Recent Posts by Patrick Shuff

Some times you just have to have access to a console for graphical use to install software. Many software products provide a command line or silent install but for some reason vendors insist on a graphical user interface to install software. With Windows, this is a simple task because getting to the command line is the difficult part. We talked about configuring the Oracle Compute Cloud security rules on June 6th and getting graphical access for a Windows desktop in the...

Rather than go through a full install of the Corente VPN configuration I thought I would post references to where I pulled tutorials. The obvious place to start is Corente Documentation. I would not start with this but would start with tutorials and workshops. The documentation is confusing and could lead you to locking your account and getting frustrated (trust me). Yesterday we talked about starting the install process. Normally we would go through a full install but...

Last week we started talking about setting up Corente and came to the conclusion that you can not run Corente Gateway in a VirtualBox. It turns out that not only was I wrong but I got a ton of mail from people like product managers, people who got it working, and people who generally did not agree with my conclusion. Ok, I will admit that I read the manuals, played with the suggested configurations, and tried deploying it on my own. It appears that I did a few things...

Last week we looked at provisioning a Hadoop server and realized that the setup was a little complex and somewhat difficult. This is what people typically do the first time when they want to provision a service. They download the binaries (or source if you are really crazy) and install everything from scratch. Our recommendation is to do everything this way the first time. It does help you get a better understanding of how the setup works and dependencies. For example, Hadoop...

Today we are going to get our hands dirty and install a single instance standalong Hadoop Cluster on the Oracle Compute Cloud. This is a continuing series of installing public domain software on Oracle Cloud IaaS. We are going to base our installation on three components Oracle Compute Cloud Services Apache Hadoop 2.7.3 Oracle Linux Release 6 Update 7 We are using Oracle Linux 6.7 because it is the easiest to install on Oracle Compute Cloud Services. We could have done Ubuntu or...

We are going to try a weekly series of posts that talks about public domain code running on the Oracle Cloud IaaS platform. A good topic seems to be Big Data and Hadoop. Earlier we talked about running Tomcat on IaaS as well as WordPress on IaaS using bitnami.com. To start this process we are going to review what is Big Data and what is Hadoop. We are going to start with the first place that most people start with and that is looking at what books are available on the...

Yesterday we went through the theory of setting up a VPN to connect a subnet in our data center to a subnet in the Oracle Cloud. Today we are going to go through the setup of the Corente Gateway in your data center. We will be following the Corente Service Gateway Setup. Important, this lab has problems. Corente does not work with VirtualBox. The first step that we need to do is ensure that we have a Linux server that we can install the services on in our data center. We will...

This week we are going to focus on connecting computers. It seems like we have been doing this for a while. April 4 - connecting ssh to a compute instance June 3 - connecting rdp to a Windows compute instance Aug 24 - hiding a server in the cloud We have looked at connecting our desktop to a cloud server (Linux and Windows). We have also looked at hiding a server in the cloud so that you can only get to it from a proxy host and not from our desktop or anywhere on the cloud. In...

Infrastructure as a Service at Oracle OpenWorld 2016 Oracle OpenWorld, the largest conference for Oracle customers, partners, developers and technology enthusiasts starts on September 18th in San Francisco. The compute, storage, and network development team will be out in force at the conference and you will have multiple opportunities to meet with us, in one of our conference sessions, hands-on labs or at the Oracle Infrastructure-as-a Service showcase. There are 6...