I’ve said it before that the Universe speaks to you in three’s. I got asked for info about VMware and Databases twice today, so I’m posting the list of resources I collected expecting the third request in the next few days…
VMware Resources Portals for Virtualizing Databases
- VMware Virtualizing Oracle blog
- The Virtualizing Oracle Community Forum
- DBonVMware twitter account posts links to the latest info
- Virtualizing Enterprise Applications – Oracle Technical Resource Center
- VMware and Oracle Global Alliance portal has info on Oracle support statements and industry commentary
- Getting Started with Oracle in VMware is a collection of community posts as a starting point
- Virtualizing Microsoft SQL Server on VMware vSphere portal
Virtualizing Databases Specific Info
- DBA Guide to Databases on VMware
- Virtualizing Oracle 11gr2 RAC Databases on vSphere 5 blog post and workload characterization study
- Virtualizing Business-Critical Applications on VMware vSphere whitepaper talks about virtualizing DB
- EMC/VMW webinar recording “Performance and Provisioning for Virtualized Oracle“
- SQL Server License Issues for running virtualized
vFabric Database Solutions
There are other areas where VMware is working on database related solutions which most people still don’t realize:
- vFabric in-memory data solutions: GemFire is a in-memory massively scalable object based data fabric and SQLFire is an in-memory distributed SQL database.
- vFabric Data Directory is a Database as a Service (DBaaS) deployment and management solution.
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