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About Sudhir Balasubramanian

Data & Infrastructure Architect - DB/OS/Virtualization/Storage/Infrastructure/Cloud Computing/AI/ML/LLM/GenAI , Oracle ACE/VMware vExpert/Nutanix NCP - Speaker, Blogger, Author, Technologist, Evangelist, Partner & Customer Advocate - love working with Customers & Partners to build creative solutions to solve complex problems & improve Customer experience.

Architect highly available Oracle Database on Amazon EVS and FSx for ONTAP

Posted on August 11, 2026 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

In this post, we show you how to architect a complete Oracle Database environment on Amazon EVS with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. You learn how the storage, compute, networking, and disaster recovery layers work together to deliver high availability, … Continue reading →

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Deploy Oracle Database step by step on Amazon EVS with FSx for ONTAP

Posted on August 11, 2026 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

This post provides step-by-step procedures to deploy Oracle Database on Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP as NFS datastore storage. You will provision storage volumes, mount NFS datastores, install Oracle, and configure SnapMirror replication … Continue reading →

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Nutanix Volume Groups for Business-Critical Oracle RAC Workloads

Posted on October 12, 2025 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

  Business Critical Oracle Workloads have stringent IO requirements and enabling, sustaining, and ensuring the highest possible performance along with continued application availability is a major goal for all mission critical Oracle applications to meet the demanding business SLAs. This … Continue reading →

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End to End (E2E) 4kn support for Oracle workloads on VMware vSphere 9.0

Posted on October 12, 2025 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

End to End (E2E) 4kn support with VMware vSphere 9.0 – What does that mean for Oracle Workloads     VMware finally released End to End (E2E) 4kn support for VM vmdk’s with the VMware vSphere 9.0 release , announced June … Continue reading →

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Nutanix vDisks, Volume Groups (VG) and SCSI Controllers for Business-Critical Oracle Workloads

Posted on October 11, 2025 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

Business Critical Oracle Workloads have stringent IO requirements and enabling, sustaining, and ensuring the highest possible performance along with continued application availability is a major goal for all mission critical Oracle applications to meet the demanding business SLAs. This blog … Continue reading →

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Nutanix Platform for Business Critical Oracle Workloads – An Investigation

Posted on October 9, 2025 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

  Scratching my proverbial technical itch  – That’s what led me to poke under the Nutanix platform covers to see how Nutanix platform is different than VMware vSphere from a Storage perspective. Business Critical Oracle Workloads have stringent IO requirements … Continue reading →

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VMware NVMeoF Virtual Volumes (vVols) on Pure Storage Flash Array for Oracle Workloads – NVMeoF vVol v/s SCSI vVol

Posted on May 28, 2024 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

  Business Critical Oracle Workloads have stringent IO requirements and enabling, sustaining, and ensuring the highest possible performance along with continued application availability is a major goal for all mission critical Oracle applications to meet the demanding business SLAs on … Continue reading →

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Announcing VMware vSAN Max Storage for Business-Critical Oracle Workloads

Posted on April 16, 2024 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

Storage is one of the most important aspect of any IO intensive workloads, Oracle workloads typically fit this bill and we all know how a Tier2 Storage often leads to database performance issues, irrespective of any architecture where the database … Continue reading →

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VMware vSAN 8 Express Storage Architecture (ESA) for Oracle Workloads – Performance

Posted on March 15, 2024 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

I need more and more and …….!!!  – The ever-growing demand of Business-Critical workloads especially Oracle workloads where CPU, Memory & IO intensive operations drives critical business transactions to achieve business SLA’ and targets in a timely fashion. Enabling, sustaining, … Continue reading →

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RDM v/s VMDK – VMware Virtual Volumes to the rescue

Posted on August 9, 2023 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

An oft debated topic – whether to use RDM’s or vmdk’s for Oracle workloads – The Battle ranges on ( theme captured in one of classic rock band Deep Purple 90’s releases ).     This topic of discussion comes up in … Continue reading →

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