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Fourth post in this series. The earlier ones used six tidy passages I wrote myself, which is a fine way to learn the mechanics and a terrible way to find out whether any of it works. This time I loaded a 323 KB file of my own working notes —…
Recently, I encountered a situation in a 2-node Windows RAC 19c environment running the latest 19.27 Grid Infrastructure version.I had added a disk back using…
Environment Details: Source OS: RHEL 7 Target OS: RHEL 8 (also applies to RHEL 9 scenario below) Grid Infrastructure Version: 19.26 (Oracle Restart) ASMLib Version…
GRUB is a bootloader used in most Linux distributions. A bootloader is a small program responsible for loading the operating system into memory and starting…
In Oracle storage environments using ASM (Automatic Storage Management) with AFD (ASM Filter Driver), the UNMAP protocol plays a key role in space reclamation—especially when…
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