My First FreeNAS: Part 1 – Build and Burn-In
Kscope16 is over, my parts have arrived, and its finally time to start my FreeNAS build. Today I’m going to run through my actual build process and the start of my burn-in process. Let’s start with the hardware…what did I order again? SuperChassis 846TQ-R900B (2) E5-2670 @ 2.6 GHz Supermicro X9DR7-LN4F-JBOD 256GB Registered ECC DDR3 RAM (16 x 16GB) Noctua i4 Heatsinks (5) Noctua NF-R8 (to bring the noise level down on the chassis) (2) SanDisk Cruzer 16GB CZ33 (2) Supermicro AOC-2308-l8e (3) Full-Height LSI Backplates (for the AOC-2308’s and the P3605) (6) Mini-SAS Breakout Cables Intel P3605 1.6TB PCIe SSD (9) 2TB HGST Ultrastar 7K3000 Hard Drives (4) 10Gb Twinax DAC Cables (2) Intel X520-DA2 An here’s the pile of goodies: I always start with the motherboard by itself: Next up…the CPU(s): CPU close-up: Before we install the heatsinks, let’s install the memory. The heatsinks are petty big and have a habit of getting in the way: That’s a lot of memory…how about a close-up: Now we can install the heatsinks: Like I said…huge:
The EPM Week In Review: Week Ending July 16, 2016
This week, Oracle was kind enough to give us a few patches while the EPM community in general is still recovering from Kscope16. We still have some great content this week, so let’s check it out. Patches and Updates: HFM 11.1.2.4.202 was released. This appears to be general bug fixes. Speaking of bug fixes, Essbase 11.1.2.4.011 was released. No new functionality, but hopefully your bug was included. For the shrinking population of 11.1.2.3 customers, the Tax Provision 11.1.2.3.702 patch was released. Gary has another new release of his SV++ tool. Check it out here. New Blog Posts: I posted a tip on reloading the Planning cache without requiring a restart. Pretty cool tip…wish I had figured it out. Special thanks again to Tjien Lie for providing the code! Sibin tells us all about handling NULL values in FDMEE. While on the subject of FDMEE, he also provides us a magic decoder ring for multi-period log files. Jason has a pair of posts as he continues his on-going series on Dodeca. He has part 3 of this series,
Changing the Planning Repository without Restarting Planning
One of the long-running tenets of working with the Planning repository is that you must restart Planning to see your changes. I’ve always heard that there were ways around this, but Oracle hasn’t ever been forthcoming with the specifics of how to make that happen. Finally, at Kscope16 during my presentation on the Planning Repository, someone in the audience by the name of Tjien Lie had the code from Oracle to make this happen. Before I get to that, let’s start with a primer on the HSP_ACTION table. I would provide one, but John Goodwin did such a great job, so I’ll just point you to his post here. <<<wait for the reader to go to John Goodwin’s site and read the information and come back, assuming they don’t get distracted by his wealth of amazing content>>> Ok…now that you understand what the HSP_ACTION table does, how do we use it differently than John uses it? By differently, I mean I don’t wan to insert specific rows and update specific things. That seems like a lot
The EPM Week In Review: Week Ending July 9, 2016
Welcome to the week after Kscope. This week brings us a lot of posts about Kscope16 (including mine!). There were even a few posts not about Kscope. This is also my first Week in Review that will be posted on Monday rather than over the weekend. It has been suggested that posting on Monday will increase the overall visibility of the content for everyone, so we’ll see how it goes! Patches and Updates: DRM 11.1.2.4.341 and DRM Analytics 11.1.2.4.341 have been released. This seems to be primarily bug fixes. Gary also updated his SV ++ enhanced ribbon interface for Smart View. Definitely worth a look. New Blog Posts: This week I have a post about Kscope16 (like everyone else) and also I’m showing off my new Oracle rack. I’m pretty excited about this rack (I hear you snickering over that statement…get your mind out of the gutter!). The DEVEPM crew has some nice words about Kscope16. John Goodwin has posted the fourth and final part to his FDMEE and DRM integration series. The whole series is
Kscope16 is over…Kscope17 is coming!
As has been the case for many of my Kscope experiences, Kscope16 was quick and yet still exhausting. The conference, as always, provided seemingly limitless information for Oracle EPM and BI professionals. Even in the small amount of time that I was able to attend, I managed to learn a great many things. I also had the pleasure of meeting some of my fellow bloggers for the first time and seeing others that I’ve known for years. Sadly, many of us only get to see each other once a year. I have a new badge to add to my collection: I also received a nice polo as a presenter gift: Jake was kind enough to take a picture of me during one of my presentations: While I didn’t spend enough time this year at the event to really produce a great blog post with lots of pictures, I did have a great, if not brief experience, as I always have. I’d like to thank everyone at ODTUG for their hard work putting together a great
The EPM Week In Review: Week Ending July 2, 2016
Welcome to the most delayed Week In Review ever! Between recovering from Kscope16 and the holiday, I totally missed it this week. This week was a lot slower than last week, for obvious reasons. So let’s get to it: Patches and Updates: Nothing new this week. New Blog Posts: Cameron started off the week strong at Kscope16 with posts about day 1 and day 2. He disappeared into Kscope16 after that. 😉 The DEVEPM crew started KScope off with a post as well. Eric talks about OECD country by country reporting in HFM and HTP. Keith has an extensive post on memory settings for the web apps that run the Oracle EPM stack. He also has a less EPM-centric post about reinstalling Windows on a Yoga tablet. Dayalan continues his series on DRM Integration with FDMEE. This dives a bit deeper into the configuration of DRM and the Web API’s. Sibin continues his series on installation Oracle EPM. This time he talks about the repositories that need to be created and all of the tables that