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WahlNetwork: Welcome to Virtualization Phase 2 – Adventures in VBCA
Chris Wahl over at the WahlNetwork has just posted a great article on Virtualization Phase 2 – Adventures in VBCA (Virtualizing Business Critical Applications). It is an article that is definitely worthwhile reading. I think one thing that is interesting is how different regions of the world are at different stages within their virtualization journey. On the whole Australia and New Zealand and a few others have been in the Virtualization Phase 2 of VBCA for a couple of years already (I’ve been focused on it since 2007), but it’s still only just getting started. Now many other developed markets are starting to move on to virtualize the easier business critical applications, including Unix to VMware migrations. The opportunity for customers, partners and VMware is massive.
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 IT has published a similar whitepaper and study after having virtualized a large number of their corporate Oracle databases on top of their Unified Computing System (UCS) platform. The results are quite impressive in my opinion and you may be able to learn a lot from their effort. The difference here is that Cisco tested with NFS and D-NFS, not Fibre Channel (as in the EMC case study).
50 Partners To Help You Virtualize Business Critical Applications
I just noticed an article on VMware’s Virtualize Business Critical Applications blog listing all the partners globally that have so far been accredited under the VMware Virtualize Business Critical Applications Program (VBCA) – http://blogs.vmware.com/apps/2012/12/50-partners-to-help-you-virtualize-business-critical-applications.html.
The Good, The Great, and the Gotcha with Multi-NIC vMotion in vSphere 5
One of the features many people may not be aware of that was released in vSphere 5 is Multiple-NIC vMotion. This is a feature that allows you to load balance a single or multiple vMotion transmissions over multiple physical NIC’s. This is of significant benefit when you’ve got VM’s and hosts with large amounts of memory, as vMotion migrations will complete significantly faster. So your Business Critical Applications with large amount of memory and CPU’s can now migrate without disruption even faster. Below I’ll briefly cover the good and great of this technology and also a gotcha that you need to be aware of.
IT Solutions 2000 Ltd Achieves VMware VBCA Competency
It is great to be able to announce that today my company, IT Solutions 2000 Ltd, was one of the first in the world to achieve the VMware Virtualizing Business Critical Applications (VBCA) competency, which has only recently become available. This recognition is evidence of the quality of the work that we have been doing for quite some time with many customers around the world, that have successfully virtialized some of their most critical business applications on VMware vSphere. To gain the competency there were strict training and customer reference requirements to meet. I am very fortunate that my company has a number of fantastic customers who are willing to be a reference for the work we do.
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Your Author: Michael Webster, VCDX-066, vExpert 2012
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