Configure Oracle DBFS or ACFS on Exadata

Configure Oracle DBFS or ACFS on Exadata Create the dbs_group file for dcli As the user root, create a text file in the home directory of the root user called dbs_group. This file will contain the names of both the X5-2 compute nodes. We will be using the DCLI utility to run commands on all […]

ACFS File System Replication System Documentation

Oracle Docs 12.1 ACFS Replication Oracle 12.2 Storage Documentation

GoldenGate Install & Config On Exadata

Oracle Goldengate on DBFS for RAC and Exadata Let us take a look at the process of configuring Golden Gate 12c to work in an Oracle 12c Grid Infrastructure RAC or Exadata environment using DBFS on Linux x86-64. This is now supported on ACFS as well, which may outperform the DBFS solution. Simply put the […]

ACFS on Exadata

Important Fixes required to implement Oracle Automatic Storage Management File System (ACFS) on Oracle Exadata Database Machine (Doc ID 2022172.1)   Per the below noted doc ID ACFS on Exadata is now supported for GoldenGate files Oracle ACFS Support on Oracle Exadata Database Machine (Linux only) (Doc ID 1929629.1) Oracle ACFS use cases on Exadata […]

ACFS Performance

With the latest software release for the Oracle Database Appliance (ODA), Oracle has decided to make ACFS (ASM Cluster FileSystem) the default storage for all new databases. This is a major change for Oracle since ACFS previously had not allowed Oracle data files to be stored on it. ACFS was introduced in Oracle 11.2 and […]

Setup and Use of ACFS for GoldenGate

To specify a Linux mount point of sufficient space for GoldenGate binaries / trail files. While you can use the DBFS  Database File System (DBFS) option its use creates additional database objects and unnecessary additional database I/O as well as additional redo and RMAN activity. Another option is to use Oracle ASM Clustered File System (ACFS) […]