FlashRecover Snapshot

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 …

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IO Plumbing tests with FIO

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 …

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Duplicate UUID error on cloned volumes

Problem Scenario Wanted to clone a pure storage volume on XFS filesystem for testing purpose on the same server. Took FlashRecover snapshot of the volume.   Instantiated the snapshot by copying them into target volume. Attached the target volume to the same host and updated multipath.conf with the alias information. Tried to mount the partition …

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Online resizing of Oracle volumes on Pure FlashArray

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 …

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