KVM

Identify driver details of your cloud VM’s block devices

While preparing a presentation for POUG 2025 I had a need to find out more about…
Silent installation: Oracle Restart 19c, ASM Filter Driver, UEK 5+ edition

As promised in an earlier post here are my notes about installing Oracle Restart with ASM…
Creating a new disk group for use with ASM Filter Driver on the command line in Oracle 19c

In my previous post I shared my surprise when I learned that calling gridSetup.sh 19c for…
Silent installation: Oracle Restart 19c, ASM Filter Driver, RHCK edition

As promised in the earlier post here are my notes about installing Oracle Restart 19c on…
Using virt-install/KVM and kickstart to create lots of identical VMs quickly

In preparation for an upcoming talk about Oracle 12.2 I am planning on getting my feet…
New Events for Data Guard and Synchronous Redo Transport in 12c (2)

After the baseline has been established in the first part of this series it’s time to…
New Events for Data Guard and Synchronous Redo Transport in 12c (1)

I may have said it before but I consider presenting and teaching a great way to…
Creating a RAC 12.1 Data Guard Physical Standby environment (4)

In the previous three parts of this series a lot of preparation work, needed for the…
Creating a RAC 12.1 Data Guard Physical Standby environment (3)

In the previous two parts of this series you read about my lab environment and the…
Little things worth knowing: when a transient ASM disk failure cannot be fixed in time

In the previous blog post I used libvirt and KVM in my lab environment to simulate…