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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.

VMworld 2018 Oracle Customer Bootcamps

Posted on June 21, 2018 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

Architecting Oracle Workloads on VMware Technologies  On a mission to arm yourself with the latest knowledge and skills needed to master virtualizing Oracle on VMware Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) along with moving workloads to the VMware Cloud on AWS … Continue reading →

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Migrating an Oracle RAC Cluster using Storage vMotion to vSAN Storage – Private Investigation

Posted on April 23, 2018 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

Migrating an Oracle RAC Cluster using Storage vMotion to vSAN Storage – Private Investigation   ” Give me ten men like Clouseau, and I can destroy the world…” said Former Chief Inspector Dreyfus about Inspector Jacques Clouseau and his incompetence, … Continue reading →

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Migrating non-production Oracle RAC using VMware Storage vMotion with minimal downtime

Posted on April 23, 2018 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

Migrating non-production Oracle RAC using VMware Storage vMotion with minimal downtime   Much has been discussed and documented about Storage vMotion of Oracle RAC Clusters on VMware SDDC which can be found in the numerous blog posts available at Oracle … Continue reading →

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Introducing vSphere 6.7 for Enterprise Applications

Posted on April 17, 2018 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

vSphere 6.7 introduces new storage and networking features which have a major impact on the performance of  Enterprise Applications – these include support for Persistent Memory (PMEM) and enhanced support for Remote Directory Memory Access (RDMA).   Persistent Memory (PMEM) … Continue reading →

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A Journey to the Clouds – Oracle on VMware Cloud on AWS

Posted on March 30, 2018 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

“We have nothing to fear but …”. famous words of Chief Vitalstatistix , chief of the famous Gaulish village in the famous Asterix & Obelix series.     Legend goes when the Gallic chieftains were asked by Alexander the Great … Continue reading →

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Storage vMotion for Production Oracle RAC Workloads with NO downtime – Same vSphere Cluster , Different Storage Array

Posted on March 1, 2018 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

“Around the World in Eighty Days” – A classic adventure novel and one of Jules Verne’s most acclaimed works which describes how Phileas Fogg and his valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a wager.   … Continue reading →

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Oracle on VMware Cloud on AWS – Unraveling the licensing myth

Posted on February 28, 2018 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

With the recent launch of VMware Cloud on AWS from VMware, many Business Critical Application (BCA) workloads that were previously difficult to deploy in the cloud no longer require significant platform modifications.  VMware Cloud on AWS, powered by VMware Cloud … Continue reading →

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VMware Snapshots and Oracle non-clustered Independent Persistent disks

Posted on February 15, 2018 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

“To beat (something) to boredom” – To linger over or discuss something so long and to such a tedious and laborious extent that the subject is no longer of any interest or relevance and induces a bad migraine!!! Yes, much … Continue reading →

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Around the “Storage World” in no time – Storage vMotion and Oracle Workloads

Posted on January 1, 2018 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

“Around the World in Eighty Days” – A classic adventure novel and one of Jules Verne’s most acclaimed works which describes how Phileas Fogg and his valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a wager.   … Continue reading →

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Oracle on vSphere – Summary of Storage options

Posted on December 13, 2017 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

Storage – the final frontier. These are the voyages of any Business Critical Oracle database, its endless mission: to meet the business SLA, to sustain increasing workload demands and seek out new challenges, to boldly go where no database has … Continue reading →

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