Sudhir Balasubramanian, Author at Virtualize Applications

Sudhir Balasubramanian is a Staff Solution Architect specializing in all Oracle Technologies on VMware SDDC stack.

Prior to joining VMware in 2012 , Sudhir has worked for close to 20 years as a Principal Oracle Database Administrator (DBA) / Architect in Oracle Technologies for fortune 100 companies including Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) , Sony Electronics, Epsilon Marketing (Aspen/Newgen), Teletech Corp, SAIC, Active Network and Sempra Energy Holdings before joining VMware PSO before moving into the Global Field and Partner Readiness (GFPR) and now in CPBU TMM.

Sudhir is also experienced in EMC SAN Technologies & Unix/Linux Operating Systems along with being a VMware vBCA Specialist , VMware vExpert and VMware VCA – Cloud certified.

Sudhir is also an Oracle ACE.
https://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=19297:3

Sudhir is a recognized Speaker having presented at Oracle Open World, IOUG, VMworld, VMware Partner Exchange, EMC World, EMC Oracle Summit and various Webinars and is an Industry recognized expert in Oracle Virtualization technologies.

Sudhir has also co-authored a book “Virtualizing Oracle Business Critical Databases on VMware SDDC” which is a comprehensive authority for Oracle DBA ’s on the subject of Oracle & Linux on vSphere.
https://www.amazon.com/Virtualize-Oracle-Business-Critical-Databases/dp/1500135127/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1493001047&sr=1-1&keywords=Virtualize+Oracle+Business+Critical+Databases

Sudhir regularly blogs at the official VMware Application blog site
https://blogs.vmware.com/apps

Sudhir also blogs on his personal website
http://vracdba.com

Sudhir holds a degree in Master of Computer Science from San Diego State University (SDSU) graduating in 2011.

Twitter @vracdba

Migrating non-production Oracle RAC using VMware Storage vMotion with minimal downtime

Sudhir Balasubramanian posted Yesterday

Migrating non-production Oracle RAC using VMware Storage vMotion with minimal downtime Much has been discussed and documented about Storage vMotion of Oracle RAC Clusters on VMware SDDC which can be found in the numerous blog posts available at Oracle on VMware Collateral – One Stop Shop. Development, QA , Pre-Production RAC Read more...

Introducing vSphere 6.7 for Enterprise Applications

Sudhir Balasubramanian posted 3 days ago

Introducing vSphere 6.7 for Enterprise Applications vSphere 6.7 introduces new storage and networking features which have a major impact on the performance of Enterprise Applications – these include support for Persistent Memory (PMEM) and enhanced support for Remote Directory Memory Access (RDMA). Persistent Memory (PMEM) With vSphere Persistent Memory (PMEM) , customers Read more...

A Journey to the Clouds – Oracle on VMware Cloud on AWS

Sudhir Balasubramanian posted March 28, 2018

“We have nothing to fear but …”. famous words of Chief Vitalstatistix , chief of the famous Gaulish village in the famous Asterix & Obelix series. Legend goes when the Gallic chieftains were asked by Alexander the Great what they were most afraid of in all the world, they replied that their worst fear Read more...

VMware Snapshots and Oracle non-clustered Independent Persistent disks

Sudhir Balasubramanian posted March 27, 2018

“To beat (something) to boredom” – To linger over or discuss something so long and to such a tedious and laborious extent that the subject is no longer of any interest or relevance and induces a bad migraine!!! Yes, much has been written and spoken about and VMware Snapshots and Independent Persistent disks but I Read more...

Around the “Storage World” in no time – Storage vMotion and Oracle Workloads

Sudhir Balasubramanian posted March 1, 2018

“Around the World in Eighty Days” – A classic adventure novel and one of Jules Verne’s most acclaimed works which describes how Phileas Fogg and his valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a wager. In the world of Business Critical Applications, especially IO intensive Oracle workloads, there is Read more...