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If you have been following my Blog for a while you will by now know I am a long term fan of Oracle on NFS and more accurately Oracle Direct NFS (dNFS). If you need to re-familirise yourself with Oracle dNFS you could do a lot worse than check-out some of my previous Blogs on... Continue Reading →
Background In my previous ORION Blog post I described how to prepare a Pure Storage FlashArray block volumes for use with Oracle ORION (ORacle IO Numbers), in this is Blog I am going to show how this can also be done with NFS. Getting Started - Storage Preparation For the purposes of this Blog I have... Continue Reading →
Background When a DBA gets the request to perform a storage IO test most will probably look to use the extremely poplar, and excellent SLOB (Silly Little Oracle Benchmark) by Kevin Closson, or maybe HammerDB or Dominic Giles'sSwingBench for Transactional / TPC-DS type tests. However, if you find yourself under time or other constraints ORION... Continue Reading →