Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO & Chief Evangelist
Today at Oracle Open World, Larry Ellison announced what a simulcast VMware blog calls Oracle Cloud VMware Solution (OCVS). I’m thinking Larry announced OVM’s deprecation. But we’ll get to that later. Here’s what…
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO & Chief Evangelist
Firefighter’s Retirement System of St. Louis sued Oracle executives and Oracle’s board on May 8, 2017 over allegations of conflicted and self-serving actions, in causing Oracle Corporation to pay an inflated price for…
by Joe Grant (@dba_jedi), Principal Architect
Through the years, I have been assigned to several projects that can be considered large migrations. Some were just database migrations, but many of them included a variety of different applications. Other examples of…
Aamir Syed (@sqlevo), Senior Consultant
SQL Server keeps data pages in memory for quicker access rather than reading from disk every time. Now, keep in mind that Page Life Expectancy doesn’t prove or disprove anything on its own. It’s simply…
Nick Walter, Principal Architect
The Licensing Trap
In my role with House of Brick, I get the opportunity to assist many of our clients with migrating their business-critical databases to the public cloud. While every client and every migration plan is…
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO & Chief Evangelist
This topic reminds me of a session at VMworld 2006. At the last minute, VMware delayed VMworld to November and moved it from San Francisco’s Moscone West Hall to the Los Angeles Convention…
Nick Walter, Principal Architect
Bandwidth, Bandwidth, Bandwidth
In my role with House of Brick, I have the opportunity to assist many of our clients with migrating their business-critical databases to the public cloud. While every client (and every migration plan) is…
Nick Walter, Principal Architect
In my role with House of Brick, I have the opportunity to assist many of our clients with migrating their business-critical databases to the public cloud. While every client (and every migration plan) is unique, I’ve…
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO & Chief Evangelist
Update – July 26, 2019:
VMware KB 51491 originally published vSphere 5.5 Extended Support as available for one year only, through September 19, 2019. VMware Corporation has affirmed to us that since our original…
Jim Hannan (@jim_m_hannan), Principal Architect
DBAs often ask me about the different layers involved when presenting storage to Oracle ASM on VMware. In the image below, we have diagrammed all the layers involved in presenting storage to ASM. Starting from…
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