An IT infrastructure perspective on optimizing business applications
Last week EMC announced that Oracle RAC on VPLEX stretched clusters is now officially supported and certified by Oracle! News Summary: Oracle has certified that EMC® VPLEX™ METRO in a stretch cluster configuration can provide Oracle Real Application Clusters…
Today I was giving a training to fellow EMC colleagues on some Oracle fundamentals. One of the things that was mentioned is something I have heard several times before: Oracle is claiming that EMC SRDF (a data mirroring function from…
As mentioned before, I frequently find myself in discussions around Oracle performance and how an Oracle database behaves on EMC storage. It turns out that often there is a lot of confusion on how the different layers interact with each…
Just to inform you that tomorrow (wednesday jan. 18th, 2012), some of the links on my blog might not work due to Wikipedia’s one-day blackout, in protest against SOPA (and I use Wikipedia a lot as a great resource to…
A trivial question: What is the basic function of a storage system? I would say, the trivial function of a storage system is to store digital data and getting it back when you need it. To be specific: get the…