The default setting for Oracle Restart to check ASM is every second. That can lead to hundreds of thousands or millions of audit files in your Grid home under $GRID_HOME/rdbms/audit.
Fun fact: those files are so small, that they can leave plenty of space on the drive, but exhaust all of the inodes (index nodes or filesystem metadata) on the drive. And most monitoring systems only check for storage and / or blocks, not inode consumption.
Almost one year after announcing that Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) is de-supported on Oracle Standard Edition 2 starting with Oracle Database 19c, the other shoe finally dropped: Oracle announced a new Standard Edition 2 High Availability.
This blog post was originally posted by Pure Storage: https://blog.purestorage.com/cat-for-oracle-release-update-rac-vvols-and-more/
CAT for Oracle version 3.0 has been officially released, and it’s delivering a host of features that customers using previous versions have been requesting. The most eye-opening of which is support for Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) databases! That’s right, with CAT for Oracle, you can now clone both single-instance and cluster databases in an automated, repeatable manner. Want to do nightly refreshes of your 40 TB production database to test environments? Setup CAT for Oracle and get that refresh done in seconds using the power of Pure Storage snapshots!
Last month, VMware ran its third iteration of the Oracle Experts Event in Palo Alto, CA. This exclusive, invite-only event sponsored by VMware brings top Oracle experts in from around the world to learn about the latest and greatest around virtualization technologies. I was lucky enough to be invited as a participant to the first event and have attended the rest as an alumni (while being put to work to help with the hands-on labs).
I'm sure some of you are asking how a network virtualization product can help with software licensing. Well, if you've been following VLSS for awhile, you know that our mantra isn't "Trust, but verify." It's "Just verify," and VMware NSX can help do just that.