Category Archives: VMware Hybrid Cloud

On Demand hot extend non-clustered Oracle Disks online without downtime – Hot Extend Disks

Posted on August 14, 2020 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

    The first blog focused on how to Scale up CPU and Memory by hot adding CPU and Memory on the fly to an Oracle workload which can be found here. This 2nd blog in the on-demand Scale up … Continue reading →

Posted in Oracle, VMware Hybrid Cloud | Comments Off on On Demand hot extend non-clustered Oracle Disks online without downtime – Hot Extend Disks

On Demand Scaling up / Scaling down Storage resources for Oracle production workloads – Hot Add / Hot Remove non-clustered Disks

Posted on August 14, 2020 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

    The first blog focused on how to Scale up CPU and Memory by hot adding CPU and Memory on the fly to an Oracle workload which can be found here. This blog is the 2nd blog of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Oracle, VMware Hybrid Cloud | Comments Off on On Demand Scaling up / Scaling down Storage resources for Oracle production workloads – Hot Add / Hot Remove non-clustered Disks

VMware and Oracle together – A brave World – Oracle Cloud Days, 2020

Posted on February 26, 2020 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

    The announcement on Sept 16th, 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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Oracle, VMware Hybrid Cloud | Comments Off on VMware and Oracle together – A brave World – Oracle Cloud Days, 2020

VMware and Rocky Mountain Oracle User Group (RMOUG) – Training Days, Feb 18th, 2020

Posted on February 26, 2020 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

      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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Oracle, VMware Hybrid Cloud | Comments Off on VMware and Rocky Mountain Oracle User Group (RMOUG) – Training Days, Feb 18th, 2020

VMware and DOAG German Oracle User Group – January 23th – 24th, 2020

Posted on February 26, 2020 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

        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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Oracle, VMware Hybrid Cloud | Comments Off on VMware and DOAG German Oracle User Group – January 23th – 24th, 2020

Oracle RAC storage migration from non-vSAN to vSAN 6.7 P01 – Through Thick to Thin

Posted on December 15, 2019 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

Storage migration of an Oracle RAC from non-vSAN Storage to vSAN 6.7 P01 – No remediation required for shared disks anymore     This blog is a follow up of the previous blog post “Oracle RAC on vSAN 6.7 P01 … Continue reading →

Posted in Oracle, VMware Hybrid Cloud | Comments Off on Oracle RAC storage migration from non-vSAN to vSAN 6.7 P01 – Through Thick to Thin

Oracle RAC on vSAN 6.7 P01 – No more Eager Zero Thick requirement for shared vmdk’s

Posted on December 9, 2019 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Oracle, VMware Hybrid Cloud | Comments Off on Oracle RAC on vSAN 6.7 P01 – No more Eager Zero Thick requirement for shared vmdk’s

VMworld Europe 2019 Virtualizing Applications Track Highlights – Oracle

Posted on October 30, 2019 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

Oracle Workshop   Architecting and Implementing Oracle Workloads on VMware Technologies [BCA2171TE]   Thursday November 7th   Lead Instructor – Sudhir Balasubramanian @vRacDba   On a mission to arm yourself with the latest knowledge and skills needed to master Oracle … Continue reading →

Posted in Oracle, VMware Hybrid Cloud | Comments Off on VMworld Europe 2019 Virtualizing Applications Track Highlights – Oracle

A Lean, Mean, Fighting Machine – Oracle RAC on VMware Cloud on AWS (SDDC 1.8v2)

Posted on October 23, 2019 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Oracle, VMware Hybrid Cloud | Comments Off on A Lean, Mean, Fighting Machine – Oracle RAC on VMware Cloud on AWS (SDDC 1.8v2)

Oracle Cloud VMware Solution – A New beginning of a Strategic relationship

Posted on September 30, 2019 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

“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. … Continue reading →

Posted in Oracle, VMware Hybrid Cloud | Comments Off on Oracle Cloud VMware Solution – A New beginning of a Strategic relationship