Building a test 11gR2 RAC environment in minutes using Oracle Virtual Machine templates

Posted by Gavin Soorma
On November 30, 2011
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This note illustrates how we can set up an Orace 11g Release 2 Real Application Clusters environment for test purposes using the Oracle VM templates which are currently available in under 30 minutes! The templates are available from the Oracle E-Delivery web site and are available in both OEL 32bit Linux as well as 64bit […]

Posted by Gavin Soorma
On November 25, 2011
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This note describes the (long) process of installing an 11g Fusion Middleware environment with Forms, Reports, Discoverer and Portal on an Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.6 64 Bit platform. If you are not using Oracle Portal , then you do not need to configure Identity Management and Single Sign On which is a real big pain […]

OEM Tablespace Space Used % Alerts and the AUTOEXTEND effect

Posted by Gavin Soorma
On November 16, 2011
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I performed a simple test to try and help clarify a rather confusing topic about when OEM will send out alerts for tablespace usage and what happens when autoextend is turned on and what about the MAXSIZE and UNLIMITED parameters of the AUTOEXTEND ON clause. A number of Metalink support notes discuss this topic like: […]

Posted by Gavin Soorma
On November 8, 2011
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This note describes the procedure of configuring a cross platform using the 11g RMAN Active Duplicate as well as an Active Standby Database setup over a Windows and Linux platform. The Metalink note Data Guard Support for Heterogeneous Primary and Physical Standbys in Same Data Guard Configuration [ID 413484.1] describes the supported cross platform combinations […]

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Building a test 11gR2 RAC environment in minutes using Oracle Virtual Machine templates

Oracle 11g Fusion Middleware Installation on Linux

OEM Tablespace Space Used % Alerts and the AUTOEXTEND effect

Oracle 11g Cross Platform Active Standby – Windows Primary database and Linux Active Standby