The Case for Larger Than 2TB Virtual Disks and The Gotcha with VMFS
Hypervisor competition is really starting to heat up. VMware just released vSphere 5.1 and Microsoft has recently released…
Fight the FUD – Oracle Licensing and Support on VMware vSphere
I keep hearing stories from Customers and Prospects where Oracle appears to be trying to deceive them for…
Third VMworld Session – Virtualizing Oracle: An Architectural and Performance Deep Dive
I’m not sure if I’m lucky or just a glutton for punishment. But I have picked up a…
Storage Sizing Considerations when Virtualizing Business Critical Applications
One of my fellow vExperts, Prasenjit Sarkar, has recently published a blog article titled Virtualizing BCA – What…
10 Reasons to Migrate Oracle Databases from Traditional Unix to Linux on vSphere
This article provides an overview of what I believe are 10 good reasons why you should seriously consider…
Blueprint for Successful Large Scale Oracle Virtualization on vSphere
I recently attended a Webinar on the topic of Virtualizing Business Critical Oracle systems presented by a very…
Deploying Enterprise Oracle Databases on vSphere
Many organizations are interested in deploying Oracle Databases, even the business critical ones, on vSphere. I’ve been helping…
Oracle Shows Massive Support for vSphere 5 and VMworld 2011
This week in Las Vegas Oracle came out in a massive show of support for VMware vSphere 5…
Oracle RAC in an HA/DRS Environment
Oracle RAC is a cluster database with a shared cache architecture that provides highly scalable and available database…