Marco Santucci

SMB protocol on OCI: An analysis of the available options

Post published:10 April 2024
Post category:Cloud

Many enterprise infrastructures still use the server message block (SMB) protocol. Having a clear understanding of the implementation possibilities and the various associated costs on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is crucial. You can consider several options for implementation and support of the SMB protocol in OCI. In this blog post, we explore five solutions. Depending on the required business availability and the amount of data to be allocated, it’s important to evaluate which solution is the most suitable for your…

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…