Most of Pure FlashArray customers use Oracle on ASM or cooked filesystems like EXT4 or XFS. Rarely I do see ZFS and generally, those are Solaris users. Still, I do periodically get questions about ZFS with Pure FlashArray, specifically on database cloning where the database is hosted on FlashArray volumes. Hence, this post is to …
Database cloning with ZFS on Pure FlashArray – Part I Read More »
A lot of customers have requested the steps to clone an Oracle database on ASM hosted on Pure FlashArray, on to the same database host like cloning QA database into DEV on the same host. The problem is, cloning an ASM lun and mounting it onto the same host would result in two luns with …
Cloning Oracle Database on ASM with Pure FlashArray on to same host Read More »
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 …
