Oracle on VMware Collateral – 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

Oracle Licensing on VMware Platform – VMware Support

Oracle on VMware Support Policy changes Oct 9, 2019 – Metalink Note 249212.1

Oracle Licensing on VMware Hybrid Cloud (On-premises and VMware Clouds)

Oracle Java SE Licensing

Oracle Licensing – Partners

VMware Cloud on AWS – Service Description

VMware Cloud on AWS – Oracle

VMware Cloud on AWS

VMware Cloud on AWS (Business Solutions & TCO)

Amazon RDS on VMware

VMware Cloud on Dell EMC

Azure VMware Solutions

Google Cloud VMware Solution

Oracle Cloud VMware Solution – A New beginning of a Strategic relationship

IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions

Alibaba Cloud VMware Solution

Oracle on VMware SDDC – Technical Blogs

Oracle on VMware – Collaterals

Oracle RAC on VMware – Collaterals

Oracle & VMware Virtual NVMe (6.7)

Oracle & VMware Persistent Memory (6.7)

Oracle & RDMA

Oracle & VMware VM 1GB Huge Page

VMware Important KB Articles

Oracle Fail Safe

Oracle Hyperion and VMware

Oracle Weblogic and VMware

Oracle Backup and Recovery

Oracle dNFS

Oracle Data Guard and VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM)

Oracle on VMware vSAN

vSAN Collateral

vSAN Case Study

Oracle & VM / vSAN Encryption

Oracle on VxRAIL

Oracle & VAIO / vFRC

VMware VAAI

Oracle & VMware Virtual Volumes (vVOL)

Oracle & VMware NSX

Oracle & vROPS

Oracle Database as a Service (DBaaS)

RHEL Docker and Kubernetes

Symantec Clustering on VMware

Red Hat Clusters on VMware

Oracle Sun Cluster on VMware

HPE Serviceguard on VMware

vSphere Metro Storage Cluster

EMC VPLEX

HP Peer Persistence

Hitachi VSP

IBM SVC

Netapp MetroCluster

VMware Unix to Linux

VMworld Oracle Workshop

VMworld Sessions

User Groups

VMware and Oracle User Groups – Collaboration

VMware and Oracle Cloud Days – Collaboration

Oracle Community in VMware Technology Network [ VMTN ]

VMware User Trail Map – The Community guide for your Virtualization Journey

VMware Solutions Lab

Oracle MySQL

Documentation

Business Critical Applications (BCA) – YouTube playlist

Miscellaneous

About the Author

My name is Sudhir Balasubramanian , I am a Senior Staff Solution Architect and Global Oracle Field Practice lead, joined and worked in VMware PSO for 2 years before moving to the Global Oracle position in VMware, currently working in the Cloud Services Business Unit (CSBU) , VMware specializing in all Oracle Technologies on VMware SDDC stack.

I am an –

I have also posted useful links , event participation, videos, audios etc to my personal blog 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.

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 on VMware Support Policy changes Oct 9, 2019 – Metalink Note 249212.1

As part of the strategic alliance between Oracle and VMware announced on Sept 16, 2019, there is a new agreement for enhanced support for Oracle products running on VMware Environments running on Oracle Supported Computing Environments.

Oracle Corporation has now changed its landmark Metalink/MyOracleSupport.com note 249212.1 describing that mutual support.

An excerpt from the new text ” Oracle customers with an active support contract and running supported versions of Oracle products will receive assistance from Oracle when running those products on VMware virtualized environments“.

Read the entire text in the blog post below.

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 Support Policy changes Oct 9, 2019 – Metalink Note 249212.1

Oracle Cloud VMware Solution – A New beginning of a Strategic relationship – 09/16/2019

Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) Support on VMware Clouds

Oracle on VMware Cloud on AWS – Unraveling the licensing myth

Oracle on VMware Cloud on AWS – Custom CPU Core Count

Oracle on Amazon RDS on VMware – Licensing options

Oracle on vSphere Certification, Support and Licensing Guide 2017

Support Position for Oracle Products Running on VMware Virtualized Environments (Doc ID 249212.1) – For Oracle RAC, Oracle will only accept Service Requests as described in this note on Oracle RAC 11.2.0.2 and later releases

Oracle Java SE Licensing

https://www.vmware.com/solutions/business-critical-apps/oracle-virtualization.html

Oracle Java SE 8 Support Update – What it means to VMware customers

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

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)

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

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

VMware Cloud on AWS – Service Description

VMware Cloud on AWS (the “Service Offering” or “VMware Cloud”) brings VMware’s enterprise class software defined data center offering to the Amazon Web Services cloud, enabling customers to run any application across vSphere-based private, public, and hybrid cloud environments.

From the Service Description Document which can be found here :

“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. “

More information on Support for Applications on VMware Cloud on AWS can be found in the Support section.

VMware Cloud on AWS – Oracle

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 i3 vs i3en

Oracle E-Business Failover on AWS Using VMware Cloud on AWS

VMware Cloud on AWS

VMware Cloud on AWS Release Notes

https://cloud.vmware.com/vmc-aws/

https://aws.amazon.com/vmware/

VMware Cloud on AWS – Migrate and Extend VMware Environments to the AWS Cloud

Using Policies and Profiles – VMware Cloud on AWS Operations Guide

VMware vSAN utilizing Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

HCI1998BU – Enable High-Capacity Workloads with Elastic vSAN on VMware Cloud

AWS Storage Gateway

Amazon EBS Volume Types

VMware Cloud on AWS – Using Amazon EFS

Relentless Availability powered by vSAN Stretched Clusters for 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

VMware Cloud on AWS: Advanced Networking and Security with NSX-T SDDC

Learning Hybrid Cloud Extension (HCX)

Amazon EC2 Instance Types

Announcing VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts Beta

AWS Outposts

VMware Cloud on AWS (Business Solutions & TCO)

VMware Cloud on AWS Business Solutions – Oracle

Oracle Mission-Critical Workloads on VMware Cloud on AWS – TCO Cloud, Practitioners Guide, Solution Brief

VMware Cloud on AWS – Business Solutions

VMware Cloud on AWS Sizer and TCO

Partner Programs for VMware Cloud on AWS

Amazon RDS on VMware

Announcing the General Availability of 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 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

Oracle Cloud VMware Solution – A New beginning of a Strategic relationship

VMware is thrilled to announce a new strategic alliance with Oracle Corp to support our mutual customers’ hybrid cloud strategies. The centerpiece of this relationship is a new service that will be offered by Oracle called Oracle Cloud VMware Solution. Full text of the Oracle Cloud VMware Solution announcement can be found here :

http://www.vmware.com/go/vmware-oracle-cloud

This service will enable customers to run VMware Cloud Foundation on Oracle’s Generation 2 Cloud infrastructure. But equally important for the thousands of customers running Oracle software on VMware today in their data centers, Oracle and VMware have entered into a new mutual support agreement for currently supported Oracle products running on VMware environments.

Oracle on VMware customers can now run and implement with enhanced confidence that two of their most strategic vendors are fully aligned and are committed to addressing support issues when running Oracle software in VMware environments.

More details can be found here.

Oracle Cloud VMware Solution

OCVS

IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions

IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions

Alibaba Cloud VMware Solution

Alibaba Cloud VMware Solution

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

On Demand Scaling up / Scaling down Storage resources for Oracle production workloads – Hot Add and Hot Remove non-clustered Disks

On Demand hot extend non-clustered Oracle Disks online without downtime – Hot Extend non-clustered Disks

To be “RDM for Oracle RAC”, or not to be, that is the question [Add Shared RDM in Physical/Virtual Compatibility mode for Oracle RAC]

“RAC” n “RAC” all night – Oracle RAC on vSphere 6.x – Add shared vmdk online without downtime for Oracle RAC ASM / OCFS2

On Demand hot extend clustered vmdk’s online without downtime – Hot Extend RAC clustered disks

Around the “Storage World” in no time – Storage vMotion for Oracle Workloads (RAC & Non-RAC) 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]

Backing up Oracle Workloads (RAC & Non-RAC) with VMware Snapshot Technology

VMware Snapshots and Oracle non-clustered Independent Persistent disks

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 on VMware – Collaterals

Oracle on vSphere white papers including Best practices, RAC deployment guides, workload characterization guide can be found on the Oracle BCA landing page below.

Oracle Databases on VMware – Best Practices Guide

vMotion Innovations in vSphere 7.0 U1 – Oracle

Performance Best Practices for VMware vSphere 7.0

Performance Best Practices Guide for vSphere 6.7

What’s new in performance ? vSphere 6.7

Introducing vSphere 6.7 for Enterprise Applications

https://www.vmware.com/techpapers/2017/Perf_Best_Practices_vSphere65.html

What’s New in Performance? VMware vSphere 6.5

Oracle Monster Virtual Machine Performance on vSphere 6.5

Best Practices for Performance Tuning of Latency-Sensitive Workloads in vSphere VMs

Virtualizing Performance-Critical Database Applications in VMware vSphere 6.0

http://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/techpaper/vmware-perfbest-practices-vsphere6-0-white-paper.pdf

Oracle 12c and vSphere 6.0 Monster VM

End of General Support for vSphere 5.0 and vSphere 5.1 (2145103)

https://www.vmware.com/pdf/Perf_Best_Practices_vSphere5.5.pdf

Deploying Extremely Latency-Sensitive Applications in VMware vSphere 5.5

Oracle RAC on VMware – Collaterals

Oracle VMware Hybrid Cloud High Availability Guide – REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE

Oracle RAC and vSphere 5.1 vMotion

Performance Study of Oracle RAC on VMware vSphere 5.0

Oracle 11gR2 4 Node RAC vMotion operation with Swingbench – Demo

Virtualizing Oracle RAC – Demo

Oracle RAC Virtualization Technical Case Study – VMware IT

Oracle 12c RAC Performance on vSphere 5 and EMC

Extended Oracle RAC on vSphere Metro Storage Cluster using Storage Virtualization

Providing HA to Oracle workloads across sites using vSphere Metro Storage Cluster (vMSC) – Demo

Oracle Real Application Clusters on Extended Distance Clusters (Oracle RAC 10g R2)

Oracle RAC and Oracle RAC One Node on Extended Distance (Stretched) Clusters

Oracle RAC Multi-writer and Eager-Zero Thick (EZT)

Setting Multi Writer Flag for Oracle RAC on vSphere using Power Cli

https://blogs.vmware.com/apps/2013/10/setting-multi-writer-flag-for-oracle-rac-on-vsphere-without-any-downtime.html#more-864

http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2015/10/new-method-of-enabling-multiwriter-vmdk-flag-in-vsphere-6-0-update-1.html

Multi-writer Flag KB (1034165)

Using Oracle RAC on vSphere 6.x VSAN Datastore (2121181)

Attempts to enable the multi-writer virtual disk option on an NFS datastore fail (2147691)

Hot adding a virtual disk in ESXi 5.5 removes the multi-writer flag (2078540)

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

Cloning and converting virtual machine disks with vmkfstools (1028042)

Determining if a VMDK is zeroedthick or eagerzeroedthick (1011170)

Oracle RAC

Jumbo Frames with VMware ESXi

VXLAN Series – Different Components – Part 1 (Broadcast/Multicast Explained) – VMware

Network Requirements for Oracle RAC (Broadcast & Multicast) – Oracle Docs

Grid Infrastructure Redundant Interconnect and ora.cluster_interconnect.haip (Doc ID 1210883.1)

Oracle RAC Interconnect Protocols – Support and Roadmap (Doc ID 2434852.1)

RAC Technologies Matrix for Linux Platforms

Oracle & VMware Virtual NVMe (6.7)

vSphere 6.5 – New Virtual Storage Hardware (NVME)

vSphere 6.5 – Add an NVMe Controller

Oracle & VMware Persistent Memory (6.7)

Accelerating Oracle Performance using vSphere Persistent Memory (PMEM) – Reference Architecture

Accelerating Oracle Performance using vSphere Persistent Memory PMEM – Demo

Oracle and vSphere Persistent Memory (PMEM) – vPMEM v/s vPMEMDisk

Oracle and vSphere Persistent Memory (PMEM) – Oracle Instance Recovery – An Investigation

Micron Booth Recording – ORACLE PERFORMANCE USING VSPHERE PERSISTENT MEMORY (PMEM)

Persistent Memory Performance in vSphere 6.7

PMem (Persistant Memory) NVDIMM support in vSphere

Virtualized Persistent Memory with VMware vSphere 6.7 and HPE ProLiant Gen10 Servers

DELLEMC PowerEdge Persistent Memory (PMem) Support (54444)

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Servers Persistent Memory (PMem) Support (54445)

How to simulate Persistent Memory (PMem) in vSphere 6.7 for educational purposes?

What Is Persistent Memory?

Dell EMC NVDIMM-N Persistent Memory User Guide

Persistent Memory Summit 2018 – VMware vSphere Virtualization of PMEM

vSphere 6.7 : What is PMem and How vSphere DRS works with PMem configured VMs?

Unleashing the Power of Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory with Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database

Exadata Persistent Memory Accelerator: Partnering with Intel on Optane DC Persistent Memory

Announcing VMware vSphere Support for Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory Technology code-named “Apache Pass”

Persistent Memory Performance in vSphere 6.7 with Intel Optane DC persistent memory Performance Study – April 2, 2019

Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory

Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory Module (PMM) – StorageReview

Oracle & RDMA

Performance of RDMA and HPC Applications in Virtual Machines using FDR InfiniBand on VMware vSphere

Oracle & VMware VM 1GB Huge Page

Accelerating Oracle workloads with vSphere 6.7 Guest 2M & 1GB Huge Pages – An Investigation

Backing Guest vRAM with 1GB Pages

VMware Important KB Articles

Virtual machine hardware versions (1003746)

ESXi/ESX hosts and compatible virtual machine hardware versions list (2007240)

Upgrading a virtual machine to the latest hardware version (multiple versions) (1010675)

Hardware features available with virtual machine compatibility settings (2051652)

Configuring disks to use VMware Paravirtual SCSI (PVSCSI) controllers (1010398)

Which vSCSI controller should I choose for performance?

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

SCSI and SATA Storage Controller Conditions, Limitations, and Compatibility

Using Virtual NVMe With ESXi 6.5 and virtual machine Hardware Version 13 (2147714)

PVSCSI Storage Performance – VMware ESX 4.0

VMFS v/w RDM

vSphere 5.1 – VMDK versus RDM

Performance Characterization of VMFS and RDM Using a SAN

Migrating virtual machines with Raw Device Mappings (RDMs) (1005241)

Migrating RDMs, and a question for RDM Users

Difference between Physical compatibility RDMs and Virtual compatibility RDMs (2009226)

Cannot find “disk.EnableUUID = “TRUE”” parameter in vmx file, when creating Windows Server 2016 virtual machine using Host Client (52815)

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 and converting virtual machine disks with vmkfstools (1028042)

Cloning individual virtual machine disks via the ESX/ESXi host terminal (1027876)

A snapshot removal can stop a virtual machine for long time (1002836)

Managing snapshots in vSphere Web Client (2032907)

Understanding VM snapshots in ESXi (1015180)

Best practices for using snapshots in the vSphere environment (1025279)

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

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

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

Increasing the disk timeout values for a Linux 2.6 virtual machine (1009465)

(2011861)

Changing the queue depth for QLogic, Emulex, and Brocade HBAs (1267)

Checking the queue depth of the storage adapter and the storage device (1027901)

Understanding VMware ESXi Queuing and the FlashArray –  Cody

Adaptive Queueing vs. Storage I/O Control

DQLEN changes, what is going on?

Storage Protocol Comparison

PVSCSI and Large IO’s

Large I/O block size operations show high latency in Windows 2008 in ESX 4.x and ESXi 4.x / 5.x (2036863)

Tuning ESX/ESXi for better storage performance by modifying the maximum I/O block size (1003469)

Large I/Os are split into 64 KB units when using LSILogic Driver (9645697)

FAQ: Support statement for 512e and 4K Native drives for VMware vSphere and vSAN (2091600)

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)

Quiescing Oracle Database on Windows for Backup with VMware VDPA

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

Using Virtual NVMe With ESXi 6.5 and virtual machine Hardware Version 13 (2147714)

Understanding vSphere Active Memory

Memory Management and the VMkernel

Virtual Machines using large pages can temporarily become unresponsive after vMotion (2144984)

Virtual machine performance degrades while a vMotion is being performed (2007595)

Understanding and troubleshooting vMotion (1003734)

Large packet loss at the guest operating system level on the VMXNET3 vNIC in ESXi (2039495)

Disabling Time Synchronization (1189)

Choosing a network adapter for your virtual machine (1001805)

VMXNET3 resource considerations on a Linux virtual machine that has vSphere DirectPath I/O with vMotion enabled (2058349)

Poor network performance or high network latency on Windows virtual machines (2008925)

VMXNET3 resource considerations on a Windows virtual machine that has vSphere DirectPath I/O with vMotion enabled (2061598)

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

What’s the Big Deal with Jumbo Frames?

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

Large packet loss at the guest operating system level on the VMXNET3 vNIC in ESXi (2039495)

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

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

Large Receive Offload (LRO) Support for VMXNET3 Adapters with Windows VMs on vSphere 6

vMotion Blogs

Link-local address/Linux

Testing VMkernel network connectivity with the vmkping command (1003728)

Troubleshooting ESX/ESXi virtual machine performance issues (2001003)

Scheduler operation when using CPU Affinity (2145719)

Troubleshooting a virtual machine that has stopped responding: VMM and Guest CPU usage comparison (1017926)

High co-stop (%CSTP) values seen during virtual machine snapshot activities (2000058)

Determining if multiple virtual CPUs are causing performance issues (1005362)

CPU Hot Add Performance in vSphere 6.7

Best Practices for Oversubscription of CPU, Memory and Storage in vSphere Virtual Environments

VMware Communities: Interpreting esxtop Statistics

ESXTOP

ESXTOP

https://virtualknightz.com/2014/05/09/esxtop-cstp-explained/

Using esxtop to Troubleshoot Performance Problems – VMware

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

vSphere 6 ESXTOP quick Overview for Troubleshooting

ESXTOP Guide

vNUMA is disabled if vCPU hotplug is enabled (2040375)

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

Virtual Machine vCPU and vNUMA Rightsizing – Guidelines – Mark A

Does corespersocket Affect Performance? –  Mark A

Frank Denneman – NUMA

What is PreferHT and When To Use It

ESXi sched-stats command – KB 76362

VMware Performance Impact Statement for ‘L1 Terminal Fault – VMM’ (L1TF – VMM) mitigations: CVE-2018-3646 (55767)

VMware response to ‘L1 Terminal Fault – VMM’ (L1TF – VMM) Speculative-Execution vulnerability in Intel processors for vSphere: CVE-2018-3646 (55806)

Implementing Hypervisor-Specific Mitigations for Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) Vulnerabilities (CVE-2018-12126, CVE-2018-12127, CVE-2018-12130, and CVE-2019-11091) in vSphere (67577)

https://blogs.vmware.com/feed-items/l1-terminal-fault-l1tf-vmware-vsphere-patches-2

L1TF – L1 Terminal Fault Attack – CVE-2018-3620 & CVE-2018-3646

Performance of vSphere 6.7 Scheduling Options

New Scheduler Option for vSphere 6.7 U2

Which vSphere CPU Scheduler to Choose

VMware VROOM! Blog – VMware’s performance team

A Performance Comparison of Hypervisors

Troubleshooting Storage Performance in vSphere – Storage Queues
https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2012/07/troubleshooting-storage-performance-in-vsphere-part-5-storage-queues.html

https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2012/05/troubleshooting-storage-performance-in-vsphere-part-1-the-basics-.html

https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2012/06/troubleshooting-storage-performance-in-vsphere-part-2.html

https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2012/06/troubleshooting-storage-performance-in-vsphere-part-3-ssd-performance.html

Pure Storage Cody Hosterman

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

Oracle Fail Safe

Oracle Fail Safe Documentation, Release 4.2.1 for Microsoft Windows

Setup for Failover Clustering and Microsoft Cluster Service Update 1 VMware vSphere 6.0

Microsoft Windows Server Failover Clustering on VMware vSphere 6.x: Guidelines for supported configurations (2147661)

Oracle Hyperion and VMware

Support for Virtualized Environments – VMware – Hyperion

Oracle WebLogic and VMware

Virtualizing Oracle WebLogic Server on VMware vSphere

Enterprise Java Applications on VMware – Best Practices Guide

Oracle Backup and Recovery

Database Backup and Recovery User’s Guide

BACKUP_TAPE_IO_SLAVES

DBWR_IO_SLAVES

DISK_ASYNCH_IO

FILESYSTEMIO_OPTIONS

Optimizing Deduplication

http://thebackupblog.typepad.com/thebackupblog/2008/07/optimizing-deduplication.html

Maximizing Deduplication Results with Oracle Databases and RMAN

Oracle dNFS

Step by Step – Configure Direct NFS Client (DNFS) on Linux (Doc ID 762374.1)

Mount Options for Oracle files for RAC databases and Clusterware when used with NFS on NAS devices (Doc ID 359515.1)

Collecting The Required Information For Support To Troubleshot DNFS (Direct NFS) Issues (11.1, 11.2 & 12c). (Doc ID 1464567.1)

Configuring File System Storage for Oracle Database

Direct NFS: FAQ (Doc ID 954425.1)

Oracle Data Guard and VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM)

Disaster Recovery of Tier 1 Applications on VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager

Architecting Oracle Database DR Solution on vSphere With Oracle Data Guard and SRM

VMware vSphere Replication Documentation

VMware Site Recovery Manager Documentation

Caveats and Limitations of vSphere Replication 8.1 –  vSphere Replication cannot replicate virtual machines that share vmdk files in this release

Configuring VMware vSphere Replication fails for a virtual machine that is configured with SCSI Bus sharing (2087852)

Oracle on VMware vSAN

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

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

Oracle Real Application Clusters on VMware vSAN

Oracle Real Application Clusters on VMware Virtual SAN – White Paper (2020 Updated)

Oracle Real Application Clusters on VMware Virtual SAN -Blog

Oracle Real Application Clusters on VMware vSAN – Demo

https://blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks/2015/12/10/oracle-real-application-clusters-on-vmwre-virtual-san

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

Webinar – Oracle Database on VMware Hyperconverged Infrastructure with vSAN 6.7 (Nov 29, 2018 10:00 AM PDT)

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

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

vSAN datastore support for InfoScale Enterprise (Veritas Technote)

VMware IOInsight – Tool to help a VM’s storage I/O behavior IOInsight

vSAN Collateral

Business Critical Application Reference Architectures

VirtualBlocks – Oracle

StorageHub – VMware vSAN

What’s New with VMware vSAN 6.6

An in-depth view into vSAN’s revolutionary features and technologies

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

VMware VSAN Demos

vSAN performance diagnostics reports: “The size of IOs may not be optimal to achieve the desired goal” (2150019)

Understanding Congestion in vSAN (2150260)

Deduplication and Compression Design Considerations – 6.7

Cormac Hogan – vSAN

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)

vSAN sizing guides for Business Critical Applications

vSAN ReadyNode Sizer

vSAN Hybrid TCO and Sizing Calculator

vSAN ReadyNodes

New HCI Assessment powered by Live Optics

vSAN feature list vs. vSphere version

Practical vSAN: Measuring Congestion
https://www.sym.bio/practical-vsan-measuring-congestion/
https://dev-sym.pantheon.io/practical-vsan-part-2-adjusting-congestion-buffer-sizes/

iSCSI on vSAN Limitations and Considerations

Best practices for using vSAN 6.5 iSCSI devices (2148216)

Best practices for using vSAN 6.7 iSCSI devices (57344)

Using the vSAN iSCSI Target Service

vSAN 6.7 Proof of Concept Guide

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

vSAN 6.7 – Introducing WSFC support on vSAN!

Hosting Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC) with shared disk on VMware vSphere: Doing it right!

What’s new in vSAN 6.7U3 – SCSI-3 Persistent Reservation

Microsoft SQL Server on Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC) on VMware vSAN – New Capabilities!

Configuring a shared disk resource for Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC) and migrating SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance (FCI) from SAN (RDMs) to vSAN (74786)

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

vSAN Performance Service

VMware vSAN with Intel Optane Review

VMware vSAN Operations Guidance

vSAN Case Study

 

https://www.vmware.com/products/vsan/customers.html

http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/customers/vmware-cloud-carib-15q4-cs-en.pdf?src=WWW_customers_vmware-cloud-carib-15q4-cs-en.pdf

http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/customers/VMware-UnionHospital-15Q2-CS-EN.pdf?src=WWW_customers_VMware-UnionHospital-15Q2-CS-EN.pdf

https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/casestudy/vmware-union-hospital-15q2-casestudy-en.pdf

Oracle & VM / vSAN Encryption

Oracle Advanced Security Guide

vSphere 6.5: VM and vSAN Encryption FAQ

Oracle on VxRAIL

Oracle RAC on VMware Cloud Foundation on Dell EMC VxRail

Oracle RAC on VMware Cloud Foundation on Dell EMC VxRail -PDF

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 / vFRC

Accelerating Virtualized Oracle 12c performance with vSphere 5.5 Advanced features Flash Read Cache and vMotion

VMware vSphere Flash Read Cache

vFRC FAQ

Configuring vSphere Flash Read Cache

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/

VMware VAAI

Frequently Asked Questions for vStorage APIs for Array Integration (1021976)

VMware vSphere Storage APIs Array Integration (VAAI)

VAAI Comparison – Block versus NAS – Cormac

Oracle & VMware Virtual Volumes (vVOL)

Virtualizing Oracle Workloads with VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes on VMware Hybrid Cloud

Whats New in Virtual Volumes 2.0

Oracle RAC Support – vVOLs

What’s New in vSphere 7 Core Storage

Tech Zone – VVOLS

vSphere Virtual Volumes Technical Overview

vSphere Virtual Volumes – FAQ

3 Key Reasons Customers Move to Virtual Volumes

Understanding Virtual Volumes (vVols) in VMware vSphere 6.7 (2113013)

Backing Up Virtual Volumes (VVols)

Pure Storage and VVOL

Web Guide: Implementing vSphere Virtual Volumes with FlashArray

Web Guide: Virtual Volumes Quick Start Guide

Datastore Management

FlashArray 3.0 Plugin for the vSphere Web Client

Oracle database cloning using VVols

Troubleshooting Virtual Volume Setup

What Happens when a Single VASA Service is Unreachable?

Understanding Virtual Volumes and Failure Scenarios

EMC VVOL

Using VMware Virtual Volumes with EMC VMAX3 and VMAX All Flash

VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes on Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform Family and Hitachi NAS Platform

VMware vSphere 6.5 Virtual Volume Environment Deployment in Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform

Implementing VMware Virtual Volumes on HPE 3PAR StoreServ

Operation Guide for VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes – Fujitsu

VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes on Dell PS Series

VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes – NEC Corporation of America

Virtual Volumes on Nimble OS 3

Utilizing VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes (VVOL) with the FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS DX S3 series

OLD paper

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

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)

Oracle & VMware NSX

Extended Oracle RAC across sites with VMware NSX – Demo

Using Jumbo Frames on VMware NSX for Oracle Workloads

Oracle & vROPS

VMware vRealize Operations Management Pack for Oracle Database

Blue Medora’s vROps Management Pack for Oracle Database

Blue Medora’s vROps Management Pack for OEM Overview

Blue Medora MP for Oracle Enterprise Manager

Oracle Database as a Service (DBaaS)

Virtual LiVefire Solutions Oracle RAC-as-a-Service

Oracle RAC DBaaS using vRealize Automation & Orchestration – Demo

Accelerating Database-as-a-Service(DBaaS) with VMware vRealize Automation and EMC XtremIO All-Flash Array

DBaaS at EMC using vRealize Suite

Deploying Database-as-a-Service with Pure Storage and VMware

Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) Reference Architecture with VMware and Tintri

Enabling Oracle EM12c-­‐based Database-­‐as-­‐a-­‐Service on VMware with the Blue Medora Plugin for VMware

DBaaS with Oracle 12c, EMC XtremeIO and VMware (vCAC)

RHEL Docker and Kubernetes

https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/containers/whats-a-linux-container
https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/containers/what-is-docker
https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/containers/what-is-kubernetes

Symantec Clustering on VMware

Symantec Storage Foundation High Availability 6.x in guest storage, high availability, and disaster recovery support (Partner Verified and Supported) (2046035)

What configuration does InfoScale support when simultaneous write protection is disabled?

InfoScale support for SCSI Bus Sharing configurations and VMware vMotion

Storage Foundation Cluster File System HA on VMware VMDK Deployment Guide

Veritas InfoScale Enterprise 7.x in guest storage, high availability, and disaster recovery support (Partner Verified and Supported) (51476)

Veritas InfoScale Virtualization Guide – Linux on ESXi

Red Hat Clusters on VMware

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 High Availability Add-On Overview

Support Policies for RHEL High Availability Clusters – Virtualization Platforms

How to configure VMware fencing using fence_vmware_soap in Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability Add On?

Are VMware VMDK disk images a supported shared storage method in Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability Cluster?

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Configuration Example – Oracle HA on Cluster Suite

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Cluster, High Availability, and GFS Deployment Recommended Practices

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Configuring the Red Hat High Availability Add-On with Pacemaker

Is live migration supported for VMs that are members of a RHEL cluster?

Support Policies for RHEL High Availability clusters – fence_vmware_rest

Design Guidance for RHEL High Availability Clusters – VMware Virtual Machines as Cluster Members

Support Policies for RHEL High Availability Clusters – VMware Virtual Machines as Cluster Members

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

Oracle Sun Cluster on VMware

Clustering Solaris Guests That Run on VMware with Sun Cluster 3.2 Software

Oracle Cluster 3.3 Setup Solaris 10 x86(VMware)

HPE Serviceguard on VMware

HPE Serviceguard for Linux with VMware virtual machines

HP Serviceguard for Linux with VMware virtual machines

Using HP Serviceguard for Linux with VMware

vSphere Metro Storage Cluster

VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster Recommended Practices VMware vSphere 6.0

VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster Case Study

Stretched Clusters and VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager: Understanding the Options and Goals

EMC VPLEX

Implementing VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster (vMSC) using EMC VPLEX (2007545)

Using VMware vSphere with EMC VPLEX

Using SRDF/METRO in a VMware Metro Storage Cluster running Oracle E-Business Suite and 12c RAC

EMC vPLEX , VNX & vSphere Metro Storage Cluster

HP Peer Persistence

Implementing vSphere Metro Storage Cluster using HP 3PAR StoreServ Peer Persistence (2055904)

Implementing vSphere Metro Storage Cluster using HP LeftHand Multi-Site (2020097)

Implementing vSphere Metro Storage Cluster using HPE 3PAR Peer Persistence

Implementing VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster with HP LeftHand Multi-Site storage

Hitachi VSP

Implementing vSphere Metro Storage Cluster using Hitachi Storage Cluster for VMware vSphere (2073278)

Deploying a vSphere Metro Storage Cluster (vMSC) using Hitachi NAS (HNAS) Platform with Synchronous Disaster Recovery (SyncDR) Cluster software in VMware vSphere (2085108)

Deploy VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster with Hitachi NAS Platform on Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000 Using Global-Active Device

Implementing vSphere Metro Storage Cluster using Hitachi Storage Cluster for VMware vSphere (featuring Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform) (2039406)

Deploy VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster on Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform

IBM SVC

Implementing vSphere Metro Storage Cluster using IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (2032346)

VMware HA and vMotion with stretched IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller Cluster (2000948)

Netapp MetroCluster

A Continuous-Availability Solution for VMware vSphere and NetApp

MetroCluster Version 8.2.1 Best Practices for Implementation

VMware support with NetApp MetroCluster (1001783)

Oracle Databases on ONTAP

vSphere 6 on NetApp MetroCluster 8.3

VMware vSphere with ONTAP

NetApp Best Practice Guidelines for Oracle Database 11g

Best Practices for Running VMware vSphere on Network-Attached Storage (NAS)

VMware Unix to Linux

https://blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks/2016/02/03/oracle-u2vl-with-virtual-san-and-the-batch-processing-use-case/

Interested in the vSphere Unix to Linux Migration Service ? Contact U2Vl@vmware.com for more information

VMworld Oracle Workshop

VMworld 2019 Virtualizing Applications Track – Customer Workshops

VMworld 2018 Virtualizing Applications Track – Pre-Conference Customer Boot Camps

VMworld 2017 Oracle Customer Bootcamps

VMworld Sessions

VMworld 2020 – Breakout Sessions , Expert Round Tables and Demos focused on Business Critical Applications (BCA)

VMworld On-Demand Video Library – 2020

VMworld 2019 US & Europe Content Catalog

VMworld On-Demand Video Library – 2019

VMworld 2018 US Content Catalog .  More details about it can be found here.

VMworld On-Demand Video Library – 2018

Direct playback & download URLs for all VMworld 2018 US Sessions – William Lam

VMworld US & Europe 2017 Breakout Sessions Playback URLs

VMworld US 2016 Breakout Sessions Playback URLs

Past VMworld Recordings

User Groups

Oracle User Group Community Portal

VMware User Group – Connect, Learn, Grow and Share as a VMUG Member

The VMware User Group (VMUG) is an independent, global, customer-led organization, created to maximize members’ use of VMware and partner solutions through knowledge sharing, training, collaboration and events.

Join today to connect with the community and take advantage of all of the benefits of a free VMUG membership.

VMware and Oracle User Groups – Collaboration

VMware and DOAG German Oracle User Group – January 23th – 24th, 2020
https://blogs.vmware.com/apps/2020/02/vmware-and-doag-german-oracle-user-group-january-23-24-2020.html

VMware and Rocky Mountain Oracle User Group (RMOUG) – Training Days, Feb 18th, 2020
https://blogs.vmware.com/apps/2020/02/vmware-and-rocky-mountain-oracle-user-group-rmoug-training-days-feb-18th-2020.html

VMware and Oracle Cloud Days – Collaboration

VMware and Oracle together – A brave World – Oracle Cloud Days, 2020
https://blogs.vmware.com/apps/2020/02/vmware-and-oracle-together-a-brave-world-oracle-cloud-days-2020.html

Oracle Community in VMware Technology Network [ VMTN ]

Come and join the Oracle Community in VMware Technology Network (VMTN) where VMware Application Team, Customers and Partners can share their thoughts and ideas , share knowledge , resources, opinions, and experiences globally.

Oracle Community in VMTN

VMware User Trail Map – The Community guide for your Virtualization Journey

2019 Vmware User Trail Map

The above document was created as a result of the Level Up project. Members of the technology community from all over the world have contributed to ensure that this guide will provide you with the information you need to help you make progress at the job you are trying to do at this stage of your career.

Much like a GitHub project, Level Up is a collection of contributors, but instead of creating code, we create useful assets in an “open source content” collaborative style with the sole purpose of helping the tech community. The goal is to help people Level Up their skills so they can Level Up in their careers. Come join us in our efforts to give back to the community.

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 MySQL

Virtualization for MySQL on VMware: Best Practices and Performance Guide

MySQL on VMware vSAN 6.7 All-Flash

Documentation

Oracle Documentation

Oracle Linux Documentation

Oracle Linux Yum Server

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Documentation

VMware Compatibility Guide

VMware Docs

VMware Configuration Maximums

Configuration Maximums for VMware Cloud on AWS

VMware ESX 7.0

VMware ESXi 6.7 Update 2 Release Notes

VMware ESXi 6.7 Update 1 Release Notes

vSphere 6.7 Release Notes

VMware vSphere 6.5 Release Notes

VMware vSphere 6.0 Release Notes

The VMware Validated Designs provide comprehensive and extensively-tested blueprints to build and operate a Software-Defined Data Center. With the VMware Validated Designs, VMware delivers holistic data center-level to deploy and configure the complete VMware SDDC in a wide range of use cases with detailed guidance on how to operate efficiently.

Business Critical Applications (BCA) – YouTube playlist

Virtualizing Business Critical Applications

Apps on vSphere

VMware Cloud on AWS

Oracle on VMware Hybrid Cloud Demos

VMware Events

Oracle Events

Miscellaneous

Oracle VM – 4x More Marketing, 4x Fewer Substantiated Facts

Exadata v/s vBlock

http://houseofbrick.com/exadata-vs-vblock-a-case-study