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Manly Men Only Deploy Oracle with Fibre Channel - Part IV. SANs are Simple, RAC is Difficult!

Several months back I made a blog entry about the RAC poll put together by Jared Still. The poll can be found here. Thus far there have been about 150 participants through the poll—best I can tell. … more »

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Manly Men Only Deploy Oracle with Fibre Channel - Part IV. SANs are Simple, RAC is Difficult! — 21 comments

kevinclosson wrote 12 months ago: Several months back I made a blog entry about the RAC poll put together by Jared Still. The poll can … more »

Tags: Oracle, Real Application Clusters Installation, Real Application Clusters, NFS CFS ASM, RAC, Oracle NFS, Oracle NAS, Oracle over NFS, Oracle on NFS

Manly Men Only Deploy Oracle with Fibre Channel - Part II. What's So Simple and Inexpensive About NFS for Oracle? — 9 comments

kevinclosson wrote 1 year ago: The things I routinely hear from DBAs leads me to believe that they often don’t understand storage … more »

Tags: Oracle SMB, storage area network, Oracle, Oracle Storage Related Problems, Real Application Clusters Installation, NFS CFS ASM, OnTap GX, Oracle NFS, Oracle NAS

Manly Men Only Deploy Oracle with Fibre Channel - Part 1. Oracle Over NFS is Weird. — 10 comments

kevinclosson wrote 1 year ago: Beware, lot’s of tongue in cheek in this one. If you’re not the least bit interested in storage … more »

Tags: NFS CFS ASM, Oracle, Oracle NAS, Oracle NFS, Oracle on RHEL5, Oracle over NFS, Oracle Performance, Oracle RDBMS, Oracle Storage Related Problems

Oracle over NFS Performance is "Glacial", But At Least It Isn't "File Serving." — 12 comments

kevinclosson wrote 1 year ago: I assert that Oracle over NFS is not going away anytime soon—it’s only going to get better. In f … more »

Tags: NFS CFS ASM, NFS Performance, Oracle, Oracle NAS, Oracle NFS, oracle on NFS is slow, Oracle Performance

Oracle Can Push over 4 Million TpmC, But The Real Battle(tm) is for SMB — 3 comments

kevinclosson wrote 1 year ago: There is no measurement for who does Small and Medium Business the best. I’ve always said that it … more »

Tags: Oracle SMB, Oracle NFS, Oracle NAS

It's OK To Blame the "Storage." Oracle Problems When "Storage" is "Just Fine" — 7 comments

kevinclosson wrote 1 year ago: “It’s not the storage.” Now that is a famous quote. I hear about it all the time. Some bizarre … more »

Tags: Oracle Storage Related Problems

SAN Array Cache and Filers Hate Sequential Writes — 1 comment

kevinclosson wrote 1 year ago: Or at least they should. Jonathan Lewis has taken on a recent Oracle-l thread about Thinking Big. It … more »

Tags: filesystem performance, Oracle I/O Performance, I/O Topics, direct I/O

Network Appliance OnTap GX--Specialized for Transaction Logging. — 9 comments

kevinclosson wrote 1 year ago: Density is Increasing, But Certainly Not That Cheap Netapp’s SEC 10-Q form for their quarter endin … more »

Tags: clustered storage, Data OnTap GX, LGWR Performance, Oracle NAS, Oracle NFS, Oracle Performance, Oracle Storage Related Problems, redo logging performance


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