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Moving Oracle Cluster Registry and/or Voting Disks to different location
Important note: This post is applicable only for Oracle Databases 11gR2 onwards. The steps for 11gR1 and earlier versions are different. Also these steps are for OCR and Voting disks hosted on a certified cluster file system. If you are using ASM or Raw devices to store these files then the initial preparation tasks might […]
Apr 16th, 2014 | Filed under Linux/Unix/Solaris, Oracle, Oracle Database, Oracle DBA, Oracle RAC, Unix administration -
Installing 11g Release 2 Real Application Clusters (11gR2 RAC) on Linux x86-64 Virtual Machine (VM) – Step by step installation guide
Today we will see how we can install 11g Release 2 RAC database on 2 Linux 64 bit Virtual Machines using VMWare or Oracle VirtualBox Please note that we will need 2 Virtual Machines each with 2.5 GB of RAM. So if you have sufficient memory on your laptop/PC or server then you can host […]
Mar 24th, 2013 | Filed under Linux/Unix/Solaris, Oracle, Oracle Database, Oracle DBA, Oracle RAC, Unix administration, VirtualBox, Virtualization -
How to delete/purge large log files in Solaris/Linux without restarting service
In Windows we cannot delete log files which are still being used by a service, for example Oracle related services (though there are many third-party tools which can do but we are talking in general). In Solaris/Linux, we can rename the files but sometimes you will see that the new log entries are coming into […]
Dec 4th, 2012 | Filed under Applications Performance Tuning, Linux/Unix/Solaris, Oracle, Oracle Applications issues, Shell scripting, Unix administration
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