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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 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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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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