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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 and vSphere Persistent Memory (PMEM) – Oracle Instance Recovery – An Investigation

Posted on November 23, 2018 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

Introduction to VMware Persistent Memory (PMEM)   Persistent Memory (PMEM) resides between DRAM and disk storage in the data storage hierarchy. This  technology enables byte-addressable updates and does not lose data if power is lost. Instead of having nonvolatile storage … Continue reading →

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Accelerating Oracle workloads with vSphere 6.7 Guest 1GB Huge Pages – An Investigation

Posted on November 21, 2018 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

Introduction to Linux Huge Pages        Much has been written and spoken about Linux Huge Page feature. The Red Hat Documentation explains about the performance benefits of using Huge Pages. Essentially , Memory is managed in blocks known … Continue reading →

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Oracle RAC on Stretched Clusters for VMware Cloud on AWS – Anti-Affinity within AZ & HA across AZs

Posted on October 31, 2018 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

Introduction   As mentioned in the earlier post , VMware Cloud on AWS is an on-demand service that enables customers to run applications across vSphere-based cloud environments with access to a broad range of AWS services. Powered by VMware Cloud … Continue reading →

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Oracle Database on all-flash vSAN 6.7 Reference Architecture

Posted on October 25, 2018 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

Customers deploying Oracle Database have requirements such as stringent SLAs, consistent performance, and high availability. It can be a major challenge for organizations to manage data storage in these environments due to these demanding business requirements. Common issues in using traditional … Continue reading →

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Oracle and vSphere Persistent Memory (PMEM) – vPMEM v/s vPMEMDisk

Posted on October 12, 2018 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

In the previous blog post Accelerating Oracle Performance using vSphere Persistent Memory (PMEM)  , we demonstrated how performance of Oracle databases can be improved using VMware vSphere 6.7 Persistent Memory feature in different modes for the uses cases below Improved … Continue reading →

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Oracle on Amazon RDS on VMware – Licensing options

Posted on September 26, 2018 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

Introduction to Amazon RDS on VMware During VMworld 2018 US, VMware and Amazon announced Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) on VMware. Amazon RDS on VMware is a service that will make it easy for customers to set up, operate, … Continue reading →

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Oracle Workloads and VMware Cloud on AWS: Deployment, Migration, and Configuration

Posted on September 2, 2018 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

Customers deploying Oracle workloads have requirements such as stringent SLAs, continued high performance, and application availability. It is a major challenge for business organizations to manage data storage in these environments due to these rigorous business requirement. Common issues presented … Continue reading →

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Accelerating Oracle Performance using vSphere Persistent Memory (PMEM)

Posted on September 1, 2018 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

Customers have successfully run their business-critical Oracle workloads with high performance demands on VMware vSphere for many years. Deploying IO-intensive Oracle workloads requires fast storage performance with low latency and resiliency from database failures. Latency, which is a measurement of … Continue reading →

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VMworld 2018 Europe Virtualizing Applications Track – Pre-Conference Customer Boot Camps

Posted on July 13, 2018 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

Update : Unfortunately , ALL 3 bootcamps have been CANCELLED as they are currently clashing with the TAM day events =============================================================== VMworld 2018 Europe Virtualizing Applications Track Pre-Conference Customer Boot Camps This November , the VMware flagship conference VMworld 2018 … Continue reading →

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VMworld 2018 US Virtualizing Applications Track – Pre-Conference Customer Boot Camps

Posted on June 29, 2018 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

VMworld 2018 US Virtualizing Applications Track Pre-Conference Customer Boot Camps This August, the VMware flagship conference VMworld 2018 will again take place in Las Vegas at Mandalay Bay. A highlight of the event this year will be the pre-conference Virtualizing … Continue reading →

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