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Martin Bach

Signed on the dotted line-Enkitec!

I had to think of ‏@OyvindIsene, a great ambassador of the Norwegian Oracle User Group when I…
Oracle Linux support in ESXi

For quite some time now I am using ESXi 5 update 1 for my lab server…
Adding disks to VMware Workstation 8 on the fly on RHEL 6

Although this post is primarily written for users of VMware Workstation 8 it is applicable for…
Lights-out management console on Supermicro boards

So this is slightly off topic, as it doesn’t deal with anything directly related to Oracle,…
Why ESXi 5 has become my new standard hypervisor

OK so I have to admit that I was very sceptical at first about any non-paravirtualised…
Get a feel for enterprise block level replication using drbd

I didn’t really have a lot of exposure to block-level replication on the storage level before…
How to set up data guard broker for RAC

This is pretty much a note to myself on how to set up Data Guard broker…
Little things worth knowing-static and dynamic listener registration

As part of a recent project to remove a vulnerability in relation to CVE-2012-1675 it became…
How to use vi-style editing in SQL*Plus

This post is nothing new, and I created it after a little discussion on twitter about…
Kernel UEK 2 on Oracle Linux 6.2 fixed lab server memory loss

A few days ago I wrote about my new lab server and the misfortune with kernel…