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ZFS and Database fragmentation

Bart Sjerps 2013-02-26 Oracle, Performance 53 Comments

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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Oracle Exadata X3 Database In-Memory Machine: Timely Thoughtful Thoughts For The Thinking Technologist – Part I

Bart Sjerps 2012-11-05 Oracle, Performance No Comments

Awesome post by Kevin! Recommended read if you are interested in Oracle Exadata.  1,627 total views

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Stop Idling – Start Saving

Bart Sjerps 2012-10-23 Oracle, Virtualization 1 Comment

One of my missions is to help customers saving money (Dirty Cache Cash). So considering the average enterprise application environment, I frequently ask them where they spend most of their IT budget on. Is it servers? Networks? Middleware? Applications? Turns…

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Thank you, Larry Ellison

Bart Sjerps 2012-10-03 General, Oracle 4 Comments

My colleague Vince Westin published this great post on his blog: During his opening keynote at Oracle OpenWorld 2012, Larry Ellison launched the new Exadata X3. The new version appears to have some nice new capabilities, including caching writes to…

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Oracle snapshots and clones with ZFS

Bart Sjerps 2012-08-29 FAQ, Oracle, Performance 6 Comments

Another Frequently Asked Question: Is there any disadvantage for a customer in using Oracle/SUN ZFS appliances to create database/application snapshots in comparison with EMC’s cloning/snapshot offerings? Oracle marketing is pushing materials where they promote the ZFS storage appliance as the…

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