Appliance

Today I want to show what kind of IO performance we can get from Oracle Database Appliance (ODA). In this part, I will focus on hard disks. That’s right — those good old brown spinning disks. I often use Oracle ORION tool to stress-test an IO subsystem and find it’s limits. It’s a very simple [...]

Many analysts are suggesting that a big data appliance will be announced at this OOW. Based on published Oracle OpenWorld focus sessions on oracle.com (PDF documents), the following technologies will most likely be the key — Hadoop, NoSQL, Hadoop data loader for Oracle, R Language. Want more details — you have to wait for them. [...]

When I first heard about Oracle Database Appliance and what it does, I got really excited — I saw great potential in this product. When we got our hands dirty and started testing the appliance, I become confident that this product will be a hit. Now it’s finally the time when I can share my [...]

I have forgotten and searched for this cool VirtualBox Appliance, now so often that I found it time to make a small notepad/placeholder for this.

For those who haven't found it yet, there is a OTN Developer VirtualBox appliance out there that is a great start-up environment to use as a test, presentation, try-out or development environment. Probably officially used for Oracle demo's and or Hands on Exercises (HOL) but also very usable on a laptop.

Its a VirtualBox environment with Hands on Lab (HOL) exercises and the following software environment/software:

• Oracle Enterprise Linux 5
• Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Enterprise Edition
• Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Cache
• Oracle XML DB
• Oracle SQL Developer
• Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler
• Oracle Application Express
• Oracle JDeveloper
• Hands-On-Labs (accessed via the Toolbar Menu in Firefox)

Be aware that, as it is described as well on the download instruction page, that this appliance is for testing purposes only, as such it is unsupported and should not to be used in production environment. I really hope they make more of those cool VirtualBox example appliances.

Click here for the Pre-Workshop Setup Instructions - Hands-On Labs