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…
This is first of a series of posts on deploying vSphere Virtual Volumes for Tier 1…
Anyone that virtualized Exchange server in recent years had stumbled into this conundrum: should I disable…
SAP provides a range of enterprise software applications and business solutions to manage and run the…
Database vendors like Oracle provide options to create compressed tablespaces to store the data. The perceived…
Virtual Volumes (VVOLS) a game changer for running Tier 1 Business Critical Databases: One of the…
Introduction to Queues Sizing Proper queues sizing is a key element in ensuring current database workloads…
VMware is glad to see that the Microsoft Exchange Server (and Performance) teams appear to have…
The original vCenter Server 5.5 Availability Guide was published in December 2014. With the End of…
As you dive into the inner-workings of the new version of VMware vSphere (aka ESXi), one…
We at VMware have been fielding a lot of inquiries lately from customers who have virtualized…
Starting with update releases in December, 2014, VMware vSphere will default to a new configuration for…
Planned Migration: One of the relatively newer use cases for SRM is planned migration. With this…
A protection group is a group of virtual machines that fail over together to the recovery…
The purpose of the exercise was to demonstrate use cases for disaster recovery of real business…
What’s the CPU Utilization Of Standalone SAP Central Services in a Virtual Machine? Since VMware came…
TPC-C Benchmark is an on-line transaction processing (OLTP). (TPCC Main site) TPC-C uses a mix of…
Cloning virtual machines is an area where VAAI can provide many advantages. Flash storage arrays provide…
Availability: Availability of the applications is one of the important requirements for business critical applications. The…
Type of Database licensing for SAP: The type of licensing impacts the cluster design for SAP…
Over the past few years, there has been significant acceleration in adoption of the VMware platform…
Announcing the latest addition to our series of prescriptive guidance for virtualizing Business Critical Applications on…
In Windows Server 2012 VM-Generation ID Support in vSphere, we introduced you to VMware’s support for…
Recently in partner workshops I have come across some interesting discussions about the impact of hyper-threading…
Oracle RAC Cluster using ASM for storage would require the shared disks to be accessed by…
The VMware BCA team recently worked with the vCOps gurus to produce the whitepaper “Monitoring Business Critical…
This is a follow up to the blog I posted in Jan 2013 which identified a generic…
Update 1/25/2013: The vSphere versions required for VM-Generation ID support have been updated below. Active Directory…
“Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out…
VMware Partners have the option to complete extra coursework to become VBCA Competent. There are many partners…
When embarking on your virtualization journey, keep these key organizational best practices in mind. Where to…
Granting the Lock Pages in Memory user right to the SQL Server service account prevents SQL…
You cannot afford for business critical applications in your datacenter to go down just to upgrade…
A recent IDC study concluded SAP-Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) has the lowest total cost of…