Introduction Since Oracle GI version 11.2.0.3, Oracle have provided a clustered file-system called ACFS, based on the underlined technology Oracle ASM. This technology has provided a reliable-enough, although not free from bugs, clustered file-system, while Oracle OCFS2 (which had its own cluster framework: O2CB) has been abandoned and left to die. ACFS was a good-enough…
Oracle begin to push their Clusterware as a 3rd party HA framework. In this article we will review a quick example of how to do it. I will refer to this post as a quick-guide, as this is by no means any full-scale guide. This article assumes you have installed Oracle Clusterware following one of…
Per the last post in this thread, I have created a startup script to an Oracle setup I’ve had. The script is rather simple – you “su –” to the Oracle user, and you just start the DB. Same goes for shutting it down. I have tested it and it worked well. Due to the…
First and foremost – the Ontap simulator, a great tool which surely can assist in learning NetApp interface and utilization, lacks in performance. It has some built-in limitations – No FCP, no disks (virtual disks) larger than 1GB (per my trial-and-error. I might find out I was wrong somehow, and put in on this website),…
