One Stop Shop

Here is the 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.

About me

VMware Solutions Lab

Oracle Licensing on VMware Platform – VMware Support

Oracle Licensing on VMware Hybrid Cloud (On-premises and VMware Clouds)

Oracle Java SE Licensing

Oracle Licensing – Partners

VMware Cloud on AWS

VMware Cloud on Dell EMC

Azure VMware Solutions

Google Cloud VMware Solution

Oracle Cloud VMware Solution

IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions

Alibaba Cloud VMware Solution

Oracle on VMware SDDC – Technical Blogs

Oracle on VMware – Collaterals

Oracle & VMware Persistent Memory

Oracle & RDMA

VMware Important KB Articles

Oracle on VMware vSAN

vSAN Collateral

Oracle on VxRAIL

Oracle & VAIO

Oracle & VMware Virtual Volumes (vVOL)

Oracle & vROPS

Oracle & DBaaS

RHEL Docker and Kubernetes

Symantec Clustering on VMware

Red Hat Clusters on VMware

Oracle Sun Cluster on VMware

HPE Serviceguard on VMware

vSphere Metro Storage Cluster

VMware and Oracle User Groups – Collaboration

About the Author

My name is 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.

VMware Solutions Lab

The VMware Solutions Labs, founded in 2016 has a charter to bring together the many Hardware, Software and Implementation partners in the greater VMware ecosystem in an externally accessible lab environment. Constant requests for collaboration from VMware partners in all disciplines accentuated the need for a unique location and process to streamline the submissions, selection and subsequent creation of co-branded collateral including white papers and videos.

The solutions lab is located outside the VMware network and accessible via the Internet facilitating collaboration between VMware and partners in joint solutions.

Oracle Business Critical Applications on VMware

The Oracle BCA on VMware landing page is located here

Oracle Licensing 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.

Oracle Licensing on VMware Hybrid Cloud (On-premises and VMware Clouds)

Oracle licensing DOES NOT change , whether you run Oracle workloads on a

Classic vSphere environment connected to a NAS / SAN
Hyper-Converged Infrastructure solution like vSAN, VxRAIL etc
Oracle workloads on VMware Cloud e.g VMware Cloud on AWS

Oracle on VMware vSphere , vSAN, VxRAIL and VMware Cloud on AWS – Dispelling the Licensing myths

Oracle on VMware vSphere , vSAN, VxRAIL and VMware Cloud on AWS – Preparing for an the Oracle Audit

Oracle on VMware vSphere , vSAN, VxRAIL and VMware Cloud on AWS – 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 vSphere Certification, Support and Licensing Guide 2017

Oracle on VMware Support Policy changes Oct 9, 2019 – Metalink Note 249212.1

VMware Cloud on AWS – Service Description – “We will provide support for problems that you report to assist with adoption of and related to the Service Offering. Support may be provided in any country in which we or our agents maintain facilities. To the extent you provide any Content (as defined in the Terms of Service) in connection with support, we will handle that Content in any such country in accordance with the Terms of Service. VMware support includes all aspects of the SDDC components, and the underlying AWS bare metal instance types. This includes support for virtual machines, containers, and supported guest operating systems. In addition, VMware will provide commercially reasonable assistance with installation, configuration, and troubleshooting of supported applications, including but not limited to Microsoft, Oracle, and VMware Technology Partners. “

Oracle on Amazon RDS on VMware – Licensing options