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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 and DOAG German Oracle User Group – January 23th – 24th, 2020

Posted on February 26, 2020 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

        The DOAG German Oracle User Group was founded in 1988. Since then, DOAG has been the network of the German-speaking Oracle community, encouraging the exchange of knowledge on Oracle’s products and helping users to meet their … Continue reading →

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Oracle RAC storage migration from non-vSAN to vSAN 6.7 P01 – Through Thick to Thin

Posted on December 15, 2019 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

Storage migration of an Oracle RAC from non-vSAN Storage to vSAN 6.7 P01 – No remediation required for shared disks anymore     This blog is a follow up of the previous blog post “Oracle RAC on vSAN 6.7 P01 … Continue reading →

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Oracle RAC on vSAN 6.7 P01 – No more Eager Zero Thick requirement for shared vmdk’s

Posted on December 9, 2019 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

Oracle RAC on vSAN 6.7 P01 – No more Eager Zero Thick requirement for shared vmdk’s         Read my lips – “No More Eager Zero Thick (EZT) requirement for Oracle RAC multi-writer disks starting VMware vSAN 6.7 … Continue reading →

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Oracle on VMware Support Policy – Metalink Note 249212.1

Posted on November 12, 2019 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

At the 2019 Oracle Open World conference, the week of Sept 16, 2019 , Oracle and VMware announced a new strategic alliance which resulted in Oracle becoming a member of the VMware Cloud Partner Program (VCPP) by offering the VMware … Continue reading →

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VMworld Europe 2019 Virtualizing Applications Track Highlights – Oracle

Posted on October 30, 2019 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

Oracle Workshop   Architecting and Implementing Oracle Workloads on VMware Technologies [BCA2171TE]   Thursday November 7th   Lead Instructor – Sudhir Balasubramanian @vRacDba   On a mission to arm yourself with the latest knowledge and skills needed to master Oracle … Continue reading →

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A Lean, Mean, Fighting Machine – Oracle RAC on VMware Cloud on AWS (SDDC 1.8v2)

Posted on October 23, 2019 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

Introducing …. the new lean, mean, fighting machine!! Oracle RAC on VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC 1.8v2 , all muscles, no fat!!     No more need to reserve all the storage upfront for installing and running Oracle RAC on … Continue reading →

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Oracle Cloud VMware Solution – A New beginning of a Strategic relationship

Posted on September 30, 2019 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

“One small step for VMware & Oracle , one giant leap for VMware & Oracle mutual customers”       VMware is thrilled to announce a new strategic alliance with Oracle Corp to support our mutual customers’ hybrid cloud strategies. … Continue reading →

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Drive Oracle Performance and Scalability with vSphere, vSAN, and VMware Cloud on AWS

Posted on July 30, 2019 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

            Running business-critical Oracle applications on VMware on premises or in the cloud helps organizations maximize resources without compromising application performance and scale dynamically to meet service level commitments. Virtualization also helps IT teams improve … Continue reading →

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VMworld 2019 Virtualizing Applications Track – Customer Workshops

Posted on June 26, 2019 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

This August, the VMware flagship conference VMworld 2019 will again take place in San Francisco at the Moscone Center. A highlight of the event this year will be the Virtualizing Applications customer workshops. This is the 4th consecutive year that … Continue reading →

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Using Jumbo Frames on VMware NSX for Oracle Workloads

Posted on May 21, 2019 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

    This blog is not a deep dive on VMware NSX or VXLAN concepts , this blog will focus on Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) Interconnect MTU sizing using Jumbo Frames on VMware NSX.   VMware NSX   VMware … Continue reading →

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