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VMware Database Resource List

March 22, 2012 Leave a Comment

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.

Holiday Stocking Stuffers for the VMware Admin

December 13, 2010 Leave a Comment

I hope that your holiday’s are already in full swing! If you have a VMware Administrator on your holiday shopping list (or you are one and haven’t bought yourself a present yet) I recently came across a few books that may help.

vSphere 4.1 HA and DRS Technical Deepdive

A new book from Duncan Epping and Frank Denneman. If you have every wanted more details on the ins and outs of vSphere HA and how Dynamic Resource Scheduling (DRS) works, this is the book for you. If you’re read either of their blogs, you know these guys are the perfect duo with the hands on experience to have written this book.

VMware ESXi: Planning, Implementation, and Security

A recent book from Dave Mishchenko. With the the future releases of vSphere being offered as ESXi only, if you haven’t started thinking about how to upgrade your environment to ESXi, this is a great resource or that process.

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Virtualization Round Up 20090824

August 24, 2009 Leave a Comment

On the final march to VMworld 2009, this will be the last roundup until after Labor Day.

VMware Specific Links

First, some VMWorld 2009 Stuff
- VMworld 2009 Unofficial Party List
- Thanks to Chad Sakac, here’s an AWESOME peek behind the scenes of getting hardware ready for VMworld 2009
After more conversations last week with clients about their private cloud plans (including bursting out to external cloud providers), I wanted to share the list of VMware Ready vCloud Service Providers. I expect this list to grow post VMworld…
A recent patch was released for vCenter Server 4.0 which fixes an issue where HA Cluster failover might not work if the servers were configured with certain IPs. Full details are available in the Knowledge Base Article.
Some more SpringSource centric posts
- SpringSource announced Cloud Foundry, their Enterprise Java Cloud. The VMware price tag for SpringSource is looking a bit more reasonable all of a sudden.
- VMware’s SpringSource Acquisition: More Than Meets the Eye?
- With SpringSource Buy, VMware Constructs Cloud Platform
When a client asked me about running Documentum eRoom solution in a VM recently I found this great article about how EMC is doing that and Saved $1.5 Million in the process.
The Vroom blog has a great posting about VMware Fault Tolerance Performance including a link to a FT architecture and performance whitepaper.
Scott Drummonds recent community post Four Things You Should Know About ESX 4’s Scheduler helps to answer the common question of how man vCPUs to give a VM (as well as a few other questions…).

General Virtualization Links

With 1 In 3 Developers Working On Private Cloud Apps, almost 50% of developers expect to be working on cloud applications within a year and think that Java is the best language for developing in the cloud.
When talking about cloud applications, the business model of these applications can come into discussion (with the Free usually being mentioned at some point). That’s why I found this simple formula to gauge a freemium model’s success so interesting.
Security Showdown: Cloud Computing vs. On-Premise IT is an interesting podcast discussion actually discusses the private cloud between the lines.
EMC’s Chuck Hollis talks about how he’s seeing more enterprises wanting to get going now on private clouds by building A Starter Private Cloud For IT.
After seeing a few pallets of UCS systems being delivered to a client of mine last week, I found Steve Chamber’s post about The stars are aligning: VMware, Cisco and ESG rather timely and right on target with regards to the higher level value UCS delivers to the CIO’s office. “Make IT simple stupid” is a mantra that we should all live by.