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The Quick and Dirty Dedupe Analyzer – Part 1 – Hands on

Bart Sjerps 2017-05-17 Series 2 Comments

As announced in my last blogpost, qdda is a tool that analyzes potential storage savings by scanning data and giving a deduplication, compression and thin provisioning estimate. The results are an indication whether a modern All-Flash Array (AFA) like Dell…

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Introducing Outrun for Oracle

Bart Sjerps 2015-07-01 Oracle, Performance, Virtualization 2 Comments

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…

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Starting an Oracle database on physical server using VMware VMDK volumes

Bart Sjerps 2013-09-17 Oracle, Virtualization 3 Comments

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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Limitations of host-based mirroring for stretched clusters

Bart Sjerps 2011-07-25 Oracle, VPLEX 4 Comments

For data mirroring, EMC SRDF is sometimes used in such a setup that both servers write to one location only (the “far” server writes across dark fibre links to the local storage). EMC has similar tools (Mirrorview, Recoverpoint, etc) for…

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Why use Oracle ASM for Oracle databases

Bart Sjerps 2011-05-25 Oracle 17 Comments

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…

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