Oracle Solutions
Oracle software provides mission-critical foundations for the majority of large enterprises worldwide. VMware technology simplifies IT environments so that Oracle IT administrators can leverage their storage, network, and computing resources to control costs and respond quickly to changing business needs. In the demanding world of Oracle application development and deployment, virtualized infrastructure brings quantifiable time-to-market and TCO improvements by reducing development hardware infrastructure costs and by allowing more developers and users to be hosted on existing and future industry standard hardware.
Since Oracle Database is one of the most commonly virtualized applications, VMware invests a great deal of work towards optimizing its performance.
Performance Highlights
"The top ten reasons why Oracle databases run best on VMware Infrastructure"
Why DBAs should demand virtualization
Oracle on VMware vSphere Essential Database Deployment Tips
Even the most demanding Oracle database workloads can now be virtualized with VMware vSphere™, with greater than 95 percent of Oracle instances matching native performance. This paper provides the essential tips necessary to successfully deploy Oracle on VMware virtual infrastructure, which enables database administrators (DBAs) to meet their performance and availability goals.
Maximizing Oracle Database Performance and Minimizing Licensing Costs in Virtualized Environments
Embarcadero Technologies and Oracle Database Virtualization expert, Dave Welch, of House of Brick Technologies have collaborated on this detailed TechNote on best practices on licensing when virtualizing Oracle databases on VMware vSphere, optimizing performance, information on Oracle Support, optimizing performance, vSphere vs. OVM, and other hot topics.
Whitepaper:
Oracle Databases on VMware - Workload Characterization Study White Paper
This paper describes a workload characterization study of virtualized Oracle RAC databases (version 11g Release 2) on VMware ESXi 5.0. Results show that virtualized Oracle databases on vSphere can handle intensive OLTP loads.
Rapid Deployment
Deployment Guides:
Oracle Databases on VMware - Best Practices Guide
This Guide provides best practice guidelines for deploying Oracle databases on VMware vSphere. The successful deployment of Oracle on VMware vSphere(tm) 5 is not significantly different from deploying Oracle on physical servers. DBAs can fully leverage their current skill sets while also delivering the benefits associated with virtualization.
Rapid Deployment of Oracle Database 11g Using VMware Infrastructure and Netapp Flexclone
This paper provides an overview of the first-generation grid infrastructure, describes how advanced server and storage virtualization can enhance existing grids, and includes a case study of a next-generation grid implementation that demonstrates how to solve a pervasive technical problem by creating database clones that are space efficient, rapidly provisioned, and easily managed.
Oracle RAC on VMware vSphere Deployment Guide
This guide describes an installation example of Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) on the VMware vSphere® platform, for Oracle DBAs planning to virtualize Oracle RAC on the VMware platform.
Simplified Management
White Paper:
Simplify Oracle Database Management with VMware Infrastructure and EMC CLARiiON
The paper examines how to address Oracle database performance, data integrity, and manageability challenges with the VMware Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) and EMC industry-proven CLARiiON storage.
High Availability
Whitepaper
Oracle Database Solutions on VMware High Availability
This document describes some high availability scenarios designed to protect a VMware virtualized Oracle database to minimize downtime within the same datacenter. The architectures described are based on VMware High Availability (HA), Symantec Application HA (which is integrated with VMware vCenter™ Server), and Oracle RAC. These scenarios are compared to help architects decide which high availability solution for Oracle on VMware is best for their environment.
Oracle Databases on VMware RAC Deployment Guide (VMFS-RDM)
This guide describes an installation example of Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) on the VMware vSphere® platform, for Oracle DBAs planning to virtualize Oracle RAC on the VMware platform.
