Archive for February, 2013
Starting in Oracle VM 3.2.1 the built in database of the Oracle VM Manager was MySQL. I had hoped that this change would also signal a change in the database schema. In prior versions of OVM 3.x all data was populated in the database in a completely useless longblob form. As we can see it [...]
Recently I have been spending some time learning about database technologies (Oracle Databases at Keste as well as MySQL on my own). Part of this I have decided to carry over into my existing work with Solaris, and go through the installation process using the Image Packaging System which is in Solaris. Now really the [...]
In MySQL if you want to find out what columns are in a given table, you can describe the table and it will show you the columns and the data types associated with that column. However if you need to do this for a large number of tables, it can get a bit repetitive. Connect [...]
Today we are going over a script I wrote to utilize the ovmcli to rename all virtual disks to follow a understandable standard, in this case we will take the vmname and append a disk identifier to it. The first disk (slot 0) will be appended with “_system.img” with all subsequent being appended with “_dataX.img” [...]
So I have been working with the OVM CLI lately to try and fill in some holes in my knowledge and provide for some easily reproducible procedures, usually around consistency of the environment when performing frequent tear downs and upgrades. So expect to see more OVM related scripts going forward. Today we are going over [...]