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If you have been following my Blog for a while you will by now know I am a long term fan of Oracle on NFS and more accurately Oracle Direct NFS (dNFS). If you need to re-familirise yourself with Oracle dNFS you could do a lot worse than check-out some of my previous Blogs on... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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 Direct NFS (dNFS) Multi-path If you have multiple interfaces on your database server and your NFS server also supports multiple interfaces you should consider using Oracle dNFS multi-path. Oracle dNFS multi-path removes the need to distribute and manage datafiles over multiple NFS mount points, Oracle dNFS multi-path can also improve throughput if you were not... Continue Reading →