Storage I/O control for critical apps is a great idea
Recently, I have been asked this question: should we enable Storage I/O control on datastores used…
Virtual Volumes and Storage Policy-Based Management for Databases
Virtual Volumes and Storage Policy-Based Management for Databases In the first part of this series we…
Monthly News – November 2015
News Our apologies for posting these news so late. Since the website and forums went down,…
Oracle Real Application Clusters on VMware Virtual SAN
Oracle Real Application Clusters on VMware Virtual SAN VMware Virtual SAN VMware Virtual SAN is VMware’s…
How to upgrade to Linux Mint 17.3
It is now possible to upgrade the Cinnamon and MATE editions of Linux Mint 17, 17.1…
Linux Mint 17.3 “Rosa” Cinnamon released!
The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 17.3 “Rosa” Cinnamon Edition. Linux…
Linux Mint 17.3 “Rosa” MATE released!
The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 17.3 “Rosa” MATE Edition. Linux…
Crash consistent backups and database cloning with Virtual Volumes
In the first part of this series we provided a high level view of the benefits…
Linux Mint 17.3 “Rosa” Cinnamon – BETA Release
This is the BETA release for Linux Mint 17.3 “Rosa” Cinnamon Edition. Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa…
Linux Mint 17.3 “Rosa” MATE – BETA Release
This is the BETA release for Linux Mint 17.3 “Rosa” MATE Edition. Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa…
Hyper-threading doesn’t count for virtual SQL licensing
There’s a fair bit of confusion around licensing SQL that is virtualized and I have been getting questions…
Virtual Volumes for Database Backup and Recovery
In the first part of this series we provided a high level view of the benefits…
Monthly News – October 2015
News We’re just a few days away from the releases of Cinnamon 2.8 and MATE 1.12….
Protect your applications with vCloud Air Disaster recovery service
Earlier this year VMware released a new vCloud Air service for Disaster Recovery that brings business…
Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS): Reference Architecture with VMware and Tintri
Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) is a real-world example of cloud computing that delivers databases and database applications through…
Oracle, VMware and Extended Distance Oracle Real Application Clusters on vSphere Metro Storage Cluster
Oracle, VMware and Extended Distance Oracle Real Application Clusters on vSphere Metro Storage Cluster Nowadays a…
Harnessing the Power of Storage Virtualization and Site Recovery Manager to Provide HA and DR Capabilities to Business Critical Databases – VAPP4634
Harnessing the Power of Storage Virtualization and Site Recovery Manager to Provide HA and DR Capabilities…
Virtual Volumes: A game changer for operations of virtualized business critical databases
This is first of a series of posts on deploying vSphere Virtual Volumes for Tier 1…
The debate about disabling Hyperthreading in virtualized Exchange server is over
Anyone that virtualized Exchange server in recent years had stumbled into this conundrum: should I disable…
SAP on VMWare Availability and Recovery Guide
SAP provides a range of enterprise software applications and business solutions to manage and run the…
Oracle Database compression or Storage (All Flash) compression: A performance comparison
Database vendors like Oracle provide options to create compressed tablespaces to store the data. The perceived…