Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Metalink outage

Gotta love it when you can't get to My Oracle Support.  Insert your wisecrack about them following MAA...

Monday, February 4, 2013

Second Oracle Exadata Virtual Conference

Hopefully you are already aware, but if not there is an online Exadata "Virtual Conference".  It is a 2 day event 2/6/2013 and 2/7/2013. Both days it is from 10AM - 1PM EST.  Day one is supposed to take you through a day in the life of an Exadata administrator and migration planning activities.  Day two is supposed to talk more about new features and capabilities as well how to optimize you investment in Exadata.  It's all done through Go To Meeting, so you don't have to worry about travel expenses, and best of all it is free.  I attended some of the sessions for the Virtual Conference last year and I found it to be very worthwhile.  Last year they also made recordings of the sessions available after the fact, so you could review them at your leisure.

Day 1 registration:   https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/560212505
  • Arup Nanda - Exadata for Oracle DBAs
  • Doug Utzig - Exadata Software Maintenance Best Practices
  • James Steven Czuprynski - Demystifying IORM for Exadata
  • Christopher Douglas Bradham - Lessons Learned: A DoD Exadata Migration
Day 2 registration:   https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/782184600
  • Mathew Steinberg - Exadata X3: What's New and Where Are We Going
  • Ananth Ram & Jigar Shah - Exadata in EBS – Techniques for  Proof-of-value  to  Production and Beyond!
  • Satyendra Kumar Pasalapudi - Exadata Evolution from V1 to X3 with Deep Dive into the features
  • Lawrence, Hin Luen, To - MAA Architecture and Operational Best Practices for Oracle Exadata

Check  out the following link for more information:  http://www.ioug.org/p/cm/ld/fid=89#Exadata

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Oracle Virtual Sysadmin Day

In case you're not already aware Oracle is hosting it's First Virtual Sysadmin Day on 1/15/13.  It's a free event (registration is required).  There are 3 separate tracks:
  • Linux
  • Solaris
  • OVM
Here are some of the things that are going to be covered:
  • Create and manage ZFS pools and filesystems, safely update and restore your system using Boot Environments
  • Create and manage a virtualized Oracle Solaris environment using Oracle Solaris Zones and Network Virtualization
  • Install Oracle Linux using RPM and yum repositories; create storage volumes, prepare block devices, work with filesystems
  • Create and mount Btrfs in Oracle Linux, work with block devices and snapshots
  • Plan and deploy a virtualized infrastructure environment with Oracle VM
  • Virtualize and deploy enterprise applications in minutes using Oracle VM Templates
You'll be running the labs on your own machine using Virtualbox, so there is a little bit of pre-work to get prepared.  Overall it seems like a very cool idea, and I'm interested to see how it works.
 
 
Here is a link to a Wiki with all the details:  https://wikis.oracle.com/display/virtualsysadminday/Home
 
You can register here: