Oracle vm file system

If we had specified a size of 10G, we might have got an error message saying something like, "could not extend by extents", due to a rounding error. In the above example, the size of 9. Thanks to Julian Dyke for suggesting the extents approach.

The lvextend command used the --resizefs option. If we had not used this, we would have to run the resize2fs command separately. Checking the size of the file systems reveals the root file system has grown by approximately 10G. The VBoxManage modifyhd command doesn't work on fixed disks, so to get around this, simply clone the existing disk to a dynamically allocated disk, then resize that.

Once that is complete, use the new virtual disk for the virtual machine and perform the OS resize operations as before. This note explains how to change the device special file DSF being used as a server pool file system. This can be applied to a variety of situations, but the most common need for this solution is migrating the pool file system and storage repositories used by a server pool to a different storage array.

In this case, system administrators are charged with migrating storage repositories as well as pool file systems. It is the pool file system that requires the steps described here.

We get all the benefits of RDMs — data mobility, array-based granularity, but integrated into the VMware stack. No additional plugins or workflows to manage. With Virtual Volumes, virtual disks become native objects on the storage array. This means VM operations like clones and snapshots are executed natively by the storage array. Any VM placed onto a vVols datastore gets all of these benefits out of the box.

Config vVol — This is 4GB volume that gets created per VM that stores the description of the hardware and settings for the virtual machine. It contains the VMX file, logs and few other descriptor files. Data vVol — This gets created for each virtual disk added to the VM and is the volume that stores the actual data. Its size is the same as the requested size of the virtual disk. Different configurations and policies can be applied to each Data vVol. This is a one-time step, once a VASA provider is registered, virtual volumes for any number of databases can be created.

After you press Save, it will connect to the vCenter server and check to see if the plugin is already installed. If the plugin has not been installed, an Install button will appear on the bottom right side of the panel. If the plugin is already installed but is at a lower version, it will display an Update button.

Next login into the vCenter server. Hover on the Home icon to bring up the menu. You should see a "Pure Storage" menu item at the bottom. If you're already logged in, you may have to logout and log back in to see it. Click on the Pure Storage menu item to bring up the FlashArray page. The newly-registered providers should appear in the Storage Providers table with status Online and Active.

The provider in-use is marked Active; its companion as Standby. In this case, we have only one disk and one datastore. Using the below command, we can find the device mapper for each of the disks. At the end of this step, you should have a list of volumes, their sizes, and their serial numbers. These volumes should be added to a Protection Group, if not done already. In our example, the protection group is called oracle-rt-ora01prd-pg.

We now need a VM to host the Oracle database server we are migrating. The location of this home directory depends on the conventions of the host operating system, as follows:. In the machine folder, a settings file: Example VM. In the machine folder, a virtual disk image: Example VM. Once you start working with the VM, additional files are added. Log files are in a subfolder called Logs , and if you have taken snapshots, they are in a Snapshots subfolder.

For each VM, you can change the location of its snapshots folder in the VM settings. Then, in the displayed window, click on the General tab.

Alternatively, use the VBoxManage setproperty machinefolder command. See VBoxManage setproperty.