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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.

Streamlining Oracle on SDDC – VMworld 2017

Posted on August 2, 2017 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

Interested to find out how to streamline your Business Critical Applications on VMware Software-Defined Datacenter (SDDC) seamlessly? Come attend our session at VMworld 2017 Las Vegas on Thursday, Aug 31, 1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. where Amanda Blevins and  Sudhir … Continue reading →

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Oracle on VMware vSphere , vSAN, VxRAIL & VMware Cloud on AWS – Asks the Oracles

Posted on June 19, 2017 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

In the last post, we endeavored to explain how to go about an Oracle Licensing Audit effectively by meticulously collecting all artifacts needed for the audit. We recommend as artifacts Proof of Compute Enclosure Audit Trail entries Closing the loop … Continue reading →

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Oracle on VMware Hybrid Multi-Clouds – Preparing for an the Oracle Audit

Posted on June 15, 2017 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

In the last post , we addressed the Licensing fuds and myths when it comes to addressing Oracle Licensing on VMware vSphere , vSAN & VMware Cloud on AWS technologies and explained how – Oracle licensing DOES NOT change , from a … Continue reading →

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VMworld 2017 Oracle Customer Bootcamps

Posted on May 10, 2017 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

VMworld 2017 Oracle Customer Bootcamps On a mission to arm yourself with the latest knowledge and skills needed to master application virtualization? VMworld Customer bootcamps can get you in shape to lead the virtualization charge in your organization, with Instructor-led … Continue reading →

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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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