Automatic Storage Management

Little things worth knowing: when a transient ASM disk failure cannot be fixed in time

In the previous blog post I used libvirt and KVM in my lab environment to simulate…
Fixing a problem with the ASM spfile preventing RAC 12c from starting

This is a little note to myself on how to fix a corrupt spfile in clustered…
UKOUG post conference geek update part 1 – ACFS for Oracle databases

One of the many interesting things I heard at the conference this time around was that…
Can you have high redundancy files in a normal redundancy diskgroup?

One of the perks of teaching classes is that I get to research questions asked. In…
DBMS_FILE_TRANSFER potentially cool but then it is not

This post is interesting for all those of you who plan to transfer data files between…
Adding a node to a 12c RAC cluster

This post is not in chronological order, I probably should have written something about installing RAC…
Performance testing with Virident PCIe SCM

Thanks to the kind introduction from Kevin Closson I was given the opportunity to benchmark the…
WARNING: FAILED to load library: /opt/oracle/extapi/64/asm/orcl/1/libasm.so

This post is long overdue, and it’s as much a reminder to myself as it is…
The tale of restoring the OCR and voting files on Linux for RAC 11.2.0.2

As part of a server move from one data centre to another I enjoyed working in…
A day at Cisco’s labs and an introduction to the UCS

I recently had the immense pleasure of visiting Cisco’s labs at Bedfont Lakes for a day…