Category: Information Technology
Links – Week ending 7/26
Friday, 26 July, 2013 19:35 Written by Brian B
Join the live Oracle Solaris and Oracle’s Systems forum: The Best Platform for Oracle Software on 8/7 @ 9am PT!
http://bit.ly/13jr5NS
New Friday tip: Live Migrating the Oracle Database with Oracle VM Server for SPARC.
http://bit.ly/1bVXEd4
Why Sun ZFS Storage Appliance for Oracle Database can help you reap all the benefits of your database functions:
http://medianetwork.oracle.com/video/player/2549481537001
Needing Oracle WebLogic Server 12c installed on Solaris? Check out our VM templates for zones!
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris11/downloads/zone-templates-1954157.html …
Oracle Solaris Forum: Secrets to the latest enhancements to the world’s #1 UNIX OS unveiled. Learn more here:
http://pub.vitrue.com/d1P7
The key benefits of running Oracle Solaris on Oracle’s x86 systems:
http://pub.vitrue.com/ewzE
Introducing the new Oracle Storage Expert Center for Database Management, your 1-stop shop for optimizing your DB
http://pub.vitrue.com/dYR5
Need to explain Oracle Multitenant to your mother? Or to your boss? Use this simple infographic!
http://pub.vitrue.com/EL9S
Oracle to Unveil the Latest Engineered System for Enterprise Virtualization:
http://pub.vitrue.com/1ndv
The next Oracle Solaris web forum is coming: Wednesday, August 7th. Learn more about Oracle Solaris development
http://bit.ly/1c0STgB
Oracle Database12c Interactive Quick Reference
http://pub.vitrue.com/Ea1c
Solaris 11 Image Packaging System
Tuesday, 23 July, 2013 07:34 Written by Brian B
What is Image the Packaging System?
• The Image Packaging System (IPS) is a new network-centric software packaging and delivery system in Oracle Solaris 11. IPS allows efficient, observable, and controllable transitions between known configurations of software content providing administrators with safe system upgrade environments and better control over planned system downtime schedules.
• The ZFS file system is integral to IPS, providing administrators the ability to perform updates on a file system clones on live production systems.
• NOTE: While many IPS commands that query the system (list,info,contents,search,history) can be performed by any user, commands that make changes to the system image must be performed by adopting an appropriate administrative role.
We recommend that those that are using Solaris 11 construct their own local IPS package repository.
Required tasks:
1.Creating a ZFS file system to hold the repository
2.Obtaining software packages from the Oracle Solaris download site
3.Making the contents of the repository available
4.Configuring the repository server service
5.Starting the repository service
6.Setting the local IPS publisher
7.Testing IPS on the local server
Create a ZFS file system for the local package repository in the root pool.
# zfs create rpool/export/IPS
Obtain IPS software packages from the Oracle Solaris download site.
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris11/downloads/index.html
Uncompress and concatenate the files.
# unzip sol-11_1-repo-full.iso-a.zip
# unzip sol-11_1-repo-full.iso-b.zip
# cat sol-11_1-repo-full.iso-a sol-11_1-repo-full.iso-b > sol-11_1-repo-full.iso
Make the contents of the repository .iso file available to the depot server
# lofiadm -a sol-11_1-repo-full.iso
# mount -F hsfs /dev/lofi/1 /mnt
# rsync -aP /mnt/repo /export/IPS
Use SMF to make the repository server service available
# svccfg -s application/pkg/server setprop pkg/inst_root=/export/IPS/repo
# svccfg -s application/pkg/server setprop pkg/readonly=true
# svcprop -p pkg/inst_root application/pkg/server
Start the service
# svcadm refresh application/pkg/server
Refresh the package repository
# pkgrepo refresh -s /export/IPS/repo
Set the local IPS Publisher.
The default origin for the solaris publisher is http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release
We need to change that on the clients to allow them to access the packages from your local IPS repository.
# pkg set -G ‘*’ -g http://your.server.com/ solaris
The -G removes the previous publisher and the -g adds yours
Test access to your local server
# pkg search entire
You can also access your local IPS server via a browser pointing it to the URI of your server.
CTO Collier IT
Saturday, 20 July, 2013 16:13 Written by Brian B
As a means of introduction, I thought it best to introduce my employer and the services that it provides.
Collier IT is an Oracle Platinum Partner that is heavily invested in the entire Oracle Stack.
Collier IT is also an Oracle Approved Education Center and a Oracle Approved Education Reseller. The facility is located in Roseville, MN.
As of this post, Collier IT carries the following Oracle Specializations:
Exadata Database Machine Models X2-2 and X2-8
Oracle Database 11g
Oracle Database 11g Performance Tuning
Oracle Database 11g Data Warehousing
Oracle Linux 5
Oracle Real Application Clusters 11g
Oracle Solaris 10
Oracle Solaris 11
Collier IT partners with other industry leaders to bring an entire IT solution to your IT business needs.
The Collier IT Engineering Staff carry the following certifications / specializations and are able to assist in the deployment, management, or troubleshooting of Enterprise IT solutions.
• Oracle Exadata 11g Certified Implementation Specialist
• Oracle Database 10g Real Applications Clusters Administrator Certified Expert
• Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud X2-2: (Install and Maintenance)
• Oracle Data Warehouse 10g RAC Administrator Certified Expert
• Oracle 11g Performance Tuning Implementation Specialist
• Oracle Database 11g Data Warehouse Certified Implementation Specialist
• Oracle VM2 for x86 Certified Implementation Specialist
• Enterprise Linux: Fundamentals
• Enterprise Linux: System Administration
• Oracle Virtual Machine
• VCP5
• Oracle Database 10g Real Applications Clusters Administrator Certified Expert
• Solaris Core
• Workgroup
• Enterprise
• Datacenter
• E10K
• Midframe
• Cluster 3
• LSC Storage Engineer (SAM-FS / QFS)
• Highground (Storage Resource Manager)
• E25K
• StorageElite
• SE3000 Storage Engineer
• SE6000 Storage Engineer
• SE9900 Storage Engineer
• Sun Certified Data Management Engineer with VERITAS Volume Manager
• Oracle Sun Certified Network Administrator for Solaris 10 OS
• Oracle Certified System Administrator for Sun Cluster 3.2
• Oracle Sun Certified Security Administrator for the Solaris 10 OS
• Oracle Sun Certified System Administrator for Solaris 10 OS
• Sun Certified System Administrator for Solaris 8
• Sun Certified Network Administrator for Solaris 8
• Oracle Solaris Implementation Specialist
• Sun Chip Multithreading (CMT) Servers Implementation Specialist
• Sun SPARC Enterprise Entry-Level and Midrange Servers Implementation Specialist
• Sun SPARC Enterprise High-End Servers Implementation Specialist
• Hitachi Data Systems Certified Professional – Enterprise
• Hitachi Data Systems Certified Professional – Modular
• Operating Systems: HP-UX, Linux, MS Windows Server 2008,MPE and Solaris
• HP Storageworks Data Protector
• Command View EVA & TL
• Symantec Backup and Exec & NetBackup
• McKesson Archival, Storage Software
• FileNet, CommVault
• Lefthand Networks
• SAN Switches: Brocade, Cisco, McData, Nishan, QLogic
• Routers/Hubs: Cisco, HP ProCurve, Nortel, 3 Com
• HP Proliant, HP P Class & C Class Blades
• HP Netserver, HP 9000, HP 3000
• HP Storageworks XP P9500/24,000/12000/1024/128/512/48/256
• EVA 8000/6000/4000/8100/6100/4100/4400/5000/3000
• VLS (Virtual Library System), 3Par, D2D
• HP Storageworks MSL, ESL, ESL-E, & EML series Tape Libraries, & SSL
Please contact Collier IT at info@collier-it.com if you want any additional information regarding their services.
And please remember, the blog posts are mine and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of my employer nor any of their business partners.