In this Blog post I will share another short video demonstrating how storage data services can be used to perform many common data management and CDM (Copy Data Management) tasks using simply scripting, DevOPS automation tools and Pure Storage REST API’s . Oracle 12c database rewind This video starts the same as a Part 1: Oracle 12c... Continue Reading →
Oracle dNFS Throughput testing
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 Linux Container Registry
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 →
One-Click Oracle 12c Database Clone
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 →
Docker, Oracle 12c and Persistent Storage
How to the Pure Storage plugin to present persistent storage to an Oracle 12c running in a Docker container
Docker Volume plugin for Pure Storage
How to get started with the Pure Storage Docker Volume plugin
How to resize an XFS filesystem
A question which I frequently get asked is, how do I a resize my Oracle XFS file system ? As I needed to resize an Oracle FRA area today, I thought this would make a great topic for a Blog post. Ok, lets start be checking the current size and geometry using the Linux df... Continue Reading →
Getting started with Ansible and Oracle
Introduction In my previous post An introduction to Ansible I shared some reasons why companies are adopting Ansible and described some of the advantages of using Ansible over other configuration management tools. Now we know what Ansible is, let's start using it. Setting up an Ansible Control Machine The simplest and quickest way to get up and running... Continue Reading →
Resizing Oracle ASM disks
Resizing Oracle ASM disks with pure storage
Installing Linux Package Groups
Installing Package Groups I came across an Oracle Linux 7.2 server this week that was missing some required prerequisite packages for my Oracle Database install. This was easily fixed with yum and package groups, package groups allows you to install a group of dependent packages in one go rather than individually. A package group has a... Continue Reading →