How to configure Oracle 19c database and DirectNFS with NFSv4.1 using a Pure Storage FlashBlade
How to configure Oracle 19c database and DirectNFS with NFSv4.1
Performing Oracle RMAN backups to S3 – Part 2: on-premises FlashBlade S3 Object Storage
Background Historically most of the conversations I have regarding Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) have been around the use of NFS storage, and Oracle Direct NFS (dNFS). However, more recently with the explosion in the use of Amazon S3 object storage, the topic of RMAN and S3 gets frequently raised. In Part 1 of this series... Continue Reading →
Protecting Oracle backups from ransomware and malicious intent
As database professionals we are the custodians of our organisations data and in the event of any data related issue are usually one of the first on the scene. Over the last few years we have seen an increasing number of ransomware attacks, this has been headline news across the globe impacting all industries, with... Continue Reading →
Oracle 19c on Kubernetes Data Protection with Portworx PX-Backup
Introduction If you thinking about, or already running an Oracle database within a container, you may have thought 'how I am I going to backup and secure my database and environment ?' In this post I will share how we can use Portworx PX-Backup to easily backup an Oracle database to a Pure Storage FlashBlade... Continue Reading →
Oracle 19c on Kubernetes with NFS Storage and Portworx Proxy Volumes
I have previously shared how we can deliver a containerised Oracle 19c database using a Kubernetes Statefulset with Block devices, in this post I will show how we do the same with Kubernetes Deployments and NFS. For this post I will be using Kubernetes v1.17 [root@master-1 ~]# kubectl version --short | awk -Fv '/Server Version:... Continue Reading →
Using autofs with Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) and dNFS
Background This week I was asked an interesting question can Oracle dNFS and Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) use auto mounts, not knowing the answer I thought I better find out. What is Autofs ? Autofs, also known as automounter mounts filesystems on-demand when they are accessed rather than maintaining the mounts all the time. The... Continue Reading →
How to access a FlashBlade Object Store from within your Oracle 19c database
Introduction Last year I wrote a number of posts on Big Data and shared how we can access CSV, Parquet and Avro file formats directly from an on-premises Oracle 19c database using Oracle external files on a local file system or and NFS share from an NFS server e.g. FlashBlade Unfortunately, at that time I... Continue Reading →
Oracle 19c on Kubernetes using NFS Persistent Storage
In this Blog I can going to show how you can run an Oracle 19c Database on a Kubernetes cluster using a Network File System (NFS) server for Persistent Storage. In this example I will be using the Pure Storage Container Storage Interface (CSI) Driver Pure Service Orchestrator (PSO) to present a persistent storage to... Continue Reading →
Getting started with Kubernetes Persistent File Storage
I have recently created a number of blogs posts on running containerised Oracle databases on Kubernetes using the Pure Storage Container Storage Interface (CSI) Driver Pure Service Orchestrator (PSO) to provide persistent block storage to my Oracle database containers using the Pure Service Orchestrator. In this Blog I am going to show how it's equally... Continue Reading →
Accelerating Oracle DataPump with Oracle dNFS (Direct NFS)
Before we can use DataPump with Oracle dNFS we need to create and export an NFS filesystem, prepare our Linux environment and configure our database. Ok let's begin. Create File System For this walkthrough I need an NFS server, fortunately I have access to a Pure Storage FlashBlade in my lab, so I will be... Continue Reading →
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