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…
STO4452 – Virtual Volumes (VVOLS) a game changer for running Tier 1 Business Critical Databases
Virtual Volumes (VVOLS) a game changer for running Tier 1 Business Critical Databases: One of the…
Queues, Queues and more Queues
Introduction to Queues Sizing Proper queues sizing is a key element in ensuring current database workloads…
A Stronger Case For Virtualizing Exchange Server 2013 – Think “Performance”
VMware is glad to see that the Microsoft Exchange Server (and Performance) teams appear to have…
Updated availability guide for vCenter 5.5 with Microsoft Clustering support now available
The original vCenter Server 5.5 Availability Guide was published in December 2014. With the End of…
Say Hello to vMotion-compatible Shared-Disks Windows Clustering on vSphere
As you dive into the inner-workings of the new version of VMware vSphere (aka ESXi), one…
Virtualizing Microsoft Lync Server – Let’s Clear up the Confusion
We at VMware have been fielding a lot of inquiries lately from customers who have virtualized…
Disabling TPS in vSphere – Impact on Critical Applications
Starting with update releases in December, 2014, VMware vSphere will default to a new configuration for…
Disaster Recovery for Virtualized Business Critical Applications (Part 3 of 3)
Planned Migration: One of the relatively newer use cases for SRM is planned migration. With this…
Disaster Recovery for Virtualized Business Critical Applications (Part 2 of 3)
A protection group is a group of virtual machines that fail over together to the recovery…
Disaster Recovery for Virtualized Business Critical Applications (Part 1 of 3)
The purpose of the exercise was to demonstrate use cases for disaster recovery of real business…
The Case for SAP Central Services and VMware Fault Tolerance
What’s the CPU Utilization Of Standalone SAP Central Services in a Virtual Machine? Since VMware came…
OLTP performance on Virtualized SQL 2014 with All Flash Arrays
TPC-C Benchmark is an on-line transaction processing (OLTP). (TPCC Main site) TPC-C uses a mix of…
Effect of VAAI on cloning with All Flash Arrays:
Cloning virtual machines is an area where VAAI can provide many advantages. Flash storage arrays provide…
Critical Factors to consider when virtualizing Business Critical Applications: (Part 2 of 2)
Availability: Availability of the applications is one of the important requirements for business critical applications. The…
Impact of database licensing on Cluster Design for Production SAP virtualization
Type of Database licensing for SAP: The type of licensing impacts the cluster design for SAP…
Critical Factors to consider when virtualizing Business Critical Applications: (Part 1 of 2)
Over the past few years, there has been significant acceleration in adoption of the VMware platform…
Just Published – Virtualizing Active Directory Domain Services On VMware vSphere®
Announcing the latest addition to our series of prescriptive guidance for virtualizing Business Critical Applications on…
Which vSphere Operation Impacts Windows VM-Generation ID?
In Windows Server 2012 VM-Generation ID Support in vSphere, we introduced you to VMware’s support for…
SAP on VMware Sizing & Design Example
Recently in partner workshops I have come across some interesting discussions about the impact of hyper-threading…
Setting Multi Writer Flag for Oracle RAC on vSphere without any downtime
Oracle RAC Cluster using ASM for storage would require the shared disks to be accessed by…