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Oracle Openworld 2016 is upon us and Pure Storage is participating this year. Visit us at booth #1332 at Moscone South and learn more about how you can simplify your database operations using Pure Storage FlashArray. http://www.purestorage.com/company/events/oracle_open_world.html
Cloning an Oracle database whether it is on bare metal or virtual servers are breeze with Pure Storage’s FlashRecover snapshots. FlashRecover Snapshots are crash-consistent snapshots and as such it meets the requirements laid out by Oracle (MOS: ID 604683.1). Following are some of the Oracle database environment types we see in our customers; 1) Oracle …
Oracle Database cloning on Pure FlashArray – Part 1 Read More »
One of the key feature of Pure Storage FlashArray that is heavily used by most of the database customers is FlashRecover Snapshot. Snapshot is a key part of the data protection services offered by all modern Storage vendors and Pure Storage has taken into next level with its implementation. Storage Snapshot is the point in …
Flexible IO tester aka FIO is a open-source synthetic benchmark tool initially developed by Jens Axboe and now updated by various developers. FIO can generate various IO type workloads be it sequential reads or random writes, synchronous or asynchronous, based on the options provided by the user. FIO provides various global options through which different …
While thin provisioning enables higher capacity volumes without the guilt of actually wasting the space, we still see storage admins creating volumes close to what the DBAs have asked for and hence there is always a need for expanding the volume when the current volume reaches its capacity. When it comes to ASM, lot of DBAs prefer to …
Online resizing of Oracle volumes on Pure FlashArray Read More »
