Daily Archives: February 21, 2017

Adding VVols to vCenter from a Dell EMC Unity all flash array

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The Dell EMC Unity array is a capable mid-market platform able to support a variety of workloads.

In the all-flash configuration it delivers good performance for Oracle databases, and with the ability to support VVols is a good choice for databases virtualized with VMware ESX 6.

The following blog post walks you through adding VVol based shared storage for an Oracle 12c RAC using ASM and virtualized on VMware ESX 6.

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Relocating the OCR/Voting disks for a 12c RAC

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There are many examples of this one, this is again more for my benefit than anyone else’s.

The following shows relocating the OCR and voting disks on a 12c RAC.

No downtime is needed.  You only need to execute these commands on one node.  Log in as root and source the Grid Infrastructure environment to make these changes:

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