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...
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...
Part 1 of Series: Solving Today’s Top 5 IT Performance Management Challenges IT Performance is an important concern due to the complicated nature of application architectures—including layers of...
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...
Sqlplus is the command line interface client for the Oracle database. It is used by DBAs to administer a database, by developers to develop server side software components, and others. It is one of...
IBM Spectrum Scale (formerly known as General Parallel File System – GPFS) is a highly scalable, flexible, reliable, and high performance clustered file system. While many clustered file systems...
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....
It’s the question of the ages. Or at least the question since IT data centers came into being. Goodness knows, there are a boat load of platform tools available – and there is a ton of data. Yet,...
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...