In this post I am going to show how we can take volume and volume group snapshots with Portworx. I have previous blogged on how you can run an Oracle 19c on Kubernetes with Portworx and will use the PVCs created that blog within this post. Inspect existing Statefulset Before we start let's looks out... Continue Reading →
Resizing Container File Systems with Kubernetes PVCs and Portworx
I have previous blogged on how you can run an Oracle 19c on Kubernetes with Portworx, if you want to check out the code examples you can find them here. In this post I am going to show how we can use a Portworx Storage Class and Persistent Volume Claims (PVCs) to resize a containers... Continue Reading →
Oracle Database 19c on Kubernetes with Portworx storage
Background In this post I am going to share how you can obtain the official Oracle 19.3 Enterprise Edition (EE) Docker image and deliver an Oracle 19c database on Kubernetes 1.17.0 with Portworx 2.6 storage. Kubernetes Cluster Info Before we start let's have a look at our Kubernetes environment $ kubectl cluster-info Kubernetes master is... Continue Reading →
Oracle 19c on Docker and Kubernetes Part 3 – Using Minikube and VirtualBox
Background If you have followed Part 1 and Part 2 you should have a already downloaded the Oracle 19.3 Docker image from the Oracle Container Registry and have tried it out in your environment. In this post I will be using Minikube and VirtualBox to run an Oracle 19c database within Kubernetes environment. Kubernetes -... Continue Reading →
Oracle 19c on Docker and Kubernetes Part 2- Running Oracle on Docker
Oracle 19c Docker Image In Part 1 of this Blog series I showed how you can obtain the official Oracle 19.3 Docker image from the Oracle Container Registry, if you missed the you can read more about getting the Oracle 19c image here. You can still use the Oracle provided Docker build scripts to roll... Continue Reading →
Oracle 19c on Docker and Kubernetes Part 1- Getting Started
Backgroud If you are a frequent visitor to my Blog site you may have already read one of the many Oracle on Docker / Kubernetes posts which I have written over the last few years. I have posts showing how you can deploy different versions of the Oracle database on Docker and Kubernetes clusters, with... Continue Reading →
Oracle Database Volume Tagging with Purity 6.0
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 →
NFS storage IO performance testing with ORION (ORacle IO Numbers)
Background In my previous ORION Blog post I described how to prepare a Pure Storage FlashArray block volumes for use with Oracle ORION (ORacle IO Numbers), in this is Blog I am going to show how this can also be done with NFS. Getting Started - Storage Preparation For the purposes of this Blog I have... Continue Reading →
Block storage IO performance testing with ORION (ORacle IO Numbers)
Background When a DBA gets the request to perform a storage IO test most will probably look to use the extremely poplar, and excellent SLOB (Silly Little Oracle Benchmark) by Kevin Closson, or maybe HammerDB or Dominic Giles'sSwingBench for Transactional / TPC-DS type tests. However, if you find yourself under time or other constraints ORION... Continue Reading →
Getting started with Ansible and Windows
Background I spend most of my time working with Linux but occasionally I come across Oracle on Windows, so I thought it's about time that I tried my hand at using Ansible on Windows. Ansible on Windows You can not currently run Ansible on Windows, but you can manage Windows servers from a Linux or... Continue Reading →