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This is just a quick blog entry to alert readers to a list of very good performance characterization articles based on SLOB-based testing and published by VMware’s own Sudhir Balasubramanian. In addition to listing these links here I also updated the SLOB Experts Page.

White Papers

General BCA Best Practices guide

Architecting Business Critical Applications on VMware Hybrid Cloud – BEST PRACTICES GUIDE -Local copy

Oracle on VMware Best Practices guide

Architecting Oracle Workloads on VMware Hybrid Multi-Clouds BEST PRACTICES GUIDE – local copy

Architecting General Business Critical Applications (BCA) and Oracle on VMware vSphere Platform – New Best Practices Guide

Oracle VMware Hybrid Cloud High Availability Guide REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE

Oracle VMware Hybrid Cloud High Availability Guide REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE -local copy

Oracle Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery on VMware Hybrid Multi-Clouds

Oracle Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery on VMware Hybrid Multi-Clouds REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE – local copy

Oracle Workloads on VMware Hybrid Multi-Clouds – REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE

Oracle Workloads on VMware Hybrid Multi-Clouds REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE – local copy

Optimize Virtual Machine Configurations in VMware Cloud on AWS for Enterprise Applications Workload

Optimize Virtual Machine Configurations in VMware Cloud on AWS for Enterprise Applications Workload – Blog

Virtualizing Oracle Workloads with VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes on VMware Hybrid Cloud

Virtualizing Oracle Workloads with VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes on VMware Hybrid Cloud REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE – local copy

Oracle Real Application Clusters on VMware vSAN

Oracle Real Application Clusters on VMware vSAN 6.1 – local copy

Oracle Database on VMware vSAN 6.7 – White Paper (2020 Updated)

Oracle Database on VMware vSAN 6.7 – local copy

Oracle Database 12c on VMware vSAN — Day 2 Operations and Management

PVSCSI Controllers and Queue Depth – Accelerating Performance for Oracle Workloads – Featured on Quest Oracle Community Blog

Oracle on VMware – Technical Blogs

Oracle Storage on VMware vSphere Platform – A summary of Storage options

RDM v/s VMDK – VMware Virtual Volumes to the rescue

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

Hot Remove CPU and Memory for Oracle production workloads

To NUMA or not to NUMA – Oracle workloads and NUMA

Accelerating Oracle workloads with vSphere 6.7 Guest 2M & 1GB Huge Pages – An Investigation

Optimizing Oracle workload performance with VMware Guest Operating System Storage Improvements

Oracle Workloads and Redo Log Blocksize – 512 bytes or 4k blocksize for redo log (VMware 4k Sector support in the roadmap)

Using Jumbo Frames on VMware NSX for Oracle Workloads

Reclaiming dead space from Oracle databases on VMware Hybrid Platform

Tuning Queues – From the Application down to the Storage

PVSCSI Controllers and Queue Depth – Accelerating performance for Oracle Workloads

PVSCSI Controllers and Queue Depth – ASM SAME and Oracle Workloads

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

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

To be “RDM for Oracle Workloads”, or not to be, that is the question [Add Shared RDM in Physical/Virtual Compatibility mode for Oracle RAC]

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

On Demand hot extend clustered vmdk’s online without downtime – Hot Extend RAC clustered disks using Oracle ASM Rebalance and vSphere

On Demand hot-extend online Oracle RAC clustered disks using VMware Virtual Volumes (vVols) on Pure X50 AFF Storage – No downtime

Storage vMotion for Oracle Non-RAC Workloads within same vSphere Cluster

Storage vMotion for Production Oracle RAC Workloads with No downtime – Same vSphere Cluster , Different Storage Array

Storage vMotion of Non-Production Oracle RAC with downtime – Same vSphere Cluster, different Storage Array

Migrating an Oracle RAC Cluster using Storage vMotion to vSAN Storage – Private Investigation [EZT to Thin]

No downtime Storage vMotion of Oracle RAC Cluster using shared vmdk’s with multi-writer attribute from one vSAN to another vSAN Cluster using VMware HCI Mesh

Deploying Oracle Workloads on vSAN HCI Mesh Compute Cluster – Disaggregating Compute and Storage

Backing up Oracle Workloads (RAC & Non-RAC) with VMware Snapshot Technology

VMware Snapshots and Oracle non-clustered Independent Persistent disks

vMotion of Oracle RAC on VMware with Change Block Tracking (CBT)

Oracle RAC on vSAN 6.7 P01 – No more Eager Zero Thick requirement for shared vmdk’s – VMware vSAN 6.7 P01 (ESXi 6.7 Patch Release ESXi670-201912001) release date DEC 5, 2019

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

VMware vSAN 8 Express Storage Architecture (ESA) for Oracle Workloads – Performance

Announcing VMware vSAN Max Storage for Business-Critical Oracle Workloads

Moving away from DBA-as-a-Service to Database as a Service (DBaaS) for Oracle Workloads on VMware Hybrid Platform -VMware Virtual Volumes

Oracle workloads on VMware Virtual Volumes (vVOLS) using Pure Storage FlashArray X50 and Broadcom LPe36000 Fibre Channel Adapter – better performance [ SCSI-vVols v/s SCSI-FCP]

Deploying Oracle RAC on VMware vSphere using NVMe-oF/FC with Pure X50 FlashArray , Broadcom LPe36000 Fibre Channel Adapter & VMware vNVMe Controllers

VMware NVMeoF Virtual Volumes (vVols) on Pure Storage Flash Array for Oracle Workloads – NVMeoF vVol v/s SCSI vVol

Deploying Oracle Workloads on VMware vSphere 8.0 using NVMe-oF/TCP with Lightbits Scale out Disaggregated Storage

Deploying Oracle RAC on VMware vSphere 8.0 using NVMe/TCP with Lightbits Scale out Disaggregated Storage

The Art of P2V and Oracle ASM – Migrate Oracle OVM to vSphere

Oracle High Availability on VMware

Extended Oracle RAC on vSphere Metro Storage Cluster using Storage Virtualization

Extended Oracle RAC across sites with VMware NSX – Demo

Performance Study of Oracle RAC on VMware vSphere 5.0

Oracle 12c RAC Performance on vSphere 5 and EMC

DEMONSTRATING VMOTION CAPABILITIES WITH ORACLE RAC ON VMWARE VSPHERE – VMware vSphere 5.1 with vMotion for Oracle RAC

Oracle RAC Virtualization Technical Case Study – VMware IT

Oracle Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery on VMware

Oracle Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery on VMware Hybrid Multi-Clouds

Oracle Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery on VMware Hybrid Multi-Clouds – Blog

Oracle Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery on VMware Hybrid Multi-Clouds – DR Use Cases

Quiescing Oracle Database on Windows for Backup with VMware VDPA

Protecting Oracle Databases with VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery

Which DR Solution is Right for You?

Oracle & VMware Persistent Memory

Accelerating Oracle Performance using vSphere Persistent Memory (PMEM) – Reference Architecture – Micron

Accelerating Oracle Performance using vSphere Persistent Memory (PMEM)

Oracle and vSphere Persistent Memory (PMEM) – vPMEM v/s vPMEMDisk – Micron

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

Accelerate Oracle Redo performance using Intel Optane DC PMM backed Oracle 21c Persistent Memory Filestore on VMware vSphere – App Direct Mode

Accelerate Oracle Smart Flash Cache performance using Intel Optane DC PMM backed Oracle 21c Persistent Memory Filestore on VMware vSphere -App Direct Mode

Accelerating Critical Oracle Workloads with VMware Persistent Memory backed by Intel DC Optane PMM – Demo

Oracle workloads using Intel Optane DC PMM in Memory Mode on VMware vSphere platform – An Investigation

Oracle on VMware vSAN

Oracle Real Application Clusters on VMware vSAN

Oracle Real Application Clusters on VMware Virtual SAN -Blog

Oracle Database on VMware vSAN 6.7 – White Paper (2020 Updated)

Oracle Database on all-flash vSAN 6.7 Reference Architecture – Blog

Oracle Database 12c on VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 All-Flash – White Paper [ OLD]

Oracle Database 12c on VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 All-Flash – Blog

Oracle Database 12c on VMware VSAN — Day 2 Operations and Management – White Paper (2020 Updated)

Oracle U2VL with Virtual SAN and the batch processing use case

Oracle on VxRAIL/VCF

Oracle RAC on VMware Cloud Foundation on Dell EMC VxRail

Oracle RAC on VMware Cloud Foundation on Dell EMC VxRail -PDF

Built to Scale with VCF on VxRail and Oracle 19C RAC

DELL EMC VxRAIL BEST PRACTICES FOR DATA SERVICES

DELL EMC VXRAIL APPLIANCE OPERATIONS GUIDE

BUSINESS CRITICAL APPLICATIONS ON VXRAIL

Advantages of Dell EMC VxRack Systems for Oracle Databases

Oracle & VMware Virtual Volumes (vVOL)

Virtualizing Oracle Workloads with VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes on VMware Hybrid Cloud

Virtual Volumes Support for Oracle RAC – In addition to all the array-based replication functionality, vVols 2.0 is also now validated to support Oracle RAC workloads (similar to validation for VMFS) delivering policy-based, VM-centric storage for Business Critical Applications like Oracle RAC.

App aware vMotion

What’s New in vSphere 8 for vMotion?

vSphere vMotion Notifications

Virtual Machine Conditions and Limitations for vSphere vMotion

vSphere Web Services API

vmware/pyvmomi

Oracle & RDMA

Programming the Verbs API for a PVRDMA Device on ESXi 6.5 / ESXi 6.7 Hosts (2147694)

Oracle & 4k Sector

FAQ: Support statement for 512e and 4K Native drives for VMware vSphere and vSAN (2091600)

VSAN PERFORMANCE IS DEGRADED WHEN I/O’s ARE NOT 4K ALIGNED (83134)

Oracle & vROPS