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MEA: Defining Capacity and Performance Metrics

Bart Sjerps 2021-11-15 MEA, Oracle, Performance No Comments

In the previous post, we discussed the current state of many existing Oracle environments. Now we need a method to accurately measure or define the workload characteristics of a given database platform. In our customer engagements we frequently ask details…

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The IOPS race is over

Bart Sjerps 2016-02-08 Oracle, Performance No Comments

Infrastructure has always been a tough place to compete in. Unlike applications, databases or middleware, infrastructure components are fairly easy to replace with another make and model, and thus the vendors try to show off their product as better than…

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Silly Little Oracle Benchmark – RPM edition

Bart Sjerps 2015-09-16 Oracle, Performance No Comments

A while ago Kevin Closson announced a new release of the well-known SLOB kit. SLOB is a simple but powerful toolkit that drives lots and lots of IO on a real Oracle database (so for performance testing of database platforms,…

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Oracle ASM vs ZFS on VNX

Bart Sjerps 2014-10-13 Oracle, Performance No Comments

In my last post on ZFS I shared results of a lab test where ZFS was configured on Solaris x86 and using XtremIO storage. A strange combination maybe but this is what a specific customer asked for. Another customer requested…

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Oracle ASM vs ZFS on XtremIO

Bart Sjerps 2014-08-11 Oracle, Performance 12 Comments

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…

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