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Oracle Direct NFS In my previous Oracle dNFS Blog post I detailed how to configure Oracle 12cR2 to use Oracle dNFS multi-path, in this Blog I will share some test results that I achieved in my Oracle 12cR2 Pure Storage FlashBlade lab. Theoretical Limits A Gigabit Ethernet network can transmit 1,000,000,000 bits per second, as we normally... Continue Reading →
Oracle Direct NFS (dNFS) Multi-path If you have multiple interfaces on your database server and your NFS server also supports multiple interfaces you should consider using Oracle dNFS multi-path. Oracle dNFS multi-path removes the need to distribute and manage datafiles over multiple NFS mount points, Oracle dNFS multi-path can also improve throughput if you were not... Continue Reading →
You may have read one of my previous posts Oracle 12c on Docker where I described how you can get hold of official Oracle images from the Docker Store. In this post I will share how you can now use the Oracle Container Registry to obtain Docker images for all licensable Oracle products. To access the Oracle... Continue Reading →
ODC Appreciation Day - 10th October 2017 Last year Tim aka 'ORACLE-BASE' launched the the first OTN (Oracle Technology Network) Appreciation Day, after the success of last year this is being repeated again this year under the new moniker of ODC. As today is Tuesday 10th October 2017 expect some great content from fellow Oracle ACE's... Continue Reading →
Background Earlier in the year at the excellent OUgf Finnish Oracle User Group Harmony 17 conference, I performed a Live demo where I refreshed an Oracle 12c database using an Ansible Playbook in just over a minute, 1min 16sec to be more precise. Once I had completed my presentation Frits Hoogland mentioned that he had recently used... Continue Reading →
How to the Pure Storage plugin to present persistent storage to an Oracle 12c running in a Docker container
"Accidentally destroyed production database on first day of a job" Wow, that headline grabbed my attention. Earlier this week you may have seen an article reported by The Register about a post in reddit from a junior software developer going by the name of "cscareerthrowaway567", who on his/her first day destroyed a Production database and lost their job.... Continue Reading →
After watching an Oracle R12c new features presentation at a recent conference somebody asked me what was my favourite Oracle R12c database feature, for me it was easy has to be 'ALTER DATABASE MOVE DATAFILE' Prior to Oracle 12c moving non-ASM data files required taking data files 'offline' and negotiating an outage with the business, with... Continue Reading →
Resizing Oracle ASM disks with pure storage
Thank you Oracle Technology Network Today is OTN Appreciation Day, another excellent idea by Tim Hall aka OracleBase for everyone in the Oracle community to come together to thank the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) for all they do for us. Having used Oracle technology and Applications for over 20+ years I have plenty of features which I... Continue Reading →