Business Continuity
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure and Business Continuity Management
There are many reasons why implement VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) and easier Business Continuity Management is one of them. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure is an very old approach towards computing, you might recall old mainframe systems era, when users has been connecting to big mainframe systems using thin-clients and terminals. However back then, networks was slow, and users has been typically in a next room to a mainframe system or using dial-up connection to mainframe system and only text console commands.
- IBM System z10 mainframe
Today, networks are fast and desktop PCs are very powerful, too powerful for most of a tasks we want them to do, so a lot of computing resources, storage and memory goes to waste. And that is why Desktop Virtualization got born. In an environment with virtualized desktop infrastructure, desktops are running virtualized in a datacenter and users are using just a thin clients to connect to their virtual instances in a datacenter over LAN, MAN and even WAN connection.
Oracle over NFS on NetApp storage – 3 – Primary configuration
In today’s article, we will look again bit into deployment of Oracle DB over NFS protocol on NetApp storage. This article is based on practical experience with deployment of SAP using Oracle (10g) as a back-end as well as on experience with Oracle DB deployments (10g & 11g). Most parts of this article are from a documentation I have created for my last customer, who has been implementing DR solution between two sites with third site for Backup and Recovery. This article is a part of Oracle over NFS on NetApp series, during entire series, we will introduce you to our approach towards projects and as example we chose to give you deep insight into Oracle deployment which we are using as a show-case. In todays episode, we will create aggregates, volumes, QTrees and vFiler.
Oracle over NFS on NetApp storage – 2 – Primary and DR site solution design
In today’s article, we will look again bit into deployment of Oracle DB over NFS protocol on NetApp storage. This article is based on practical experience with deployment of SAP using Oracle (10g) as a back-end as well as on experience with Oracle DB deployments (10g & 11g). Most parts of this article are from a documentation I have created for my last customer, who has been implementing DR solution between two sites with third site for Backup and Recovery. This article is a part of Oracle over NFS on NetApp series, during entire series, we will introduce you to our approach towards projects and as example we chose to give you deep insight into Oracle deployment which we are using as a show-case. In today’s second episode we will look into solution design, volume layout and how we hook it up to fit with our RPO and RTO described in article Oracle over NFS on NetApp storage – 1 – Analysis.
Oracle over NFS on NetApp storage – 1 – Analysis
In today’s article, we will look a bit into deployment of Oracle DB over NFS protocol on NetApp storage. NetApp is quite a good choice for Oracle since there is a SnapManager for Oracle product from NetApp jointly supported by both Oracle and NetApp as a snapshot based backup technology for Oracle DB. This article is based on practical experience with deployment of SAP using Oracle (10g) as a back-end as well as on experience with Oracle DB deployments (10g & 11g). Most parts of this article are from a documentation I have created for my last customer, who has been implementing DR solution between two sites with third site for Backup and Recovery. This article is a part of Oracle over NFS on NetApp series, during entire series, we will introduce you to our approach towards projects and as example we chose to give you deep insight into Oracle deployment which we are using as a show-case. In today’s first episode we will look into Business Resilience analysis from technology perspective and sizing forecast.
Dark and Bright sides of NetApp Fabric MetroCluster…
NetApp MetroCluster is a part of NetApp Data Protection portfolio, however there are certain limitations that comes from use of Fabric MetroCluster technology.