I recently performed some Live Partition Mobility (LPM) testing for a customer, and ran into a number of problems – see Part 1 of this post for the full story on all of the problems and solutions....
Live Partition Mobility (LPM) is not a new feature for IBM Power servers, but I recently revisited it, and discovered some interesting problems (and solutions) that I wanted to share, to help anyone...
This blog entry presents a basic introduction to Oracle execution plans. What exactly is an Oracle execution plan? An execution plan consists of the steps that the database server will take to...
GlusterFS has been a growing distributed filesystem, and is now a part of Red Hat Storage Server. GlusterFS, also with Ceph (not covered in this article), have created a software based filesystem...
How many times have you heard business executives say something along the lines of “IT investments are an overhead, while an investment in sales goes directly to the bottom line?” If you have, I...
We are pleased to announce the availability of enhancements to the Galileo Performance Explorer Infrastructure Performance Management (IPM) suite. These updates provide additional reports,...
Within the world of POWER hardware, the PowerVM SEA (Shared Ethernet Adapter) has been the standard when it comes to virtualizing an ethernet adapter for quite some time. With the introduction of...
While Oracle has been responsible for bringing many revolutionary features to the enterprise RDBMS market throughout its 38+ year history, recent releases have left me scratching my head in wonder....
So IBM has released details on the new mid-ranged POWER 8 system – and it’s awesome! I’ve always felt, ever since POWER8 was GA, that there was a gap between the low(er) end systems and the high-end...
When most people think of computing data storage, they think in terms of USB thumb drives, recordable CDs and DVDs and, of course, cloud storage solutions. Such storage options work very well when...
As IT professionals, we're always looking for ways to get the best performance out of our systems. On the systems side, much of the focus on optimizing performance is placed at the operating system...
IT business storage requirements today must adhere to a labyrinth of confusing and contradictory government- and industry-decreed regulations. Increasingly, every bit and byte of data has to be...