Citrix XenServer is a type 1 hypervisor. Also known as bare metal hypervisor. They’re used for setting up virtual environment wherein there would be no middle OS between Hardware and guest Operating Systems. In this article we’ll see how to deploy a virtual machine in Citrix XenServer. Connect to your XenServer using XenCenter(On Windows) or OpenXenManager(Linux – Unofficial). Right Click on your server and click on New VM. Select a VM Template (Depends on OS which you’re installing). Assign name […]

Being an Application or a Database administrator you must have come across a situations many times wherein you would require a mountpoint for some requirements. In this article we’ll ses how it happens step by step. List the attached disks using fdisk. In order to use this disk, before we can mount it we will have to create a partition first and then file system. So let’s create a partiton first. Select the newly attached which disk you want to

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Step By Step Streaming Replication In PostgreSQL 12 In this demonstration,We’ll see how to setup a Streaming Replication in PostgreSQL 12 running on Oracle Linux 6.8 Here, I assume that you have two servers (Primary/Master & Standby/Slave) having PostgreSQL 12 installed. And Database cluster is initialized using initdb on both the servers. If not, you might want to see Installation of PostgreSQL here. Note that you don’t have to start the database server, just follow till initdb from this article.

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New Things We’ll See In Oracle Linux 8 Oracle Linux 8 ships with the concept of distributing Operating System packages among two parts, Application Streams and BaseOS. In previous releases all packages were bundled together as software packages, However, In OL 8 we’ll see core Operating System components and user space packages as BaseOS and other range of applications as Application Streams. [root@bcp ~]# dnf update info Oracle Linux 8 Application Stream (x86_64) 2.6 kB/s | 2.9 kB 00:01 Oracle

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Upgrade to Oracle Database 19c from 12c using autoupgrade.jar In this demonstration, I have upgraded Oracle Database from 12.2.0.1 to 19.0.0.0 which is running on Oracle Linux 7.5 There were two methods till 18c for upgrade, 1. DBUA2. Manual – Using preupgrade.jar  However, in Oracle Database 19c there’s new method of upgrading the database is introduced. That is using Auto Upgrade utility. Database can directly be upgraded to 19c from below releases.11.2.0.3, 11.2.0.4, 12.1.0.1, 12.1.0.2, 12.2.0.1 and 18 I assume

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Installation of Oracle Database 19c on Oracle Linux 7.5 Oracle Database 19c has the longest support boundary from Oracle i.e. 2026 for extended support. It’s time to upgrade to Oracle Database 19c. In this post  we’ll see the installation of Oracle Database 19c on Oracle Linux 7.5 Before we proceed with the installation, some of the points need to be taken care. Here I’m assuming you already have downloaded Database from Oracle eDelivery. If you haven’t downloaded it yet, you

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PostgreSQL 12 on Oracle Linux 7.5 There are various methods available to install PostgreSQL database on your Linux server, however yum is one of the always preferred methods when it comes to RedHat Family Distributions.As this demonstration is done on Oracle Linux 7.5 you can proceed as it is for the installation on Oracle Linux 7.x RedHat Enterprise Linux 7.x & CentOS 7.x. If you’re planning to install it in anyother distribution or version, you may want to visit PostgreSQL

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Configuring Oracle Linux 7.5 for Web Server Web Server could be of different types. By different types what I mean is, they could be setup to serve different type of environments based upon the programming languages used to develop a Website or Web Application like Java, php, .NET and many. Oracle Web-Logic or GlassFish(Open Source) server can be setup for Java EE based Website, Apache httpd or Lighttpd(Open Source) server can be setup to serve php based Website or Application,

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Creating & Deploying Virtual Machine on ESXi Server Creating VM is not rocket science in ESXi and it is quite similar to creating VMs in any hypervisor like VM Ware or VirtualBox. In the last article, we did deployment and configuration of ESXi Server on Bare-Metal machine. In today’s article, we’ll deploy a VM on ESXi Server with Oracle Linux 7. Here I assume that you already have ISO of Oracle Linux(or any). If you haven’t downloaded any, get Oracle

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Setting Up Bare Metal Virtualization using ESXi Hypervisor You, being an IT guy, must be aware of Virtualization and must have had created VMs too on OS level hypervisors like Oracle’s VirtualBox or VM Ware. These type of Virtualization is achieved on the top of Host OS i.e. Windows, Linux or Mac. However, in this post, we’ll be going to see a Bare Metal Virtualization in which, there will be no middle OS between Hypervisor and Hardware. Yeah, you read

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