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About Erik Benner
Erik Benner is currently an Oracle ACE Director and VP of Enterprise Transformation at Mythics, serving as a lead strategist for federal, state, and local government and commercial customers throughout the United States. These customer engagements include enterprise cloud transformations, data center consolidation and modernization efforts, and Big Data projects and implementations of Oracle Engineered Systems. He is a board member of the Washington DC metro area’s National Capital Oracle User Group as well as the Independent Oracle Users Group’s Cloud Computing Special Interest Group (SIG), and he is actively involved with the Oracle Enterprise Manager SIGs. Erik presents frequently at conferences, including Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle FedForum, COLLABORATE, and other user groups and conferences around the United States. He has worked with Oracle and Sun Systems since the mid 1990s and is experienced with most of the core Oracle technologies. Erik also actively blogs at TalesFromTheDatacenter.com. When not flying to the far corners of the country from the Atlanta metro area, he enjoys spending time with his family at their observatory, where the telescopes outnumber the people.
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Blog postI have been talking a bit about ARM these days, with many customers looking at ARM on OCI for the application tier. These customers have already learned that ARM is not that different from x86 when running Oracle Linux. The Continue reading Installing Oracle Linux 9 on ARM→
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Blog postWhile thinking about what to write for the annual Oracle Community Day, I learned that it was being renamed to Joel Kallman Day,in honor of Joe who was the the head of APEX development before his untimely passing. This got Continue reading Oracle and Free, who would have thought? #JoelKallmanDay→
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Blog postIf you are not familiar with Oracle Linux, this may be the technology included with the distro that makes you pay attention to Oracle’s Free and Open Source Linux distro. Oracle Linux has been around since 2006, and is a Continue reading Oracle Linux Automation Manager- An Introduction and Installation→
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Blog postRecently in the news, we have seen reports of computer systems being hacked, often due to insecure settings. One of the easiest ways to secure your Operating System, is when you install it. The Anaconda installer used by Oracle Continue reading A Secure Install for Oracle Linux→
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Blog postThis post is a bit off the original plan, mainly due to timing. Short version on the timing, my Dell 7750 notebook (The one with a Xeon processor, 128G ram, and NVME storage…) had to get replaced. Dell was good Continue reading Storage Performance Part 3: UEK vs a standard kernel→
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Blog postIn the previous post in this short series, I shared a benchmark between MicroSD card and a USB Drive. In this review we look at two different MicroSD cards, both with a U3 rating. The U3 rated card was Continue reading Raspberry PI Storage Performance: Part 2 U3 vs U3 Cards, they are all no equal→
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Blog postRecently I saw some discussion about storage performance on Raspberry PIs, with the focus being on performance between the MicroSD card vs. USB performance for the storage. This short series of BLOGs will compare several performance options for the Raspberry, Continue reading Raspberry PI Storage Performance: Part 1 USB vs SD Card→
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Blog postIf you know me, you likely know where this is headed. But before we get there, lets chat a little bit about the bomb that IBM RedHat dropped on the Linux community the other day. As soon as the news Continue reading Centos and the bomb that IBM Red Hat dropped→
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Blog postFirst, lets chat about Oracle Linux on ARM! Having a single Enterprise Operating System on all Linux systems has several advantages, like using the same tools across all servers and access to the same commercial support for your systems. The Continue reading Install Oracle Linux 8 on a Raspberry Pi→
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Blog postI did this video for work, but it is a good review on some of the advantages of OCI, and I think it’s worth the few minutes to watch.
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Titles By Erik Benner
Master Cloud building with Oracle VM 3 installation, configuration, and maintenance
Set up, configure, and manage a dynamic virtualization platform across your enterprise using the detailed information contained in this Oracle Press guide. The book shows, step-by-step, how to size servers for Oracle VM, choose and deploy virtualization hardware and manage the environment as the foundation for a private cloud infrastructure. Real-world examples and valuable best practices are featured throughout.
Oracle VM 3 Cloud Implementation and Administration Guide lays out key virtualization concepts and clearly explains every aspect of Oracle VM architecture. From there, you will learn how design server farms, build and maintain virtual machines, handle provisioning and cloning, work with Oracle VM Manager, and incorporate solid security procedures. Advanced topics such as Disaster Recovery design and implementation, Cloud management with Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control and advanced storage and network integration aspects are fully covered.
• Features tips, techniques, and tools for optimizing Oracle products on Oracle VM
• Contains expert, hands-on advice on tackling the most common challenges
• Written by a team of Oracle professionals with extensive VM experience
Practical Oracle Database Appliance is a hands-on book taking you through the components and implementation of the Oracle Database Appliance. Learn about architecture, installation, configuration, and reconfiguration. Install and configure the Oracle Database Appliance with confidence. Make the right choices between the various configurations in order to realize your performance requirements. Manage and monitor the appliance to meet business requirements. Protect your data through proper backup and recovery procedures.
Oracle Database is one of the most relied-up databases in industry. For many years Oracle Database was a software product that had to be installed and configured at no small expense. The Oracle Database Appliance makes Oracle Database into a plug-and-play proposition: Plug the appliance into the wall socket, and turn it on. That's it. You have a running database server. This book takes you through that beginning point and beyond, helping you to realize in your own organization the ease of deployment and management represented by the appliance.
- Covers the Oracle Database Appliance from architecture through configuration.
- Provides a technical resource for system- and database administrators.
- Examines practical use cases for the Oracle Database Appliance.