Managing a healthy cluster belongs to the most important goals of every cluster stack, and Oracle Clusterware is not an exception to this rule. To ensure cluster and data integrity unhealthy nodes should be forcefully evicted from a cluster. A node eviction will be initiated if: - cluster member cannot...

In September 2010 Oracle introduced an own Unbreakable Enterprise Linux kernel based on the version 2.6.32. For more information see Oracle White Paper http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/linux/uek-for-linux-177034.pdf The installation of the new Oracle kernel is very easy. All you need is to install...

With the 11.2.0.2 patch set Oracle introduced a new quite interesting feature - ACFS replication. It might be very useful, especially in MAA configurations (Real Application Cluster with Data Guard) in case the primary database creates files on an ACFS filesystem (e.g. with PL/SQL). In this case Data...