by Dave Welch | Jun 11, 2021 | General, Licensing, News, Oracle, Oracle Licensing, VMware, VMware Cloud, VMworld, vSphere
Oracle Support for RAC on VMware – MOS Note 249212.1’s April 29, 2021 Revision and VMware’s June 9, 2021 Reaction. Prior to November 8, 2010, Oracle’s RAC FAQ stated: “There are technical restrictions that prohibit the support of RAC in a VMware environment.” In our... 
by Nick Walter | Apr 8, 2021 | AWS, Oracle, Oracle Licensing, vSphere
AWS this week announced a new service to streamline application server migration to the cloud. The AWS Application Migration Service is an evolved version of their existing CloudEndure offering with some nice enhancements for manageability and auditability. My first... 
by Jim Hannan | Mar 8, 2021 | Oracle, VMware, VMware Cloud, vSphere
If you have been following this blog series on vSphere 7 we have been covering new features and changes to the architecture. Here are the previous blogs in the series: What’s new with Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS) in vSphere 7 vMotion Enhancements in vSphere... by Jim Hannan | Oct 21, 2020 | VMware, vSphere
In my last blog, I touched on the enhancements to DRS in vSphere 7. In this blog, I will cover what is new in vSphere 7 with vMotion, which has always been an important component of vSphere. vMotion (aka live-migrate as most of you know it) allows for the movement of... by Jim Hannan | Oct 9, 2020 | VMware, vSphere
In this blog series, we will discuss elements of the release of vSphere 7, which was released earlier this year in May. In part one, we will review enhancements and changes made to Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS). In future blogs, we will look at other new... 
by House of Brick Staff | May 8, 2020 | Dave Welch, Oracle, VMware, vSphere
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...