Recent Posts by Cindy Swearingen

Recent 10th anniversary celebrations of Oracle Exadata and the ZFS Storage Appliance provide an excellent opportunity to revisit these marvels of engineering. Exadata provides the best performance and consolidation platform for Oracle Database (Exadata) ZFS Storage Appliance is the perfect storage platform for RMAN backups and an efficient Oracle Database development environment In a 24/7 business environment, Oracle customers rely on Exadata for hosting their most critical...

Today, we are introducing the Oracle ZFS Storage ZS7-2, available in two configurations: Mid-range - a mid-range unified storage system ideal for use with performance-intensive, dynamic workloads at an attractive price point. High-end - a high-end enterprise unified storage system for workloads demanding extreme performance and scalability at a price point that rivals competitive midrange and high-end systems. Both models are economically compelling enterprise storage solutions...

Today, we are announcing the latest Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance ZS7-2, which is the sixth-generation of our unified storage platform. Built on the ground-breaking ZFS file system and hybrid storage pool model, that leverages a massively scaled SMP-based OS, with multi-petabyte scalability, extensive DRAM and flash caches, the Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance is a performance powerhouse. When you combine the system's advanced architecture with simplified storage management, deep...

I still get geeked sharing the great technology that is part of our every day life and then the other great honor is to share our latest innovations to customers who run their businesses on our integrated products. Oracle ZFS Storage is a critical building block for key Oracle products that many customers rely on to drive their business innovation around the world.Earlier this year, I identified all the primary features that provide such as fantastic multipurpose storage...

Happy Summer! Please join us for a webcast about Oracle ZFS Storage integration with Oracle Database workloads. Because we're co-engineered, we can develop optimizations that provide unmatched performance This Thursday, Greg Drobish and I are doing a webcast on current ZFS Storage innovations, integration with Oracle Database, and recent features that yield great data reduction ratios. 3rd Thursday Tech Talk: Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance - Optimized for Oracle Database June 21,...

Recommended best practices for protecting your data with ZFS include using ECC memory, configuring pool redundancy and hot spares, and always having current backups of critical data. Because storage devices can fail over time, pool scrubs are also recommended to identify and resolve data inconsistencies caused by failing devices or other issues. Additionally: Data inconsistencies can occur over time. The earlier these issues are identified and resolved, overall data...

Talking to customers this week about the Oracle Solaris ZFS device removal feature brought up a few key points that I would like to emphasize as a follow-on to this previous blog: Mirrored pool configurations have always had the most device flexibility because you can add vdevs, detach devices, and replace smaller devices or LUNs with larger devices. You could even have a mirrored pool configuration with a uneven number of devices and even mirror across different sized disks....

We’ll be Chicago this week for another Solaris Tech Day and other customer meetings to discuss how you can leverage Oracle Solaris 11.4, the world’s most advanced enterprise operating system, and Oracle hardware and software integration points, in your enterprise IT environment. I’ll provide an update on the new features of the Solaris ZFS file system as well as the continued innovation in the Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance. The Oracle Solaris 11.4 Beta Release was refreshed so...

At long last, we provide the ability to remove a top-level VDEV from a ZFS storage pool in the upcoming Solaris 11.4 Beta refresh release. For many years, our recommendation was to create a pool based on current capacity requirements and then grow the pool to meet increasing capacity needs by adding VDEVs or by replacing smaller LUNs with larger LUNs. It is trivial to add capacity or replace smaller LUNs with larger LUNs, sometimes with just one simple command. The simplicity...