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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.

VMware Cloud Flex Storage and Oracle workloads – Summary of use cases

Posted on June 5, 2023 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

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 SLA’s, all the way from on-premises to VMware Hybrid Clouds The goal … Continue reading →

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Providing Storage savings and Comparable performance using VMware Cloud Flex Storage for Oracle Non Production workloads

Posted on June 2, 2023 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

Non-production workloads e.g. Development, Test, QA, Staging, Functional, Pre-Production etc are equally important as the Production workloads , as they are key entities and instrumental to any Production workload success. Ensuring that Pre-Production databases are comparable in performance with the … Continue reading →

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Providing Storage savings and Comparable performance using VMware Cloud Flex Storage for Oracle Backups

Posted on May 27, 2023 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

You are as good as your last backup – DBA 101 – the ability to allow restore & recovery from an earlier point in time to allow business recover from unplanned event. We are all aware that slow database Backups … Continue reading →

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Providing Performance and Storage savings using VMware Cloud Flex Storage for Oracle Archivelogs

Posted on May 25, 2023 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

Space: the final frontier – Oracle production workloads have stringent Storage & IO requirements with database Archivelog generation and database backup’s adding to performance and space demands with the ever-increasing database size. Enabling, sustaining, and ensuring the highest possible performance … Continue reading →

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Optimizing Oracle workload performance with VMware Guest Operating System Storage Improvements

Posted on March 29, 2023 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

Heads I win , Tail you gonna lose  – “Bon Jovi” !!!     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 … Continue reading →

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Oracle Database Support for Non-Oracle Public Cloud Environments – Doc ID 2688277.1 – Full text

Posted on February 9, 2023 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

The document My Oracle Support Note 2688277.1 “Oracle Database Support for Non-Oracle Public Cloud Environments (Doc ID 2688277.1)” has been copied from the Oracle MySupport site and re-produced below for benefit of those who do not have the Oracle MySupport credentials. One … Continue reading →

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Oracle Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery on VMware Hybrid Multi-Clouds – DR Use Cases

Posted on February 9, 2023 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

This blog is the second blog in the series of providing Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery to Oracle workloads on VMware Hybrid Multi-Clouds. The first blog “Oracle Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery on VMware Hybrid Multi-Clouds” was released in 2021 … Continue reading →

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Deploying Oracle RAC on VMware vSphere 8.0 using NVMe/TCP with Lightbits Scale out Disaggregated Storage

Posted on February 1, 2023 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

This blog is the second blog in the series of “Deploying Oracle Workloads on VMware vSphere 8.0 using NVMe/TCP backed Lightbits software” blogs. The first blog “Deploying Oracle Workloads on VMware vSphere 8.0 using NVMe/TCP with Lightbits Scale out Disaggregated … Continue reading →

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Deploying Oracle Workloads on VMware vSphere 8.0 using NVMe/TCP with Lightbits Scale out Disaggregated Storage

Posted on January 29, 2023 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 SLA’s, all … Continue reading →

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vMotion of Oracle RAC on VMware with Change Block Tracking (CBT)

Posted on January 26, 2023 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 SLA’s, all the … Continue reading →

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