Hi
we use oracle 11 as db for our virtual center. Now after 6 months the db size is nearly 20GB.
ls -al /u01/app/oracle/oradata/vcenter/
total 18069556
drwxr-x--- 2 oracle oinstall 4096 May 23 09:55 .
drwxr-x--- 3 oracle oinstall 4096 Sep 21 2010 ..
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 14467072 May 27 11:28 control01.ctl
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 209723392 May 27 11:10 mgmt_ad4j.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 996155392 May 27 11:27 mgmt.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 20979712 May 27 11:26 mgmt_ecm_depot1.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 52429312 May 27 11:28 redo01.log
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 52429312 May 27 11:05 redo02.log
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 52429312 May 27 11:26 redo03.log
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 1038098432 May 27 11:26 sysaux01.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 1268785152 May 27 11:27 system01.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 5087698944 May 27 11:28 temp03.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 419438592 May 27 11:27 undotbs01.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 5251072 May 27 11:10 users01.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 8204066816 May 27 11:28 vpx01.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 1073750016 May 27 11:10 vpx_up01.dbf
$ du -h /u01/app/oracle/oradata/vcenter/
18G /u01/app/oracle/oradata/vcenter/
So how can we reduze or maintain the oralce db that the size not growing up so fast? My problem is that my experience with oracle are less. One point is the temp file, i create every few weeks a new one cause it grows over 10GB. Is there any option to reduce it or automaticly create a new file after a few days? I also change some values in the vc administration / server settings
database retention policy = 60 days
database = maximum number 10
logging options = warning ( erros and warnings)
What possibilities i have also to reduce the database size?
THX for any hints
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