Oracle VirtualBox appliance. So, in …

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Newly released: Oracle Exadata X8-2 – bigger disks for saving money, expanding capacity

Lucas Jellema April 20, 2019 Engineered Systems No Comments

Earlier this month, Oracle announced the availability of the latest Exadata machine, the X8-2. As well as the option to swap in big 14 TB disks in older versions …

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Creating a Report of available ASM candidate disks from the OEM Repository

Karin Kriebisch April 19, 2019 Enterprise Manager, Database, DBA Oracle 1 Comment

A while ago I was reviewing the metric extensions of our Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13.2.0.0, we use to administer a couple of hundred databases. All acceptance and production …

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