So what is the major difference between an Installfest and a Deployfest?
With the Installfest we focus on getting developers, DBAs, sysadmins quick easy hands on access to 10gR2, OCFS2 and PHP in a enterprise linux development environment.
see 'Oracle & PHP Installfest' for details.
With the Deployfest the focus is on giving DBAs and sysadmins exposure to realworld experience for best practises in production deployments.
*Oracle-on-Linux Deployfest*
Peter Sechser of the 'Hacker Nights' fame has lined up some great content.
One of the problems our OTN members face is having started out with a small database their business grows to the point were they need to upgrade their infrastructure. How do you accomplish that while minimizing downtime and zero loss in production data?
Chris Kurka, Dir. Technical Services at Oracle's ETC is going to demo how you can take a single instance database and migrate it to RAC on linux. He will also demonstrate how you can use the 'add node' feature in Grid Control to greatly simplify the current manual process.
For those not familiar with the Enterprise Technology Center, it is basically a big old testing ground complete with boxes, storage, and evrything the corporate geek needs to prove to the 'pointy haired' bosses that their future production configuration will work.
We will also have Joel Becker developer for the GPL'd ASMlib kernel driver give a presentation and Q&A on ASM and the advantages of using the ASMlib driver on linux.
