By now, we all know Oracle is fully supported on VMware. Anyone telling you it’s not supported is either lying to you, or doesn’t know what he is talking about (I keep wondering what’s worse). VMware support includes Oracle RAC…
Linux Disk Alignment Reloaded
My all-time high post with the most pageviews is the one on Linux disk alignment: How to set disk alignment in Linux. In that post I showed an easy method on how to set and check disk alignment under linux.
ZFS and Database fragmentation
Yet another customer was asking me for advice on implementing the ZFS file system on EMC storage systems. Recently I did some hands-on testing with ZFS as Oracle database file store so that I could get an opinion on the…
Big Ideas; Big Tech: Continuous Operations for Oracle RAC with EMC VPLEX
Here’s an EMC video on Youtube about Oracle RAC with EMC VPLEX. Very nice, check it out! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRtl6dU2P_E
Why clone databases for firefighting
As more and more customers are moving their mission-critical Oracle database workloads to virtualized infrastructure, I often get asked how to deal with Oracle’s requirement to reproduce issues on a physical environment (especially if they use VMware as virtualization platform…