Automatic Storage Management

Upgrade Clusterware 10.2 to 11.2

This post is about upgrading Oracle Clusterware 10.2.0.4 on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.4 x86-64. The setup…
Recreate the standby controlfile when using ASM

This is in reply to some work I was supposed to carry out over the weekend…
Let there be multipathing (when there wasn’t before)

One of the projects I was working on recently couldn’t be finished as it should have…
Do not shut down ASM when dropping a disk

I was doing some maintenance today with an ASM disk group (10.2.0.4.1 64bit on RHEL 5.3).…
Getting started with iSCSI part IV-Slightly advanced material

The final part of the article series focuses on some slightly more advanced topics, such as…
Getting started with iSCSI part III-Mounting Storage

After all the necessary work has been completed on the iSCSI appliance we are now ready…
Getting started with iSCSI part II-Presenting Storage

This part of the series focuses on how to add storage to your appliance and then…
Connected to an idle instance-RAC 10.2.0.4.1

I encountered a strange problem today with a 3 node cluster. Let’s start with the facts…
Building your own RAC system part III: Grid Infrastructure

UPDATE 221103: Oracle 11.2 is effectively out of support, this article is now archived and shouldn’t…