Category Archives: Oracle

Using Jumbo Frames on VMware NSX for Oracle Workloads

    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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Oracle on VMware Cloud on AWS – Custom CPU Core Count

Oracle on VMware Cloud on AWS – Custom CPU Core Count 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 … Continue reading →

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Oracle Java SE 8 Support Update – What it means to VMware customers

Introduction This blog attempts to address the concerns around the recent Java SE 8 public updates and what it means to VMware customers who use Java in their environment. The below content is a collection of updates from Oracle Corporation … Continue reading →

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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