Automatic Storage Management

So you don’t see any disks when trying to install ASM?

This is a post that highlights the difference between operating systems, but also the fact that…
Additional date for my Grid Infrastructure seminar in the UK

I was very pleasently surprised that Oracle University are offering another day for my “Grid Infrastructure…
Offloading production backups to a different storage array

For quite a while Oracle DBAs have performed split mirror backups using special devices called “Business…
A quick word of warning about database PSU 11.2.0.2.2

I am playing around with the Grid Infrastructure 11.2.0.2 PSU 2 and found an interesting note…
ASM normal redundancy and failure groups spanning SANs

Julian Dyke has started an interesting thread on the Oak Table mailing list after the latest…
Troubleshooting Grid Infrastructure startup

This has been an interesting story today when one of my blades decided to reboot after…
Installing RAC 11.2.0.2 on Solaris 10/09 x64

One of the major adventures this time of the year involves installing RAC 11.2.0.2 on Solaris…
Display scheduler class for a process in linux

The ps command in the ways I use it most (ps -ef and ps auxwww) doesn’t…
Upgrade ASM 10.2 to 11.2 single instance

This post describes how to upgrade an existing single instance ASM installation to the latest and…
How to move OCR and voting disks into ASM

Moving OCR and voting disk into ASM is the Oracle Grid Infrastructure or 11.2 way of…