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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 →
In this Blog post I will share another short video demonstrating how storage data services can be used to perform many common data management tasks using simply scripting, DevOPS automation tools and Pure Storage REST API’s . Oracle 12c multiple databases clones with Ansible Before we jump into the demonstration let me detail my architecture and explain... Continue Reading →
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 Point-in-Time-Recovery This video starts the same as a Part 1: Oracle 12c database reset by... Continue Reading →
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 →
In this series of Blog posts I will share short videos 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 Reset The video starts by refreshing an Oracle 12c database,... Continue Reading →
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 →
How to the Pure Storage plugin to present persistent storage to an Oracle 12c running in a Docker container
After watching an Oracle R12c new features presentation at a recent conference somebody asked me what was my favourite Oracle R12c database feature, for me it was easy has to be 'ALTER DATABASE MOVE DATAFILE' Prior to Oracle 12c moving non-ASM data files required taking data files 'offline' and negotiating an outage with the business, with... Continue Reading →
Docker Installation Before you can consider creating an Oracle Database docker container you need to install Docker. If you yet to install Docker you can visit one of my previous posts Docker installation on Oracle Linux 7.2 to get started. Oracle on Docker Since last year Oracle have provided build files to assist in the creation of... Continue Reading →