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A customer is willing to deploy OVM 3.4 and has a Unity 300F. He's asking if there are any prereq before deploying OVM with Unity300F as the storage array. Thanks in advance,

Is it feasible/advisable to take a snapshot of an OS bootable volume and present that snapshot to another host as it's bootable volume?

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Hi All I am about to size VNX pool to host ZFS environment. I read in a document that a multi-tiered pool is not recommended. Customer current configuration has ZFS configured on 600GB in raid 1+0 configuration on AMS unit and response time observed ranges from 15ms to 44 ms. Has anybody confi

Hello, We are considering migration from VMAX to VNAX in our oracle database envrionment. Please give some inputs on this would this be beneficial and what can be the impact of this? Best regards, Vishal

Hi, Is there any document detailing the steps to bring ASM up on a replicated DR site? We have our production server block replicating to another site. On the DR side we took a snapshot & presented this snapshot to a server (prod is still replicating blocks to DR, it's just not visible to

Below is the snippet pasted from EMC.Please help me understand SSHPD,XtremSW and XtremSW the Vblock SSHPD uses XtremSF cards with FAST VP to accelerate reads at multiple levels and writes in the storage array. XtremSW writes data at the array LUN and flash device and upon acknowledgement will

Please share if Oracle exadata and XtremIO share some common features and can the clients going for exadata consider XtremeIO ? Best regards, Vishal

Hello. I am a RP Newbie.I am testing the replication of small Oracle RAC database. I have to mount the disks on the same server since this is just a test of the test copy function before we move in to our DR site. I replicated the consistency group and when we brought the DR disks back into AS

My customer is upgrading to 11.2.0.4 and apparently the new Oracle default is 15 secs. Their OCR/Voting disk groups are being dismounted and cluster nodes evicted because writes are taking in excess of 15 secs.  The prior CSS MISSCOUNT default was 200 secs. They have created a separate ASM

Question from a partner: How many license(s) of 'NetWorker Module for Databases and Applications' needed for multiple Oracle databases (single instance or RAC) backup?

Team, I’m looking for guidance on how to calculate the RPO for Oracle Data Guard when Redo transport mechanism is different than LGWR SYNC (RPO=0) Thank you very much for your answer, Agostino Agostino Brunamontini Advisory Systems Engineer EMSD Specialist EMC Computer S

Does Networker NSM support Oracle database backup in 'no archive log mode'? Server1: AIX + Oracle 11g Server2: Linux + Oracle 11g Storage: VMAX 10K DPAD: NetWorker8.1 + DD4500

Hi Guys! anyone knows about any compatibility issues between Oracle VM 3.2 and VNX/VNXe? i cannot find this combination on the hardware compatibility list. http://linux.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=117:4:3710361672076783::NO::P4_STOR_CERT_ID:182 does anyone have any relevant information? Che

The following question just popped up on Oracle Community: Hi all – I had a request from a customer today. He’s looking for any published recommendations/best practices for running Oracle RAC on VMware vSphere, but using NMP, not PowerPath.  Specifically, he would like assurance that runnin

Folks Just looking for some obvious & not so obvious things to consider on why we would not run 2 DB instances in the same VMware VM. Its ok to be Captain Obvious and state the obvious in a reply to this discussion question.

For workloads like Application servers, or Apps that access flat file system based repositories? I know we would recommend it for DB workloads, but customer was asking about using it for non-DB workloads.

Matt Kaberlein raised these questions today, which seemed like good ones to me: Just wondering if the following are still good best practices guidelines at this point: Dedicate specific datastores to specific Oracle data types and/or Oracle DBs? Map VMDKs to separate datastores to increas

Hi, we need to tell our prospect the expected RTO for their Oracle DBs. The main production DB is 16TB. DR will be based on storage replication (RP or SRDF/A). Is there a rule of thumb to calculate the RTO with crash consitent images? What are the most important variables to get a reliable es

A customer has a situation in which it would be advantageous to have an OEM 12c plug-in for VPLEX. We presently have such plugins for VMAX and VNX. Anyone know of a plan for a similar plugin for VPLEX?