Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), Chief Evangelist and Nick Walter, Principal Architect
On June 14, 2020, Oracle published Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) Support on Third-Party Clouds–An Overview and Clarification. It attempts to list reasons why Oracle doesn’t consider any clouds other…
by Joe Grant (@dba_jedi), Principal Architect
In a recent blog post, I focused on initial Oracle deployments and the variety of decisions that come with implementing Oracle for the first time. For this article, I plan to offer a deeper…
David Woodard, Principal Architect
If you have regularly followed our blogs in the past, you will no doubt have read Nathan Biggs’ blog about the pending class-action lawsuit against Oracle Corporation. In that blog, Nathan notes that one of the…
by Joe Grant (@dba_jedi), Principal Architect
INSTALLING ORACLE WHEN REQUIRED BY COTS APPLICATIONS
Over the last few months, I have had several clients deploying Oracle Database for the first time, which is unusual for me. They were all deploying commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS)…
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), Chief Evangelist
Part II: Four Operational Best Practices
In this post, we discuss four RAC operational best practices for shops that have either strategically selected RAC or have been compelled to adopt it.
RAC operational best practices include:
Understand…
David Woodard, Principal Architect
Standard Edition 2 Can be a Great Value
Oracle database Standard Edition 2 (SE2), as well as past editions Standard Edition and Standard Edition 1, can be a great value and cost significantly less than Oracle Enterprise…
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), Chief Evangelist
Part I: Four Criteria for Introducing or Keeping RAC
VMware vSphere High Availability can provide significant levels of high availability for many workloads. VMware HA does so without the complexity, fragility, or cost of Oracle Real…
by Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect
I recently completed an engagement where the client was interested in moving from on-premises hardware to the public cloud. The main application is an ERP with multiple large Oracle databases for the backend. The Oracle…
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO & Chief Evangelist
Here are eight arguments for the probability that the Mars v. Oracle kerfuffle turned out entirely in Mars’ favor.
Oracle advanced its assertions, which lacked contractual merit, privately one prospect and customer at…
by Cameron Cameron, Senior Consultant
Note: It is assumed that the audience for this document already understands how VMware manages memory for all of the VMs running on each ESXi host.
One of the great advantages of VMware is the ability…
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