by hobadmin | Oct 30, 2014 | Oracle
Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect In recent months we have been helping customers plan and upgrade to 12c. In this blog post we will share some topics you should consider before upgrading. Once you have made the decision to upgrade your Oracle database to 12c,... by hobadmin | Oct 23, 2014 | Oracle, vSphere
Mike Stone (@HoBMStone), CIO & Principal Architect Scenario: Virtualized 8TB Data warehouse, daily ETL extending multiple GB/day. Enterprise storage system with 4 dedicated controllers and 16 fiber paths configured for active/active. Oracle is occasionally... by hobadmin | Oct 15, 2014 | Oracle
Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect Introduction If you are reading this post then you probably already know about HugePages in Linux. If not, then read this previous blog post, which describes HugePages. In newer versions of Linux, specifically RHEL/OEL 6.x and SLES... by hobadmin | Oct 8, 2014 | Oracle, VMware, vSphere
Jim Hannan (@HoBHannan), Principal Architect Oracle Ksplice (also referred to as uptrack or Ksplice uptrack) http://www.ksplice.com is a kernel patching tool for Linux that does not require a reboot after applying a patch. “On July 21, 2011, Oracle announced... by hobadmin | Oct 3, 2014 | Dave Welch, Oracle, Oracle Licensing, VMware, vSphere
Dave Welch, CTO, Chief Evangelist and David Woodard, COO About a year ago, some joint customers of Oracle, VMware, and House of Brick began to be informed they needed to purchase Oracle licenses for all nodes sharing storage. Oracle Contract Basics Let’s start by...