by Cameron Cameron, Senior Consultant
At House of Brick, we’ve been virtualizing Oracle RAC on VMware for over twelve years. The technology is reliable. Of course, prerequisites and best practices exist in a virtual deployment, just like they do with…
by Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect
There has been some interest from House of Brick customers running on x86 Solaris about migrating to Linux. Unlike Sparc Solaris, where there is an endian conversion to move to an x86 platform, x86 Solaris…
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO & Chief Evangelist
We note with sadness the passing of Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd. We offer our sincere condolences to Mark’s family, his associates, and Oracle Corporation and its team members.
In my mind, Mark’s legacy at…
Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO
In his first Oracle Open World keynote address in 2019, Larry Ellison made an announcement that few outside the inner circle of VMware and Oracle considered possible. Just prior to showing the slide in the image…
Nick Walter, Principal Architect
Building the Business Case
“How do I move off Oracle entirely?” is probably the most frequently asked question I get when helping clients with Oracle licensing cost reduction projects or audits. For the last several years, House…
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…
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…
by Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect
In Oracle Database version 11g, a new feature called Active Data Guard (ADG) was introduced. This feature extends traditional Data Guard by allowing the standby database to continue to apply redo while remaining open for…
Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO
This blog post is the latest in a series of articles that House of Brick is providing, which use quotes and information from recently filed lawsuits against Oracle to uncover the truth about their treatment (or…
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