In this 2nd post, we shall create Exadata infrastructure resource. If you don’t know about what it is, you may want to read my first post where I have described the new ExaCS resource model. In this post, we shall see how we create it. To start with you need to be in the correct […]

I have been working in Exadata cloud service X8 from a while now. In this post, I am going to give a brief overview of the new Resource model that’s been introduced with X8/X8M model. If you have worked with Exadata you must be familiar that there are significantly new changes that has been introduced […]

Finally, we are in 2021! Happy 2021 to all of you! Let’s hope, pray and wish that this new year is going to be a better one than at least the last year. There is a lot of Oracle tech to look forward to-both in on-prem and in Oracle cloud. I am just so excited […]

Disaster recovery is one of the most critical aspects to look into when you are designing a system. It becomes even more prominent while architecting a cloud solution. Two key concepts that must be taken into consideration are Recovery Time Objective(RTO) and Recovery Point Objective(RPO). Let’s understand these in this post.   RTO means how […]

I was invited by Nepal Oracle Users Group to present a webinar. NepalOUG is a very new Oracle Users group but they have been very active and are arranging weekly webinars. I presented on Database Buffer Cache. You can find the recorded version at NPOUG YouTube channel. Thanks Dilli Maharjan & Romin at Nepal Oracle […]

In our previous posts, we have understood what is a compute instance and what role VCN plays in making a compute instance interact with other compute instances or to the outer world. But there should be a security check on these communications. In this post, we shall look at VCN security using security rules and […]

Taking a break from the OCI fundamental series(short one, new post is coming right after this post), VirtualBox latest version 6.1.6 is here. Changelog is here if you are interested to read. I have two machines( running Win 10) with 7 VM’s total and all of them are running fine. Of course, things may vary […]

In the last post, we understood what’s a Virtual Cloud Network(VCN). In this post, we shall understand how VCN works with gateways within OCI. These are, Internet Gateway NAT Gateway Dynamic Routing Gateway Service Gateway But before we talk about the available gateways within OCI, let’s understand some basics about networking. When we say there […]