Note to myself: Get available physical memory of a xen host
18-Aug-11Just use: xm topxm top
Virtualization with load-balancing and hot-failover: Done.
19-Feb-08This is really going the last post of my series on Oracle VM Server / VM Manager on inexpensive hardware. Last week a second Dell Power Edge arrived, followed by a little NAS/iSCSI System, the ES-2100 from Eurostor, which is rebranded Thecus N5200 Pro. I do link Eurostor because i made some very nice contact […]
Installing Oracle 11g Database on OEL5
12-Dec-07As a last post in the series (1, 2, 3, 4): Installing the latest and greatest incarnation of the Oracle Database named “Oracle 11g” on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 running as a paravirtualized machine on Oracle VM Server. Honestly, i was afraid of installing Oracle the first time under a linux environment but i must […]
Installing Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 as a VM in Oracle VM Server
Installing the latest incarnation of Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 as a paravirtualized machine in Oracle VM Server is a bit tricky. The OEL5 is delivered as 5 iso files, cd images they are. The Oracle VM Manager is only able to install the patched paravirtualized guest system from one installation medium. Damn it, they praise […]
Installing Oracle VM Server
As promised, i’d like to share some experience with installing the new “Oracle VM Server”. The product isn’t as new as Oracle wants you to believe, it’s based on Xen 3.1.1 “with many, many performance enhancements done by our engineers”. We’ll see. After unpacking our shiny new Dell (The rabat action was entitled “My First […]