A long time ago in a datacenter far, far away…. Turmoil has engulfed the IT landscape. Within the newly formed digital universe, corporate empires are becoming more and more dependent on their digital data and computer systems. To avoid downtime…
Introducing Outrun for Oracle
Overview If you want to get your hands dirty with Oracle database, the first thing you have to do is build a system that actually runs Oracle database. Unless you have done that several times before, chances are that this…
The Oracle Parking Garage
Oracle ASM vs ZFS on XtremIO
Background In my previous post on ZFS I showed how ZFS causes fragmentation for Oracle database files. At the end I promised (sort of) to also come back on topic around how this affects database performance. In the meantime I…
Fun with Linux UDEV and ASM: Using UDEV to create ASM disk volumes
Because of the many discussions and confusion around the topic of partitioning, disk alignment and it’s brother issue, ASM disk management, hereby an explanation on how to use UDEV, and as an extra, I present a tool that manages some…