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Oracle Linux and Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK) Releases

Certification Information for Oracle Database on Linux x86-64 (Doc ID 1304727.2)

Release Schedule of Current Database Releases (Doc ID 742060.1)

Diagnostic Tools Catalog (Doc ID 559339.1)

Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) – Including TFA and ORAchk/EXAChk (Doc ID 2550798.1)

Catalog: Oracle Toolbox: Diagnostic and Analyzer Scripts – Data Collectors – Health Checks – Tools – Utilities – SRDC – All Products – Database – Exadata – EBS – JDE – Fusion – Middleware – Siebel – Sun – Peoplesoft (Doc ID 1987483.2)

Autonomous Health Checks and Diagnostics

Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager

Oracle Developer Community

Enabling Advanced Features of Oracle Net Services – Oracle 19c

Oracle Database 12c: INTERACTIVE QUICK REFERENCE

Real-World Performance (RWP) – Collaterals

Oracle RAC

Maximum Availability Architecture Best Practices

Oracle MAA Reference Architectures

Certified Virtualization and Partitioning Technologies for Oracle Database and RAC Product Releases

RAC Technologies Matrix for Linux Platforms

Introduction to Oracle Clusterware – Oracle Clusterware supports up to 100 nodes in a cluster on configurations running Oracle Database 10g release 2 (10.2) and later releases.

Oracle Clusterware Control (CRSCTL) Utility Reference 19c

Managing Oracle Cluster Registry and Voting Files – Oracle 19c

Oracle RAC Fencing

Archive for the ‘STONITH’ Category – Kevin Closson

Archive for the ‘STOMITH’ Category

Archive for the ‘Cluster Fencing’ Category

RAC Expert or Clusters Expert?

Now Is The Time To Open Source! – Kevin Closson Cluster Fencing

STONITH – wikipedia

RAC: Frequently Asked Questions (RAC FAQ) (Doc ID 220970.1)

Avoiding Split Brain

Rebootless node fencing in Oracle RAC

http://ahfathi.blogspot.com/2014/02/oracle-rac-functions-of-io-fencing.html

Understanding Linux SCSI Reservation

What are SCSI Reservations and SCSI Persistent Reservations?

How to verify that the disk is iscsi3 persistent compliant

Oracle RAC Cluster Interconnect  and HAIP

Multicast Requirements for Networks Used by Oracle Grid Infrastructure

Grid Infrastructure Redundant Interconnect and ora.cluster_interconnect.haip (Doc ID 1210883.1)

Grid Infrastructure Startup During Patching, Install or Upgrade May Fail Due to Multicasting Requirement (Doc ID 1212703.1)

How to Validate Network and Name Resolution Setup for the Clusterware and RAC (Doc ID 1054902.1)

The Basics of IPv4 Subnet and Oracle Clusterware (Doc ID 1386709.1)

Oracle Clusterware and RAC Support for RDS Over Infiniband (Doc ID 751343.1)

Grid infrastructure (GI):HAIP on RDS is not supported (Doc ID 2328941.1)

Known Issues: Grid Infrastructure Redundant Interconnect and ora.cluster_interconnect.haip (Doc ID 1640865.1)

Oracle RAC Interconnect Protocols – Support and Roadmap (Doc ID 2434852.1)

Oracle Real Application Clusters on Extended Distance Clusters (Oracle RAC 10g R2)

Oracle RAC and Oracle RAC One Node on Extended Distance (Stretched) Clusters

Oracle RAC on VMware / Clouds

Support Position for Oracle Products Running on VMware Virtualized Environments (Doc ID 249212.1)

Oracle Database Support for Non-Oracle Public Cloud Environments (Doc ID 2688277.1)

Can We Setup RAC in OCI-C or OCI compute VM? (Doc ID 2313078.1)

Oracle RAC on Third-Party Clouds

Oracle RAC on Third-Party Clouds

Self-managed Oracle RAC on Amazon EC2

Oracle RAC on Amazon EC2

FlashGrid Enables Oracle RAC in AWS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Database#Releases_and_versions

Network multicast support on Azure

How to enable broadcast and multicast support on Amazon (AWS) EC2

AWR and IOPS

Alejandro Vargas – Useful Scripts

Oracle AWR Reports: Understanding I/O Statistics

How to identify IOPS in AWR reports

How to get IOPS from AWR and Real-time

Oracle Database Load Testing Tools – Overview

ASM , ASMLIB and ASMFD

ASM Inherently Performs Asynchronous I/O Regardless of filesystemio_options Parameter (Doc ID 751463.1)

How To Check if Asynchronous I/O is Working On Linux (Doc ID 237299.1)

Asynchonous I/O not reported in /proc/slabinfo KIOCB slabdata (Doc ID 413389.1)

Information Center: ASMLib (Doc ID 1624409.2)

How to Configure LUNs for ASM Disks using WWID, DM-Multipathing, and ASMLIB on RHEL 5/OL 5 and RHEL 6/OL 6 and RHEL7 (Doc ID 1365511.1)

ASMLib for RHEL6

Doing synchronous IO on ASM

ASMLIB Performance vs Udev

Why use Oracle ASM for Oracle databases

Performance and Scalability Considerations for ASM Disk Groups – 12.2

Altering Disk Groups – ASM Rebalance Oracle 19c

Choosing the Right ASM Allocation Unit for a Virtualized Oracle Database

Oracle ASM and Thin Provisioning – How To Reclaim Space

Dell Deployment Best Practices for Oracle Databases with Dell EMC PowerMax – Appendix II. Oracle ASM online storage reclamation

Grid Infrastructure Installation and Upgrade Guide for Linux – Do not specify multiple partitions on a single physical disk as a disk group device

Oracle ASM Mirroring and Disk Group Redundancy

Oracle’s ASM Filter Driver Revisited]

Oracle 4k Support

Advanced Format: 4k Sector Size

Deep Dive: Oracle with 4k Sectors

Oracle Fixes The 4k SPFILE Problem…But It’s Still Broken

Using 4k Redo Logs on Flash, 4k-Disk and SSD-based Storage (Doc ID 1681266.1)

Redo log block size on all flash

Supporting 4K Sector Disks (Doc ID 1133713.1)

Supporting ASM on 4K/4096 Sector Size (SECTOR_SIZE) Disks (Doc ID 1630790.1)

Alert: After SAN Firmware Upgrade, ASM Diskgroups ( Using ASMLIB) Cannot Be Mounted Due To ORA-15085: ASM disk “” has inconsistent sector size. (Doc ID 1500460.1)

Oracle Linux 6 – ASM Instances Fail with 4K Sector Size LUN (Doc ID 2211975.1)

FAQ: Flash Storage with ASM (Doc ID 1626228.1)

19c ASM Disk Group SECTOR_SIZE

19c ASM Disk Group LOGICAL_SECTOR_SIZE

19c Specifying the Logical and Physical Sector Size

Oracle IO

Oracle I/O latency monitoring

Simple Way to Calculate OS CPU Utilization From Oracle Database V$ Views

Physical IO on Linux/

How To Change The Priority Of Oracle Database Background Processes

Throttling IO with Linux/

https://www.cyberciti.biz/files/linux-kernel/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt

Oracle Redo Log

A look into oracle redo, part 7: adaptive log file sync – Frits

Adaptive Log File Sync: Oracle, Please Don’t Do That Again

LGWR I/O is Simple, But Not LGWR Processing – Kevin Closson

Tuning Redo Log Buffer

Tuning ‘log file sync’ wait events – Riyaj

Changing The Number Of Oracle Database 12c Log Writers

Log File Sync Issue (Part 3)

Warning: log write elapsed time 

COMMIT_WAIT and COMMIT_LOGGING 

Troubleshooting: ‘Log file sync’ Waits (Doc ID 1376916.1)

Adaptive Switching Between Log Write Methods can Cause ‘log file sync’ Waits (Doc ID 1462942.1)

IF: High CPU Consumption by Oracle Background Processes (Doc ID 2070348.1)

Bug 25178179 – Several sessions wait on ‘log file sync’ in a RAC environment (Doc ID 25178179.8)

Bug 27143321 – LGWR May Not Switch Back to post/wait Mode (Doc ID 27143321.8)

“Warning: log write time” Messages Seen in LGWR Trace Files (Doc ID 601316.1)

Script to Collect Log File Sync Diagnostic Information (lfsdiag.sql) (Doc ID 1064487.1)

Long Wait on Log File Sync Wait Event with Message ‘Log file sync switching to polling’ and ‘Warning: log write elapsed time’ (Doc ID 2372105.1)

Where does the log writer spend its time on?

Oracle Log File Sync Wait Event

Ouch! Log File Switch Checkpoint Incomplete

Obtaining Information about Oracle Redo Log Files

Tuning Redo Log Buffer

Oracle Log File Switch Completion

RAC Wait Event: gcs log flush sync

Oracle 11g AMM: MEMORY_TARGET, MEMORY_MAX_TARGET and /dev/shm/

Shared Memory Virtual Filesystem

How much memory is truly used by my Oracle instance?/

Oracle and NUMA

processor_group_name and SGA distribution across NUMA nodes

Numa/interleave memory/oracle

The Oracle database, in-memory parallel execution and NUMA

Oracle x$ / v$ tables

x$tables – adp-gmbh.com

DB Statistics to SGA Variable Mapping

Oracle Compression

Oracle Database compression or Storage (All Flash) compression: A performance comparison

Interested in Oracle Database Compression Best Practices and Insights?

When to Use the Various Types of Oracle Data Compression

Oracle Advanced Compression Compared to Storage-Based Compression – The Important Differences

Oracle Backup & Snapshots

Supported Backup, Restore and Recovery Operations using Third Party Snapshot Technologies (Doc ID 604683.1)

BACKUP_TAPE_IO_SLAVES

DBWR_IO_SLAVES

DISK_ASYNCH_IO

FILESYSTEMIO_OPTIONS

Optimizing Deduplication

http://thebackupblog.typepad.com/thebackupblog/2008/07/optimizing-deduplication.html

Maximizing Deduplication Results with Oracle Databases and RMAN

Oracle dNFS

Step by Step – Configure Direct NFS Client (DNFS) on Linux (Doc ID 762374.1)

Mount Options for Oracle files for RAC databases and Clusterware when used with NFS on NAS devices (Doc ID 359515.1)

Collecting The Required Information For Support To Troubleshot DNFS (Direct NFS) Issues (11.1, 11.2 & 12c). (Doc ID 1464567.1)

Configuring File System Storage for Oracle Database

Direct NFS: FAQ (Doc ID 954425.1)

Exadata and OVM

Oracle VM – 4x More Marketing, 4x Fewer Substantiated Facts

Exadata v/s vBlock

http://houseofbrick.com/exadata-vs-vblock-a-case-study

Oracle OCI and OCVS

https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/post/first-principles-l2-network-virtualization-for-lift-and-shift

Linux CPU Performance

Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery

Understand Linux Load Averages and Monitor Performance of Linux

Examining Load Average

USE Method: Linux Performance Checklist

The USE Method

Understanding CPU Steal Time – when should you be worried?

Steal Time Accounting

https://www.cyberciti.biz/files/linux-kernel/Documentation/

Linux IO Performance

Little’s Law- An insight on the relation between latency and throughput

Deadline scheduler

Noop scheduler

Using the Deadline IO Scheduler

Understanding the Deadline IO Scheduler

How to use the Noop IO Scheduler

Choosing an I/O Scheduler for 4 and the 2.6 Kernel

Improving Linux System Performance with I/O Scheduler Tuning

Queue sysfs files

Increasing the maximum I/O size in Linux

SC Storage Customer Notification: Linux Large IO Sizes Can Affect iSCSI Volume Availability

What is the suggested I/O scheduler to improve disk performance when using Red Hat Enterprise Linux with virtualization?

RHEL Configuring Tuning Profiles for Storage Performance

What is the kernel parameters related to maximum size of physical I/O requests?

I/O Limits: block sizes, alignment and I/O hints

[Engineering Notes] I/O Limits: block sizes, alignment and I/O hints

Default Maximum IO Size Change in Linux Kernel

How do I disable the irqbalance service in Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

Performance Tuning Guide Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

RHEL 7 and Oracle 12c (Single Instance and RAC)

Pure Storage – Linux Recommended Settings

Linux IO Benchmarking

Inspecting disk IO performance with fio

Getting Started With Fio

https://www.binarylane.com.au/support/solutions/articles/1000055889-how-to-benchmark-disk-i-o

https://wiki.mikejung.biz/Benchmarking

How to measure disk performance with fio and IOPing

dd — Linux manual page

fio(1) – Linux man page

ioping – Linux Man Pages

Linux

Writing udev rules

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt

3D XPoint Memory

Linux Man Page

Link-local address/Linux

NTP

NTP Server – Stratum Levels Explained

Stratum Levels & NTP Explained | Welcome to the ‘Stratumopshere’

Persistent Memory

NVME nvme-get-feature

NVDIMM and the Linux Kernel

Configuring and Using Persistent Memory in RHEL 7.3

Persistent Memory Programming

Direct Access for files (DAX)

LIBNVDIMM: Non-Volatile Devices

Persistent Memory Wiki

ndctl-create-namespace

https://www.mankier.com/1/ndctl-create-namespace

https://code.vmware.com/persistent-memory-initiative

mmap and DMA

An NVDIMM Primer (Part 1 of 2)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVDIMM

DAX on BTT

Using Persistent Memory Devices with the Linux Device Mapper

Chapter 28. Persistent Memory: NVDIMMs

NVDIMM Enabling in SUSE Linux Enterprise 12, Service Pack 2

Persistent Memory  – Important

Linux Memory mapping

Dell EMC NVDIMM-N Persistent Memory User Guide

Persistent Memory Summit 2018 – VMware vSphere Virtualization of PMEM

vSphere 6.7 : What is PMem and How vSphere DRS works with PMem configured VMs?

Intel Persistent Memory

Unleashing the Power of Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory with Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database

Exadata Persistent Memory Accelerator: Partnering with Intel on Optane DC Persistent Memory

Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory

Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory Module (PMM) – StorageReview

Intel PMDK Introduction

How Memory Is Accessed

Quick Start Guide Part 1: Persistent Memory Provisioning Introduction

Persistent Memory Learn More Series Part 1

Speeding Up I/O Workloads with Intel Optane Persistent Memory Modules – Eduardo Berrocal

Intel – Operating System Support for Persistent Memory

Persistent Memory FAQ

How to Emulate Persistent Memory Using Dynamic Random-access Memory (DRAM)

Oracle Persistent Memory

Oracle 21c – Using Persistent Memory Database

File Systems and Devices on Persistent Memory (PMEM) in Database Servers May Cause Database Corruption (Doc ID 2608116.1)

Oracle Memory Speed (OMS) Filesystem Setup using Ship home (Doc ID 2795728.1)

Deploying the Oracle Memory Speed File System

Persistent Memory Primer

SCSI / RAID

RAID 10 Vs RAID 01 (RAID 1+0 Vs RAID 0+1)

What are RAID 1, RAID 1+0 and RAID 0+1

What are SCSI Reservations and SCSI Persistent Reservations?

Virtual Storage Appliances

https://www.flackbox.com/list-vsa-virtual-storage-appliances-storage-simulators-san-nas-demos

Unix

http://bhami.com/rosetta.html

http://www.softpanorama.org/Commercial_unixes

http://www.unixguide.net

Solaris

http://www.sean.de/Solaris/soltune.html

Shall I use Zones or LDOMs?

Oracle Solaris Containers

AIX

Assigning the appropriate processor entitled capacity

AIX for System Administrators – Physical – Virtual – Logical CPUs

Understanding CPU on AIX Power SMT Systems

Processor utilization difference between IBM AIX and Linux on Power – apple to apple comparison

Understanding CPU utilization on AIX

How to Use rPerfs for Workload Migration and Server Consolidation

Sockets, Cores, Virtual CPU, Logical CPU, Hyper-Threading: What is a CPU nowadays? – Oracle AWR AIX

Veritas

http://cuddletech.com/veritas/index.html

http://www.vxideas.org

UnixArena

EMC

http://powerlink.emc.com

https://community.emc.com/community/connect/everything_oracle

http://clariionblogs.blogspot.com

http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/celerra-vsa-howto/

Dell EMC Workload Profile Assessment for Oracle AWR Report / StatsPack Gathering Procedures Instructions

Netapp
http://www.netapp.com/us

https://communities.netapp.com/community/netapp-blogs/storage_nuts_n_bolts

NetApp From the Ground Up – A Beginner’s Guide – Index

Netapp Blog

http://storagegaga.com/

Hitachi

http://blogs.hds.com/hu

Pure Storage

Oracle on Pure Storage/

Pure Storage and Oracle

http://vaughnstewart.com/

What’s new in ESXi 6.5 Storage Part I: UNMAP

In-Guest UNMAP Fix in ESXi 6.5 Part II: Linux

What’s New in Core Storage in vSphere 6.7 Part II: Sector Size and VMFS-6

What’s New in Core Storage in vSphere 6.7 Part V: Rate Control for Automatic VMFS UNMAP

Reclaiming Unused Space in an Oracle Database

Pure Storage Cody Hosterman

Pure Storage WebCast – vSphere NVMe over Fabrics Deep Dive with Pure Storage

Understanding VMware ESXi Queuing and the FlashArray

Troubleshooting for VMware Solutions

VMUG Pure Storage: Understanding vSphere Block Storage Performance via Queues

SNIA

http://www.snia.org

Quest Community

https://questoraclecommunity.org/dashboard

https://forum.questoraclecommunity.org/groups

Oracle MAA SIG

Oracle Software Downloads

https://www.oracle.com/database/technologies/oracle-database-software-downloads.html#19c

https://edelivery.oracle.com/osdc/faces/SoftwareDelivery

https://yum.oracle.com/

Oracle Bloggers

http://oracleracsig.org

https://sqlmaria.com/

http://asmsupportguy.blogspot.com

https://kevinclosson.net

https://bartsjerps.wordpress.com

http://canali.web.cern.ch/canali

http://www.oracle-base.com

http://blog.tanelpoder.com

http://ixora.com.au

http://oaktable.net

http://juliandyke.com

http://pythian.com