| Securing open source software | | | Oracle on-premises and cloud customers have long benefited from the security contributions made by Oracle to open source software (OSS). As an industry leader in security across the stack, from the bootloader to the hypervisor, the kernel, and the application layer, Oracle is committed to continuing to bring its expertise to bear in securing the OSS ecosystem.
Learn about Oracle's role and contributions in helping secure OSS. |
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| Product Highlights | Lifespan lengthened for Oracle Linux 7, 8, and 9
As noted in the Lifetime Support Policy: Coverage for Oracle Open Source Software, Oracle Linux support has been extended until the dates below.
- Oracle Linux 9 – Extended Support ends June 30, 2035.
- Oracle Linux 8 – Extended Support ends July 31, 2032.
- Oracle Linux 7 – Extended Support ends June 30, 2028.
Oracle VM VirtualBox 7.0.14 now generally available!
Deliver code faster by running multiple operating systems on a single device with Oracle VM VirtualBox 7.0.14, the latest release of world’s most popular open source, cross-platform virtualization software. It is available for download for multiple platforms such as Linux, macOS, Windows, and Oracle Solaris. For a complete list of bug fixes and enhancements, visit Oracle VM VirtualBox 7.0.14 changelog.
Additional details are available in the blog post.
Guarding beyond the perimeter—Zero Trust security with Oracle Linux
Security is at the core of Oracle Linux, irrespective of where you choose to deploy it. Dive into our newly published technical brief, Accelerating zero trust adoption with Oracle Linux, and learn how your organization can expedite the adoption of Zero Trust security with the help of the Oracle Linux operating environment.
Oracle Cloud Native Environment 1.8 introduces support for Arm and Kubernetes 1.28
Oracle Cloud Native Environment Release 1.8, the scalable and highly available Kubernetes distribution that can be used to deploy your containerized applications across public clouds and on-premises is now available.
New features and enhancements are outlined in the blog post. |
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| Partner Solutions | Veritas NetBackup support for Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager
NetBackup can be used to help protect virtual machines within Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager deployments and Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager itself. The configuration for Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager is the same as RHV unless explicitly called out.
For more information refer to the NetBackup Web UI RHV Administrator's Guide.
Live-migrate your workloads with Coriolis from Cloudbase Solutions
Coriolis® is a distributed and scalable system that offers both “lift-and-shift” migration services (CMaaS) and robust cross-site disaster recovery features (DRaaS) between a source cloud platform and an independent destination cloud platform.
With Coriolis you can live-migrate your workloads from various platforms to Oracle solutions such as Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Oracle Compute Cloud@Customer, and Oracle Private Cloud Appliance (PCA). Here's a video demo of Coriolis used for Oracle Linux VM replica migration from Oracle VM to Oracle PCA X9-2.
Coriolis supports the most frequent guest OSes, including Oracle Linux, various Linux distributions, and Windows Server/Client workloads. |
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| Developers Corner | A vmcore for your system may be smaller than you think!
Many system administrators are hesitant to set up core dumping on their Linux systems because of the large amount of space it can consume or the amount of time it takes to write out large memory segments to disk. With the evolution of enormous enterprise systems, sometimes the vmcore size can scale to several GB. Learn about some tools to estimate the size of a core dump with different vmcore size-reducing features enabled.
The Resize inode in the Ext4 Filesystem
In an ext4 filesystem, there are 11 inodes which are referred to as special inodes, and the resize inode is one of them. These special inodes are initialized by mkfs.ext4. Each of them has a special purpose. Learn about the role of the resize inode and the significance of reserved_gdt_blocks filesystem resizing.
Using systemtap for tracing libvirt
This article outlines the usage of systemtap for tracing libvirt. |
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| Training | Gain experience in Oracle Linux system monitoring and logging
This blog post provides several different training videos on command line utilities and services available in Linux releases 7, 8, and 9 to help you audit, log, monitor, and complete performance profiling of system resources and applications. If you are interested in gaining knowledge and experience with different monitoring and logging tools, then look no further than the training video playlist! |
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| Upcoming Events and Webinars | Countdown to CloudWorld 2024 registration
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