Category Archives: Oracle

Shredding disks with the shred command

I got the question whether there is a good way to remove the data of a disk, our in this specific case from a LUN. As databases are added and removed from the clusters, storage is also added and removed … Continue reading

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Configuring DHCP and DNS on Openfiler 2.3

For my Oracle 11gR2 RAC Cluster I wanted to test the Grid Naming Service (GNS). Since I used Openfiler 2.3 for my shared storage devices (ASM), I also wanted to use this system as the DHCP and DNS server. A … Continue reading

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