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Hot-resize disks on Linux

After major investigations around, I came to the conclusion that a full guide describing the procedure required for online disk resize on Linux (especially – expanding disks). I have created a guide for RHEL5/6/7/8 (works the same for Centos or OEL or ScientificLinux – RHEL-based Linux systems) which takes into account the following four scenarios:…

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Oracle RAC with EMC iSCSI Storage Panics

I have had a system panicking when running the mentioned below configuration: RedHat RHEL 4 Update 6 (4.6) 64bit (x86_64) Dell PowerEdge servers Oracle RAC 11g with Clusterware 11g EMC iSCSI storage EMC PowerPate Vote and Registry LUNs are accessible as raw devices Data files are accessible through ASM with libASM During reboots or shutdowns,…