Oracle KFOD The kfod is another one of those great little, hidden Oracle utilities which can be useful in troubleshooting ASM issues without connecting to an ASM instance. If you have never used it and want to give it a try, you can find it in $GRID_HOME/bin/kfod KDOF help Use kfod -help to list all... Continue Reading →| Ron Ekins' - Oracle Technology, DevOps and Kubernetes Blog
Background Ok, what is the Oracle ASM Filter Driver ? The Oracle ASM Filter Driver (Oracle ASMFD) is an Oracle provided Linux kernel module that resides in the IO path of the Oracle ASM disks. Oracle ASMFD provides a number of advantages over the use of ASMLIB and UDEV managed volumes, these include: storage protection... Continue Reading →| Ron Ekins' - Oracle Technology, DevOps and Kubernetes Blog
Learn how to run a containerised Oracle Database 23ai natively on MacOS with Apple Containers| Ron Ekins' - Oracle Technology, DevOps and Kubernetes Blog
Learn how to create whole-disk Oracle Linux 9 partitions greater than 2TB with GUID partition table format (GPT)| Ron Ekins' - Oracle Technology, DevOps and Kubernetes Blog
Introduction Following the recent announcement of the deprecation and desupport of the Oracle ASM Filer Driver (ASMFD), and the release of a new version of the Oracle ASMLib for Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM). It’s the perfect time to revisit ASMLib and write a blog on how to download, install, and configure the ASM library... Continue Reading → The post Installation and Configuration of the new Oracle ASMLib v3.1 on Oracle Linux 9 appeared first on Ron Ekins' - Oracle Technolo...| Ron Ekins' – Oracle Technology, DevOps and Kubernetes Blog
Learn how to deploy an Oracle Database 23ai (23.8.0.25) on your MacBook with Kubernetes using podman and minikube| Ron Ekins' - Oracle Technology, DevOps and Kubernetes Blog
I recently had the pleasure of delivering a presentation on Kubernetes and the Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) to the All India Oracle User Group (AIOUG). A question which was raised by an attendee was ‘Can I learn Kubernetes without using the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) OKE or other Cloud service?‘ Well the answer is yes,... Continue Reading → The post Learn Kubernetes on your ARM MacBook with Podman and Minikube appeared first on Ron Ekins' - Oracle Technology, DevOps and Kuberne...| Ron Ekins' – Oracle Technology, DevOps and Kubernetes Blog
Learn how to run Oracle Database 23ai Free on ARM based MacBooks with Podman| Ron Ekins' - Oracle Technology, DevOps and Kubernetes Blog
A short video demonstrating the automation of multiple Oracle Databases refreshes using Workato, Slack, Ansible and Pure Storage snapshots.| Ron Ekins' - Oracle Technology, DevOps and Kubernetes Blog
What is a Lost Write ? A Lost Write, is as the name implies a database write which is lost, that is, the database writes a data block to the storage platform, receives an acknowledgment back from the storage but it was never actually persisted to disk or flash storage. There are a number of... Continue Reading → The post Oracle Database 19c Lost Write Protection – What’s New appeared first on Ron Ekins' - Oracle Technology, DevOps and Kubernetes Blog.| Ron Ekins' – Oracle Technology, DevOps and Kubernetes Blog
Learn how to determine Oracle database space usage and compare usage and data reduction reported by a Pure Storage FlashArray| Ron Ekins' - Oracle Technology, DevOps and Kubernetes Blog
Learn about storage space reclamation and Oracle ASM Filter Driver (ASMFD) on OL8 or OL9 and 5.15+UEK Kernels.| Ron Ekins' - Oracle Technology, DevOps and Kubernetes Blog
Learn how to reclaim space on all flash storage using the Oracle ASM Filter Driver (ASMFD) and Thin Provisioned attribute.| Ron Ekins' - Oracle Technology, DevOps and Kubernetes Blog