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Oracle
- All storage: Interviews with the Experts: Optimize your Oracle Database Environment with Storage Solutions from IBM (192KB)
IBM experts Clod Barerra, Randy Arsenau, and Barry Whyte discuss storage technology trends and why IBM storage systems are the smart choice for Oracle customers. The Storwize V7000 and XIV Storage System are featured along with IBM's key essential storage technologies.
- All storage: Optimize your Oracle Environment with IBM Storage - a digital eBook (35.8MB)
Discover how IBM and Oracle have partnered to create powerful, cost-effective and efficient storage solutions to protect a business' most important asset -- information.
- All storage: Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) Plugin for the IBM DS3500, DS4000, DS5000 midrange storage
- All Storage: Oracle RMAN Disk-to-Disk Backup using the IBM DS3000, DS4000, or DS5000 Storage Subsystems
- DS3000: Deploying Oracle RAC 10g Release 2 with ASM on Windows Server 2003 with DS3000 Storage Subsystems
- DS3000: Deploying Oracle RAC 10g Release 2 with ASM on Linux on IBM Power Systems with IBM DS4000 or DS3400 Storage Subsystems
- DS3000: Deploying Oracle RAC 10g Release 2 with ASM on RHEL 5 or SLES 10 and an IBM DS3300 Storage Subsystem
- DS3000: Deploying Oracle RAC 11g R1 on RHEL 5 or SLES 10 with Oracle ASM on the IBM DS3400, DS4200, DS4700, and DS4800 Storage Subsystems
Configuration Guide for DS3000 deployment with Oracle RAC and ASM
- DS4000, DS5000: Safely Upgrading an Oracle Database Using Enhanced Remote Mirroring on DS4000 and DS5000
Using ERM for upgrading the Oracle Database version
- DS4000, DS5000: Selective Restores Using Enhanced Remote Mirroring with Oracle Flashback Database on DS4000 and DS5000
Using ERM to do point-in-time restore of an Oracle Database
- DS4000: Cloning Oracle Databases – Best Practices Using DS4000 Storage Manager Data Replication Features (93KB)
Best practices
- DS4000: Deploying Oracle RAC 11g R1 on RHEL 5 or SLES 10 with Oracle ASM on the IBM DS3400, DS4200, DS4700, and DS4800 Storage Subsystems
Configuration Guide for DS4000 deployment with Oracle RAC and ASM
- DS4000: Oracle Database Protection Using DS4000 Storage Manager Data Replication Features (136KB)
Technical White Paper
- DS4000: Tuning Oracle with Consideration for Storage and Oracle Database Files (143KB)
Technical White Paper
- DS4000: Tuning Oracle with Consideration for Storage and Oracle Memory Usage (91KB)
Technical White Paper
- N series: IBM System Storage N series and Oracle VM (NS3712-0)
Technical white paper - Best practices integration
- N series: IBM System Storage N series and Oracle Database 11g (NS3633-1)
Technical white paper - Best practices guidelines
- N series: IBM System Storage N series and Oracle - (NS3369-0) (389KB)
Technical white paper - Best-practices
- N series: IBM System Storage N series with SnapManager for Oracle N series – NS3554–0 (500KB)
Best–practice database backup, recovery, and clone management
- N series: OracleRAC10g in a SUSE Enterprise Linux 10 Environment and IBM System Storage N series - (NS3592-0)
Technical white paper - Best-practice installation and configuration
- N series: Oracle Cluster File System and Oracle RAC on IBM System Storage N series N series – NS3605–0 (256KB)
Best–practice installation and configuration
- N series: Oracle Database 10g Release 2 and Oracle Cluster Synchronization Services on IBM System Storage N series – NS3555–0 (121KB)
Best practices for high availabiliy
- N series: Oracle 10g and IBM System Storage N series – NS3556–0 (131KB)
Best practices information lifecycle management
- N series: Oracle 10g on HP–UX and IBM System Storage N series – NS3557–0 (120KB)
Best-practice performance
- N series: Oracle RAC 10g Release 2 on SUSE Enterprise Linux 10 and IBM System Storage N series – NS3594–0 (2.44MB)
Installation guide
- N series: Oracle10g for UNIX with IBM System Storage N series – NS3353–0 (226KB)
Best Practice Integration
- N series: Oracle E–Business Suite and IBM System Storage N series with SnapMirror – NS3300–0 (130KB)
Technical White Paper – Cloning for Data Protection
- N series: Oracle9i for UNIX and IBM N series – NS3130–0 (63KB)
Technical White Paper – Backup and recover
- N series: Oracle 9iRAC installation in a Linux environment with an IBM System N series with SnapRestore – NS3189–0(112KB)
Technical White Paper – Best practices for data protection
- N series: Oracle and IBM N series Storage Systems – NS3266–0 (73KB)
Technical White Paper – Applications for LUN cloning
- N series: OracleRAC10g and IBM System Storage N series in a Linux Environment – NS3349–0 (155KB)
Technical White Paper – Clustering using automatic storage–management functions
- N series: Oracle9i for UNIX on IBM System Storage N series – NS3355–0 (178KB)
Technical White Paper – Best–practice database cloning using flexible volumes in NAS and SAN environments
- N series: Oracle and IBM System Storage N series with NearStore Feature and Open Systems SnapVault – NS3377–0 (76KB)
Technical White Paper – Backup and Restore for UNIX Platforms
- N series: Oracle RAC 10g Installation in a SUSE Linux Environment with IBM System Storage N series – NS3413–0 (1.91MB)
Technical White Paper – Best practices
- N series: OracleRAC10g on Linux with IBM System Storage N series – NS3423–0(177KB)
Technical White Paper – A performance comparison against FCP, NFS, and iSCSI
- N series: Oracle 10g R2 and IBM System Storage N series with SnapMirror – NS3455–0 (167KB)
Technical White Paper – Disaster recovery planning
- N series: Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g System–Monitoring Plug–In For IBM System Storage N series – NS3469–0 (209KB)
Technical White Paper – Best Practices
- N series: Oracle RAC 10g with AIX and IBM System Storage N series – NS3479–0 (63KB)
Technical White Paper – Best–Practices Installation
- N series: OracleRAC10g Release 2 on POWER Linux (SUSE9) with IBM System Storage N series – NS3536–0 (3.66MB)
Technical White Paper
- N series: Oracle RAC10g with AIX and IBM System Storage N series – NS3542–0 (126KB)
Technical White Paper – Best–practices installation
- N series: Rapid deployment of Oracle Database 11g using VMware Infrastructure and IBM System Storage N series with FlexClone - (NS3646-0)
Technical white paper - An implementation case study
- N series: SAP on UNIX and Oracle with IBM System Storage N series – NS3442–0 (2.35MB)
Technical White Paper - Best practices
- N series: SAP on Windows and Oracle with IBM System Storage N series – NS3444–0 (1.72MB)
Technical White Paper – Best practices
- N series: SAP, UNIX and Oracle on IBM System Storage N series – NS3520–0 (1.26MB)
Technical White Paper – Backup and Recovery Best Practices
- N series: Setting up OracleRAC 10gR2 over NFS on IBM System Storage N series – NS3572–0 (710KB)
Best practices for using automatic storage management
- N series: Symantec Veritas NetBackup and IBM System Storage N series with Snapshot and SnapRestore in an Oracle Environment – NS3394–0 (254KB)
Technical White Paper – Integration for Backup and Recovery
- N series: Technical report: Leveraging IBM System Storage N series with SnapManager for Oracle Database Backup, Recovery and Clone Management - (NS3665-0)
Technical white paper - Best-practices guide
- N series: Using Oracle Database 10g Automatic Storage Management with IBM System Storage N series – NS3329–0 (158KB)
Technical White Paper – Best Practices
- SAN Volume Controller (SVC): Oracle ASM on IBM SAN Volume Controller: Space Management
This white paper discusses space management for Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) on the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC). The paper provides detailed steps for space management on AIX and x86 Linux.
- SONAS: IBM SONAS Storage for Oracle Database with RAC on POWER (249KB)
You can consolidate multiple Oracle Databases and consolidate NAS home directories on the highly scalable SONAS, thereby simplifying Oracle RAC administration with a single SONAS Oracle solution. IBM SONAS (Scale Out Network Attached Storage) with Oracle Database 10g and 11g with RAC delivers a scalable enterprise NAS solution for Oracle Databases to help you efficiently transform, manage and optimize your IT infrastructure (in a data center, internal cloud or external storage computing environment) to better deliver business value.
- SONAS: Tuning IBM SONAS Environments: For efficiently running Oracle Database instances with AIX clients
- SONAS: Using IBM SONAS for Oracle 11gR2 RAC on x86 Linux servers
- Storwize V7000: Deploying Oracle 11g RAC Release 2 with IBM Storwize V7000 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Storwize V7000: Deploying Oracle RAC 11g R2 on IBM Storwize V7000 with IBM GPFS 3.3
Abstract: This white paper is intended to assist those who are implementing Oracle Database 11g Release 2 with Oracle Real Application Clusters (RACs) on IBM Power Systems running IBM AIX 7.1 and the new storage system, IBM Storwize V7000.
- Storwize V7000: Disaster Recovery solution for Oracle 11gR2 database using Metro Mirror and Global Mirror features of IBM Storwize V7000
Abstract: This white paper demonstrates the Metro Mirror and Global Mirror features of the IBM Storwize V7000 for a disaster-recovery solution of the Oracle 11gR2 database. The paper also explains the ease with which Metro Mirroring and Global Mirroring can be configured using the IBM Storwize V7000 graphical user interface (GUI).
- Storwize V7000: Performance benefits of IBM Storwize V7000 with IBM Easy Tier for Oracle ASM
Abstract: This paper demonstrates the performance benefits of running an Oracle 11g database using Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) on IBM Storwize V7000 with IBM Easy Tier enabled.
- Storwize V7000: Performance benefits of IBM Storwize V7000 with Easy Tier for Oracle 11g workload
This paper demonstrates the performance benefits of running an Oracle 11g database on IBM Storwize V7000 with IBM Easy Tier enabled. The paper also explains online transaction processing (OLTP) workload and I/O workload that is generated using Oracle ORION and Vdbench load generator tools.
- Storwize V7000: IBM Storwize V7000 with IBM PowerVM Live Partition Mobility (1.4MB)
- Storwize V7000: IBM Storwize V7000 with IBM PowerHA SystemMirror and Oracle RDBMS
- Storwize V7000: Practice guide: Backup and restore of native Oracle Database solutions using IBM Tivoli Flashcopy Manager Version 1.0
- Storwize V7000: Quick-start guide to FlashCopy Manager for SAP with IBM Storwize V7000, IBM SAN Volume Controller or IBM DS8000 Storage System
- Storwize V7000: Symantec’s SmartTier for Oracle feature with IBM Storwize V7000
Abstract: This paper demonstrates SmartTier, a feature of Veritas Storage Foundation from Symantec, on IBM Storwize V7000 storage system. The paper demonstrates using the volumes that are created using the solid-state drive (SSD), serial-attached SCSI (SAS), and Nearline SAS drives from the Storwize V7000 system to configure a multivolume file system with Symantec’s SmartTier.
- XIV: Administrating Oracle and ASM in IBM XIV Environments (776KB)
This document provides guidelines and recommendations on how to configure and adminstrate Oracle database on the XIV Storage System when Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) is used as the underlying volume manager. It is intended for XIV technical sales teams and their customers, creating or migrating Oracle database(s) with ASM on/to XIV Storage.
- XIV: Best Practices Guide for Oracle Databases with IBM XIV Storage System Snapshots
This white paper covers the integrated solution of IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager for backup and restore of Oracle Databases in the XIV Storage System. It describes the detailed installation and configuration of Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager for backup and restore of Oracle databases using the XIV Storage System snapshots mechanism.
- XIV: Deploying Oracle RAC 11g with ASM on IBM AIX 6.1 using IBM XIV Storage System
This white paper details the configuration of the IBM XIV Storage System in a software environment consisting of Oracle Database 11g with Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) and Oracle Automatic Storage Manager (ASM) on the IBM AIX 6.1 platform. Details the configuration steps, guidelines in laying out logical, storage pools, volumes, disk discovery and host connectivity.
- XIV: IBM XIV Storage System Thin Provisioning with Oracle Database 11g on AIX 6.1 in ASM and non ASM environments
This white paper describes the use of thin provisioning of the IBM XIV Storage System in a software environment consisting of Oracle Database 11g with Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) and AIX File System (JFS2) configurations on the IBM AIX 6.1 platform
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