Configuring Oracle Grid 12c with GNS Don’t Use .Local DNS
While setting up Oracle 12c RAC in the Nutanix performance labs and using GNS for name resolution I…
Performance Testing Oracle Databases with Swingbench Order Entry Schema
When you are looking at a new project and want to validate the performance of a database platform you…
Nutanix Oracle RAC vMotion
Oracle Databases on Web-Scale Infrastructure
As I type this I’m flying 36,000 feet above Australia on my way to Singapore. It’s great now…
Gotcha Adding Disk to Virtual Oracle RAC Cluster with VMware multi-writer flag
While I was working on the Oracle Databases on Web Scale Tech Note for Nutanix I needed a…
Notes 4 Engineers: Oracle RAC Monster VM vMotion on Nutanix
In May 2014 I recorded a short video with Alastair Cooke (@DemitasseNZ) for his new site notes4engineers.com (@N4Engineers).…
Live Migration of Monster Oracle RAC Nodes without Client Disruption? Easy as VMware vSphere!
Those that are familiar with VMware technology will know vMotion well, and how reliably it works. VMware has…
Fight the FUD: Virtualization of Oracle Evolves to Best Practice for Production Systems by David Floyer
I recently read an article published on Wikibon written by David Floyer titled Virtualization of Oracle Evolves to Best…
Return of the FUD – Oracle Licensing on VMware vSphere
Some of my regular readers may remember an article I published titled Fight the FUD – Oracle Licensing…
Virtualized Oracle Databases on UCS
Some time ago I wrote an article about EMC’s Blueprint for Successful Large Scale Oracle Virtualization on vSphere. Now Cisco…