Deploying Oracle 10g on AIX V5 with GPFS

Just a quick post to alert you that a new IBM Redbooks is available here on this subject. I recommend the part 4 regarding “Virtualization scenarios”. The abstrat is :
“This IBM Redbooks publication helps you architect, install, tailor, and configure Oracle 10g RAC on System p™ clusters running AIX®. We describe the […]

Oracle VM with IBM System x

My french collegue Gregory Verstraeten who is working now for IBM ATS Americas and based in San Francisco produced a very interesting and useful document which is reflecting his understanding about Oracle VM on IBM hardware system x (BladeCenter) servers and storage. Gregory is describing what is “Virtualization” and why it could be […]

Oracle Applications and IBM technology

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a documentation which explains the relationship between Oracle and IBM to work together. As a member of the Oracle/IBM Joint Solution Center I can see every day how we can work together to propose integrate business solutions. With this relationship we are not selling only product and IBM hardware but we […]

How to backup Oracle ASM instance using RMAN on IBM platform

Very often during Customer’s briefing at Oracle/IBM Joint Solution Center we have questions regarding how to backup Oracle RAC using Oracle ASM (Automatic Storage Management). ASM is a Database File System that provides cluster file system and volume management capabilities integrated into the Oracle database 10g at no additional cost. ASM lowers your total […]

Numa optimization with Oracle Database 11g and 10gR2

IBM System x high end servers can now take advantage of the NUMA ((Non Uniform Memory Architecture) awareness feature. The NUMA awareness function was recently enabled with the primary Linux distributions and also within the Oracle database itself.
The Linux 2.6 kernel from Red Hat (specifically RHEL4 Update 5, or RHEL 5) and Novell’s SLES10 are […]

The Mainframe Renaissance

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Deploying virtual Linux servers on mainframe allows customers to leverage existing skills and investments in the platform designed and refined over the years specially to run multiple mixed […]

Performance Testing Tool - Ebusiness suite

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A lot of Oracle consultant know LoadRunner from MercuryInteractive to do stress tests and performance benchmarks. HP Mercury is a market leader in automated software quality assurance since the acquisition of MercuryInteractive. But IBM Rational mixed with BSD Oracle Applications extension can be a solution. A datasheet can be downloaded […]