Oracle's Hardware Management Pack comprises two components: an SNMP monitoring agent and a family of cross platform Command Line (CLI) tools for managing and configuring Oracle Sun Fire x86 servers. The Sun Server Management Agent component provides an in-band SNMP agent for monitoring the server hardware and storage. The cross platform command line tools run on Solaris, Linux (Oracle Enterprise Linux, and current releases from Red Hat and Novell), and Microsoft Windows 2008.
The tools. listed below, provide powerful and flexible configuration and update capabilities.
ilomconfig, configure the service processor
biosconfig, configure the BIOS
raidconfig, configure RAID components
fwupdate, update firmware
All configuration tools are Capable of loading
The Hardware Management Pack saved the day for Peter Tribble, who blogs about his efforts to build a jumpstart profile and to map from the WWN-based device names to physical positions on the chassis of the SPARC T3-1 and the x86-based X4170 M2.
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"A Database Detour" is the title Antony Reynolds gives his blog on running Oracle Database 11gR2 on Oracle Enterprise Linux 6, where he provides the details involved in building a new VirtualBox environment and then installing the as yet uncertified database on OEL6. Because he is a "middleware guy" Reynolds explains that he set the database to automatically start along with the OS. He provides the code samples used in this installation which, when completed, allowed him to take a snapshot of the VM and to start building an SOA installation.
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Oracle's Virtualization Blog recommends having a look at the recent three-part article in CIO Magazine, part one of which is entitled "NAB private Cloud builds new paradigm." National Austrailia's Bank (NAB) is building its private cloud infrastructure on the concept of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS), using Oracle VM and Oracle Enterprise Linux as the enabling technologies. Already, Ubank, the online-only division of NAB, is running almost exclusively on virtualized infrastructure that extends from the OS to the web portal, as Oracle observes.
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When the Pella Corporation, a leading North American manufacturer of high-end windows and doors, deployed Oracle VM and Oracle Enterprise Linux the company succeeded in improving their ability to manage Oracle applications leveraging Oracle VM. They benefited, as well by selecting Oracle VM and Oracle Linux for their project, which dramatically cut datacenter costs for the company. Register for the webcast on Tuesday, May 3, 2011 at 9:00 a.m. PT to hear Pella managers detail their successful deployment of Oracle technologies.
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IT managers under the gun to reduce operating costs (that includes just about everyone in the field) would do well to consider the information Monica Kumar, Senior Director of Linux, Oracle VM and MySQL, and Avi Miller, Principal Sales Consultant, Linux and Virtualization, will be presenting on the live Webcast scheduled for Thursday, March 24 at 2:00 p.m. PT. They are going to suggest that subscribers to Oracle's Unbreakable Linux support program stand to reduce support costs in a range of 50-90 percent. Specifically the pair will discuss the why and how of switching to Oracle Linux; testing and integration with systems and applications; free management and high availability tools; and provide customer success stories. Registration and log-in are required.
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