Archive for the ‘How To’ Category
Today we are going to go through the process of creating a clustered file system on a pair of Oracle Linux 6.3 nodes. This exercise is not very resource intensive. I am using two VMs each with 1GB of RAM a single CPU and a shared virtual disk file in addition to the OS drivers. [...]
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” [...]