solaris

Aug
23

Friends Don't Let Friends Run Oracle on ZFS

I frequently get asked why I recommend against running Oracle DBMS on ZFS, and instead recommend using ASM. The filesystem
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Jun
24

ZFS and Intelligent Storage

It's been almost 10 years to the day since Sun Microsystems first released ZFS as a part of the Solaris
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Jun
16

Partition Alignment - Solaris (SPARC)

For historic reasons, most modern disk drives and storage storage arrays claim to the host that they have a 512
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