Monthly Archives: March 2021

On Demand hot extend clustered vmdk’s online without downtime – Hot Extend RAC clustered disks using Oracle ASM Rebalance and vSphere

Posted on March 12, 2021 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

    This blog focuses on the complete list of steps to be taken to increase the size of the clustered vmdk(s) using Multi-writer flag of an Oracle RAC Cluster.  This blog describes the various options using both Native Oracle … Continue reading →

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Reclaiming dead space from Oracle databases on VMware Hybrid Platform

Posted on March 1, 2021 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

    Dead space reclamation has always been a challenge especially with thin-provisioned volumes. Thin provisioning dynamically allocated storage on-demand to the workloads in a flexible and efficient manner. Any database day to day 2 operations would include dropping tablespaces, … Continue reading →

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