I’ve been in discussions with some customers recently about what is the best way to store Oracle database data. Needless to say that the foundation should be EMC infrastructure of course, but apart from that, what kind of volume manager…
An IT infrastructure perspective on optimizing business applications
I’ve been in discussions with some customers recently about what is the best way to store Oracle database data. Needless to say that the foundation should be EMC infrastructure of course, but apart from that, what kind of volume manager…
A guy walks into the showroom of a Porsche dealer. He wants to buy a new set of hot wheels. The sales guy tells him about the latest technology in sports car design. This year’s model has active 4-wheel drive…
A customer asked me recently what EMC’s advice is regarding duplexing Oracle redo logs. There is a thought behind this – Oracle redo logs are sensitive to data corruption – if redo logs are corrupt, there is no way to…
Does this story sound familiar? The end users of a database application start complaining about poor system response and long running batch jobs. The DBA team starts investigating the problem. DBA’s look at their database tools such as Enterprise Manager,…
As you might know, if disk partitions containing Oracle datafiles are not aligned with the underlying storage system, then some I/O’s can suffer from some overhead as they are effectively translated in two I/O’s. If you want more info, google…