Sunday, October 18, 2015

Active Memory Expansion in IBM AIX 7.x - Useful Resources

This post covers some of the Q/A and MOS Notes and IBM Docs related to Active Memory Expansion (Fancy Name for Memory Compression) for Oracle Databases on IBM AIX 7.x.


1. Is IBM Active Memory Expansion (AME) - AIX 7.1 certified/supported for Oracle DB 11.2.0.4 (RAC and Non-RAC)?
Is IBM AIX Active Memory Expansion (AME) Certified or supported for Oracle Databases? ( Doc ID 1524569.1 )


2. Is IBM AME (AIX 7.x) certified for the Oracle Database?
Certification Information for Oracle Database on IBM AIX on Power systems ( Doc ID 1307544.1 )


3. What are the things to watch out for implementing AME on AIX 7.x - Any performance degradations to watch out for?
IBM POWER7 AIX and Oracle Database performance considerations -- 10g & 11g [ Note 1507249.1 ]


Other MOS Notes/Resources:

How to Tune Parameters Available in AIX to AvoNote Memory Failures Under Heavy Load [ Note 457271.1 ]
AIX: Top Things to DO NOW to Stabilize 11gR2 GI/RAC Cluster [ Note 1427855.1 ]




IBM Memory Compression - Active Memory Expansion (AME):
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-aix7memoryoptimize1/