I yesterday gave a presentation at InSync2011 about Oracle’s cloud computing strategy, AWS cloud services and it’s current limitations. Amazon reacted quickly and updated their offering. We have been waiting for that. Keep going!
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I’d be curious to know how you can tell – I followed your link and simply got back to the issue below 🙂
A number of people, including myself, have been observinge that Amazon AWS and/or Oracle are incorrectly advertising their Oracle FMW 11 G AMI. This issue started nearly two months ago…
I for one have directly raised this with the Oracle representitive for the organisation with which I am involved.
If you haven’t looked at this AMI, starting it and examining the software vs the published AMI description is enlightening (or embarrasing depending on your point of view) 🙂
See here: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=261744
Are we talking about the same thing – I see no update?
Hi Jim,
my apologies. I somehow completely missed your reply.
Did you check recently?
IMHO you shouldn’t rely on these AMIs anyway and always create your own local copy. The drawback is, that you have to pay for the storage then. Also one of my images was corrupted recently by AWS (took me 3 days to create it). But then at least you are free install whatever you like and keep it as long as you like it.
Being able to run Oracle VM based templates is not that exciting until we will be able to run our own templates and not only the ones provided by Oracle.
I hope I have time to check the AMIs later today. Usually the AWS announcements are pretty good – I was surprised it came right after my presentation which listed all the glitches.
thanks,
Frank
Hi Frank
No worries, I can see you are on the run. I’m just getting frustrated and your post offered a glimmer of hope.
I keep checking but as far as I can tell there has been no change to the AMI claimed to be Oracle SOASuite 11G (from the time of the forum post mentioned above).
The announcements weren’t actually for SOASuite 11G (unless I missed it somewhere on the list)
I had actually used the original last year and had created a private AMI. I deleted it because I ran out of time to use it. Work intruded on my fun 🙂
I made a start on creating one from scratch (I was trying to save time and also to see how they set it up) a fortnight ago. I began with the 64bit Oracle DB Standard AMI but the out-of-the-box database config gets confused on an instance stop/start. I don’t really want to explore Oracle DB configuration that much.
The original SOASuite AMI seemed to have sorted that out also.
Now I’ve run out of time again… Eventually I’ll get back to it.
BTW – any chance of getting your book up on Safari?
Regards
JIm Nicolson
Jim,
thanks for your update.
my AMI, which was then corrupted by AWS, was based on a based on Oracle Enterprise Linux 64 bit. I converted it to an EBS based AMI and installed Oracle XE. Oracle XE is also confused when you restart the image. Persistence is not a problem because of EBS, but changing hostnames are (because of tnsnames.ora). So I changed it to “localhost” which is working fine for one instance 🙂 – google for the right way to change it (you have to do it connected to the DB, just changing the files is not enough – it cost me quiet a bit of time to find this out). The cloudy approach would be using Elastic IPs (which are statice), but you have to pay for it when you are not running the instance and not using them…
The rest of SOA Suite installations is smooth sailing.
So far I didn’t have the time to see if I can recover my broken instance, but I hopefully I can explore this after Oracle Open World.
Jim,
just saw that I forgot about your comment regarding Safari. To be honest I never thought about it. I just checked their website but I cannot find what’s is needed from the publisher site. I will contact them and post an update here.
regards,
Frank
Jim,
just saw that I forgot about your comment regarding Safari. To be honest I never thought about it. I just checked their website but I cannot find what is needed from the publisher site. I will contact them and post an update here.
regards,
Frank