Simon's Tech Tips at Oracle

Running OpenFiler 2.3 on Oracle VM (Would work in any Xen server)

By Simon Thorpe on July 28, 2009 9:13 PM

Well, now that my VMWare Server 2 environment is no more and I purchased 5 1TB disks for my RAID 5 array, Avi Miller had the excellent idea of using OpenFiler to manage access to the array. However I...

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Migrating a VMWare Server 2 Windows 2003 guest to Oracle VM

By Simon Thorpe on July 16, 2009 9:43 PM

Currently I have my dual core, 8GB RAM, 3TB RAID 5 array, server running Windows Server 2003 Enterprise and VMWare Server 2 with a Windows 2003 guest. I'm in the process of converting this to Oracle VM and I need...

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Upgrading Oracle VM from 2.1.2 to 2.1.5

By Simon Thorpe on July 16, 2009 9:22 PM

I'm nearly ready to rebuild my final Windows based VMWare environment to Oracle VM. I have just one virtual machine now running in VMWare that I need to migrate over to OVM and it's a Windows 2003 server. Before I...

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Exposing physical disks to guests in Oracle VM

By Simon Thorpe on June 3, 2009 3:46 PM

So my plan is to have a reliable Oracle VM hosted 11g database. I have a test machine which has limited resources but its the starting point for my learning of how to configure this correctly. I now have my...

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Installing Enterprise Linux on an Oracle VM 2.1.2 server

By Simon Thorpe on June 3, 2009 3:07 PM

I recently built on a spare machine at home an instance of Oracle VM 2.1.2. The machine isn't the most ideal, a Celeron 2.4ghz Dell Desktop with 1.5 GB RAM. But its enough to get me up and running before...

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