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!
Passing the OCI Certified Architect Professional 2021 – 1Z0-997-21
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 questions has improved so you are not left wondering so many times what were they…
Terraform and OCI DHCP Options
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 means that sometimes the values exist and sometimes they don’t. For this I thought…
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and provisioning Exadata part 2
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 it available in the console and can start using it. We had the 1/4 quarter…
FinnishingThoughts Podcast first episode is out!
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! https://finnishingthoughts.podbean.com/mf/web/gjhz6m/Finnishing_Thoughts_Episode_1_-_Julian_Dontcheff.mp3 In my first episode my guest is an Oracle Ace Director who works as…
Loading customizations to e-Business Suite with Ansible
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 high(No surprise there!). Due to some historical reasons initially we were loading custom objects to…
Two ways to change Oracle passwords with Ansible
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 about simple!) Recently there has been also lot of presentations on automating your Oracle infrastructure…
How is my EBS instance using Exadata write-back flash cache?
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 not the write operations. Write-back then uses the flash cache to both read AND write…
Looking deeper into ChatOps
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 to put it really simple you have a chatroom tailored for specific group, be it…
Oracle VM 3.4.2 CPU pinning & licensing
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 to license whole server pool which the virtual machine runs on. Drawback is when you…