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Extending (root) volume on LVM on Pure FlashArray

March 11, 2017 February 13, 2021 / By Somu / Blog Posts, How To / 2 Comments

My earlier post Online resizing of Oracle volumes on Pure FlashArray was focused on resizing Pure FlashArray volumes that were mounted directly or through Oracle ASM. What if the volume is part of LVM and you wanted to extend the size of a logical volume? Disclaimer: Even though the following sequence of steps were validated in …

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Online resizing of Oracle volumes on Pure FlashArray

May 22, 2016 March 14, 2017 / By Somu / Blog Posts, How To / Leave a Comment

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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