by hobadmin | May 28, 2015 | Oracle, VMware
Mike Stone (@HoBMStone), CIO & Principal Architect I recently read about a feature of NetApp called “FlexClone”, which promises instant virtual-to-physical (v2p) cloning of VMDK files, which reside on a NetApp NFS DataStore for VMware. This idea was intriguing,... by hobadmin | May 22, 2015 | Dave Welch, Oracle, Oracle Licensing, VMware, vSphere
Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO I have been meeting with customers all around the world recently and talking commiserating with them about their experiences dealing with Oracle on licensing topics. I cannot think of a single company out there that has as negative a... by hobadmin | May 18, 2015 | SQL Server, VMware
Shawn Meyers (@1dizzygoose), Principal Architect In this post I will discuss High Availability (HA) and list native SQL Server types along with their pros and cons. This is a brief overview and while there is a lot more to each of these topics, I will be covering the... by hobadmin | May 8, 2015 | Oracle
House of Brick Senior Consultant One of the many tasks a DBA will perform is cloning a database. Usually this is done from a production database to a quality assurance or test database to provide production volume data. If the database is on a virtual machine, cloning...