Kevin Closson’s Oracle Blog: Platform, Storage & Clustering Topics Related to Oracle Databases

Oracle-related Platform, Storage and Clustering Topics (with the occasional rant)

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FS, CFS, NFS, ASM Topics

  • My Blog Posts Prove Oracle Doesn’t Support NFS!
  • Don’t Bother Trying Large-Scale Storage Without Fibre Channel SAN Technology
  • Oracle’s Latest Filesystem Offering: Btrfs
  • Mount Options for Oracle over NFS. It’s All About the Port.
  • Manly Men Only Deploy Oracle with Fibre Channel Storage - Part I. Oracle Over NFS is Weird.
  • Manly Men Only Deploy Oracle with Fibre Channel - Part II. What’s So Simple and Inexpensive About NFS for Oracle?
  • Manly Men Only Deploy Oracle with Fibre Channel - Part III. Did I Hear EMC Say NAS?
  • Manly Men Only Deploy Oracle with Fibre Channel - Part IV. SANs are Simple, RAC is Difficult!
  • Manly Men Only Deploy Oracle with Fibre Channel - Part V. What About Oracle9i on RHAS 2.1? Yippie!
  • Manly Men Only Deploy Oracle with Fibre Channel - Part VI. Introducing Oracle11g Direct NFS!
  • Manly Men Only Deploy Oracle with Fibre Channel - Part VII. A Very Helpful Step-by-step Install Guide for RAC on NFS.
  • Manly Men Only Deploy Oracle With Fibre Channel - Part VIII. After All, Oracle Doesn’t Support Asynchronous I/O On NFS!
  • SAN Admins: Please Give Me Maximum Capacity From as Few Spindles as Possible!
  • Oracle Over NFS Performance is Glacial but it Isn’t File Serving
  • SAN Array Cache and Filers Hate Sequential Writes
  • Copying Files on Solaris. Slow or Fast, It’s Your Choice. Part I
  • Copying Files on Solaris. Slow or Fast, It’s Your Choice. Part II
  • Copying Files on Solaris. Slow or Fast, It’s Your Choice. Part III
  • Standard File System Tools? We Don’t Need No Standard File System Tools!
  • Testing Direct Versus Buffered UFS on Solaris 10 with Swingbench.
  • Standard File Utilities with Direct I/O
  • Oracle Direct I/O Brought to You By Deranged Monkeys
  • Direct I/O Can Crash Dataguard. Tricky ORA-01031.
  • DBWR with CIO on JFS2. Resource Starvation?
  • What Performs Better, Direct I/O or Direct I/O? There is No Such Thing As a Stupid Question!
  • NetApp OnTap GX-Specialized for Transaction Logging.
  • Which Version Supports Oracle Over NFS? Oracle9i? Oracle10g? What about Oracle11g on Windows?
  • Oracle 10.2.0.3 Patchset is Not Functional with Solaris SPARC 64-bit and Veritas Filesystem
  • Analysis and Workaround for the Solaris 10.2.0.3 Patchset Problem on VxFS Files
  • The 10.2.0.3 Patchset with VxFS Saga: An Example of Incorrectly Describing the Incorrectness
  • The Decommissioning of the Oracle Storage Certification Program
  • Yes Direct I/O Means Concurrent Writes. Oracle Doesn’t Need Write-Ordering.
  • Oracle Database on CAS, NAS, FCP. Your Choice. Why Not Some of Each?
  • Defaults with Oracle Managed Files. Some OMF Trivia Too!
  • Yes Direct I/O Means Concurrent Writes. Oracle Doesn’t Need Write-Ordering.
  • Gigabit Ethernet NFS is Not Sufficient for Oracle. Forget NAS, or Read On…
  • Troubles with Oracle on NAS? Old Stuff Deployed?
  • Censored: Are GFS, OCFS, ASM and PolyServe Functional? Who Would Know?
  • Censored: ASM is “not really an optional extra” With BIGFILE Tablespaces
  • Censored: Oracle Read Optimizations in 11g. Um, Like, Filesystem-Fast!
  • Censored: NetApp’s OnTap GX for Oracle. Clustered Name Space.
  • Censored: Commodity Computing with SANs and Automatic Storage Management
  • Censored: Automatic Storage Management on VxVM. But Why?
  • Censored: ASM Enables Record TPC Results. RAC Does Not Function Without It! + A Blog Correction
  • Censored: SAN Madness-Don’t Let It Ruin Your Project. Maybe CBO Will Help?
  • Censored: Oracle Enterprise Linux With ASM Delivers Record TPC Result.
  • Censored: HP and Oracle Achieve Record TPC-H Result-Using Third Party Software
  • Censored: Combining ASM and NAS-Got Proof?
  • Censored: Introducing the “Unstructured Data Administrator”.
  • Censored: An Open Source Cluster Filesystems Performance Study
  • Censored: Oracle RAC on ZFS. A ZFS to ASM Comparison.
  • Censored: Oracle over NFS. EMC and Network Appliance Truth Telling.
  • Censored: EMC’s MPFSi for Oracle: Enjoy It While It Lasts, or Not.
  • Censored: Oracle Espouses Tiered Storage. ASM Who?
  • Censored: Isilon Leads in Clustered Storage-Without Support for Oracle
  • Censored: Scalable NFS Powered By Open Source Cluster Filesystems
  • Censored: Clustered Storage Advancing

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The views expressed on this blog are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Oracle. The views and opinions expressed by visitors on this blog are theirs, not mine.

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