At this point I have created everything else apart from the database. For the database we have few options starting if we would like to have Baremetal, Virtual Machine or Exadata. In this demo I’m going to create VM single-node database but I could create it as RAC database as well with two nodes. Similar…
Series – Get your database running with Terraform part 8: Compute
Before creating database I will create jump host on public subnet so we will be able to access our database once it’s created. If I would have connection setup to our corporate network I could access the private subnet directly if my network configuration would allow it. This way I can limit the surface on…
Passbolt v1.6.0 is out
Since I’ve written earlier about Passbolt as team password manager I thought it would make sense to notify there is new version 1.6.0 out as I installed version 1.4.0 for us. My earlier post about Passbolt is here: https://finnishingthoughts.wordpress.com/2017/03/01/passbolt-for-team-password-management/ The biggest thing we noticed previously was the lack of group management in Passbolt but luckily…
Oracle VM 3.4.x & PVM vs HVM PV
Initially when we started to use Oracle VM we did lot of performance testing and at that point we went with Paravirtualized VM’s (PVM) due to better performance we saw with them. Now with our recent upgrade to Oracle VM 3.4.2 if you are using hugepages (we do!) then hugepages are not supported anymore with…
Resize backup LVM on Exadata
We were patching Exadata and one of the YUM pre-checks failed due to invalid LVM size. We hadn’t done any resizing lately so I think issue had been there already but for whatever reason it wasn’t noticed. For backing up and rolling back on OS updates Exadata takes snapshot on identical LVM volume as the…