Part 2 of Series: Solving Today’s Top 5 IT Performance Management Challenges A number of challenges face IT administrators when the time comes to diagnose a problem within their environment—including heterogeneous infrastructure, different computing languages, a...
Do you use IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) for AIX server monitoring? What about VIO Servers? VIO Server software now comes with the ITM Premium (va) agent pre-installed. It just needs to be configured to communicate with the HMC and the ITM Server. The va agent...
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 accomplish a DML statement, e.g. SELECT, INSERT, DELETE, UPDATE, etc....
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 free of metadata. By using a hash algorithm distributed to the...
The AIX Logical Volume Manager (LVM) makes the management of disks, volume groups, and logical volumes very easy, especially when compared to many of the other UNIX and Linux volume managers. However, there are several instances where LVM passes control of the...
Many Oracle environments run backups from their Dataguard physical standby database, if applicable. This is best practice in the field because it allows you to offload any overhead of a database backup to the standby database where no applications and/or users are...
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 SR-IOV (Single Root I/O Virtualization) the additional VIOS layer is...
I think it's important to stress your hardware as much as possible. It's kind of like when you buy a new car, you always punch the gas a little bit to see what the thing can do! Likewise, with your enterprise hardware, you want to give it a little gas. What I like...
