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.
Table of Contents
Oracle Licensing on VMware Platform – VMware Support
Oracle on VMware Support Policy changes Oct 9, 2019 – Metalink Note 249212.1
Oracle Licensing on VMware SDDC / VMware Cloud on AWS
Business Critical Applications (BCA) – YouTube playlist
VMware Cloud on AWS – Service Description
VMware Cloud on AWS (Business Solutions & TCO)
VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts Beta
Oracle Cloud VMware Solution – A New beginning of a Strategic relationship
IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
vSphere 6.7 and Enterprise Apps
Oracle & VMware Virtual NVMe (6.7)
Oracle & VMware Persistent Memory (6.7)
Oracle & VMware VM 1GB Huge Page
Oracle on VMware – Collaterals
Oracle on VMware SDDC – Technical Blogs
Oracle Data Guard and VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
Oracle & VMware Virtual Volumes (vVOL)
Oracle Database as a Service (DBaaS)
VMware and Oracle User Groups – Collaboration
VMware and Oracle Cloud Days – Collaboration
Oracle Community in VMware Technology Network [ VMTN ]
VMware User Trail Map – The Community guide for your Virtualization Journey
About the Author
My name is Sudhir Balasubramanian , I am a Staff Solution Architect and Oracle Field Virtualization Practice lead working in the Cloud Platform Business Unit (CPBU) , VMware specializing in all Oracle Technologies on VMware SDDC stack.
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 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.
VMworld Oracle Workshop
VMworld 2019 Virtualizing Applications Track – Customer Workshops
VMworld 2018 Virtualizing Applications Track – Pre-Conference Customer Boot Camps
VMworld 2017 Oracle Customer Bootcamps
VMworld Sessions
VMworld On-Demand Video Library – 2020
VMworld 2019 US & Europe Content Catalog
VMworld On-Demand Video Library – 2019
VMworld 2018 US Content Catalog . More details about it can be found here.
VMworld On-Demand Video Library – 2018
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 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 on VMware Support Policy changes Oct 9, 2019 – Metalink Note 249212.1
As part of the strategic alliance between Oracle and VMware announced on Sept 16, 2019, there is a new agreement for enhanced support for Oracle products running on VMware Environments running on Oracle Supported Computing Environments.
Oracle Corporation has now changed its landmark Metalink/MyOracleSupport.com note 249212.1 describing that mutual support.
An excerpt from the new text ” Oracle customers with an active support contract and running supported versions of Oracle products will receive assistance from Oracle when running those products on VMware virtualized environments“.
Read the entire text in the blog post below.
Oracle Licensing on VMware SDDC / VMware Cloud on AWS
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 on AWS
Oracle on VMware Support Policy changes Oct 9, 2019 – Metalink Note 249212.1
Oracle Cloud VMware Solution – A New beginning of a Strategic relationship – 09/16/2019
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 Amazon RDS on VMware – Licensing options
Oracle on VMware Cloud on AWS – Custom CPU Core Count
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
Oracle Java SE Licensing
https://www.vmware.com/solutions/business-critical-apps/oracle-virtualization.html
Oracle Java SE 8 Support Update – What it means to VMware customers
What You Need to Know About Changes to Java Licensing
Using Java? Here’s How Oracle’s New 2019 Java SE Licensing Affects You
Oracle Licensing – Partners
DBTA webinars
“The Empowered Database: Database Trends and Applications – 2016 Oracle on vSphere Usage Survey”
Surviving and Thriving in the Changing World of Oracle Database Management
The VMW-DellEMC microsite with all jointly developed Oracle & SQL Server collateral
Straight Talk on Oracle on VMware Licensing in 2017
ON-DEMAND WEBINAR: STRAIGHT TALK ON ORACLE ON VMWARE LICENSING 2015
ON-DEMAND WEBINAR: VIRTUALIZING YOUR ORACLE DATABASES AND MOVING TO THE CLOUD
Virtualizing Oracle – Caging the Licensing Dragon (Daniel Hesselink and Judy K (Lawyer)
Disaster Recovery and Oracle Technology Licensing
Deep dive on Oracle Java (or: Java can be Free)
FlashStack + LicenseFortress – VLSS
Licensing Oracle on AWS? A Word of Caution
Documentation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Documentation
Configuration Maximums for VMware Cloud on AWS
VMware ESXi 6.7 Update 2 Release Notes
VMware ESXi 6.7 Update 1 Release Notes
VMware vSphere 6.5 Release Notes
VMware vSphere 6.0 Release Notes
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) – YouTube playlist
Virtualizing Business Critical Applications
VMware Cloud on AWS – Oracle
A Journey to the Clouds – Oracle on VMware Cloud on AWS
Oracle RAC on Stretched Clusters for VMware Cloud on AWS – Anti-Affinity within AZ & HA across AZs
Extended Oracle RAC on Stretched Clusters for VMware Cloud on AWS – Demo
Migrating Oracle workload from on prem VMware SDDC to VMware Cloud on AWS and back – Demo
A Lean, Mean, Fighting Machine – Oracle RAC on VMware Cloud on AWS (SDDC 1.8v2) Starting VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC version v1.8v2 , vSAN datastores in VMware Cloud on AWS now support multi-writer mode on Thin-Provisioned VMDKs.
Oracle Database Performance: VMware Cloud on AWS
Oracle Database Performance with VMware Cloud on AWS
Oracle Database Performance: VMware Cloud on AWS i3 vs i3en
Oracle RAC on VMware Cloud on Amazon AWS (with demo) – VMware & AWS
Oracle E-Business Failover on AWS Using VMware Cloud on AWS
Oracle EBS RAC on VMware Cloud on AWS
VMware Cloud on AWS – Service Description
VMware Cloud on AWS (the “Service Offering” or “VMware Cloud”) brings VMware’s enterprise class software defined data center offering to the Amazon Web Services cloud, enabling customers to run any application across vSphere-based private, public, and hybrid cloud environments.
From the Service Description Document which can be found here :
“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. ”
More information on Support for Applications on VMware Cloud on AWS can be found in the Support section.
VMware Cloud on AWS
VMware Cloud on AWS Release Notes
https://cloud.vmware.com/vmc-aws/
https://aws.amazon.com/vmware/
VMware Cloud on AWS – Migrate and Extend VMware Environments to the AWS Cloud
Using Policies and Profiles – VMware Cloud on AWS Operations Guide
VMware vSAN utilizing Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
HCI1998BU – Enable High-Capacity Workloads with Elastic vSAN on VMware Cloud
VMware Cloud on AWS – Using Amazon EFS
Relentless Availability powered by vSAN Stretched Clusters for VMware Cloud on AWS
VMware Cloud on AWS: Advanced Networking and Security with NSX-T SDDC
Learning Hybrid Cloud Extension (HCX)
VMware Cloud on AWS (Business Solutions & TCO)
VMware Cloud on AWS Business Solutions – Oracle
VMware Cloud on AWS – Business Solutions
VMware Cloud on AWS Sizer and TCO
Partner Programs for VMware Cloud on AWS
VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts Beta
Announcing VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts Beta
Amazon Outposts
Amazon RDS on VMware
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
VMware Cloud on Dell EMC
Announcing VMware Cloud on Dell EMC
VMware Cloud on Dell EMC Now Available!
Introducing the 2nd Generation of VMware Cloud on Dell EMC
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
Google Support for Oracle workloads on Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) – “ Google is fully committed to support all Oracle workloads on a Google Cloud VMware Engine environment”
Oracle Cloud VMware Solution
Oracle Cloud VMware Solution – A New beginning of a Strategic relationship
VMware is thrilled to announce a new strategic alliance with Oracle Corp to support our mutual customers’ hybrid cloud strategies. The centerpiece of this relationship is a new service that will be offered by Oracle called Oracle Cloud VMware Solution. Full text of the Oracle Cloud VMware Solution announcement can be found here :
http://www.vmware.com/go/vmware-oracle-cloud
This service will enable customers to run VMware Cloud Foundation on Oracle’s Generation 2 Cloud infrastructure. But equally important for the thousands of customers running Oracle software on VMware today in their data centers, Oracle and VMware have entered into a new mutual support agreement for currently supported Oracle products running on VMware environments.
Oracle on VMware customers can now run and implement with enhanced confidence that two of their most strategic vendors are fully aligned and are committed to addressing support issues when running Oracle software in VMware environments.
More details can be found here.
IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
Alibaba Cloud VMware Solution
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)
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
Oracle and vSphere Persistent Memory (PMEM) – Oracle Instance Recovery – An Investigation
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?
Unleashing the Power of Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory with Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database
Exadata Persistent Memory Accelerator: Partnering with Intel on Optane DC Persistent Memory
Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory
Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory Module (PMM) – StorageReview
Oracle & RDMA
Performance of RDMA and HPC Applications in Virtual Machines using FDR InfiniBand on VMware vSphere
Oracle & VMware VM 1GB Huge Page
Accelerating Oracle workloads with vSphere 6.7 Guest 2M & 1GB Huge Pages – An Investigation
Backing Guest vRAM with 1GB Pages
Oracle on VMware – Collaterals
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)
https://www.vmware.com/pdf/Perf_Best_Practices_vSphere5.5.pdf
Deploying Extremely Latency-Sensitive Applications in VMware vSphere 5.5
Best Practices for Performance Tuning of Latency-Sensitive Workloads in vSphere VMs
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
https://www.vmware.com/techpapers/2017/Perf_Best_Practices_vSphere65.html
What’s New in Performance? VMware vSphere 6.5
Performance Best Practices Guide for vSphere 6.7
What’s new in performance ? vSphere 6.7
Oracle on VMware SDDC – Technical Blogs
Oracle on vSphere – Storage options
VMware Snapshots and Oracle non-clustered Independent Persistent disks
Around the “Storage World” in no time – Storage vMotion for Oracle RAC/Non-RAC Workloads
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
To be “RDM for Oracle RAC”, or not to be, that is the question
On Demand hot extend Oracle Disks online without downtime – Hot Extend Disks
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
To NUMA or not to NUMA – Oracle workloads and NUMA
On Demand Scaling up resources for Oracle production workloads – Hot Add CPU and Hot Add Memory
The Art of P2V and Oracle ASM – Migrate Oracle OVM to vSphere
Oracle RAC on VMware
Oracle VMware Hybrid Cloud High Availability Guide – REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE
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
Oracle RAC Virtualization Technical Case Study – VMware IT
Oracle 12c RAC Performance on vSphere 5 and EMC
Extended Oracle RAC on vSphere Metro Storage Cluster using Storage Virtualization
Providing HA to Oracle workloads across sites using vSphere Metro Storage Cluster (vMSC) – Demo
Oracle Real Application Clusters on Extended Distance Clusters (Oracle RAC 10g R2)
Oracle RAC and Oracle RAC One Node on Extended Distance (Stretched) Clusters
Oracle RAC Multiwriter
Setting Multi Writer Flag for Oracle RAC on vSphere using Power Cli
VMware ESXi 6.7 Update 1 Release Notes – PR 1220910: Multi-Writer Locks cannot be set for more than 8 ESXi hosts in a shared environment – In a shared environment such as Raw Device Mapping (RDM) disks, you cannot use Multi-Writer Locks for virtual machines on more than 8 ESXi hosts. If you migrate a virtual machine to a ninth host, it might fail to power on with the error message Could not open xxxx.vmdk or one of the snapshots it depends on. (Too many users). This fix makes the advanced configuration option /VMFS3/GBLAllowMW visible. You can manually enable or disable multi-writer locks for more than 8 hosts by using generation-based locking. This issue is resolved in this release. For more details, see VMware knowledge base article 1034165.
Oracle RAC VMware KB
Multi-writer Flag KB (1034165)
Using Oracle RAC on vSphere 6.x VSAN Datastore (2121181)
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)
Testing VMkernel network connectivity with the vmkping command (1003728)
Oracle RAC
VXLAN Series – Different Components – Part 1 (Broadcast/Multicast Explained) – VMware
Network Requirements for Oracle RAC (Broadcast & Multicast) – Oracle Docs
Grid Infrastructure Redundant Interconnect and ora.cluster_interconnect.haip (Doc ID 1210883.1)
Oracle RAC Interconnect Protocols – Support and Roadmap (Doc ID 2434852.1)
RAC Technologies Matrix for Linux Platforms
VMware Important KB Articles
Virtual machine hardware versions (1003746)
ESXi/ESX hosts and compatible virtual machine hardware versions list (2007240)
Upgrading a virtual machine to the latest hardware version (multiple versions) (1010675)
Hardware features available with virtual machine compatibility settings (2051652)
Configuring disks to use VMware Paravirtual SCSI (PVSCSI) controllers (1010398)
Which vSCSI controller should I choose for performance?
Achieving a Million I/O Operations per Second from a Single VMware vSphere 5.0 Host
SCSI and SATA Storage Controller Conditions, Limitations, and Compatibility
Using Virtual NVMe With ESXi 6.5 and virtual machine Hardware Version 13 (2147714)
PVSCSI Storage Performance – VMware ESX 4.0
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)
Understanding VMware ESXi Queuing and the FlashArray – Cody
Adaptive Queueing vs. Storage I/O Control
DQLEN changes, what is going on?
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)
Poor network performance or high network latency on Windows virtual machines (2008925)
Low throughput for UDP workloads on Windows virtual machines (2040065)
What’s the Big Deal with Jumbo Frames?
RSS and multiqueue support in Linux driver for VMXNET3 (2020567)
Large packet loss at the guest operating system level on the VMXNET3 vNIC in ESXi (2039495)
Poor TCP performance might occur in Linux virtual machines with LRO enabled (1027511)
Large Receive Offload (LRO) Support for VMXNET3 Adapters with Windows VMs on vSphere 6
Troubleshooting ESX/ESXi virtual machine performance issues (2001003)
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)
CPU Hot Add Performance in vSphere 6.7
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
vNUMA is disabled if vCPU hotplug is enabled (2040375)
Does corespersocket Affect Performance?
Setting the number of cores per CPU in a virtual machine (1010184)
Virtual Machine vCPU and vNUMA Rightsizing – Rules of Thumb
What is PreferHT and When To Use It
ESXi sched-stats command – KB 76362
https://blogs.vmware.com/feed-items/l1-terminal-fault-l1tf-vmware-vsphere-patches-2
L1TF – L1 Terminal Fault Attack – CVE-2018-3620 & CVE-2018-3646
Performance of vSphere 6.7 Scheduling Options
New Scheduler Option for vSphere 6.7 U2
Which vSphere CPU Scheduler to Choose
VMware VROOM! Blog – VMware’s performance team
A Performance Comparison of Hypervisors
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
Oracle Fail Safe
Oracle Fail Safe Documentation, Release 4.2.1 for Microsoft Windows
Setup for Failover Clustering and Microsoft Cluster Service Update 1 VMware vSphere 6.0
Oracle Hyperion and VMware
Support for Virtualized Environments – VMware – Hyperion
Oracle WebLogic and VMware
Virtualizing Oracle WebLogic Server on VMware vSphere
Enterprise Java Applications on VMware – Best Practices Guide
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)
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 RAC storage migration from non-vSAN to vSAN 6.7 P01 – Through Thick to Thin
Oracle Real Application Clusters on VMware vSAN
Oracle Real Application Clusters on VMware Virtual SAN – White Paper (2020 Updated)
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 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
Using Red Hat Clustering Suite on a vSphere 6.x vSAN Datastore (2151774)
vSAN datastore support for InfoScale Enterprise (Veritas Technote)
vSAN Collateral
Business Critical Application Reference Architectures
What’s New with VMware vSAN 6.6
An in-depth view into vSAN’s revolutionary features and technologies
vSAN stripes (How, When and Why?)
Demystifying Stripe Width in vSAN
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)
Deduplication and Compression Design Considerations – 6.7
Understanding vSAN memory consumption in ESXi 6.5.0d/ 6.0 U3 and later (2113954)
How to manually remove and recreate a vSAN disk group using esxcli (2150567)
vSAN sizing guides for Business Critical Applications
vSAN Hybrid TCO and Sizing Calculator
New HCI Assessment powered by Live Optics
vSAN feature list vs. vSphere version
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/
iSCSI on vSAN Limitations and Considerations
Best practices for using vSAN 6.5 iSCSI devices (2148216)
Best practices for using vSAN 6.7 iSCSI devices (57344)
Using the vSAN iSCSI Target Service
vSAN 6.7 Proof of Concept Guide
vSAN 6.7 U3 – WSFC with Shared Disks & SCSI-3 Persistent Reservations
vSAN 6.7 – Introducing WSFC support on vSAN!
Hosting Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC) with shared disk on VMware vSphere: Doing it right!
What’s new in vSAN 6.7U3 – SCSI-3 Persistent Reservation
Microsoft SQL Server on Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC) on VMware vSAN – New Capabilities!
How to use and interpret performance statistics collected using vSAN Observer (2064240)
vSAN Performance Graphs in the vSphere Web Client (2144493)
VMware Virtual SAN Diagnostics and Troubleshooting Reference Manual
VMware vSAN with Intel Optane Review
VMware vSAN Operations Guidance
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 on VxRAIL
Oracle RAC on VMware Cloud Foundation on Dell EMC VxRail
Oracle RAC on VMware Cloud Foundation on Dell EMC VxRail -PDF
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 & 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)
VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes: A Game Changer for Business-Critical Oracle Databases – White Paper
Virtual Volumes: A game changer for operations of virtualized business critical databases – Blog
VMworld 2015 session recording (VVOLs for Business Critical Oracle Databases)
Whats New in Virtual Volumes 2.0
What’s New in vSphere 7 Core Storage
vSphere Virtual Volumes Technical Overview
3 Key Reasons Customers Move to Virtual Volumes
Understanding Virtual Volumes (vVols) in VMware vSphere 6.7 (2113013)
Backing Up Virtual Volumes (VVols)
Web Guide: Implementing vSphere Virtual Volumes with FlashArray
Web Guide: Virtual Volumes Quick Start Guide
FlashArray 3.0 Plugin for the vSphere Web Client
Oracle database cloning using VVols
Troubleshooting Virtual Volume Setup
What Happens when a Single VASA Service is Unreachable?
Understanding Virtual Volumes and Failure Scenarios
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
Oracle & VMware NSX
Extended Oracle RAC across sites with VMware NSX – Demo
Using Jumbo Frames on VMware NSX for Oracle Workloads
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
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
Veritas InfoScale Virtualization Guide – Linux on ESXi
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
Is live migration supported for VMs that are members of a RHEL cluster?
Design Guidance for RHEL High Availability Clusters – VMware Virtual Machines as Cluster Members
Support Policies for RHEL High Availability Clusters – VMware Virtual Machines as Cluster Members
Using Red Hat Clustering Suite or SUSE Linux 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)
VMware Unix to Linux
Interested in the vSphere Unix to Linux Migration Service ? Contact U2Vl@vmware.com for more information
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 and Oracle User Groups – Collaboration
VMware and DOAG German Oracle User Group – January 23th – 24th, 2020
https://blogs.vmware.com/apps/2020/02/vmware-and-doag-german-oracle-user-group-january-23-24-2020.html
VMware and Rocky Mountain Oracle User Group (RMOUG) – Training Days, Feb 18th, 2020
https://blogs.vmware.com/apps/2020/02/vmware-and-rocky-mountain-oracle-user-group-rmoug-training-days-feb-18th-2020.html
VMware and Oracle Cloud Days – Collaboration
VMware and Oracle together – A brave World – Oracle Cloud Days, 2020
https://blogs.vmware.com/apps/2020/02/vmware-and-oracle-together-a-brave-world-oracle-cloud-days-2020.html
Oracle Community in VMware Technology Network [ VMTN ]
Come and join the Oracle Community in VMware Technology Network (VMTN) where VMware Application Team, Customers and Partners can share their thoughts and ideas , share knowledge , resources, opinions, and experiences globally.
VMware User Trail Map – The Community guide for your Virtualization Journey
The above document was created as a result of the Level Up project. Members of the technology community from all over the world have contributed to ensure that this guide will provide you with the information you need to help you make progress at the job you are trying to do at this stage of your career.
Much like a GitHub project, Level Up is a collection of contributors, but instead of creating code, we create useful assets in an “open source content” collaborative style with the sole purpose of helping the tech community. The goal is to help people Level Up their skills so they can Level Up in their careers. Come join us in our efforts to give back to the community.
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 MySQL
Virtualization for MySQL on VMware: Best Practices and Performance Guide
MySQL on VMware vSAN 6.7 All-Flash
Miscellaneous
