One Stop Shop
Here is the One stop shop for everything Oracle on VMware Hybrid Multi-Clouds for easy and quick access.
Table of Contents
Oracle Business Critical Applications on VMware
Oracle on VMware Platform – VMware Support
Oracle Licensing on VMware Hybrid Cloud (On-premises and VMware Clouds)
IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
Oracle on VMware – Technical Collaterals
Oracle on VMware – Performance Collaterals
Oracle Best Practices on VMware
Oracle High Availability on VMware
Oracle Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery on VMware
Oracle & VMware Persistent Memory
Oracle & VMware Virtual Volumes (vVOL)
About the Author
Sudhir Balasubramanian – I am a Senior Staff Solution Architect and Global Oracle Field Practice lead for VMware currently working in the Cloud Infrastructure Business Group (CIBG) specializing in all Oracle Technologies on VMware Hybrid Cloud Platform.
I am an –
- Oracle ACE https://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=19297:3
- VMware vExpert https://vexpert.vmware.com/directory/1038
- Member of the Office of the Chief Technical Ambassador VMware (Alumni)
- VMSIG Technology Advisor http://vmsig.org/about/
- VMTN https://communities.vmware.com/people/SBALASUBRAMANIAN
I have also posted useful links , event participation, videos, audios etc to my personal blog A journey in Virtualizing Oracle on VMware [vracdba.com ] to Oracle. Linux, Solaris, Veritas, EMC Sites.
It also has information about all the events (events list and recordings) that I have participated in including VMworld , EMC World, IOUG/Collaborate, Open World.
A Comprehensive Authority for Oracle on VMware SDDC
“Virtualize Oracle Business Critical Databases on VMware SDDC” – A Comprehensive Authority for Oracle DBA’s on the subject of Oracle & Linux on vSphere
This book is a single source of information for an Oracle DBA to understand the benefits of virtualization and how to effectively deploy Oracle Databases on VMware’s SDDC platform.
This book is targeted for DBAs looking at implementing Oracle on a virtualized infrastructure. Key topics include deployment, scaling, troubleshooting and performance tuning. The authors have spent a number of years focusing on virtualizing Tier-One high performance Oracle platforms.
The authors include VMware VCPs, VMware vExperts as well as an Oracle ACE, Oracle ACE Director and hold certifications in the Oracle stack.
Oracle Business Critical Applications on VMware
The Oracle BCA on VMware landing page is located here
VMware Are Serious About Oracle Database Performance Characterization
Indeed , VMware has been serious about Business Critical Oracle Workloads virtualization and performance for many years , thanks to the rich feature set, tools and innovations that VMware vSphere offers Business Critical Applications as a platform.
Below link has a list of very good performance characterization articles based on SLOB-based testing and published by VMware’s own Sudhir Balasubramanian.
Total Economic Impact Of VMware vSphere Virtualizing Mission-Critical Oracle Databases – 2011
Oracle on VMware Platform – VMware Support
Oracle fully supports the virtualization of Oracle databases on VMware. To augment Oracle’s support document, VMware also has a total ownership policy for customers with Oracle issues. VMware Support will accept accountability for any Oracle-related issue reported by a customer. By being accountable, VMware Support will drive the issue to resolution regardless of which vendor (VMware, Oracle or others) is responsible for the resolution.
VMware Oracle Support provides customers the following new advantages as part of the existing Support and Subscription contract at no additional charge:
- Total ownership of Oracle Database technical issues reported to VMware Support
- Faster resolution of technical issues in VMware environments via a TSANet collaborative support arrangement between VMware Support and Oracle Support [ Solve Multi Vendor Problems Faster & Easier ]
- Access to a team of Oracle DBA resources within VMware Support to troubleshoot related to Oracle Databases used as a data store or run within a VM
- Performance tuning and best practices related to Oracle Database used as a data store or run within a VM
More details can be found at the url here.
VMware Global Support Services – GSS Overview
Oracle Licensing on VMware Hybrid Multi-Clouds (On-premises and VMware Clouds)
Oracle licensing DOES NOT change , from a licensing perspective, whether you run Oracle workloads on a
- Classic vSphere environment connected to a NAS / SAN / iSCSI / NVMe
- Hyper-Converged Infrastructure solution vSAN
- Oracle workloads on VMware Cloud e.g. VMware Cloud on AWS
Oracle on VMware Hybrid Multi-Clouds – Dispelling the Licensing myths
Oracle on VMware Hybrid Multi-Clouds – Preparing for an the Oracle Audit
Oracle on VMware Hybrid Multi-Clouds – Asks the Oracles
Oracle on VMware Cloud on AWS – Unraveling the licensing myth
Oracle on VMware Cloud on AWS – Custom CPU Core Count
Oracle on Amazon RDS on VMware – Licensing options
Oracle on vSphere Certification, Support and Licensing Guide 2017
Oracle on VMware Support Policy – Metalink Note 249212.1 – Updated Nov 12,2021
Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) Support on Non-Oracle Clouds
Oracle Database Support for Non-Oracle Public Cloud Environments – Doc ID 2688277.1 – Full text
Oracle Java SE Licensing
https://www.vmware.com/solutions/business-critical-apps/oracle-virtualization.html
Oracle Java on VMware Hybrid Cloud Platform – Dispelling the Oracle Java Licensing myths
Oracle Java SE Universal Subscription Global Price List – March 1, 2023
Using Java? Here’s How Oracle’s New 2019 Java SE Licensing Affects You
VMware Cloud on AWS
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP with VMware Cloud on AWS Virtual Machines
VMware Cloud Flex Compute- Deep Dive
VMware Cloud Flex Storage Documentation
VMware Cloud on AWS Sizer and TCO
VMware Cloud on AWS: Stretched Clusters
Feature Brief: Stretched Clusters
Why Stretched Clusters is not the same as a Disaster Recovery Solution
[VMC on AWS] Storage Sensitive Application Best Practices (84472)
Feature Brief: SDDC Host Types
VMware Cloud on AWS – vSAN Policies
Correlating VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC Versions With Their vSphere Components
Amazon RDS on VMware
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) – Native
Announcing the General Availability of Amazon RDS on VMware
How Amazon RDS on VMware Works
Amazon RDS on VMware – VMware Database Management Essentials Release Notes
Azure VMware Solutions
Azure VMware Solution by CloudSimple
Azure VMware Solution by CloudSimple – Technical docs
Optimize your CloudSimple Private Cloud for installing Oracle RAC
Google Cloud VMware Solution
VMware Cloud Foundation comes to Google Cloud
Google Cloud VMware Engine – GA
IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
Alibaba Cloud VMware Solution
Oracle Cloud VMware Solution
Oracle Cloud VMware Solution – A New beginning of a Strategic relationship – 09/16/2019
Leveraging the Full Power of Oracle Cloud VMware Solution and VMware vSphere
Oracle on VMware Cloud on AWS
A Journey to the Clouds – Oracle on VMware Cloud on AWS
[VMC on AWS] Storage Sensitive Application Best Practices (84472)
Performance Best Practices for VMware Cloud on AWS
Oracle Database Performance: VMware Cloud on AWS
Oracle Database Performance with VMware Cloud on AWS
Oracle Database Performance VMware Cloud on AWS Performance Study – April 15, 2020
Oracle Database Performance: VMware Cloud on AWS i3 vs i3en – 2020
SQL Server Performance of VMware Cloud on AWS Instance Types
Oracle E-Business Failover on AWS Using VMware Cloud on AWS
Installing Oracle E-Business Suite RAC on VMware Cloud at AWS SDDC
VMware Cloud Flex Storage and Oracle workloads – Summary of use cases
Providing Performance and Storage savings using VMware Cloud Flex Storage for Oracle Archivelogs
VMware vSphere – What’s new
What’s New in vSphere 8 Update 3?
VMware ESXi 8.0 Update 2 Release Notes
What’s New in vSphere 8 Update 2?
What’s New in vSphere 8 Update 1?
What’s New with vSphere 8 Core Storage vSphere 8 Update 1
What’s New with vSphere 8 Core Storage Announcements
What’s New with vSphere 8 Core Storage (8.0, 8.0U1, 8.0U2, 8.0U3)
vSphere 7 Update 3 – What’s New
What’s New with vSphere 7 Update 3 Core Storage
What’s New in vSphere 7 Update 2
What’s New in vSphere 7 Update 2 Core Storage
Introducing vSphere 7: Features & Technology for the Hybrid Cloud
What’s New in vSphere 7 Core Storage
Introducing VMware vSphere 6.7
What’s New in vSphere 6.7 Core Storage
VMware Announces General Availability of vSphere 6.5
Oracle on VMware – Technical Collaterals
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
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
Storage vMotion for Oracle Non-RAC Workloads within same vSphere Cluster
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 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
The Art of P2V and Oracle ASM – Migrate Oracle OVM to vSphere
Oracle on VMware – Performance Collaterals
Performance Best Practices for VMware vSphere 8.0 Update 1
Performance Best Practices for VMware vSphere 8.0
VMware vSphere 8.0 Virtual Topology Performance Study
vMotion Innovations in VMware vSphere 7.0 U1 Performance Study – September 24, 2020
Performance Best Practices for VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 3
Performance Best Practices for VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 2
Performance Best Practices for VMware vSphere 7.0
Introducing vSphere 6.7 for Enterprise Applications
Performance Best Practices Guide for vSphere 6.7
Performance Best Practices for VMware vSphere 6.5
Oracle Monster Virtual Machine Performance on vSphere 6.5
VMware vSphere 6 and Oracle Database Scalability Study Scaling Monster Virtual Machines
Virtualizing Performance-Critical Database Applications in VMware vSphere 6.0
Oracle 12c and vSphere 6.0 Monster VM
Performance Best Practices Guide for vSphere 6.0
Virtualizing Oracle WebLogic Server on VMware vSphere
Support for Virtualized Environments – VMware – Hyperion
Extreme Performance Video Blog Series
Extreme Performance Series: Monster Database Virtual Machines
Extreme Performance Series: Accelerating Oracle Workloads on VMware Hybrid Clouds
Extreme Performance Series: Oracle on vSphere Performance 2022
Extreme Performance Series 2023: Oracle Performance with vVols and Guest OS I/O Improvements
VMware Explore 2022 – Extreme Performance Series: vSphere Advanced Performance Tutorial
VMworld 2018 EU – VIN2677BE – Extreme Performance Series: Performance Best Practices
Oracle Best Practices on VMware
General BCA Best Practices guide
Oracle on VMware Best Practices guide
Oracle High Availability on VMware
Oracle VMware Hybrid Cloud High Availability Guide – REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE
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
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?
App Aware vMotion
What’s New in vSphere 8 for vMotion?
Virtual Machine Conditions and Limitations for vSphere vMotion
Oracle & VMware Persistent Memory
Oracle and vSphere Persistent Memory (PMEM) – vPMEM v/s vPMEMDisk – Micron
Oracle and vSphere Persistent Memory (PMEM) – Oracle Instance Recovery – An Investigation – Micron
Persistent Memory Performance on vSphere 6.7 – Performance Study – August 13, 2018
Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory “Memory Mode” Virtualized Performance Study – July 28, 2019
Implementing Intel Optane Persistent Memory BIOS Optimizations for Memory Mode
Mainstream Intel Optane Pmem with VMware vMMR
Understanding Persistent Memory in vSphere
Enhance VMware VMs with Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory
Announcing VMware vSphere Support for Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory Technology
vSphere Support for Intel’s Optane Persistent Memory (PMEM) (67645)
VM nvdimm config options for NUMA (78094)
SAP HANA with Intel Optane Persistent Memory on VMware vSphere
Introducing Project Capitola: Software defined memory for data centric workloads
SuperMicro Servers with Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory Module Support (83575)
Intel Optane, Memory Optimization, and vSphere
Oracle and RDMA
Programming the Verbs API for a PVRDMA Device on ESXi 6.5 / ESXi 6.7 Hosts (2147694)
Oracle and 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 on VMware vSAN
Business Critical Application Reference Architectures
Oracle Real Application Clusters on VMware vSAN
Oracle Real Application Clusters on VMware vSAN
Oracle Real Application Clusters on VMware Virtual SAN -Blog
Oracle Database 12c on VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 All-Flash
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
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.
Whats New in Virtual Volumes 2.0
What’s New with vVols in vSphere 8
Understanding Virtual Volumes (vVols) in VMware vSphere 6.7 (2113013)
vSphere Virtual Volumes (vVols)
vSphere Virtual Volumes Technical Overview
Backing Up Virtual Volumes (VVols)
VMware vVols – Performance Evolution and Future
Best Practices for Virtual Volumes Performance
vVols with NVMe – A Perfect Match
Oracle & vROPS
VMware vRealize Operations Management Pack for Oracle Database
Blue Medora’s vROps Management Pack for Oracle Database
Blue Medora’s vROps Management Pack for OEM Overview
Blue Medora MP for Oracle Enterprise Manager
Oracle & DBaaS
Deploying Database-as-a-Service with Pure Storage and VMware
Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) Reference Architecture with VMware and Tintri