I rebuild my OVM server for the n-th time this morning. Problem was that it was difficult to have the external disk mounted on the /OVS directory. I tried to add a shared virtual disk - which I formatted as an ocfs2 disk to the existing disk. I found this excellent posting http://geertdepaep.wordpress.com/2008/06/09/oracle-vm-and-multiple-local-disks/ that described the process and guided me into the correct direction. Although the disk was visible in the repos.py script I was unable to see it in the Oracle VM Manager. Now I thought that I need to build the server and format the filesystems myself. Sorry I have no screenshots here as the installer runs on the machine itself. During the installation the two disks (internal 50 GB and external 1 TB) are shown as /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. In the disk setup utility in the installer choose the option to define a custom layout. The installer offers a predefined layout, which it would normally apply to the available disks. I decided to have three...
Some of the stuff I do for a living. This mainly concerns working with Oracle Databases and Application Servers. Lately I picked up AWS, Azure and OCI.