It's more than month now since my last post, and I guess I was occupied of a lot stuff. While I am trying to get back myself on track to improve myself in my field or to remind me again what are the technologies that I can learn that will help me to improve myself in the field of database administration.
There are few webinars that I already attending when I was caught of virtualization product. Few years back I started to use VMWare already but since I was indulge with other work I don't have so much time to explore it but I am planning to learn it again. There was incident wherein I was checking other online seminars in Oracle Site because of location and schedule contraints, I was ended to sign up to attend VirtualBox webinar which happened last June. Honestly before I attended that webinar, I have no idea what I am expecting to learn to until I watch and listen to the webinar. During that time, I am looking for a tool aside from VMware that can help me to put virtual laboratory so that I can start exploring, testing, studying existing and new technologies related to database. For the reason that I have to keep myself updated.
When I attended the webinar, the current release of VirtualBox is 3.2.6 but as of this writing 3.2.8 was already the latest release, while browsing I was amazed that this product was existing few years ago. And said to myself, what happened to the world, I felt to myself that I was outdated and my knowledge in new technologies are obsolete already. And its a good thing I am trying myself back on track.
While listening to the Virtualbox webinar, I just discovered a right tool that I really need at that time, because I plan to create my laboratory to explore database technologies as part of my own growth. I am actually planning to buy refurbished servers as startup, then, after the webinar, my plan changed immediately and decided to take advantage of the virtualization. During the webinar, I learned that I can create my own virtual lab instead of having physical laboratory because I know I need to invest money for refurbished servers. After the seminars, I started to read some documentations of and just realized I found my answers to my plan.
Notes:
Virtualbox webinar link that I attended (thanks for Fat Bloke blog site because the link I have was the link sent to me during registration - not sure if unique to every attendee), just try the link and if it request to register, then register and you will be able to view the webinar that I am talking above.
Virtualbox documentation - the Virtualbox Org site includes documentation.
You may see that I am featuring specific product of Oracle, it just happened that Virtualbox is an open source and its available in Mac OS and helped me to address my plan. As of this writing, I still need to experiment VMware for Mac OS like VMWare Player or VMWareFusion (will give you updates once I had a chance to lay my hands on VMware products not to make point who is better but as part of awareness in the technology available).
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