Palani specializes in solution design and implementation for business-critical applications on VMware vSAN. He has more than 12 years of experience in enterprise storage solution design and implementation for mission-critical workloads. Palani has worked with large system and storage product organizations where he has delivered Storage Availability and Performance Assessments, Complex Data Migrations across storage platforms, Proof of Concept, and Performance Benchmarking.

Recent Posts

Eager Zeroed Thick Requirement for Multi-Writer Disks is Now Removed for vSAN Datastore

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One of the popular use cases for VMware vSAN is Business-Critical Applications (BCA). BCA have frequently deployed on cluster aware filesystems that use shared virtual disks (vmdk). Some of these clustered filesystems use multi-writer for shared disks. Popular use cases using this feature are Oracle RAC, Redhat Clustering and Veritas Infoscale. The multi-writer option enables Read more...
vSAN design recommendations

Splunk on VMware vSAN – Case Study and Design Recommendations

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Splunk software helps to create hidden value from ever growing Machine Data. These workloads need massive storage capacity; the infrastructure needs to be flexible, scalable and provide linear performance increase with scaling. The traditional approach of using physical servers for server deployment may be an option but not smart enough considering the benefits of virtualization. Splunk has provided recommendations for virtualizing its Read more...
Oracle

Oracle Database on all-flash vSAN 6.7 Reference Architecture

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Customers deploying Oracle Database have requirements such as stringent SLAs, consistent performance, and high availability. It can be a major challenge for organizations to manage data storage in these environments due to these demanding business requirements. Common issues in using traditional storage solutions for business-critical applications include inability to easily scale-up and scale-out, storage inefficiency, complex Read more...
VMware vSAN Knowledge Base and Resources for Shared Virtual disks using Multi-writer option

VMware vSAN Knowledge Base and Resources for Shared Virtual disks using Multi-writer option

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VMware vSAN™, the market leader in Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) storage, enables low cost and high performance next-generation HCI solutions. It converges traditional IT infrastructure silos onto industry-standard servers and virtualizes physical infrastructure to help customers easily evolve their infrastructure without risk and improve TCO over traditional resource silos. vSAN provides both enterprise-class scale and performance Read more...

Delphix Dynamic Data Platform on VMware vSAN

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In today’s digital economy, data is the essential ingredient to a company’s success and competitive advantage. From the bottom-line efficiency to the top-line growth and innovation, turning data into action requires fast and secure access across the company. Companies can accelerate their infrastructure modernization with VMware vSAN and Delphix Dynamic Data Platform providing a comprehensive Read more...

Oracle Database on VMware vSAN Day 2 Operations and Management – Operation Guide

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Customers deploying production Oracle workloads have stringent requirements to support and maintain critical database operational tasks such as Backup and Recovery, Cloning, Data Refresh for Development/Test environment and Patching. These operational tasks are also known as Database Day 2 Management Operations. With the rapid adoption of VMware vSAN™ for business-critical workloads due to highly scalable, Read more...

Oracle 12c OLTP & DSS workload on Virtual SAN 6.2 All Flash

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Hey Oracle on VMware folks!!! Earlier, we had blogged about Oracle RAC on VMware Virtual SAN Hybrid which is VMware’s software-defined storage solution for hyper-converged infrastructure and is available at Oracle RAC on Hybrid VSAN In this blog post, we would like give you a glimpse of  “Oracle  12c OLTP Workload on VMware Virtual SAN Read more...