Oracle on Ulitzer
If you’re an OEM user and an F5 customer, we’ve got an updated version of
the OEM Grid Control Plug-in for BIG-IP in beta testing right now. It’s
been in limited beta for a while, but we wanted to make certain that both
TMOS 9.x and 10.x were supported before we talked about it publicly.
The plug-in, jointly developed by F5 and Oracle, allows you to monitor your
BIG-IP like any other infrastructure in the Oracle Enterprise Manager, and if
you’re part of the beta program, you can download the source to see how the
developers did it too! No, I wasn’t on the dev team for this one, there
just aren’t enough hours in the day for me to play with all the toys.
Though large pieces of it are based upon my Java Wrappers for iControl, so I
can claim a little bit o... (more)
So a while back I covered Load Balancing for Developers, trying to help
developers who don’t yet have exposure to load balancing to understand
the when/where/how of load balancing.
I took a bit of a break to do some BIG-IP/TMOS V.10 work, and figure it’s
about time (since I’ve been gently prodded by readers a couple of times) to
move on with the advanced applications.
But first, a mome... (more)
Okay, I know I haven’t been posting as much as normal for quite a while
now… Trust me, I still have plenty to say, my mind has just been wrapped up
in special projects and editorial calendars.
Meanwhile, Pete Silva, one of our Technical Marketing Managers, has been out
at Oracle Open World and has been getting tons of great video for us.
Since they’re coming fast and furious, this post is ... (more)
I was pondering over the weekend the concept that a SAN is relatively easy to
manage – at least on the surface – because it is, in essence, a network
in and of itself. Separated from the IP network, you have a switch that
connects various SAN arrays and when your arrays become over-burdened, you
can just drop another one in and plug it into the switch. Easy. And since the
switch is not g... (more)
One of the cool new items in v.10 is the use of a logical volume manager
(LVM) to create and manage multiple “partitions”. This is the last time I
will use the term “partition” to refer to v.10 disk space in this post,
since partitioning was the way things were done prior to v.10, moving forward
we use the volume system.
Considerations
The first thing to do is decide if LVM is the right ... (more)
Don MacVittie has held nearly every position in IT/Dev from embedded development through IT Management in communications, utilities, financials. He also did a few years as a product reviewer for Network Computing Magazine. Currently Don is a Strategic Architect at F5 Networks working on the DevCentral Team.
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