New Whitepaper: "Oracle Database on Linux on System z - Disk I/O Connectivity Study"

For databases the IO performance is very important. This new whitepaper tries to develop guidelines for disk configuration and tuning hints...Read more »

New Redpaper: "Installing Oracle 11gR2 RAC on Linux on System z"

This Redpaper describes the installation of the latest Oracle DB on RHEL 5 and SLES 11 for Linux on System z. It covers both ECKD as well a...Read more »

OCFS2 support for Linux on SLES

Recently there has been quite some discussion around the support for OCFS2 . SUSE has published their support statements in two blog entries...Read more »

Oracle 11g R2 - RMAN compression eating up CPU resources

There have been several complaints with respect to the RMAN CPU usage on Linux on System z. At the bottom of this was always the use of the ...Read more »