SLOB testing on Violin and Exadata

I love SLOB, the Silly Little Oracle Benchmark introduced to me by Kevin Closson in his blog. I love it because it's so simple to setup and use. Benchmarking tools such as Hammerora have their place of course, but let's say you've just got your hands on an Exadata X2-8 machine and want to see … Continue reading SLOB testing on Violin and Exadata →

Oracle on Violin – Installation Cookbooks

I've been installing Oracle databases on Violin Memory a lot recently so I thought I'd document the process for each different flavour and combination of OS, kernel, database software and filesystem / ASM configuration that I use. Only one so far but the menu will grow...