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Introduction In a previous post last year I have shared how to install and configure the Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance simulator on VirtualBox, and also on VMware Fusion. Earlier this year I shared how to we can use the Oracle ZFA Storage VM to create an environment to experience Oracle Direct NFS (dNFS) with NFSv4.1... Continue Reading →
Background In this post I am going to walkthrough how you can get, and install the Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance simulator on VirtualBox. I will then share how we can create an NFS filesystem and configure SNMP to support HCC (Hybrid Columnar Compression). Download OVA Start by downloading the 3.4GB Oracle Storage Appliance Simulator software... Continue Reading →
In this Blog post I will share how your newly created Oracle ZFS Storage VMware Simulator can be used to deliver storage for an Oracle 12c database via dNFS and also support HCC (Hybrid Columnar Compression). Hopefully you have followed Part I of my Blog post on Getting Started with the Oracle ZFS Storage VMware... Continue Reading →
If your like me, you may sometimes need to do some research work with Oracle HCC (Hybrid Columnar Compression), but don't always have access to an Oracle Exadata machine or ZFS Appliance, then the ZFSA simulator may be your saviour. On my Mac I use both VirtualBox and VMware Fusion, but for this Blog post... Continue Reading →