Sharing windows folders on unix hosts using samba filesystem (smbfs) using virtualbox

Posted on May 28, 2008 by Gaurav Verma

The need for windows sharing..
A few days ago, I wanted to do a Oracle 12i installation on a x86 linux distribution using virtualbox. The media was available on an external hard disk, but I thought that instead of copying the 30+ G of media on unix virtual machine, why not just make it shared between [...]

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A poor man’s guide for creating iscsi targets without using external USB hard disks

Posted on May 3, 2008 by Gaurav Verma

A special need..
Those of you who have a need for exposing iscsi targets to other machines for discovery, but who do not want to invest in an external USB hard disk OR who do not want to have a USB external hard disk connected to a desktop 24×7, there is a better way of [...]

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Creating your own 10g RAC cluster at home using virtualbox and SAN targets (using openfiler + with/without USB hard disk)

Posted on May 1, 2008 by Gaurav Verma

Preface
After playing around with some open source technologies like virtualbox and openfiler, we are finally at a point when it is possible to create your own network lab of Oracle 10gR2 RAC cluster and ASM database using iscsi targets in an external hard disk drive. The last time I checked, USB 2.0 hard disk drives [...]

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