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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.

Oracle Database 12c on VMware vSAN — Day 2 Operations and Management

Posted on May 3, 2017 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

Oracle Database 12c on VMware vSAN — Day 2 Operations and Management Customers deploying production Oracle workloads have stringent requirements to support and maintain critical database operational tasks such as Backup and Recovery, Cloning, Data Refresh for Development/Test environment and … Continue reading →

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The Art of P2V and Oracle ASM

Posted on April 10, 2017 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

“Come with me if you want to live” – famous words from the Terminator series. It’s also the very reason IT companies are adopting the ‘Virtualize First’ policy to reap all of the benefits of virtualization and move away from … Continue reading →

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Oracle on VMware Collateral – One Stop Shop

Posted on January 12, 2017 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

One Stop Shop Here is the One stop shop for everything Oracle on VMware SDDC  for easy and quick access.  This blog will be constantly updated as and when new collaterals are produced. Table of Contents

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Oracle on VMware vSphere , vSAN, VxRAIL and VMware Cloud on AWS – Dispelling the Licensing myths

Posted on January 4, 2017 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

Introduction to VMware vSphere , vSAN , VxRAIL and VMware Cloud on AWS Some key things to keep in mind when we talk about VMware vSphere Platform , ESXi hypervisor , vSAN , VxRAIL Appliance and VMware Cloud on AWS … Continue reading →

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Demo – Extended Oracle RAC across sites with VMware NSX

Posted on September 13, 2016 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

Our team has been working on building solutions for NSX with Business Critical Applications around Zero trust security, application mobility, operational efficiency, increased security and more . In a previous post I published a demo about database cloning and enforcing dynamic security policies … Continue reading →

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Oracle 12c OLTP & DSS workloads on Virtual SAN 6.2 All Flash

Posted on August 22, 2016 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

Hey Oracle on VMware folks!!! Earlier, we had blogged about Oracle RAC on VMware Virtual SAN Hybrid which is VMware software-defined storage solution for hyper-converged infrastructure and is available at Oracle RAC on Hybrid VSAN In this blog post, we … Continue reading →

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VMworld 2016 Pre-Conference Oracle Workshop – Brought to You by VMware and Oracle Experts

Posted on June 30, 2016 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

This year, we are experimenting with paid pre-conference Workshops for non-core-sphere topics at VMworld. We are offering one-day intensive Oracle on vSphere classes. I am developing the schedule and will be delivering the content with some partner involvement. http://www.vmworld.com/en/us/learning/training-certification.html   … Continue reading →

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New Updated Oracle Databases on VMware Best Practices Guide

Posted on June 3, 2016 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

Business Critical Applications (BCA) are at the heart of an organization; their performance, availability and reliability are vital to the success of the business. Significant advances in hardware are far outpacing the performance requirements of even the most intensive business-critical … Continue reading →

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Virtual Volumes and Storage Policy-Based Management for Databases

Posted on December 16, 2015 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

Virtual Volumes and Storage Policy-Based Management for Databases In the first part of this series we provided a high level view of the benefits of using Virtual Volumes enabled storage for database operations. In the second part of this series … Continue reading →

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Crash consistent backups and database cloning with Virtual Volumes

Posted on December 16, 2015 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

Crash consistent backups and database cloning with Virtual Volumes In the first part of this series we provided a high level view of the benefits of using Virtual Volumes enabled storage for database operations. In the second part of this … Continue reading →

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