Oracle Cloud

https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/ – Every free account have 2 servers free for life. Only for development purpose. Allow ICMP (ping) in Oracle Cloud Updating Kernel on Oracle Linux with Ksplice How to Open Port on Oracle Cloud Ubuntu Server See Cloud

Allow ICMP (ping) in Oracle Cloud

oracle cloud vpc

Oracle cloud do not allow ICMP/ping to compute instances. To enable ping, you need to enable ICMP in the security group. On your compute instance details page, you will see “Virtual Cloud Network”. Click on Virtual Cloud Network link, that will take you to page with VPC details. Scroll down, you will see subnet. Click … Read more

Google Cloud SQL

To create a Google Cloud SQL database, run gcloud sql instances create INSTANCE_NAME_HERE –activation-policy=ALWAYS –tier=db-n1-standard-1 INSTANCE_NAME_HERE = this can be anything, lowercase letters, 0-9, for identification purpose only. db-n1-standard-1 => this is size of the server, you can change it as needed. To create a Database, run gcloud sql databases create DB_NAME_HERE –instance INSTANCE_NAME_HERE To … Read more

Resize Amazon EC2 Boot Disk

Once you resize the disk in the Amazon AWS console, it gets auto resized on reboot. Sometimes this won’t happen, you have to manually resize the disk. Resize EC2 file system with LVM To resize the disk, do the following. 1) Take a snapshot of the disk 2) Create a new server in the same … Read more

VMWare esxcli

To list all running VM, run esxcli vm process list To list all installed software esxcli software vib list Example [root@server:~] esxcli software vib list | grep esx-ui esx-ui 1.33.1-12086396 VMware VMwareCertified 2019-02-24 [root@server:~]