Easy how-to videos for setting up FastConnect
3 key connectivity partners (Equinix, Megaport and Colt) have made demonstration videos on how to setup FastConnect using their networks.
Check them out here.
Free Hands-on OCI LiveLabs available 24/7!
The proof of the pudding is in the eating! Hopefully you have already heard great stories about the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), but why not test it our your self! Oracle have launched a platform for Live Labs. At this moment of writing there are 38 Workshops available! You can run these workshops using your own OCI account, a new… Read More »
Add Time based Auto Scaling and Power On/Off operations to OCI in under 5 minutes!
Would you like the schedule (based on time) Power On/Off and/or Scaling operations for your OCI resources? Well that is very easily possible with my Auto Scaling Script! The Script supports: Compute VMs: On/Off Instance Pools: On/Off and Scaling (# of instances) Database VMs: On/Off Database Baremetal Servers: Scaling (# of CPUs) Autonomous Databases: On/Off… Read More »
Comparing VMware solutions on AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI
If you want to extend your on-premise VMware environment to the public cloud, you wil find that most public clouds offer a VMware solution for their platform. Recently the Oracle Cloud also introduced an official VMware solution called OCVS (Oracle Cloud VMware Solution), so I thought it would make sense to make a comparison of… Read More »
According to Gartner “It’s Time to Include Oracle as a Viable Option When Evaluating Public Cloud Providers”
It makes me happy to see more and more people are starting to see the Oracle Cloud as a serious Cloud Vendor. Already big services like zoom’s Video Conferencing, Cisco’s Tetration service and 8×8 Video Conferencing are using the Oracle Cloud (OCI), but now also Gartner is starting to notice the Oracle Cloud 🙂 Read… Read More »
Updated #2: How Elastic is the Oracle Cloud
Per-Second billing now on almost all resources! And a new schedule based auto scaling for Instance pools
See a full overview in this post of all the key services that support elastic scaling and usage.
Automatic SSH key generation for Compute
Frequently I have noticed, people always struggle with SSH key generation when they need to create a resource on OCI. So I was pleasantly surprised today to notice an update in creating a Compute VM. You now (finally) have an option to have the keys generated for you. I know it is a small feature… Read More »
Consumption Charts available in the OCI Manager App
Who does not like pretty charts 😉 Well the OCI Manager App for iphones now shows your last 14 days of consumption in a “pretty” chart. Ok, I am still a bit of an amateur developer, to the charts are not pretty yet, but it is a start. Took me some time to figure out… Read More »
OCI Autoscale Super Script
Reduce your OCI bill or get the correct performance when needed! The OCI Auto Scaling super script can automatically execute the right Scale Up/Down and Power On/Off actions based on a daily schedule.
The script supports: Compute VMs, Instance Pools, Database VMs, Database Baremetal and the Autonomous Database
Updated: Free OCI training AND free Certification.
Update: Free training materials are still available, but signing up for free certification has now been closed. You can access the following learning paths: Oracle Autonomous Database Specialist Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations Associate Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Operations Associate Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Developer Associate Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Associate Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Professional If… Read More »
Learn OCI Networking in 22 minutes!
Networking in the Cloud Youtube Series Want to learn more about networking in the Oracle Cloud? There are multi places you can go. You can read the official documentation or try some of the available hands-on labs, but I personally love just watching youtube videos on everything I want to learn. Eli Schilling, a product… Read More »
OCI Rate Card Utility
OCI is seriously improving it’s capabilities to help customer understand their consumption with the new cost analysis tool and the new Cost reports. One thing that is still missing, is an easy way to see what your actual rate card it. Meaning what do you pay for each resource per hour and are you getting… Read More »
OCI introduces new Cost Analysis tool
Understanding your consumption and cost in the cloud is important, nobody likes nasty expensive surprises at the end of the month. To help understand your consumption better, OCI has released a new Cost Analysis tools. In the new Cost Analysis tool you can filter on:– Tags– Service– SKUs– Units It is also possible to change… Read More »
OCI lands ZOOM as customer
To handle the surge in online video call volumes by Zoom’s customers, Zoom started the use of the Oracle Cloud (OCI). According to reuters: Zoom’s service ran on a mixture of its own data center gear and cloud computing services from Amazon Web Services and Microsoft’s Azure, but it began working with Oracle about six weeks… Read More »
Analysis of connection performance between Azure and OCI clouds by Advatech
Technology company Advatech from Poland has made the effort to test the Oracle OCI and Microsoft Azure interconnect and document their finding in both Polish and English language. The report described in detail their testing scenario and their findings. If you are interested in combining services from Oracle and Microsoft, I would highly recommend to… Read More »
New powerful CPU shape – E3
There is a new processor available within OCI. It is the AMD Epyc 7742 processor running at 2.25Ghz. This CPU has 64 cores and Oracle is offering this as a new Flexible CPU shape on OCI. Meaning you do not have to chose between 2,4 8, 16… but can choose any number of cores between… Read More »
NEW OCI Cost reports and an awesome APEX app to get insight to all Usage and Cost
Oracle has started rolling out a new feature for Cost Reporting. For a while now daily Usage reports where available, but these reports only contained quantities of usage, like 8 hours of OCPU, but no actual $ cost. The new daily Costs reports show the actual consumption cost of all your services! If you are… Read More »
Updated Auto Scaling Script
Support for Instance Principles Integration with the Notification Service I noticed more and more people are starting to use my AutoScaling script. One common question I get a lot is where to run the script. In theory you can run the script from anywhere you have access to OCI. Run in OCI without any credential… Read More »
OCI X-Region replication for Database and Object Storage available
Want to make sure your data is redundant in more than one region? This is now possible 🙂 You can create a Replication Policy on a bucket and have it automatically replicate object to an other bucket in the same or different region. And you can now setup (active) Data Guard across regions for your… Read More »
Connecting OCI and AWS with native VPN services
Want to connect you services in AWS and OCI? Both clouds offer LAN-to-LAN VPN services, but they are normally used to connect from the Cloud to On-Premise. In this article I will explain how you can connect the OCI and AWS VPN services directly with each other. Step 1 – Setting up non overlapping Private… Read More »