Marco Santucci

Deploy an HA SAMBA cluster with Windows Active Directory integration on OCI

Post published:1 February 2024
Post category:Cloud Tutorial

In this post, we discuss how to configure an high availability with automatic failover of SAMBA on UBUNTU instances into Oracle OCI. This solution is a robust and reliable file server infrastructure, leveraging the power of a clustered SMB setup and completly license free. The cost is related only to the consumption (oCPU and Block Volume size). The benefits of implementing a clustered SMB file server service into your organization are multiple: Reliability: The clustered configuration ensures high availability, minimizing…

Integrate on-premise internal DNS zone with private DNS on Oracle OCI VCN.

Post published:5 June 2023
Post category:Tutorial

Integrating your private DNS with Oracle OCI's internal DNS can be very useful to extend the capabilities of your LAN in a hybrid cloud environment and facilitate the management of both infrastructures without increasing the workload for internal IT. By leveraging the DNS endpoint provided by OCI, devices in the corporate LAN can reach resources in the cloud environment and vice versa, making service management and integration quick and easy. Prerequesites: Your on-premise LAN is connected in VPN with Oracle…

How to reach the maximum disk I/O throughput with Windows OS instances on OCI

Post published:31 May 2023
Post category:Cloud

When maximum I/O disk performance is essential for your Windows-based production service, choosing the right configuration that can deliver it is critical. This post covers two options to achieve the max I/O throughput with a Windows OS-based instance on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Windows OS currently has several limitations for the shapes available and eligible with the OCI Block Volume service. The final I/O performance of a server is a sum of several factors, not only the Compute shape. Choosing…