Originally Broadcasted: IOUG Virtualization SIG Online Symposium November 8th 2012 - Oracle on VMware Storage Best Practices for Oracle on VMware Speaker: Jeff Browning, EMC Storage is a key component of any virtualized infrastructure. The speaker will discuss storage hardware and software capabilities, and provide a comprehensive set of storage best practices designed to enhance performance,…

Originally Broadcasted: IOUG Virtualization SIG Online Symposium November 8th 2012 - Oracle on VMware Oracle Virtualization Best Practices for VMware Support Speaker: Behrang Mehr, VMware This session will focus on best practices from a VMware support perspective. VMware support will show attendees how to avoid common mistakes, misunderstandings of configurations and best practices learned from the…

Oracle database workloads are well-suited to virtualization, and this presentation will address the high-level benefits of taking Oracle to VMware. Understand the “why”, and then you will understand the simple mechanics of taking your x86 Oracle databases virtual. We will address performance, support, and licensing issues, and address customer successes to ensure you have a…

Oracle on VMware??? Most of our customers have virtualized their application tier, but now are either virtualizing databases or planning to do so soon. Some companies have attempted to virtualize databases on VMware already but went back to physical hardware because of performance issues. There are many reasons this may have happened, but quite often the decision to go back to physical was not based on hard facts. This presentation will explore the fundamentals of monitoring databases running in a VMware environment. If you are using classic O/S monitoring tools, you may be getting misleading information. Understand which metrics are important and how to get the data.

A database is a very resource intensive by its very nature and one of the most resource intensive applications you will ever virtualize. If best practices are not followed, the database will never perform as needed. This presentation will teach the DBA best practices for Virtualizing Oracle/MySQL databases on VMware.

Oracle on VMware??? Most of our customers have virtualized their application tier, but now are either virtualizing databases or planning to do so soon. Some companies have attempted to virtualize databases on VMware already but went back to physical hardware because of performance issues. There are many reasons this may have happened, but quite often…