Oracle Workloads – Where Eagles Dare !!!

The announcement on Sept 16^th, 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 be offered by Oracle called Oracle Cloud VMware Solution.

This service will enable customers to run VMware Cloud Foundation on Oracle’s Generation 2 Cloud infrastructure. But equally important for the thousands of customers running Oracle software on VMware today in their data centers, Oracle and VMware have entered into a new mutual support agreement for currently supported Oracle products running on VMware environments.

More details can be found here

Further on Oct 9^th, 2019, the 2^nd part of this strategic alliance culminated in a new agreement for enhanced support for Oracle products running on VMware Environments running on Oracle Supported Computing Environments. Oracle Corporation has now changed its landmark Metalink/MyOracleSupport.com note 249212.1 describing that mutual support.  

More details can be found here

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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 educational sessions over three days from world-renowned experts.

https://rmoug.org/training/

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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 daily challenges.

https://community.oracle.com/groups/doag

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This blog is a follow up of the previous blog post “Oracle RAC on vSAN 6.7 P01 – No more Eager Zero Thick requirement for shared vmdk’s”.

This blog describes the steps to storage vMotion an Oracle RAC cluster with shared EZT vmdk’s from a non-vSAN (FC / NAS / iSCSI ) storage to a vSAN 6.7 P01 storage and highlights the fact that apart from putting the multi-writer attribute back on the shared vmdk’s , there is no need for any further reconfiguration of the shared vmdk’s.

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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 P01 (ESXi 6.7 Patch Release ESXi670-201912001)”

This blog addresses an important update for running Oracle RAC on VMware vSAN 6.7 P01 (ESXi 6.7 Patch Release ESXi670-201912001).

This applies to other clustered applications as well running on vSAN which uses multi-writer disks for clustering purposes e.g Oracle RAC, Redhat Clustering , Veritas Infoscale etc

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Oracle Workshop

Architecting and Implementing Oracle Workloads on VMware Technologies [BCA2171TE]

Thursday November 7^th

Lead Instructor – Sudhir Balasubramanian @vRacDba

On a mission to arm yourself with the latest knowledge and skills needed to master Oracle workloads virtualization? This VMworld workshop will prepare you to lead the virtualization effort in your organization, with instructor-led demos and in-depth course work designed to put you in the ranks of the IT elite. The class will provide the attendee the opportunity to learn the essential skills necessary to run Oracle implementations on VMware vSphere. The best practices and optimal approaches to deployment, operation and management of Oracle database and application software will be presented by VMware vExpert and Oracle ACE Sudhir Balasubramanian who will be joined by other VMware and industry experts. This technical workshop will exceed the standard breakout session format by delivering “real-life,” instructor-led, live training and incorporating the recommended design and configuration practices for architecting Business Critical Databases on VMware vSphere infrastructure. Subjects such as Real Applications Clusters, Automatic Storage Management, vSAN and NSX , Oracle with vSphere Hardware Accelerators (PVRDMA and Persistent Memory) as well as Oracle running on the VMware Cloud on AWS will be covered in depth.

VMworld Europe this year has a lot to offer for everyone interested in running Oracle workloads efficiently and effectively on VMware vSphere – check out these events and ensure to add them to your schedule.

See you at VMworld 2019 Europe

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 VMware Cloud on AWS starting 1.8v2 !!

“To be precise” – No more Eager Zero Thick disk(s) needed for Oracle RAC shared vmdk’s on VMware Cloud on AWS starting 1.8v2. Read on.

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“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.

The centerpiece of this relationship is a new service that will be offered by Oracle called Oracle Cloud VMware Solution.

Full text of the Oracle Cloud VMware Solution announcement and press release can be found here :

http://www.vmware.com/go/vmware-oracle-cloud

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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 manageability, increase agility, and shed costs—and all while serving as a foundation for cloud computing.

With a streamlined VMware foundation, IT and application administrators can better leverage storage, network and computing resources to control costs, deliver higher quality of service, accelerate time to market and respond faster to changing business needs.  VMware customers also have the assurance of full support from Oracle when running these applications in any VMware virtualization environment, as detailed in Oracle Cloud VMware Solution – A New beginning of a Strategic relationship.

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