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

Oracle and 4K Sector

VMware Important KB Articles

Oracle on VMware vSAN

vSAN Collateral

Oracle on VxRAIL/VCF

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 – Metalink Note 249212.1 – Updated Nov 12,2021

Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) Support on Non-Oracle Clouds

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

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

Oracle Java on VMware Hybrid Cloud Platform – Dispelling the Oracle Java Licensing myths

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

VMware – IOUG 2014 Survey

License Consulting

http://www.licenseconsulting.eu/2012/08/29/vmworld-richard-garsthagen-oracle-on-licensing-vmware-virtualized-environments/

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

LicenseFortress Raises the Bar in Oracle Software License Compliance with the Addition of Experienced Legal Counsel Beeman & Muchmore, LLP

Licensing Oracle on AWS? A Word of Caution

Shareholder’s’ Derivative Lawsuit Claims Oracle Management Knew of Predatory Audit Tactics and Misled Public – Tactical Law Group

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

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 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 on AWS Sizer and TCO

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

Cloud Volumes Service for AWS

Faction

Amazon EC2 Instance Types

AWS Storage Gateway

Amazon EBS Volume Types

VMware Cloud on AWS – Using Amazon EFS

VMware Cloud on AWS Release Notes

Announcing VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts Beta

AWS Outposts

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

Amazon RDS on VMware pricing

VMware Cloud on Dell EMC

Introducing Project Dimension

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

CloudSimple nodes overview

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

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

Oracle Cloud VMware Solution

OCVS

IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions

Alibaba Cloud VMware Solution

Oracle Cloud VMware Solution

Oracle on VMware SDDC – Technical Blogs

Oracle on vSphere – Storage options

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

Accelerating Oracle workloads with vSphere 6.7 Guest 2M & 1GB Huge Pages – An Investigation

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 vSphere 6.x – Add shared vmdk online without downtime for Oracle RAC ASM / OCFS2

To be “RDM for Oracle RAC”, 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

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

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

Storage vMotion for Oracle RAC Workloads within same vSphere Cluster

Migrating non-production Oracle RAC using VMware Storage vMotion with minimal downtime within same vSphere Cluster

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

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

To NUMA or not to NUMA – Oracle workloads and NUMA

The Art of P2V and Oracle ASM – Migrate Oracle OVM to vSphere

Oracle on VMware – Collaterals

Introducing vSphere 6.7 for Enterprise Applications

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 VMware Hybrid Cloud High Availability Guide – REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE

Oracle Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery on VMware Hybrid Multi-Clouds

Oracle Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery on VMware Hybrid Multi-Clouds – Blog

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

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

Oracle RAC and vSphere 5.1 vMotion

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

Extended Oracle RAC on vSphere Metro Storage Cluster using Storage Virtualization

Extended Oracle RAC across sites with VMware NSX – Demo

Virtualizing Oracle WebLogic Server on VMware vSphere

Support for Virtualized Environments – VMware – Hyperion

Oracle & VMware Persistent Memory

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

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

Oracle and vSphere Persistent Memory (PMEM) – Oracle Instance Recovery – 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

SAP HANA with Intel Optane Persistent Memory on VMware vSphere

vSphere Support for Intel’s Optane Persistent Memory (PMEM) (67645)

VM nvdimm config options for NUMA (78094)

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

Enhance VMware VMs with Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory

Announcing VMware vSphere Support for Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory Technology

Oracle and RDMA

Oracle and 4K Sector

Oracle Workloads and Redo Log Blocksize – 512 bytes or 4k blocksize for redo log

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)

VMware Important KB Articles

Build numbers and versions of VMware ESXi/ESX (2143832)

Migrating RDMs, and a question for RDM Users

Unable to add a physical mode disk mapping (RDM) to a virtual machine stored on an NFS datastore (1001856)

Adding an RDM LUN to the second node in the MSCS cluster fails with the error: Incompatible device backing specified for device ‘0’ (2054897)

Cloning Individual Virtual Machine Disks via vMA and vCLI (1027872)

Cloning individual virtual machine disks via the ESX/ESXi host terminal (1027876)

Determining Network/Storage firmware and driver version in ESXi 4.x and later (1027206)

Identifying correct driver for ESXi/ESX host PCI devices (HBA) using VMware Hardware Compatibility Guide (HCL) (1031534)

Quiescing Oracle Database on Windows for Backup with VMware VDPA

Troubleshooting migration compatibility error: Device is a SCSI controller engaged in bus-sharing (1003797)

Testing VMkernel network connectivity with the vmkping command (1003728)

A Performance Comparison of Hypervisors

VMware I/O queues, “micro-bursting”, and multipathing

Extreme Performance Video Blog Series

Extreme Performance Series: Monster Database Virtual Machines

Extreme Performance Series: Accelerating Oracle Workloads on VMware Hybrid Clouds

Oracle on VMware vSAN

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

vSAN Collateral

Using Red Hat Clustering Suite on a vSphere 6.x vSAN Datastore (2151774)

vSAN datastore support for InfoScale Enterprise (Veritas Technote)

Business Critical Application Reference Architectures

VirtualBlocks – Oracle

vSAN Quick Links

vSAN stripes (How, When and Why?)

Demystifying Stripe Width in vSAN

Design Considerations for Storage Controllers in vSAN

Disk Controller features and Queue Depth?

Why Queue Depth matters!

“Community” VSAN Storage Controller Queue Depth List

vSAN performance diagnostics reports: “vSAN is experiencing congestion in one or more disk group(s)” (2150012)

vSAN performance diagnostics reports: “The size of IOs may not be optimal to achieve the desired goal” (2150019)

Understanding Congestion in vSAN (2150260)

Deduplication and Compression Design Considerations – 6.7

Cormac Hogan – vSAN

vSAN Space Efficiency Technologies

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 ReadyNodes

New HCI Assessment powered by Live Optics

vSAN 6.7 U3 – WSFC with Shared Disks & SCSI-3 Persistent Reservations

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

Practical vSAN: Measuring Congestion – https://www.sym.bio/practical-vsan-measuring-congestion/

VMware IOInsight – Tool to help a VM’s storage I/O behavior IOInsight

Introducing VMware vSAN HCI Mesh

VMware vSAN HCI Mesh Tech Note

vSAN RA – Target Workloads – Delphix Dynamic Data Platform on VMware vSAN

https://www.vmware.com/products/vsan/customers.html

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 & VAIO

vSphere APIs for IO Filtering

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/

Oracle & VMware Virtual Volumes (vVOL)

Virtualizing Oracle Workloads with VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes on VMware Hybrid Cloud

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

Whats New in Virtual Volumes 2.0

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.

What’s New in vSphere 7 Core Storage

Tech Zone – VVOLS

vSphere Virtual Volumes Technical Overview

vSphere Virtual Volumes – FAQ

Understanding Virtual Volumes (vVols) in VMware vSphere 6.7 (2113013)

Backing Up Virtual Volumes (VVols)

Queue Depth Limits and VVol Protocol Endpoints

Pure Storage and VVOL

Web Guide: Implementing vSphere Virtual Volumes with FlashArray

Web Guide: Virtual Volumes Quick Start Guide

Datastore Management

FlashArray 3.0 Plugin for the vSphere Web Client