Niran Even-Chen

Niran (@niranec on Twitter) is a Staff SE Specialist in VMware’s Network and Security BU, specializing in NSX and applications. With over 15 years of experience in IT Engineering, architecture and sales roles. The technical expertise Niran acquired includes design, technical selling and evangelizing of virtualization, Networking, Storage, performance, Cloud (CNA and Cloud management) and BC/DR solutions. In his current position at VMware Niran devotes his time in helping Enterprise and global customers in their journey to digital transformation with Developer Ready Infrastructure, focusing on NSX and Pivotal Cloud Foundry Integration. In his previous positions at VMware Niran was the main SME at VMware for Microsoft SQL Server virtualization and the author of the official best practices guides it, and also a Cloud and Performance specialist. Niran is a frequent speaker at industry events and conferences including VMworld, VMUGs, SQL Saturdays and more. He is also part of the CTO Ambassador Program at VMware.

Recent Posts

Updated – Official SQL Server on vSphere best practices guide, March 2017

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Microsoft SQL Server is the most virtualized enterprise mission critical application today. In recent years it has become a mainstream effort among VMware customers to virtualize critical databases to allow better agility and scale while increasing availability and operational efficiency. The official best practices guide for virtualizing SQL Server is now updated with information regarding vSphere 6.5 Read more...

Demo – Extended Oracle RAC across sites with VMware NSX

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Our team has been working on building solutions for NSX with Business Critical Applications around Zero trust security, application mobility, operational efficiency, increased security and more . In a previous post I published a demo about database cloning and enforcing dynamic security policies using NSX: http://blogs.vmware.com/apps/2016/04/dynamically-enforcing-security-on-a-hot-cloned-sql-server-with-vmware-nsx.html In this blog post we are showcasing the ability to stretch an Read more...

Demo – Dynamically Enforcing Security on a Hot Cloned SQL Server with VMware NSX

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VMware NSX is a software defined solution that brings the power of virtualization to network and security. There are many great papers about NSX in general: for example here & here and many others, the purpose of this demo is not to dive into everything that NSX does, Instead I have focused on one capability in particular and that is the intelligent grouping of NSX Service Read more...

Updated: Microsoft SQL Server on vSphere Best Practices Guide

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Microsoft SQL server is the most virtualized enterprise mission critical application today. In recent years it has become a mainstream effort among VMware customers to virtualize critical databases to allow better agility and scale while increasing availability and operational efficiency. This guide, now named “Architecting Microsoft SQL Server on VMware vSphere – Best Practices Guide” to reflect its focus on Read more...