One Stop Shop
Here is a one stop shop for everything Oracle on VMware SDDC for easy and quick access. This blog will be constantly updated as and when new collaterals are produced.
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.
My Personal Blog
I am a Staff Solution Architect working in the Cloud Platform Business Unit (CPBU) and am the Oracle Practice lead for VMware specializing in all Oracle Technologies on VMware SDDC and VMware Cloud on AWS.
I have also posted useful links , event participation, videos, audios etc to my personal blog 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.
2018 VMworld Oracle Bootcamp
US
Architecting and Implementing Oracle Workloads on VMware Technologies [ VAP3769WU ]
On a mission to arm yourself with the latest knowledge and skills needed to master virtualizing Oracle on VMware Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) along with moving workloads to the VMware Cloud on AWS ?
VMworld Customer bootcamps can get you in shape to lead the virtualization charge in your organization, with Instructor-led demos and In-depth course work designed to put you in the ranks of the IT elite.
VMworld 2018 Virtualizing Applications Track – Pre-Conference Customer Boot Camps
VMworld 2018 US Content Catalog
More details about it can be found here.
Europe
Update : Apps bootcamps have been CANCELLED due to scheduling conflict. More details about it can be found here.
Past VMworld Oracle Bootcamp
VMworld 2017 Oracle Customer Bootcamps
VMworld Sessions
VMworld On-Demand Video Library – 2018 US
Direct playback & download URLs for all VMworld 2018 US Sessions – William Lam
VMworld US & Europe 2017 Breakout Sessions Playback URLs
VMworld US 2016 Breakout Sessions Playback URLs
Oracle Licensing on VMware
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
- 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
- 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 ]
More details can be found at the url here.
Oracle Licensing on VMware SDDC / VMware Cloud on AWS
Oracle licensing DOES NOT change , whether you run Oracle workloads on a classic vSphere environment or Hyper-Converged Infrastructure solution like vSAN or Oracle workloads on VMware Cloud on AWS.
Oracle on VMware vSphere , vSAN & VxRAIL – Dispelling the Licensing myths
Oracle on VMware vSphere, vSAN & VxRAIL – Preparing for an the Oracle Audit
Oracle on VMware vSphere, vSAN & VxRAIL – Asks the Oracles
Oracle on VMware Cloud on AWS – Unraveling the licensing myth
Oracle on Amazon RDS on VMware – Licensing options
Oracle Licensing Collaterals
Oracle on vSphere Certification, Support and Licensing Guide 2017
Support Position for Oracle Products Running on VMware Virtualized Environments (Doc ID 249212.1)
For Oracle RAC, Oracle will only accept Service Requests as described in this note on Oracle RAC 11.2.0.2 and later releases
“The Empowered Database: Database Trends and Applications – 2016 Oracle on vSphere Usage Survey”
The VMW-DellEMC microsite with all jointly developed Oracle & SQL Server collateral
Straight Talk on Oracle on vSphere Licensing webinar
LogInsight Dash Board for License Compliance
Hardware Certification List for Oracle Linux and Oracle VM
Log rotation and logging options for vmware.log (8182749)
Licensing Oracle Software in the Cloud Computing Environment
Licensing Databases on EMC and VMware Technology
http://houseofbrick.com/whitepaper-database-licensing
Licensing Oracle on AWS: Opening a Window Wide to the Cloud
http://houseofbrick.com/mars-vs-oracle/
Virtualizing Oracle – Caging the Licensing Dragon (Daniel Hesselink and Judy K (Lawyer)
FlashStack + LicenseFortress – VLSS
Licensing Oracle on AWS? A Word of Caution
Documentation
Oracle Clusterware Control (CRSCTL) Utility Reference 12.2
Oracle Database 12c: INTERACTIVE QUICK REFERENCE
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Documentation
The VMware Validated Designs provide comprehensive and extensively-tested blueprints to build and operate a Software-Defined Data Center. With the VMware Validated Designs, VMware delivers holistic data center-level to deploy and configure the complete VMware SDDC in a wide range of use cases with detailed guidance on how to operate efficiently.
Business Critical Applications (BCA) playlist
Virtualizing Business Critical Applications
VMware Cloud on AWS
Migrating Oracle Workloads (Standalone and RAC) to VMware Cloud on AWS – Reference Architecture
Extended Oracle RAC on Stretched Clusters for VMware Cloud on AWS – Demo
A Journey to the Clouds – Oracle on VMware Cloud on AWS
Migrating Oracle workload from on prem VMware SDDC to VMware Cloud on AWS and back – Demo
Oracle RAC on VMware Cloud on Amazon AWS
Oracle RAC on VMware Cloud on Amazon AWS – Demo
VMware Cloud on AWS: Live End to End Demo
Oracle Database Performance: VMware Cloud on AWS
Oracle Database Performance with VMware Cloud on AWS
https://cloud.vmware.com/vmc-aws/
https://aws.amazon.com/vmware/
http://www.it20.info/2017/09/vmware-cloud-on-aws-vs-azure-stack/
Learning Hybrid Cloud Extension (HCX)
VMware Cloud on AWS – Migrate and Extend VMware Environments to the AWS Cloud
vSphere 6.7 and Enterprise Apps
Introducing VMware vSphere 6.7
Introducing vSphere 6.7 for Enterprise Applications
https://blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks/2018/04/17/whats-new-vsphere-6-7-core-storage/
What’s New with SRM and vSphere Replication 8.1
VMware vSAN 6.7 Technical Overview
https://storagehub.vmware.com/t/vmware-vsan/vmware-vsan-6-7-technical-overview/
Summary of What’s New in vSphere 6.7 – vsphere-land
Oracle & VMware Virtual NVMe (6.7)
Using Virtual NVMe With ESXi 6.5 and virtual machine Hardware Version 13 (2147714)
vSphere 6.5 – New Virtual Storage Hardware (NVME)
vSphere 6.5 – Add an NVMe Controller
Oracle & VMware Persistent Memory (6.7)
Accelerating Oracle Performance using vSphere Persistent Memory (PMEM) – Reference Architecture
Accelerating Oracle Performance using vSphere Persistent Memory PMEM – Demo
Oracle and vSphere Persistent Memory (PMEM) – vPMEM v/s vPMEMDisk
Micron Booth Recording – ORACLE PERFORMANCE USING VSPHERE PERSISTENT MEMORY (PMEM)
Persistent Memory Performance in vSphere 6.7
PMem (Persistant Memory) NVDIMM support in vSphere
Virtualized Persistent Memory with VMware vSphere 6.7 and HPE ProLiant Gen10 Servers
DELLEMC PowerEdge Persistent Memory (PMem) Support (54444)
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Servers Persistent Memory (PMem) Support (54445)
How to simulate Persistent Memory (PMem) in vSphere 6.7 for educational purposes?
Dell EMC NVDIMM-N Persistent Memory User Guide
Persistent Memory Summit 2018 – VMware vSphere Virtualization of PMEM
vSphere 6.7 : What is PMem and How vSphere DRS works with PMem configured VMs?
Oracle & RDMA
Performance of RDMA and HPC Applications in Virtual Machines using FDR InfiniBand on VMware vSphere
Oracle on VMware
Oracle on vSphere white papers including Best practices, RAC deployment guides, workload characterization guide can be found on the Oracle BCA landing page below.
Oracle Databases on VMware – Best Practices Guide
End of General Support for vSphere 5.0 and vSphere 5.1 (2145103)
Performance Best Practices for VMware vSphere
https://www.vmware.com/techpapers/2017/Perf_Best_Practices_vSphere65.html
http://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/techpaper/vmware-perfbest-practices-vsphere6-0-white-paper.pdf
https://www.vmware.com/pdf/Perf_Best_Practices_vSphere5.5.pdf
Best Practices for Performance Tuning of Latency-Sensitive Workloads in vSphere VMs
Deploying Extremely Latency-Sensitive Applications in VMware vSphere 5.5
Virtualizing Performance-Critical Database Applications in VMware vSphere 6.0
Oracle 12c and vSphere 6.0 Monster VM
Oracle Monster Virtual Machine Performance on vSphere 6.5
Tuning Queues – From the Application down to the Storage
Oracle RAC on VMware
Oracle RAC on VMware Deployment guide
Multi-writer Flag KB (1034165)
Using Oracle RAC on vSphere 6.x VSAN Datastore (2121181)
Setting Multi Writer Flag for Oracle RAC on vSphere using Power Cli
Oracle RAC and vSphere 5.1 vMotion
Performance Study of Oracle RAC on VMware vSphere 5.0
Oracle 11gR2 4 Node RAC vMotion operation with Swingbench – Demo
Virtualizing Oracle RAC – Demo
Extended Oracle RAC on vSphere Metro Storage Cluster using Storage Virtualization
Oracle RAC Virtualization Technical Case Study – VMware IT
Oracle 12c RAC Performance on vSphere 5 and EMC
Oracle Real Application Clusters on Extended Distance Clusters (Oracle RAC 10g R2)
Oracle RAC and Oracle RAC One Node on Extended Distance (Stretched) Clusters
EBusiness Suite on Oracle / Oracle RAC on VMware
http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/white-papers/h8124-oracle-e-business-unified-storage-vmware-wp.pdf
http://www.emc.com/collateral/software/white-papers/h7270-rapid-deployment-scale-out-oracle-wp.pdf
http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/white-papers/h5896-oracle-ebiz-suite-dr-vmware-srm-clariion-wp.pdf
http://www.vce.com/asset/documents/oracle-ebs-migration-refarch.pdf
Oracle RAC KB
Attempts to enable the multi-writer virtual disk option on an NFS datastore fail (2147691)
Hot adding a virtual disk in ESXi 5.5 removes the multi-writer flag (2078540)
Changed Block Tracking (CBT) on virtual machines (1020128)
Cloning and converting virtual machine disks with vmkfstools (1028042)
Determining if a VMDK is zeroedthick or eagerzeroedthick (1011170)
Oracle on VMware SDDC – Technical Blogs
Migrating an Oracle RAC Cluster using Storage vMotion to vSAN Storage – Private Investigation
Migrating non-production Oracle RAC using VMware Storage vMotion with minimal downtime
Around the “Storage World” in no time – Storage vMotion and Oracle Workloads [RAC and Non-RAC]
VMware Snapshots and Oracle non-clustered Independent Persistent disks
Add Shared RDM in Physical/Virtual Compatibility mode for Oracle RAC
The Art of P2V and Oracle ASM ( Use Case : Migrate Oracle OVM to vSphere)
On Demand Scaling up resources for Oracle production workloads
Oracle on vSphere – Storage options
Oracle Backup and Recovery
Database Backup and Recovery User’s Guide
http://thebackupblog.typepad.com/thebackupblog/2008/07/optimizing-deduplication.html
Maximizing Deduplication Results with Oracle Databases and RMAN
Oracle dNFS
Step by Step – Configure Direct NFS Client (DNFS) on Linux (Doc ID 762374.1)
Configuring File System Storage for Oracle Database
Direct NFS: FAQ (Doc ID 954425.1)
Symantec Clustering on VMware
What configuration does InfoScale support when simultaneous write protection is disabled?
InfoScale support for SCSI Bus Sharing configurations and VMware vMotion
Storage Foundation Cluster File System HA on VMware VMDK Deployment Guide
Red Hat Clusters on VMware
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 High Availability Add-On Overview
Support Policies for RHEL High Availability Clusters – Virtualization Platforms
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Configuration Example – Oracle HA on Cluster Suite
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Cluster, High Availability, and GFS Deployment Recommended Practices
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Configuring the Red Hat High Availability Add-On with Pacemaker
Using Red Hat Clustering Suite on a vSphere 6.x vSAN Datastore (2151774)
Oracle Sun Cluster on VMware
Clustering Solaris Guests That Run on VMware with Sun Cluster 3.2 Software
Oracle Cluster 3.3 Setup Solaris 10 x86(VMware)
HPE Serviceguard on VMware
HPE Serviceguard for Linux with VMware virtual machines
HP Serviceguard for Linux with VMware virtual machines
Using HP Serviceguard for Linux with VMware
vSphere Metro Storage Cluster
VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster Recommended Practices VMware vSphere 6.0
VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster Case Study
Stretched Clusters and VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager: Understanding the Options and Goals
EMC VPLEX
Implementing VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster (vMSC) using EMC VPLEX (2007545)
Using VMware vSphere with EMC VPLEX
Using SRDF/METRO in a VMware Metro Storage Cluster running Oracle E-Business Suite and 12c RAC
EMC vPLEX , VNX & vSphere Metro Storage Cluster
HP Peer Persistence
Implementing vSphere Metro Storage Cluster using HP 3PAR StoreServ Peer Persistence (2055904)
Implementing vSphere Metro Storage Cluster using HP LeftHand Multi-Site (2020097)
Implementing vSphere Metro Storage Cluster using HPE 3PAR Peer Persistence
Implementing VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster with HP LeftHand Multi-Site storage
Hitachi VSP
Deploy VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster on Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform
IBM SVC
Implementing vSphere Metro Storage Cluster using IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (2032346)
VMware HA and vMotion with stretched IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller Cluster (2000948)
Netapp MetroCluster
A Continuous-Availability Solution for VMware vSphere and NetApp
MetroCluster Version 8.2.1 Best Practices for Implementation
VMware support with NetApp MetroCluster (1001783)
vSphere 6 on NetApp MetroCluster 8.3
NetApp Best Practice Guidelines for Oracle Database 11g
Best Practices for Running VMware vSphere on Network-Attached Storage (NAS)
Oracle Data Guard and VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
Disaster Recovery of Tier 1 Applications on VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
Architecting Oracle Database DR Solution on vSphere With Oracle Data Guard and SRM
VMware vSphere Replication Documentation
VMware Site Recovery Manager Documentation
Caveats and Limitations of vSphere Replication 8.1 – vSphere Replication cannot replicate virtual machines that share vmdk files in this release
Oracle on VMware vSAN
Oracle Real Application Clusters on VMware vSAN
Oracle Real Application Clusters on VMware Virtual SAN – White Paper
Oracle Real Application Clusters on VMware Virtual SAN -Blog
Oracle Real Application Clusters on VMware vSAN – Demo
Oracle Database 12c on VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 All-Flash
Oracle Database 12c on VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 All-Flash – White Paper
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
Oracle U2VL with Virtual SAN and the batch processing use case
vSAN Collateral
https://blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks/?s=oracle
http://www.vmware.com/products/virtual-san/resources.html
https://storagehub.vmware.com/#!/vmware-vsan
vSAN sizing guides for Business Critical Applications
What’s New with VMware vSAN 6.6
An in-depth view into vSAN’s revolutionary features and technologies
Design Considerations for Storage Controllers in vSAN
Disk Controller features and Queue Depth?
“Community” VSAN Storage Controller Queue Depth List
Understanding Congestion in vSAN (2150260)
VSAN 6.2 Part 1 – Deduplication and Compression
VSAN 6.2 Part 3 – Software Checksum
VSAN 6.2 Part 4 – IOPS limit for object
vSAN Hybrid TCO and Sizing Calculator
Practical vSAN: Measuring Congestion
https://www.sym.bio/practical-vsan-measuring-congestion/
https://dev-sym.pantheon.io/practical-vsan-part-2-adjusting-congestion-buffer-sizes/
vSAN Case Study
https://www.vmware.com/products/vsan/customers.html
Oracle & VM / vSAN Encryption
Oracle Advanced Security Guide
vSphere 6.5: VM and vSAN Encryption FAQ
Oracle & VAIO / vFRC
VMware vSphere Flash Read Cache
Configuring vSphere Flash Read Cache
https://cormachogan.com/2016/04/26/flashsoft-io-filter-vaio-setup-steps/
http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2015/08/31/vmworld-2015-vsphere-apis-for-io-filtering-update/
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/19/primaryio_is_first_flash_cacher_with_vaio_support/
VMware VAAI
Frequently Asked Questions for vStorage APIs for Array Integration (1021976)
VMware vSphere Storage APIs Array Integration (VAAI)
VAAI Comparison – Block versus NAS – Cormac
Oracle & VMware Virtual Volumes (vVOL)
Virtual Volumes: A game changer for operations of virtualized business critical databases
VMworld 2015 session recording (VVOLs for Business Critical Oracle Databases)
Using VMware Virtual Volumes with EMC VMAX3 and VMAX All Flash
VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes on Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform Family and Hitachi NAS Platform
VMware vSphere 6.5 Virtual Volume Environment Deployment in Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform
Implementing VMware Virtual Volumes on HPE 3PAR StoreServ
Operation Guide for VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes – Fujitsu
VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes on Dell PS Series
VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes – NEC Corporation of America
Virtual Volumes on Nimble OS 3
Utilizing VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes (VVOL) with the FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS DX S3 series
Whats New in Virtual Volumes 2.0
vSphere Virtual Volumes Technical Overview
3 Key Reasons Customers Move to Virtual Volumes
Understanding Virtual Volumes (VVols) in VMware vSphere 6.0 (2113013)
Oracle & VMware NSX
Extended Oracle RAC across sites with VMware NSX – Demo
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 Database as a Service (DBaaS)
Virtual LiVefire Solutions Oracle RAC-as-a-Service
Oracle RAC DBaaS using vRealize Automation & Orchestration – Demo
DBaaS at EMC using vRealize Suite
Deploying Database-as-a-Service with Pure Storage and VMware
Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) Reference Architecture with VMware and Tintri
DBaaS with Oracle 12c, EMC XtremeIO and VMware (vCAC)
RHEL Docker and Kubernetes
https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/containers/whats-a-linux-container
https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/containers/what-is-docker
https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/containers/what-is-kubernetes
VMware Important KB Articles
Virtual machine hardware versions (1003746)
Upgrading a virtual machine to the latest hardware version (multiple versions) (1010675)
Performance Characterization of VMFS and RDM Using a SAN
Migrating virtual machines with Raw Device Mappings (RDMs) (1005241)
Migrating RDMs, and a question for RDM Users
Difference between Physical compatibility RDMs and Virtual compatibility RDMs (2009226)
A snapshot removal can stop a virtual machine for long time (1002836)
Cloning Individual Virtual Machine Disks via vMA and vCLI (1027872)
Cloning and converting virtual machine disks with vmkfstools (1028042)
Cloning individual virtual machine disks via the ESX/ESXi host terminal (1027876)
Controlling LUN queue depth throttling in VMware ESX/ESXi (1008113)
Configuring advanced driver module parameters in ESX/ESXi (1017588)
Increasing the disk timeout values for a Linux 2.6 virtual machine (1009465)
Tuning options for disk I/O performance in Linux virtual machines (2011861)
Changing the queue depth for QLogic, Emulex, and Brocade HBAs (1267)
Checking the queue depth of the storage adapter and the storage device (1027901)
Determining Network/Storage firmware and driver version in ESXi 4.x and later (1027206)
Quiescing Oracle Database on Windows for Backup with VMware VDPA
Using Virtual NVMe With ESXi 6.5 and virtual machine Hardware Version 13 (2147714)
Virtual Machines using large pages can temporarily become unresponsive after vMotion (2144984)
Virtual machine performance degrades while a vMotion is being performed (2007595)
Understanding and troubleshooting vMotion (1003734)
Large packet loss at the guest operating system level on the VMXNET3 vNIC in ESXi (2039495)
Disabling Time Synchronization (1189)
Choosing a network adapter for your virtual machine (1001805)
RSS and multiqueue support in Linux driver for VMXNET3 (2020567)
Poor network performance or high network latency on Windows virtual machines (2008925)
Low throughput for UDP workloads on Windows virtual machines (2040065)
Scheduler operation when using CPU Affinity (2145719)
High co-stop (%CSTP) values seen during virtual machine snapshot activities (2000058)
Determining if multiple virtual CPUs are causing performance issues (1005362)
Best Practices for Oversubscription of CPU, Memory and Storage in vSphere Virtual Environments
VMware Communities: Interpreting esxtop Statistics
http://www.yellow-bricks.com/esxtop/
https://virtualknightz.com/2014/05/09/esxtop-cstp-explained/
Using esxtop to Troubleshoot Performance Problems – VMware
Using esxtop to identify storage performance issues for ESX / ESXi (multiple versions) (1008205)
vSphere 6 ESXTOP quick Overview for Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting Storage Performance in vSphere – Storage Queues
https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2012/07/troubleshooting-storage-performance-in-vsphere-part-5-storage-queues.html
https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2012/06/troubleshooting-storage-performance-in-vsphere-part-2.html
VMware I/O queues, “micro-bursting”, and multipathing
User Groups
Oracle User Group Community Portal
VMware User Group – Connect, Learn, Grow and Share as a VMUG Member
The VMware User Group (VMUG) is an independent, global, customer-led organization, created to maximize members’ use of VMware and partner solutions through knowledge sharing, training, collaboration and events.
Join today to connect with the community and take advantage of all of the benefits of a free VMUG membership.
VMware Unix to Linux
Interested in the vSphere Unix to Linux Migration Service ? Contact U2Vl@vmware.com for more information
Miscellaneous
Nael Alghanem
Amazing effort. Thanks Sudhir.
Nael Alghanem
Amazing effort Sudhir.
Thanks
kuver P Singh
WoW Got a lots of Things to explore and Thanks for sharing.
Andreas
Awesome! This blog came at the right time for me.
Thanks for sharing Sadhir
shawn ho
Nice to have a one-stop knowledgebase