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Deploying MySQL on Oracle Clusterware – Part 1

Introduction One of the cool things about working in higher education is that in certain cases there is infrastructure in place that you could only dream of in other industries. In this case, I’m referring to having multiple datacenters on campus with lots of single mode fiber run between them. This makes it easy to have a stretched SAN fabric as well as private networks for cluster heartbeats. Extended Distance Cluster With SAN storage available in both datacenters, it makes sense to deploy an extended distance cluster for mission critical systems. Oracle VM doesn’t support an extended distance cluster per Doc ID 1602029.1. That said, Oracle RAC does support this scenario. There is documentation here for setting up an Oracle RAC extended distance cluster. But what if I wanted to have a setup like this for other applications? If you… Read More »Deploying MySQL on Oracle Clusterware – Part 1

Friendly Physical Disk Names in Oracle VM Manager with Dell SC Storage

Are you using Dell SC Series (Compellent) Storage with Oracle VM?  If you are, then you are probably sick of seeing physical disks named like this: I have written a script that will pull volume names from Dell Storage Manager (formerly Dell/Compellent Enterprise Manager) and set the physical disk name to match in Oracle VM Manager.  I have tested this will Dell Enterprise Manager 2015 R2 and Dell Storage Manager 2016 R1.  I have also tested this with Oracle VM Manager 3.3.3 and 3.3.4.  I suspect it will work with Oracle VM Manager 3.4.x but I have not tested it yet. Essentially, the script gets a list of volumes from Dell Storage Manager and a list physical disks from Oracle VM Manager.  It matches up the Page 83 information from both and sets the physical disk name in Oracle VM Manager to… Read More »Friendly Physical Disk Names in Oracle VM Manager with Dell SC Storage