#DRBD: Synchronization of sites after the connection between sites is down for a long time

By | August 10, 2017

In a DRBD setup as described in #DRBD based disk replication of a production cluster to a remote site cluster on RHEL 6 there is a special case when due to some external issues the communication line between the sites is down due to technical reason for a longer period of time (days). The line… Read More: #DRBD: Synchronization of sites after the connection between sites is… »

#Regional Participation Within #European Multi-Level #Governance

By | July 24, 2017

I am pleased to make some promotion for the new book of my wife, that deals with European politics. Interesting and complicated stuff from the world of European Governance. ” Why does the region of Saxony-Anhalt participate in the European Multi-Level Governance system and how does this occur? This book provides an account of the… Read More: #Regional Participation Within #European Multi-Level #Governance »

Validate and Investigate a live #DRBD replicated Oracle Instance using LVM clone

By | October 19, 2017

This is another post related to the DRBD replication setup I describe in post #DRBD based disk replication of a production cluster to a remote site cluster on RHEL 6. Sometimes we need to be able to mount the offline replicated Oracle database instance for investigations. This can be done by using logical volume snapshots.… Read More: Validate and Investigate a live #DRBD replicated Oracle Instance using… »

Hidden Oracle dependencies when running under #Docker on Fedora/CentOS/RedHat Linux

By | June 28, 2017

There are some hidden dependencies of running oracle database in a docker container under Fedora/CentOS/RedHat Linux. STEP 1: Kernel parameters Because the Oracle engine from the Docker container uses in fact the kernel of the host machine we cannot escape the need to set up some kernel parameters on the host. On the host machine… Read More: Hidden Oracle dependencies when running under #Docker on Fedora/CentOS/RedHat Linux »

#SMB Breaking News: #HPE #MicroServer Gen10

By | June 12, 2017

Finally a new release of the HPE MicroServer updated at the new generation Gen10. HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 It seems that the Gen8 release of the MicroServer was so successful (I am the proud owner of 3 HP MicroServer Gen8) that HPE never released a Gen9 model. What are the main updates after a quick… Read More: #SMB Breaking News: #HPE #MicroServer Gen10 »

Linux: Save a pdf presentation to individual image slides

By | May 26, 2017

There is a very simple way to save a pdf presentation to individual jpeg images of the slides using convert. convert -density 300 presentation.pdf presentation_page_%04d.jpg where: – density 300 specifies the DPI used to read the pdf. – presentation_page_%04d.jpg is a name pattern for the saved images As a result if presentation has 20 slides… Read More: Linux: Save a pdf presentation to individual image slides »