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Is Oracle Cloud only for Oracle?

Several days ago, discussing public cloud solutions and competition between different providers, one of the people mentioned that Oracle Cloud is just for Oracle products. At the..

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Keep Your Money in Check on the Oracle Infrastructure Cloud

With any cloud environment, it becomes easy to start a new resource whether it is a database or a compute instance. It is like walking to a giant department store with unlimited..

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KVM Lab inside a VirtualBox VM (Nested Virtualization) using Vagrant

KVM Lab inside a VirtualBox VM (Nested Virtualization) using Vagrant By: Kosseila Hd Topic: VirtualBox | Posted: Dec 21, 2021 at 1:00 PM EST Intro It has been a while since I..

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IPSec VPN between OCI and AWS

I’ve been using the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) clouds for a number of years, but primarily it was either one or another. Only in a few cases..

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How to upgrade AHF (TFA and ORACHK/EXACHK) using ahfctl (and patch it for Log4j vulnerability with version 21.3.4.0.0)

Recently we upgraded the Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) to the latest version and I found the new AHFCTL command line very helpful and easy to upgrade AHF. AHFCTL command-line..

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How to do Out of Place Patching in ExaCC via DBAASCLI

This will be a small post on how to do Out of Place Patching for your database in an ExaCC environment. The documentation shows how to do it via the console, but in this example,..

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How to launch an OCI Instance with Ansible roles (always free)

Intro Today, we will conclude our “Oracle Cloud Automation” journey by deploying an instance using Ansible (roles). We will demonstrate how an Always-Free compute instance can be..

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How to enable Nested Virtualization in VirtualBox (New Feature)

Did you ever want to have labs where you could play with different hypervisors within a single virtual machine on your laptop? I know this sounds more like an INCEPTION remake..

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How to downgrade InfiniBand switch patches on Exadata

Lately I was asked to apply the Exadata Quarterly Full Stack Download Patch (QFSDP) of July 2018(Patch 28183368) on the infrastructure components of a virtualized EXADATA X6-2...

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How to create Linux Local Repository using ISO Image

Create a local repository using iso image to installation Oracle RPM. This blog will cover the local repository creation using iso image. Most environment customers are not..

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