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Background Over the recent months I have an increasing number of discussions around the use of Non-volatile Memory Express™ (NVMe™) over TCP (NVMe/TCP) storage and Oracle, so I thought it was time I documented how to configure NVMe/TCP on Oracle Linux 9 for Oracle Database 19c. Is this NVMe over TCP supported ? Yes, Oracle... Continue Reading →
Background Following the recent announcement by Oracle on the de-support, and deprecation of the Oracle ASM Filter Driver (ASMFD). See Note: Oracle Automatic Storage Management Filter Driver (ASMFD) (Doc ID 2806979.1) I am starting to more interest in the use of Oracle ASMLib v3.1 for long term Oracle support, and also for the io_uring, and Thin... Continue Reading →
Introduction Following the recent announcement of the deprecation and desupport of the Oracle ASM Filer Driver (ASMFD), and the release of a new version of the Oracle ASMLib for Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM). It's the perfect time to revisit ASMLib and write a blog on how to download, install, and configure the ASM library... Continue Reading →
Oracle Linux Server Configuration For this blog post I will be using an Oracle Linux 8 server and a Pure Storage FlashArray to demonstrate how block volumes can be presented to an Oracle Linux 8 database server via iSCSI. Let's start by logging in as root and configuring the Linux database server to support Internet... Continue Reading →
Background As many of you may already know, I have been a long time supporter of running Oracle on NFS, having deployed many Oracle E-Business suite, single instance and RAC databases on NFS over years. However, for many Oracle DBAs NFS (Network File Systems) is still something of an unknown entity, in this post I... Continue Reading →
I recently published a blog on restricting Linux block storage IO sizes using Kernel settings, but what if you don't have root access, or want a more dynamic approach for your Oracle Database. In this blog post I am going to explore the use of multiblock read count (MBRC) on an Oracle 19c Database. Oracle... Continue Reading →
A colleague recently asked me an interesting question, How can I reduce the size of a physical IO on Linux? So here's a blog that hopefully answers that question. Linux Operating System For this blog I will be using a Linux server with a Kernel that has a default maximum size of 1280KB (if you... Continue Reading →
In Part 1 of this blog series I shared how to create a Pure Storage FlashBlade S3 compliant Object Storage account, user and bucket. I also demonstrated how to download the MySQL airportdb database, and upload objects into the Object Store S3 bucket. In Part 2, I showed how we can use the MySQL Shell... Continue Reading →
In Part 1 of this blog series I shared how to setup a Pure Storage FlashBlade S3 compliant Object Storage account, user and bucket. I also demonstrated how to download the MySQL airportdb database, and upload objects into the Object Store S3 bucket. In this blog post I will show how we can use the... Continue Reading →
In this blog post series I and going to share how a MySQL 8 DBA can utilise S3 Object Storage for common database admin activities. If you don't already have an up and running MySQL 8 database and want to follow this blog, you could check out my post How to Install MySQL 8 on... Continue Reading →