Establish a VPN with Oracle OCI with a dynamic public IP ADDRESS on CPE

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) does not support the use of Domain Name System (DNS) for configuring the Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) as the VPN tunnel endpoint. This tutorial aims to enable small businesses that do not have access to a static public IP address to use the IPSec service even with a dynamic address. The strategy involves deploying a script capable of automatically generating a new OCI tunnel whenever the public IP of the Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) changes. In…

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SMB protocol on OCI:  An analysis of the available options

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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…

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

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…

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