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 Business Critical Applications on VMware

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 Cloud on AWS

Oracle on VMware SDDC – Technical Blogs

Oracle Best Practices on VMware

Oracle High Availability on VMware

Oracle Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery on VMware

Oracle & VMware Persistent Memory

Oracle & RDMA

Oracle and 4K Sector

VMware vSphere – What’s new

Oracle on VMware – Important Collaterals

Oracle on VMware – Important KB & Blogs

VMware Important KB Articles

Oracle on VMware vSAN

vSAN Collateral

Oracle on VxRAIL/VCF

Oracle & VAIO

Oracle & VMware Virtual Volumes (vVOL)

SRM , vVOLS , VCDR – Collaterals

Oracle & vROPS

Oracle & DBaaS

Oracle & NSX

Oracle & NVME , NVMe/FCP , NVMe/TCP

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

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

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

Feature Brief: Custom CPU Core Count

VMware Cloud on AWS – Using Policies and Profiles

VMware Cloud on AWS Infrastructure Visibility using Log intelligence

VMware Cloud Monitoring and Logging Model

Using VMware vRealize Log Insight Cloud (formerly known as VMware Log Intelligence)

Filter and Forward VMware Cloud on AWS events from Log Intelligence to various endpoints

Oracle on vSphere Certification, Support and Licensing Guide 2017

Oracle on VMware Support Policy – Metalink Note 249212.1 – Updated Nov 12,2021

Support Position for Oracle Products Running on VMware Virtualized Environments (Doc ID 249212.1) (Oracle credentials needed)

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 Database Support for Non-Oracle Public Cloud Environments (Doc ID 2688277.1) (Oracle credentials needed)

Can We Setup RAC in OCI-C or OCI compute VM? (Doc ID 2313078.1) (Oracle credentials needed)

Licensing Oracle Software in the Cloud Computing Environment – Authorized Cloud Environments

Oracle Software Licensing Basics – Updated December 2021

Oracle License Management Services—Tooling

WebLogic Editions explained

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 Universal Subscription Global Price List – March 1, 2023

Oracle 2023 Java Pricing Explodes: What Should I Do Now?

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

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

Former Oracle execs warn that Big Red’s auditing process is also a ‘sales enablement tool’

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

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)

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

Announcing VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts Beta

AWS Outposts

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

Amazon RDS on VMware pricing

VMware Cloud on AWS Sizer and TCO

VMware Cloud on AWS: 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 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

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

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

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

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

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 VMware vSphere – Updated

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

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

vMotion of Oracle RAC on VMware with Change Block Tracking (CBT)

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

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 and Broadcom LPe36000 Fibre Channel Adapter

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

Using Jumbo Frames on VMware NSX for Oracle Workloads

Optimizing Oracle workload performance with VMware Guest Operating System Storage Improvements

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

Architecting Microsoft SQL Server on VMware vSphere

Oracle High Availability on VMware

Oracle VMware Hybrid Cloud High Availability Guide – REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE

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

Extended Oracle RAC on vSphere Metro Storage Cluster using Storage Virtualization

Extended Oracle RAC across sites with VMware NSX – Demo

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?

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)

VMware vSphere – What’s new

What’s New in vSphere 8

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 – Important Collaterals

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 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

Oracle on VMware – Important KB & Blogs

Setting the number of cores per CPU in a virtual machine (1010184)

Setting corespersocket can affect guest OS topologies (81383)

Virtual Machine vCPU and vNUMA Rightsizing – Guidelines

Does corespersocket Affect Performance?

What is PreferHT and When to Use It

Virtual Machines with preallocated memory might be placed NUMA remote at random power-ons (76362)

NUMA nodes are heavily load imbalanced causing high contention for some virtual machines (2097369)

Virtual NUMA Controls – vSphere 8

Low throughput for UDP workloads on Windows virtual machines (2040065)

Enabling Jumbo Frames on virtual switches (1038827)

Virtual network adapters that support jumbo frames (1015556)

RSS and multiqueue support in Linux driver for VMXNET3 (2020567)

Understanding TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO) and Large Receive Offload (LRO) in a VMware environment (2055140)

Poor TCP performance might occur in Linux virtual machines with LRO enabled (1027511)

Tuning options for disk I/O performance in Linux 2.6 kernel-based virtual machines (2011861)

Large-scale workloads with intensive I/O patterns might require queue depths significantly greater than Paravirtual SCSI default values (2053145)

Which vSCSI controller should I choose for performance?

Achieving a Million I/O Operations per Second from a Single VMware vSphere 5.0 Host – Performance Study

PVSCSI and Large IO’s

vSphere 5.1 – VMDK versus RDM

Disabling Time Synchronization for virtual machines (1189)

Understanding the Three Types of VM Tools

Powering on a VM configured with the multi-writer flag enabled fails with error: Cannot open the disk ‘/vmfs/volumes/datastore/vmfolder/.disk.vmdk’ or one of the snapshot disks it depends on (2110452)

Changed Block Tracking (CBT) on virtual machines (1020128)

Resetting Changed Block Tracking for VMware vSphere virtual machines (2139574)

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)

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

Switching a raw data mapping between physical and virtual compatibility modes in ESX/ESXi (1006599)

Understanding Clones in VMware vSphere 7 – Performance Study – May 27, 2021

VMware Important KB Articles

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

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)

Testing VMkernel network connectivity with the vmkping command (1003728)

Intel Cluster-on-Die (COD) Technology, and VMware vSphere 5.5 U3b and 6.x (2142499)

A Performance Comparison of Hypervisors

Enabling or disabling verbose logging on QLogic and Emulex Host Bus Adapters (1005576)

Configuring advanced driver module parameters in ESX/ESXi (1017588)

Understanding IP Multicast in ESXi/ESX (2044735)

Multicast Filtering Modes

Using the esxtop Utility

The Skinny on ESXTOP

How To: Capture System Performance Data with esxtop – Pure Storage

Interpreting esxtop Statistics

Using esxtop to identify storage performance issues for ESX / ESXi (multiple versions) (1008205)

Using vscsiStats for Storage Performance Analysis

Getting started with vscsiStats

Using vscsiStats to Gather Storage Performance Data

Analyze I/O Workloads to Determine Storage Performance Requirements

vscsiStats Grapher – virten.net

vscsiStats into the third dimension: Surface charts!

vscsiStats 3D surface graph part 3: Build your own!

Interpreting SCSI sense codes in VMware ESXi and ESX (289902)

VMware Communities – Failed H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data

Device Sector Formats

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

vSphere 7 RDM to Shared VMDK Migration

Clustered VMDK support for WSFC

SCSI, SATA, and NVMe Storage Controller Conditions, Limitations, and Compatibility

Controlling LUN queue depth throttling in VMware ESX/ESXi (1008113)

Migrating RDMs, and a question for RDM Users

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

Business Critical Application Reference Architectures

VirtualBlocks – Oracle

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

vSAN datastore support for InfoScale Enterprise (Veritas Technote)

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

Introducing VMware vSAN HCI Mesh

VMware vSAN HCI Mesh Tech Note

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)

VSAN PERFORMANCE IS DEGRADED WHEN I/O’s ARE NOT 4K ALIGNED (83134)

Understanding Congestion in vSAN (2150260)

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)

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 Operations Guidance

VMware vSAN Design Guide

Performance Metrics when using IOPS Limits with vSAN – What you Need to Know

Troubleshooting vSAN Performance

What is a Workload?

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

Deduplication and Compression Design Considerations – 6.7

Cormac Hogan – vSAN

vSAN Space Efficiency Technologies

Demystifying Capacity Reporting in vSAN

Asymmetrical vSAN Clusters – What is Allowed, and What is Smart

The Importance of Space Reclamation for Data Usage Reporting in vSAN

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

New HCI Assessment powered by Live Optics

Precise Performance Monitoring with vSAN IOInsight

HCIBench

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

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.

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)

VMware vVols – Performance Evolution and Future

Best Practices for Virtual Volumes Performance

SanBlaze VVOL

VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes: A Game Changer for Business-Critical Oracle Databases – OLD White Paper – Sanblaze

Virtual Volumes: A game changer for operations of virtualized business critical databases – Blog

https://blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks/2015/10/06/virtual-volumes-a-game-changer-for-operations-of-virtualized-business-critical-databases

VMworld 2015 session recording (VVOLs for Business Critical Oracle Databases)