Dell Acceleration Appliances for Databases User Manual

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Discovering ION Target Portals from the RHEL Initiator .............................................................. 54
Creating RHEL Initiators in ION Accelerator ............................................................................... 55

Performance Tuning and Filesystems for Linux Initiators ................................................................... 57

INSTALLATION .......................................................................................................................... 57
PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS ................................................................................................ 57
MOUNTING A FILESYSTEM ON A LUN DURING LINUX BOOT TIME ............................................ 58
Script for Mounting the Filesystem ............................................................................................ 59

Troubleshooting Linux Issues ........................................................................................................... 61

LOGIN FAILURE WITH RHEL INITIATORS ..................................................................................... 61
Problem .................................................................................................................................... 61
Solution .................................................................................................................................... 61
ORACLE LINUX 6.3 ISSUES ........................................................................................................ 61
Problem .................................................................................................................................... 61
Solution .................................................................................................................................... 62
LINUX CLEANUP AFTER LUN REMOVAL ..................................................................................... 62
SOLVING NETWORK MANAGER AND UDEV ISSUES WITH RHEL 6.4 .......................................... 63
Problem .................................................................................................................................... 63
Solution .................................................................................................................................... 63
HANDLING CONFIGURATION CHANGES ................................................................................... 64
Informing the Multipath Daemon of Resized Devices ................................................................ 64
Tips for Resizing Devices with Multipathing ............................................................................... 64
Resolving Path Failures during Multipathing Scans..................................................................... 65

Best Practices for Oracle Database ................................................................................................... 68

ORACLE DATABASE IMPLEMENTATION BEST PRACTICES .......................................................... 68
ASM BEST PRACTICES ............................................................................................................... 68
EXPORTING LUNS TO INITIATORS .............................................................................................. 69
ASM STORAGE CONFIGURATIONS ............................................................................................ 70
HA Mode, One Diskgroup ......................................................................................................... 70
Standalone Mode ...................................................................................................................... 70
Standalone Mode: Storing OCR and Voting Files on ION Accelerator......................................... 70

Best Practices for MS SQL Server ...................................................................................................... 72

MS SQL SERVER IMPLEMENTATION BEST PRACTICES ................................................................ 72
SQL SERVER MEMORY ALLOCATION ........................................................................................ 72
OTHER BEST PRACTICES ............................................................................................................ 73

Configuring HA with Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC)......................................................... 74

CONFIGURING AUTO-FAILBACK SETTINGS ............................................................................... 75

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