Oracle Documentation
Oracle Clusterware Control (CRSCTL) Utility Reference 19c
Oracle Database 12c: INTERACTIVE QUICK REFERENCE
Oracle Linux and Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK) Releases
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)
Autonomous Health Checks and Diagnostics
Maximum Availability Architecture Best Practices
Oracle MAA Reference Architectures
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.
Managing Oracle Cluster Registry and Voting Files – Oracle 19c
Enabling Advanced Features of Oracle Net Services – Oracle 19c
Certified Virtualization and Partitioning Technologies for Oracle Database and RAC Product Releases
RAC Technologies Matrix for Linux Platforms
ASMLIB
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)
Why use Oracle ASM for Oracle databases
Performance and Scalability Considerations for ASM Disk Groups – 12.2
Altering Disk Groups – ASM Rebalance Oracle 19c
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
Oracle RAC
Archive for the ‘STONITH’ Category – Kevin Closson
RAC: Frequently Asked Questions (RAC FAQ) (Doc ID 220970.1)
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
Multicast Requirements for Networks Used by Oracle Grid Infrastructure
Grid Infrastructure Redundant Interconnect and ora.cluster_interconnect.haip (Doc ID 1210883.1)
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 RAC on Third-Party Clouds
Oracle RAC on Third-Party Clouds
Self-managed 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
Oracle Articles
https://www.cyberciti.biz/files/linux-kernel/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt
http://blog.oracle48.nl/oracle-11g-amm-memory_target-memory_max_target-and-dev_shm/
https://www.kernel.org/doc/gorman/html/understand/understand015.html
https://fritshoogland.wordpress.com/2016/09/10/how-many-memory-is-truly-used-by-my-oracle-instance/
https://fritshoogland.wordpress.com/2014/11/28/physical-io-on-linux/
https://fritshoogland.wordpress.com/2012/12/15/throttling-io-with-linux/
How To Change The Priority Of Oracle Database Background Processes
Choosing the Right ASM Allocation Unit for a Virtualized Oracle Database
A look into oracle redo, part 7: adaptive log file sync – Frits
x$tables – adp-gmbh.com
Adaptive Log File Sync: Oracle, Please Don’t Do That Again
LGWR I/O is Simple, But Not LGWR Processing – Kevin Closson
Tuning ‘log file sync’ wait events – Riyaj
Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager
Oracle Bloggers
http://asmsupportguy.blogspot.com
https://bartsjerps.wordpress.com
http://canali.web.cern.ch/canali
Linux Performance
Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery
USE Method: Linux Performance Checklist
Understand Linux Load Averages and Monitor Performance of Linux
Understanding CPU Steal Time – when should you be worried?
https://www.cyberciti.biz/files/linux-kernel/Documentation/
Little’s Law- An insight on the relation between latency and throughput
Choosing an I/O Scheduler for 4 and the 2.6 Kernel
Improving Linux System Performance with I/O Scheduler Tuning
Increasing the maximum I/O size in Linux
SC Storage Customer Notification: Linux Large IO Sizes Can Affect iSCSI Volume Availability
RHEL Configuring Tuning Profiles for Storage Performance
Using the Deadline IO Scheduler
Understanding the Deadline IO Scheduler
How to use the Noop IO Scheduler
What is the kernel parameters related to maximum size of physical I/O requests?
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 fio
Inspecting disk IO performance with fio
https://www.binarylane.com.au/support/solutions/articles/1000055889-how-to-benchmark-disk-i-o
https://wiki.mikejung.biz/Benchmarking
Linux
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
NTP
NTP Server – Stratum Levels Explained
Stratum Levels & NTP Explained | Welcome to the ‘Stratumopshere’
Persistent Memory
Configuring and Using Persistent Memory in RHEL 7.3
LIBNVDIMM: Non-Volatile Devices
https://www.mankier.com/1/ndctl-create-namespace
https://code.vmware.com/persistent-memory-initiative
An NVDIMM Primer (Part 1 of 2)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVDIMM
Using Persistent Memory Devices with the Linux Device Mapper
Chapter 28. Persistent Memory: NVDIMMs
NVDIMM Enabling in SUSE Linux Enterprise 12, Service Pack 2
How to Emulate Persistent Memory Using Dynamic Random-access Memory (DRAM)
Virtual Storage Appliances
https://www.flackbox.com/list-vsa-virtual-storage-appliances-storage-simulators-san-nas-demos
RAID
RAID 10 Vs RAID 01 (RAID 1+0 Vs RAID 0+1)
What are RAID 1, RAID 1+0 and RAID 0+1
Unix
http://www.softpanorama.org/Commercial_unixes
Solaris
http://www.sean.de/Solaris/soltune.html
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
EMC
https://community.emc.com/community/connect/everything_oracle
http://clariionblogs.blogspot.com
http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/celerra-vsa-howto/
NETAPP
https://communities.netapp.com/community/netapp-blogs/storage_nuts_n_bolts
NetApp From the Ground Up – A Beginner’s Guide – Index
HDS
http://blogs.hds.com/hu
Pure Storage
SNIA