Migrating an Oracle RAC Cluster using Storage vMotion to vSAN Storage – Private Investigation

Sudhir Balasubramanian posted April 21, 2018

Migrating an Oracle RAC Cluster using Storage vMotion to vSAN Storage – Private Investigation   ” Give me ten men like Clouseau, and I can destroy the world…” said Former Chief Inspector Dreyfus about Inspector Jacques Clouseau and his incompetence, clumsy and chaotic detective skills     This blog will not focus on the ‘how Read more...

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

Sudhir Balasubramanian posted April 19, 2018

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 April 17, 2018

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...