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13 October 2010 ~ Comments Off

Oracle 11gR2 with Sun Cluster 3.2

As stated inside the Sun Cluster 3.3 releases notes, this version adds support for Oracle 11g Release 2.
Although, there is some case where upgrade to 3.3 is harder than only patching existing 3.2 installation.

Here it is!, looking at the changel…

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16 May 2010 ~ Comments Off

Creating a scalable virtualization cluster with Ganeti

Creating a virtualization cluster that is scalable, cheap, and easy to manage usually doesn’t happen in the same sentence. Generally it involves a combination of a complex set of tools tied together, expensive storage, and difficult to scale. While I think that the suite of tools that use libvirt are great and are headed in [...]

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02 May 2010 ~ Comments Off

Solaris SUN Cluster: Live update

As I’ve recently tried the patching of a sun cluster with Zones/ZFS/global filesystem and everything running,
I’ve noticed that not so much people have tried this, so I might share the experience here ;)

So read the complete article to see how it beh…

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29 April 2010 ~ Comments Off

Solaris Sun cluster core patch 126106-40 issue

I’ve recently had to apply the 126106-40 core patch for SUN Cluster and had some issues with it..
Seeing on the Internet, some issues with this patchs are documented by Juergen Scheich’s blog and describing a howto fix some of them.
Actually, the e…

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