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articles/sap/workloads/dbms-guide-oracle.md

@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ Additional considerations that apply list like:
 4. To migrate from 512/512e sector size to 4K Native Review (Doc ID 1133713.1) – see section “Offline Migration to 4Kb Sector Disks”
 5. No support for ASM on Windows platforms
 6. No support for 4K Native sector size for Log volume on Windows platforms.  SSDv2 and Ultra Disk must be changed to 512e via the “Edit Disk” pencil icon in the Azure Portal
-7. 4K Native sector size is supported on Data volume for Windows platforms only
+7. 4K Native sector size is supported only on Data volumes for Windows platforms.  4K isn't supported for Log volumes on Windows
 8. It's recommended to review these MOS articles:
     - Oracle Linux: File System's Buffer Cache versus Direct I/O (Doc ID 462072.1)
     - Supporting 4K Sector Disks (Doc ID 1133713.1)
@@ -255,7 +255,6 @@ Oracle DBAs that aren't familiar with Oracle ASM follow the training materials a
 - [<u>What is Oracle ASM to Azure IaaS? - Simple Talk (red-gate.com)</u>](https://www.red-gate.com/simple-talk/databases/oracle-databases/what-is-oracle-asm-to-azure-iaas/)
 - [ASM Command-Line Utility (ASMCMD) (oracle.com)](https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14215/asm_util.htm)
 - [Useful asmcmd commands - DBACLASS DBACLASS](https://dbaclass.com/article/useful-asmcmd-commands-oracle-cluster/)
-- [Moving your SAP Database to Oracle Automatic Storage Management 11g Release 2 - A Best Practices Guide](https://www.sap.com/documents/2016/08/f2e8c029-817c-0010-82c7-eda71af511fa.html)
 - [Installing and Configuring Oracle ASMLIB Software](https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/19/ladbi/installing-and-configuring-oracle-asmlib-software.html#GUID-79F9D58F-E5BB-45BD-A664-260C0502D876)
 
 ## Azure NetApp Files (ANF) with Oracle dNFS (Direct NFS)

articles/sap/workloads/get-started.md

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ author: msjuergent
 manager: bburns
 ms.topic: article
 ms.workload: infrastructure-services
-ms.date: 11/20/2023
+ms.date: 12/15/2023
 ms.author: juergent
 ---
 
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ In the SAP workload documentation space, you can find the following areas:
 
 ## Change Log
 
+- December 15, 2023: Change recommendations aroudn DIRECTIO and LVM in [Azure Virtual Machines Oracle DBMS deployment for SAP workload](./dbms-guide-oracle.md)
 - December 11, 2023: Add RHEL requirements to [HANA third site for multi-target replication](./disaster-recovery-sap-hana.md) and integrating into a Pacemaker cluster.
 - November 20, 2023: Add storage configuration for Mv3 medium memory VMs into the documents [SAP HANA Azure virtual machine Premium SSD storage configurations](./hana-vm-premium-ssd-v1.md), [SAP HANA Azure virtual machine Premium SSD v2 storage configurations](./hana-vm-premium-ssd-v2.md), and [SAP HANA Azure virtual machine Ultra Disk storage configurations](./hana-vm-ultra-disk.md)
 - November 20, 2023: Add supported storage matrix into the document [Azure Virtual Machines Oracle DBMS deployment for SAP workload](./dbms-guide-oracle.md)
@@ -155,34 +156,5 @@ In the SAP workload documentation space, you can find the following areas:
 - October 26, 2021: Change in [SAP HANA scale-out HSR with Pacemaker on Azure VMs on RHEL](./sap-hana-high-availability-scale-out-hsr-rhel.md) to update resource names in HANA scale-out Active/Active (Read Enabled) configuration
 - October 19, 2021: Change in [SAP HANA scale-out HSR with Pacemaker on Azure VMs on RHEL](./sap-hana-high-availability-scale-out-hsr-rhel.md) to add instructions for HANA scale-out Active/Active (Read Enabled) configuration
 - October 11, 2021: Change in [Cluster an SAP ASCS/SCS instance on a Windows failover cluster by using a cluster shared disk in Azure](./sap-high-availability-guide-wsfc-shared-disk.md), [Prepare the Azure infrastructure for SAP HA by using a Windows failover cluster and shared disk for SAP ASCS/SCS](./sap-high-availability-infrastructure-wsfc-shared-disk.md) and [SAP ASCS/SCS instance multi-SID high availability with Windows server failover clustering and Azure shared disk](./sap-ascs-ha-multi-sid-wsfc-azure-shared-disk.md) to add instructions about zone redundant storage (ZRS) for Azure shared disk support
-- October 08, 2021: Change in [SAP HANA scale-out HSR with Pacemaker on Azure VMs on SLES](./sap-hana-high-availability-scale-out-hsr-suse.md), [HA for SAP HANA scale-up with ANF on RHEL](./sap-hana-high-availability-netapp-files-red-hat.md) and [SAP HANA scale-out HSR with Pacemaker on Azure VMs on RHEL](./sap-hana-high-availability-scale-out-hsr-rhel.md) to add defaults in sudoers file and update for HANA scale-out(for HANA srHook)
-- October 01, 2021: Added link to new Azure Backup architecture for SAP HANA backup document into table of content. Added link to Azure Backup service for Oracle DBMS into [Azure Virtual Machines Oracle DBMS deployment for SAP workload](./dbms-guide-oracle.md)
-- September 24, 2021: Change in [SAP HANA scale-out HSR with Pacemaker on Azure VMs on SLES](./sap-hana-high-availability-scale-out-hsr-suse.md), [HA for SAP HANA scale-up with ANF on RHEL](./sap-hana-high-availability-netapp-files-red-hat.md) and [SAP HANA scale-out HSR with Pacemaker on Azure VMs on RHEL](./sap-hana-high-availability-scale-out-hsr-rhel.md) to adjust the instructions for creating sudoers file (for HANA srHook)
-- September 16, 2021: Release of [HA for SAP NetWeaver on Azure VMs on Windows with Azure Files(SMB)](./high-availability-guide-windows-azure-files-smb.md)
-- September 15, 2021: Introducing new HADR configuration for SAP ASE in [SAP ASE Azure Virtual Machines DBMS deployment for SAP workload](./dbms-guide-sapase.md)
-- September 08, 2021: Adding manual QoS capacity pool into [NFS v4.1 volumes on Azure NetApp Files for SAP HANA](./hana-vm-operations-netapp.md)
-- August 26, 2021: Change in [Setting up Pacemaker on RHEL in Azure](./high-availability-guide-rhel-pacemaker.md) and [Setting up Pacemaker on SLES in Azure](./high-availability-guide-suse-pacemaker.md) to correct the role definition JSON for Azure Fence Agent
-- August 17, 2021: Changes in [IBM Db2 Azure Virtual Machines DBMS deployment for SAP workload](./dbms-guide-ibm.md), [Azure Storage types for SAP workload](./planning-guide-storage.md), and [SAP workload on Azure virtual machine supported scenarios](./planning-supported-configurations.md) to introduce support for IBM Db2 using NFS volumes hosted on ANF
-- August 02, 2021: Change in [HA for SAP NW on Azure VMs on SLES for SAP applications](./high-availability-guide-suse.md), [HA for SAP NW on Azure VMs on SLES with ANF](./high-availability-guide-suse-netapp-files.md), [HA for SAP NW on Azure VMs on RHEL for SAP applications](./high-availability-guide-rhel.md) and  [HA for SAP NW on Azure VMs on RHEL with ANF](./high-availability-guide-rhel-netapp-files.md) to clarify the behavior (ENSA1/ENSA2) for a test scenario, simulating enqueue server failure     
-- August 11, 2021: Change in [HA for SAP NW on Azure VMs on RHEL for SAP applications](./high-availability-guide-rhel.md), [HA for SAP NW on Azure VMs on RHEL with ANF](./high-availability-guide-rhel-netapp-files.md) and [HA for SAP NW on Azure VMs on RHEL multi-SID guide](./high-availability-guide-rhel-multi-sid.md) to adjust cluster resources stickiness, migration thresholds and order constraints  
-- August 11, 2021: Release of [SAP BW-Near Line Storage (NLS) implementation guide with SAP IQ on Azure](./dbms-guide-sapiq.md) 
-- July 29, 2021: Introduce combined two-node Windows cluster for ASCS/SCS and DBMS in [High availability for SAP NetWeaver on Azure VMs on Windows with Azure NetApp Files(SMB) for SAP applications](./high-availability-guide-windows-netapp-files-smb.md) and [Cluster an SAP ASCS/SCS instance on a Windows failover cluster by using a cluster shared disk in Azure](./sap-high-availability-guide-wsfc-shared-disk.md) 
-- July 26, 2021: Change in [Setting up Pacemaker on RHEL in Azure](./high-availability-guide-rhel-pacemaker.md) and [Setting up Pacemaker on SLES in Azure](./high-availability-guide-suse-pacemaker.md) to replace role assignment instructions with links to the RBAC documentation in the sections describing the setup for Azure Fence Agent
-- July 22, 2021: Change in [HA for SAP NW on Azure VMs on RHEL for SAP applications](./high-availability-guide-rhel.md), [HA for SAP NW on Azure VMs on RHEL with ANF](./high-availability-guide-rhel-netapp-files.md) and [HA for SAP NW on Azure VMs on RHEL multi-SID guide](./high-availability-guide-rhel-multi-sid.md) to remove `failure-timeout` for the ASCS cluster resource (ENSA2 only)
-- July 16, 2021: Restructuring of the SAP on Azure documentation Table of contents(TOC) for more streamlined navigation
-- July 2, 2021: Change in [Backup and restore of SAP HANA on HANA Large Instances](../../virtual-machines/workloads/sap/hana-backup-restore.md) to remove duplicate content for azacsnap tool and backup and restore of HANA Large Instances
-- July 2, 2021: Change in [Setting up Pacemaker on RHEL in Azure](./high-availability-guide-rhel-pacemaker.md) to add information how to avoid fence race in two node Pacemaker cluster and a link to KB, explaining how to reduce failover delays when using optional fencing configuration with `fence_kdump`
-- July 1, 2021: Adding new certified HANA Large Instances SKUs in [Available SKUs for HLI](../../virtual-machines/workloads/sap/hana-available-skus.md) 
-- June 30, 2021: Change in [HA guide for SAP ASCS/SCS with WSFC and Azure NetApp Files(SMB)](./high-availability-guide-windows-netapp-files-smb.md) to add a section for recommended SAP profile parameters 
-- June 29, 2021: Change in [Setting up Pacemaker on RHEL in Azure](./high-availability-guide-rhel-pacemaker.md) to add optional fencing configuration with fence_kdump
-- June 28, 2021: Change in [HA guide for SAP ASCS/SCS with WSFC and Azure NetApp Files(SMB)](./high-availability-guide-windows-netapp-files-smb.md) to add a statement that the SMB Server (Computer Account) Prefix should be no longer than eight characters to avoid running into SAP hostname length limitation
-- June 17, 2020: Change in [High availability of SAP HANA on Azure VMs on RHEL](./sap-hana-high-availability-rhel.md) to remove meta keyword from HANA resource creation command (RHEL 8.x)
-- June 09, 2021: Correct VM SKU names for M192---_v2 in [SAP HANA Azure virtual machine storage configurations](./hana-vm-operations-storage.md)
-- May 26, 2021: Change in [SAP HANA scale-out HSR with Pacemaker on Azure VMs on SLES](./sap-hana-high-availability-scale-out-hsr-suse.md), [HA for SAP HANA scale-up with ANF on RHEL](./sap-hana-high-availability-netapp-files-red-hat.md) and [SAP HANA scale-out HSR with Pacemaker on Azure VMs on RHEL](./sap-hana-high-availability-scale-out-hsr-rhel.md) to add configuration to prepare the OS for running HANA on ANF  
-- May 13, 2021: Change in [Setting up Pacemaker on SLES in Azure](./high-availability-guide-suse-pacemaker.md) to clarify how resource agent azure-events operate 
-- April 30, 2021: Change in [Setting up Pacemaker on SLES in Azure](./high-availability-guide-suse-pacemaker.md) to include warning about incompatible change with Azure Fence Agent in a version of package python3-azure-mgmt-compute (SLES 15)  
-- April 27, 2021: Change in [SAP ASCS/SCS instance with WSFC and file share](./sap-high-availability-guide-wsfc-file-share.md) to add links to important SAP notes in the prerequisites section
-- April 27, 2021: Added new Msv2, Mdsv2 VMs into HANA storage configuration in [SAP HANA Azure virtual machine storage configurations](./hana-vm-operations-storage.md)
-- April 27, 2021: Added requirement for using same storage types in HANA System Replication across all VMs of HSR configuration in [SAP HANA Azure virtual machine storage configurations](./hana-vm-operations-storage.md)
-- April 27, 2021: Added requirement for using same storage types in DBMS replication scenarios across all VMs of DBMS high availability replication configurations in [Azure Storage types for SAP workload](./planning-guide-storage.md)
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