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... by House of Brick Staff | Jun 21, 2019 | Dave Welch, Oracle Licensing, VMware, vSphere
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... by House of Brick Staff | Jun 14, 2019 | Oracle, vSphere
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 the bottom... by House of Brick Staff | Feb 9, 2018 | VMware, vSphere
Jim Hannan (@jim_m_hannan), Principal Architect Back in 2014, I wrote a blog VMFS vs. RDM Part 1, and with the introduction of vSphere 6 and VVols (Virtual Volumes), I thought the time was right for Part 2. In part 2, I take a look at what VVols can offer, and would...