The purpose of this article is to provide a brief introduction to virtualization, without getting too bogged down in technical detail, or vendor-specific politics.
This article describes the installation of Oracle Database 11g release 2 (11.2 64-bit) RAC on Linux (Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 64-bit) using VMware Server 2 with no additional shared disk devices.
Clonedb is a new Direct NFS (DNFS) feature introduced in the 11.2.0.2 database patchset. Rather than using the traditional RMAN database duplication, clonedb uses dNFS technology to instantly Continue reading
In this article I’ll describe the installation of Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.2) on Solaris 10 (x86-64).
The article is based on a default server installation as shown here. Alternative installations Continue reading
This article describes the installation of Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) (64-bit) on Oracle Linux 6 (64-bit). The article is based on a server installation with a minimum of 2G swap, with both SELinux Continue reading
In this article I’ll describe the installation of Oracle Database 10g Release 2 (10.2.0.1) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5).
The article is based on a server installation similar to this, with Continue reading