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Extending (root) volume on LVM on Pure FlashArray

My earlier post Online resizing of Oracle volumes on Pure FlashArray was focused on resizing Pure FlashArray volumes that were mounted directly or through Oracle ASM.  What if the volume is part of LVM and you wanted to extend the size of a logical volume? Disclaimer: Even though the following sequence of steps were validated in …

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Duplicate UUID error on cloned volumes

Problem Scenario Wanted to clone a pure storage volume on XFS filesystem for testing purpose on the same server. Took FlashRecover snapshot of the volume.   Instantiated the snapshot by copying them into target volume. Attached the target volume to the same host and updated multipath.conf with the alias information. Tried to mount the partition …

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Online resizing of Oracle volumes on Pure FlashArray

While thin provisioning enables higher capacity volumes without the guilt of actually wasting the space, we still see storage admins creating volumes close to what the DBAs have asked for and hence there is always a need for expanding the volume when the current volume reaches its capacity. When it comes to ASM, lot of DBAs prefer to …

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