Oracle Linux – Andy Colvin's Oracle Blog

Slow Exadata Compute Node Upgrades to Oracle Linux 7

One of the cool things that Oracle has done with Exadata is give users the ability to upgrade from Oracle Linux 6 to Oracle Linux 7 with an in-place upgrade process. This comes automatically when you upgrade the Exadata compute image from 18c to 19c. Upgrading the compute nodes to 19c give you the ability… Read More »

Building “Ready to Deploy” Oracle VM Templates

I’ve been playing a bit lately with Oracle VM on a few different platforms (ODA, Exalytics, Private Cloud Appliance) and was tasked with creating a good Oracle VM template image for Oracle Linux 7. Oracle makes templates available on eDelivery (https://edelivery.oracle.com) that present you with VM configuration questions on first boot, but those VM templates have a… Read More »