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Cloning LVM volumes using Pure FlashRecover Snapshots

July 31, 2017 January 2, 2021 / By Somu / Blog Posts / Leave a Comment

As explained in my earlier post Pure FlashRecover Snapshots is one of the most used features within Purity by our customers who use these snapshots to clone their databases. In case of filesystems, the volumes that are cloned may even be part of LVM (Logical Volume Manager). In Linux world, when volume(s) part of LVM is …

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Extending (root) volume on LVM on Pure FlashArray

March 11, 2017 February 13, 2021 / By Somu / Blog Posts, How To / 2 Comments

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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