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).…
vCenter 5.5 Profile Driven Storage and Storage Monitoring Service Failure
I’d been having a bit of a frustrating time recently with the Profile Driven Storage Service and the…
Evolution of My Home Area Network (HAN) to Leaf Spine Architecture
You may know that I don’t have an ordinary home network. Most people are happy with a simple…
The VMware View from the Horizon at 38,000 Feet and 8000 Miles Away
I wanted to share a brief story about an excellent VDI experience I had recently with VMware Horizon…
SAP HANA on VMware vSphere Now with Full Production Support
A few days ago VMware and SAP jointly announced full production support for SAP HANA on VMware vSphere.…
Oracle Licensing and Support on Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform
I’ve written quite a bit about Oracle virtualization in the past, as you can find on my Oracle…
The Gotcha with vFRC and vCenter 5.5
vFlash Read Cache (vFRC)is a feature of vSphere 5.5 that can accelerate the read IO of VM’s by…
Nutanix VDI Example Architecture for 20K to 200K+ Power User Desktops
In a previous article, Nutanix Disruption as a Service Serves Up VDI Assurance World First, I wrote about the…
Master the Monster VM Performance in Your Software-Defined Datacenter at VMworld 2014
At VMworld in 2013, which had 25,000 attendees, it was fantastic that one of my sessions got into the…