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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.

Backing up Oracle Workloads (RAC & Non-RAC) with VMware Snapshot Technology

Posted on January 29, 2021 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

  In computer systems, a snapshot is the state of a system at a particular point in time. To avoid downtime, high-availability systems may instead perform the backup on a snapshot—a read-only copy of the data set frozen at a … Continue reading →

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Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) Support on VMware Clouds

Posted on December 14, 2020 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) Support on VMware Clouds   As of December 9th, 2020, VMware recommends that anyone currently running OR planning to run, an Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) in a VMware Cloud environment, reach out to Oracle … Continue reading →

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PVSCSI Controllers and Queue Depth – ASM SAME and Oracle Workloads

Posted on September 21, 2020 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

The previous blog post ’ PVSCSI Controllers and Queue Depth – Accelerating performance for Oracle Workloads’ purpose was to raise awareness of the importance of using PVSCSI adapters with adequate Queue Depth settings for an Oracle workload.   This blog … Continue reading →

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PVSCSI Controllers and Queue Depth – Accelerating performance for Oracle Workloads

Posted on September 16, 2020 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

For readers who are familiar with the Asterix and Obelix series, the magic potion refers to the potion brewed by Getafix, that gives the Gaulish warriors superhuman strength.           One of VMware’s magic portion for Oracle … Continue reading →

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VMworld 2020 – Breakout Sessions , Expert Round Tables and Demos focused on Business Critical Applications (BCA)

Posted on September 16, 2020 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

Join us at VMworld 2020 to learn how Business Critical Apps benefit from our latest platforms           VMworld 2020 will be a global online event starting September 29 – October 1, 2020. While the program will … Continue reading →

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To NUMA or not to NUMA – Oracle workloads and NUMA

Posted on August 28, 2020 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

    To NUMA or not to NUMA – that’s the question that comes up when considering Oracle workloads and NUMA.   This blog Is not meant to be a deep dive on ESXi NUMA constructs Is not meant to … Continue reading →

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On Demand hot extend non-clustered Oracle Disks online without downtime – Hot Extend Disks

Posted on August 14, 2020 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

    The first blog focused on how to Scale up CPU and Memory by hot adding CPU and Memory on the fly to an Oracle workload which can be found here. This 2nd blog in the on-demand Scale up … Continue reading →

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On Demand Scaling up / Scaling down Storage resources for Oracle production workloads – Hot Add / Hot Remove non-clustered Disks

Posted on August 14, 2020 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

    The first blog focused on how to Scale up CPU and Memory by hot adding CPU and Memory on the fly to an Oracle workload which can be found here. This blog is the 2nd blog of the … Continue reading →

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VMware and Oracle together – A brave World – Oracle Cloud Days, 2020

Posted on February 26, 2020 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

    The announcement on Sept 16th, 2019 by Larry Ellison, CEO Oracle Corporation at the Oracle Open World 2019 keynote heralded a new era in the VMware Oracle partnership, centerpiece of this relationship being a new service that will … Continue reading →

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VMware and Rocky Mountain Oracle User Group (RMOUG) – Training Days, Feb 18th, 2020

Posted on February 26, 2020 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

      RMOUG is one of the largest Oracle User groups in North America.  The RMOUG’s Training Days is the premier (and largest) grass-roots Oracle user training event in the U.S., offering an incredible variety of technical and functional … Continue reading →

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