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.

VMware Are Serious About Oracle Database Performance Characterization

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

VMware Cloud on AWS: Scaling storage capacity with external storage through a Managed Service Provider

Cloud Volumes Service for AWS

Faction

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

Amazon EC2 Instance Types

AWS Storage Gateway

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

What is 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

Alibaba Cloud VMware Solution

Oracle Cloud VMware Solution

Oracle Cloud VMware Solution – A New beginning of a Strategic relationship – 09/16/2019

Oracle Cloud VMware Solution

OCVS

Leveraging the Full Power of Oracle Cloud VMware Solution and VMware vSphere

Oracle on VMware Cloud on AWS

Oracle Workloads on VMware Hybrid Multi-Clouds REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE – using VMware HCX and Oracle Native tools

Oracle Workloads and VMware Cloud on AWS: Deployment, Migration, and Configuration – Reference Architecture

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

Oracle Database Performance – VMware Cloud on AWS i4i vs i3en vs i3 – Performance Study – June 30, 2023

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

Oracle Mission-Critical Workloads on VMware Cloud on AWS – TCO Cloud, Practitioners Guide, Solution Brief

VMware Cloud Flex Storage and Oracle workloads – Summary of use cases

Providing Performance and Storage savings using VMware Cloud Flex Storage for Oracle Archivelogs

Providing Storage savings and Comparable performance using VMware Cloud Flex Storage for Oracle Backups

Providing Storage savings and Comparable performance using VMware Cloud Flex Storage for Oracle Non Production workloads

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 in vSphere 8

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

vSphere 6.5 Storage

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

Oracle Workloads and Redo Log Blocksize – 512 bytes or 4k blocksize for redo log (VMware 4k Sector support in the roadmap)

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

On Demand Scaling up / Scaling down Storage resources for Oracle production workloads – Hot Add and Hot Remove non-clustered Disks

“RAC” n “RAC” all night – Oracle RAC on VMware vSphere – discuss Storage Options and How to Hot add clustered disks online

To be “RDM for Oracle Workloads”, or not to be, that is the question [Add Shared RDM in Physical/Virtual Compatibility mode for Oracle RAC]

On Demand hot extend non-clustered Oracle Disks online without downtime – Hot Extend non-clustered Disks

On Demand hot extend clustered vmdk’s online without downtime – Hot Extend RAC clustered disks using Oracle ASM Rebalance and vSphere

On Demand hot-extend online Oracle RAC clustered disks using VMware Virtual Volumes (vVols) on Pure X50 AFF Storage – No downtime

Storage vMotion for Oracle Non-RAC Workloads within same vSphere Cluster

Storage vMotion for Production Oracle RAC Workloads with No downtime – Same vSphere Cluster , Different Storage Array

Storage vMotion of Non-Production Oracle RAC with downtime – Same vSphere Cluster, different Storage Array

Migrating an Oracle RAC Cluster using Storage vMotion to vSAN Storage – Private Investigation [EZT to Thin]

No downtime Storage vMotion of Oracle RAC Cluster using shared vmdk’s with multi-writer attribute from one vSAN to another vSAN Cluster using VMware HCI Mesh

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 on vSAN 6.7 P01 – No more Eager Zero Thick requirement for shared vmdk’s – VMware vSAN 6.7 P01 (ESXi 6.7 Patch Release ESXi670-201912001) release date DEC 5, 2019

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

Moving away from DBA-as-a-Service to Database as a Service (DBaaS) for Oracle Workloads on VMware Hybrid Platform -VMware Virtual Volumes

Oracle workloads on VMware Virtual Volumes (vVOLS) using Pure Storage FlashArray X50 and Broadcom LPe36000 Fibre Channel Adapter – better performance [ SCSI-vVols v/s SCSI-FCP]

Deploying Oracle RAC on VMware vSphere using NVMe-oF/FC with Pure X50 FlashArray , Broadcom LPe36000 Fibre Channel Adapter & VMware vNVMe Controllers

VMware NVMeoF Virtual Volumes (vVols) on Pure Storage Flash Array for Oracle Workloads – NVMeoF vVol v/s SCSI vVol

Deploying Oracle Workloads on VMware vSphere 8.0 using NVMe-oF/TCP with Lightbits Scale out Disaggregated Storage

Deploying Oracle RAC on VMware vSphere 8.0 using NVMe/TCP with Lightbits Scale out Disaggregated Storage

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

Accelerating Virtualized Oracle 12c performance with vSphere 5.5 Advanced Features Flash Read Cache and vMotion

Virtualizing Performance-Critical Database Applications in VMware vSphere VMware vSphere 4.0 with ESX 4.0

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

VMware Explore 2022 US CEIT1097US – Extreme Performance Series: vSphere Advanced Performance Tutorial

Oracle Best Practices on VMware

General BCA Best Practices guide

Oracle on VMware Best Practices guide

Architecting General Business Critical Applications (BCA) and Oracle on VMware vSphere Platform – New 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

DEMONSTRATING VMOTION CAPABILITIES WITH ORACLE RAC ON VMWARE VSPHERE – VMware vSphere 5.1 with vMotion for Oracle RAC

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?

vSphere vMotion Notifications

Virtual Machine Conditions and Limitations for vSphere vMotion

vSphere Web Services API

vmware/pyvmomi

Oracle & VMware Persistent Memory

Accelerating Oracle Performance using vSphere Persistent Memory (PMEM) – Reference Architecture – Micron

Oracle and vSphere Persistent Memory (PMEM) – vPMEM v/s vPMEMDisk – Micron

Oracle and vSphere Persistent Memory (PMEM) – Oracle Instance Recovery – An Investigation – Micron

Accelerate Oracle Redo performance using Intel Optane DC PMM backed Oracle 21c Persistent Memory Filestore on VMware vSphere – App Direct Mode

Accelerate Oracle Smart Flash Cache performance using Intel Optane DC PMM backed Oracle 21c Persistent Memory Filestore on VMware vSphere -App Direct Mode

Accelerating Critical Oracle Workloads with VMware Persistent Memory backed by Intel DC Optane PMM – Demo

Oracle workloads using Intel Optane DC PMM in Memory Mode on VMware vSphere platform – An Investigation

Persistent Memory Performance on vSphere 6.7 – Performance Study – August 13, 2018

Persistent Memory Performance in vSphere 6.7 with Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory – Performance Study – April 2, 2019

Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory “Memory Mode” Virtualized Performance Study – July 28, 2019

VMware vSphere Performance with Intel Optane Persistent Memory in Memory Mode – Balanced Profile – Performance Study – August 10, 2020

Implementing Intel Optane Persistent Memory BIOS Optimizations for Memory Mode

VMware vSphere 7.0 U2 and vSphere HA for SAP HANA with DRAM and Intel® Optane™ PMem in App-Direct Mode

Persistent Memory technology as the new normal with VMware vSphere® Memory Monitoring and Remediation (vMMR)

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 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)

Tech Zone – VVOLS

vSphere Virtual Volumes (vVols)

vSphere Virtual Volumes Technical Overview

vSphere Virtual Volumes – FAQ

Backing Up Virtual Volumes (VVols)

VMware vVols – Performance Evolution and Future

Best Practices for Virtual Volumes Performance

vVols Getting Started Guide

NVMe and Virtual Volumes