Category Archives: Oracle

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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On Demand Scaling up resources for Oracle production workloads – Hot Add CPU and Hot Add Memory

Posted on November 13, 2017 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

The crux of this blog’s discussion is “How to stop hoarding much needed infrastructure resources and live wisely ever after by scaling up as needed effectively” Typically Oracle workloads running on bare metal environments , or for that matter any … Continue reading →

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The Art of P2V and Oracle ASM

Posted on October 17, 2017 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

“Come with me if you want to live” – famous words from the Terminator series.It’s also the very reason IT companies are adopting the ‘Virtualize First’ policy to reap all of the benefits of virtualization and move away from the … Continue reading →

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Oracle RAC on VMware Cloud on Amazon AWS

Posted on October 13, 2017 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

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

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“RAC” n “RAC” all night – Oracle RAC on VMware vSphere – discuss Storage Options and How to Hot add clustered disks online

Posted on September 20, 2017 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

“I wanna “RAC” and “RAC” all night and party every day” – mantra of an Oracle RAC DBA.     The parable of the Blind men and the elephant have  been oft quoted , one of the lessons learned from this story … Continue reading →

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To be “RDM for Oracle RAC”, or not to be, that is the question

Posted on August 10, 2017 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

Famous words from William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. Act III, Scene I. This is true even in the Virtualization world for Oracle Business Critical Applications where one wonders which way to go when it comes to provisioning shared disks for Oracle … Continue reading →

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Oracle on vSAN HCI – VMworld 2017

Posted on August 2, 2017 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

Interested to find out how VMware HCI vSAN solution provides high availability, workload balancing, seamless site maintenance, stability, resilience, performance and cost effective hardware required to meet critical business SLA’s for running mission critical workloads? Come attend our session at … Continue reading →

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Streamlining Oracle on SDDC – VMworld 2017

Posted on August 2, 2017 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

Interested to find out how to streamline your Business Critical Applications on VMware Software-Defined Datacenter (SDDC) seamlessly? Come attend our session at VMworld 2017 Las Vegas on Thursday, Aug 31, 1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. where Amanda Blevins and  Sudhir … Continue reading →

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