Various thoughts on Oracle, Enterprise Architecture, Cloud Computing, Kubernetes and everything Storage
Background So, the time has come to migrate your Oracle database to another storage array. There are a number of different options available to us, including the Oracle online datafile move, Oracle Recover Manager (RMAN) backup/restore, Oracle DataGuard failover, Data Pump, GoldenGate, host base mirroring, storage replication to name just a few. The method selected... Continue Reading →
Oracle Storage Snapshot Optimization enables you to use third-party storage snapshots to recover a databases to the current time or a specific point-in-time without having the database placed in backup mode. To use Storage Snapshot Optimization, the snapshot technology must conform to the following requirements. The database is crash consistent during the snapshot.The snapshot preserves... Continue Reading →
Introduction In this short post I will share how we can automate the refresh of an Oracle database on Windows in few seconds with a simple PowerShell script and the Pure Storage PowerShell SDK. Database Volumes In my lab I have an 2 Oracle database each using 2 volumes for the database, which are presented... Continue Reading →
Background In my previous post I walked through how you can determine a vVOL FlashArray volume from a Linux device. In this post I will show how we can automate that process with Ansible using the same /dev/sdd Linux device and some code examples. Ansible Linux Facts Let's start by using the ansible_facts.devices to identify... Continue Reading →
Background I have recently seen an increase in the adoption of VMware Virtual Volumes (vVOLS), and a question which is frequently asked is: How I can identify the FlashArray volume from my Linux server ? Identify Linux Device In this example my Oracle database is using a Pure Storage FlashArray and has been migrated to... Continue Reading →
Background There are many times when a shared file system is a hard requirement or is needed to make life easier. If you don't have access to Pure FlashBlade or other NFS server and need a shared filesystem then Oracle Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System (ACFS) maybe worth considering. Starting with Oracle Automatic Storage... Continue Reading →
Background One of the most exciting announcements at last years Oracle Open World #OOW19 was around multi-tenancy and the changes to Oracle licensing allowing non multi-tenant users to have up to 3 user-created PDB's in a container database at any time for free. With the above, and the announcement of de-support of non-CDB architecture from... Continue Reading →
One of the Purity 6.0 features I have most eagerly been awaiting is the ability to tag Pure volumes and snapshots. Volume tagging provides a great way of providing additional database and application metadata to FlashArray Volumes to provide application and database aware reporting. In this Blog post I am going to demonstrate how we... Continue Reading →
In a previously blog I shared how you could get the Pure Storage FlashArray Plug-in for Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control from the Oracle Extensibility Exchange, you can read-up on this here. As Pure have recently upgraded the Plug-in to 13.3.1 I thought it would be a good time to re-visit Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud... Continue Reading →
I have recently created a number of blogs posts on running containerised Oracle databases on Kubernetes using the Oracle provided Docker build scripts and the Pure Storage Container Storage Interface (CSI) Driver Pure Service Orchestrator (PSO) to provide persistent storage to my Oracle database containers. In this Blog I am going to show how easy... Continue Reading →
