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…
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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. 1,254 total…
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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…
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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 605 total views
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Managing REDO log performance
I have written before about managing database performance issues, and the topic is hot and alive as ever. Even with today’s fast processors, huge memory sizes and enormous bandwidth to storage and networks. warning: Rated TG (Technical Guidance required) for…
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