Category Archives: VMware Hybrid Cloud

Drive Oracle Performance and Scalability with vSphere, vSAN, and VMware Cloud on AWS

Posted on July 30, 2019 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

            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 … Continue reading →

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Using Jumbo Frames on VMware NSX for Oracle Workloads

Posted on May 21, 2019 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

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

Posted on November 23, 2018 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

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

Posted on November 21, 2018 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

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

Posted on October 31, 2018 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

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

Posted on October 25, 2018 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

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

Posted on October 12, 2018 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

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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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 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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