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Using Connection Manager to protect a database

I have known about Oracle’s connection manager (CMAN) for quite a while but never managed to…
Testing NIC bonding on RHEL6

I have recently upgraded my lab’s reference machine to Oracle Linux 6 and have experimented today…
Installing Oracle Linux 6 as a domU in Xen

Update: Please consider the context of the article-it was written in April 2011! The post refers to…
Build your own stretch cluster part V

This post is about the installation of Grid Infrastructure, and where it’s really getting exciting: the…
Build your own 11.2.0.2 stretched RAC part IV

Finally I have some more time to work on the next article in this series, dealing…
Build your own 11.2.0.2 stretched RAC part III

On to the next part in the series. This time I am showing how I prepared…
Build your own 11.2.0.2 stretched RAC part II

I promised in the introduction to introduce my lab environment in the first part of the…
Build your own 11.2.0.2 stretched RAC

Finally time for a new series! With the arrival of the new 11.2.0.2 patchset I thought…
crsctl status resource – state details are really useful

A very short post about a cool new feature I noticed today. RAC 11.2 has moved…
Moving OCR and voting disks to block devices in CRS 10.2

Anyone to suggest a shorter title for this: you are welcome to comment! Initially I wanted…