Monthly Archives: September 2009

Oracle Dataguard – automatic archive log file management on primary site

System Environment Suppose you have an oracle data guard environment with one primary database and one physical standby database running. You perform online backups with RMAN from the PRIMARY database. Your users complain about slowness during the night. You notice … Continue reading

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Oracle 11 Release 2 Install Guide – ACFS and ADVM

ACFS and ADVM System configuration We will use the system configured and installed in part 2 General information ADVM = ASM dynamic volume manager ACFS = ASM cluster file system Basic layout (Source: Oracle Database Storage Administrator’s Guide 11g Release … Continue reading

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Calculate IOPS (or IO/s) for hard disks

From time to time i spend time looking for information how to calculate IOPS (or IO operations per second) for hard drives. In the following table i outlined how to calculate the IOPS a disk can handle.  For this calculation … Continue reading

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Changing ADR Destination for 11g Listener

With 11g Release 1 Oracle introduced the Automatic Diagnostic Repository  – “ADR”. The ADR is designed as central repository for storing all oracle-related log files such as alert.log, listener.log and so on. The log files are stored in XML format … Continue reading

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Building and using the kfed utility

When using ASM sometimes it it extremely helpful to get more information on the asm disk header. The “kfed” utility from oracle enables to dump the asm disk header and many more. With this tool corruptions to the asm can … Continue reading

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Using ASM with files (either locally or via NFS)

From time to time i need to configure additional and temporary storage for data migration or just testing purposes. Raw Devices are not recommended to use from 11g onwards. So why not use the loopback device for that? With this scenario … Continue reading

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Oracle 11g Release 2 Install Guide – Grid Infrastructure installation

System configuration: Hardware configuration two virtual machines (VMWARE) 1 vCPU 2 GB RAM –> bare minimum possible 40 GB Disk Storage exported via ISCSI 4 LUNs with 2 GB each 2 LUNs with 30 GB each Operating system configuration Oracle Enterprise … Continue reading

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Oracle 11 Release 2 Install Guide – Update 14th September 2009

The install guide was updated. The presentation is already up-to-date.   I will also post the topics from the presentation as separated posts in this blog. For a better overview i created a separate page to collect and sort all … Continue reading

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Oracle 11g Release 2 Install Guide – Single database creation guide

Oracle 11g Release 2 – Single database creation guide   The first part (binary installation of the database) is available here.   Start default listener Create single database instance

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Oracle 11g Release 2 Install Guide – Single database binary installation

Oracle 11g Release 2 – Single database binary installation guide   Local System configuration Installation took place on laptop with CentOS 5 x86_64 (Kernel 2.6.18-128.2.1.el5) 4 GB Memory 500 GB local disk   Steps required to install Oracle 11g Release … Continue reading

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