This originally started out as a much longer rant about EMC/VMWare vs. Oracle in general, but WordPress managed to eat the draft, and there’s no way I’m going to rewrite the whole thing, so I’m going to instead write a series of blog posts, each one covering a point in EMC’s recent salvo against Oracle [...]
After responding to Jeremy’s message on Oracle-L, it got me reading his blog. On one post, he asks if OCFS2 has a future given the rumored introduction of “ASMfs“, and if it’s worth considering for various purposes, specifically: ” database binaries (vs local files or NFS) diag top (11g) or admin tree (10g) (vs local [...]
There was an interesting post to the Oracle-L mailing list today about using OS packages in cluster database environments. A quick snippet from the post: