Category Archives: VMware Hybrid Cloud

Virtual Volumes and Storage Policy-Based Management for Databases

Posted on December 16, 2015 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

Virtual Volumes and Storage Policy-Based Management for Databases In the first part of this series we provided a high level view of the benefits of using Virtual Volumes enabled storage for database operations. In the second part of this series … Continue reading →

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Crash consistent backups and database cloning with Virtual Volumes

Posted on December 16, 2015 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

Crash consistent backups and database cloning with Virtual Volumes In the first part of this series we provided a high level view of the benefits of using Virtual Volumes enabled storage for database operations. In the second part of this … Continue reading →

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Oracle Real Application Clusters on VMware Virtual SAN

Posted on December 10, 2015 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

Oracle Real Application Clusters on VMware Virtual SAN VMware Virtual SAN VMware Virtual SAN is VMware’s software-defined storage solution for hyper-converged infrastructure, a software-driven architecture that delivers tightly integrated computing, networking, and shared storage from a single virtualized x86 server. … Continue reading →

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Virtual Volumes for Database Backup and Recovery

Posted on November 5, 2015 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

Virtual Volumes for Database Backup and Recovery In the first part of this series we provided a high level view of the benefits of using Virtual Volumes enabled storage for database operations. In this post, we will examine in more … Continue reading →

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Oracle, VMware and Extended Distance Oracle Real Application Clusters on vSphere Metro Storage Cluster

Posted on October 10, 2015 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

Oracle, VMware and Extended Distance Oracle Real Application Clusters on vSphere Metro Storage Cluster Nowadays a high availability cluster (for any kind of application) in a single data center is almost not enough to ensure the kind of availability a … Continue reading →

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Virtual Volumes: A game changer for operations of virtualized business critical databases

Posted on October 6, 2015 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

Virtual Volumes: A game changer for operations of virtualized business critical databases This is first of a series of posts on deploying vSphere Virtual Volumes for Tier 1 Business Critical Databases. Although this article is written with a focus on … Continue reading →

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Harnessing the Power of Storage Virtualization and Site Recovery Manager to Provide HA and DR Capabilities to Business Critical Databases – VAPP4634

Posted on October 6, 2015 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

Harnessing the Power of Storage Virtualization and Site Recovery Manager to Provide HA and DR Capabilitiesto Business Critical Databases How do you simplify and improve availability of your Extended distance Oracle Real Application Cluster using vSphere Metro Storage Cluster (vMSC) … Continue reading →

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STO4452 – Virtual Volumes (VVOLS) a game changer for running Tier 1 Business Critical Databases

Posted on August 24, 2015 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

Virtual Volumes (VVOLS) a game changer for running Tier 1 Business Critical Databases: One of the major components released with vSphere 6 this year was the support for Virtual Volumes (VVOLS). VVOLS has been gaining momentum with storage vendors, who … Continue reading →

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Queues, Queues and more Queues

Posted on July 6, 2015 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

Introduction to Queues Sizing Proper queues sizing is a key element in ensuring current database workloads can be sustained and all SLA’s are met without any processing disruption. Queues Queues are often misrepresented as the very “bane of our existence” … Continue reading →

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Book – “Virtualizing Oracle Business Critical Databases on VMware SDDC”

Posted on August 18, 2014 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

Updated Version – June 8, 2014 Virtualizing Oracle Business Critical Databases on VMware SDDC https://www.amazon.com/Virtualize-Oracle-Business-Critical-Databases/dp/1500135127/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1493001047&sr=1-1&keywords=Virtualize+Oracle+Business+Critical+Databases   Virtualize Oracle Business Critical Databases (First Cut) A important milestone in my life !!! My first book “Virtualize Oracle Business Critical Databases” which I … Continue reading →

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