Dell PowerStore: Oracle Best Practices

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  Introduction
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  Audience
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  Revisions
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  Terminology
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  We value your feedback

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  PowerStore overview
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  Oracle product overview
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  Prerequisites

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  Overview
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  Configure I/O for bandwidth and not capacity
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  Stripe far and wide
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  OLTP and OLAP/DSS workloads
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  General sizing recommendations
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  Test the I/O system before implementation
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  Plan for growth
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  PowerStore storage pool
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  Dynamic Resiliency Engine (DRE) and storage containers

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  Introduction
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  Unified or block-optimized
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  Single or multiple-appliance cluster

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  PowerStore host objects

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  Introduction
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  Server FC HBA driver settings: timeouts and queue depth
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  Scanning for non-NVMe LUNs
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  Discovery and connection of NVMe end-points
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  Multipathing
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  LUN partitioning
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  UDEV rules for LUNs

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  Introduction
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  Oracle database design considerations
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  Oracle Automatic Storage Management
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  Space reclamation
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  File systems

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  Introduction
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  Setting up host objects in PowerStore T models
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  Provisioning volumes
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  PowerStore data reduction and Oracle
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  Unreducible Data Reporting
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  Data encryption
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  PowerStore REST API and CLI
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  Service Scripts

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  Introduction
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  PowerStore front-end Ethernet connectivity for file storage
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  Obfuscated IP addresses and network information
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  Dell PowerStore NAS servers
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  Dell PowerStore NFS file system and NFS export
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  Verify access to the PowerStore NFS export
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  NFS protocol
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  PowerStore file system and Oracle ASM disks
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  Creating ASM disk groups using NFS

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  Introduction
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  NFS traffic
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  NFS supported storage option

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  Overview
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  Benefits of dNFS
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  Creating NFS client mount points
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  Mount options for an NFS share
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  Ethernet networks and dNFS
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  Jumbo frames
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  Setting jumbo frames for PowerStore NAS file networks
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  Single network path for dNFS
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  Single client interface for NFS
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  Multiple client interfaces for dNFS
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  Shared subnets
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  Configuring LACP—NAS server
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  Oracle dNFS configuration file oranfstab
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  Enabling and disabling Oracle dNFS
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  dNFS and network verification checks
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  Oracle dynamic dNFS views

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  Introduction
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  Snapshots and recoveries with Oracle
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  Creating a snapshot
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  Thin clones
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  Secure Snapshots
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  PowerProtect DD
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  AppSync

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  Dell Technologies documentation
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  Oracle documentation
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  Oracle Support MOS notes
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  Other documentation