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! …
In this post I will go through rest of services we discussed in the seminar. You can read part 1 from here. 5. Compute Services 6. Storage – Block volume & Object storage 7. Load Balancer 8. Database Services 9.…
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…
Past week I attended Oracle Open World in San Francisco. I hadn’t been there for last 7 years so it was good to see lot of familiar faces there again. Still what comes to conference itself there are always good…
We recently had very challenging issue after we upgraded our EBS 12.1.3 database from 11.2.0.3 to 12.1.0.2. On random occasions threads on output post processor started to hang / wait for something and eventually this caused concurrent managers to get…
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…
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…
We implemented Oracle VM 3.3.2 around two years ago and biggest issue we had was using iSCSI storage having sub-optimal latency and throughput with parallel sessions and high load in our performance tests. In the end this was resolved by linux disk partition…
This is more of informative story what happened to us recently. In the past we had issue with one of the Exadata cell node where the RAID HBA card has failed. After working with support they decided to replace the card…
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 ]…