Followers of the blog will know I dig virtualization. I first ran Oracle in virtualized environments over a decade ago. In my current company there is a strong virtualization presence in the Windows space. Pretty much all Windows servers, including those running MS SQL Server, are actually VMs running on a VMware farm. The UNIX/Linux side is [...]
It’s not very often you see Oracle looking like the cheap option, but Oracle VM has always been pretty attractive on that score. The latest information about VMware vSphere 5.0 pricing sounds like the perfect cue for Oracle to start another big push on the virtualization front, as I’m sure a lot of VMware customers will be [...]
Since I upgraded my desktop to CentOS 5.4 I’ve been getting loads of problems with VMware Server 2.x. I did a bit of Googling today and it turns out it’s a known problem. I followed the workaround listed at the following URL and it works fine now. https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=23365&start=0#forumpost91494 If you are struggling with VMware Server [...]
I’ve taken my first tentative steps into 11gR2 RAC and it was a big surprise. Oracle 11g Release 2 RAC On Linux Using VMware Server 2 11gR2 RAC feels very different to 11gR1 RAC. I can imagine quite a few people wanting to upgrade from 11gR1 thinking it will be trivial and getting a rude [...]
I guess the Oracle-Sun news makes everything else seem pretty small scale, so the launch of VMware ESX Server 4.0 will probably go largely unnoticed. I’ve used many of the VMware offerings (Workstation, Server, GSX Server, ESX Server, ESXi, Intrastructure etc.) and seen the demos of the advanced features and they are impressive, but I [...]
I mentioned in a previous post I had taken the plunge and upgraded to VMware Server 2 on my laptop. Now I’ve also upgraded my main machine at home and it seems to be working fine. Probably the most complicated thing I run at home is a virtual RAC, so I wrote a new article [...]
I’ve just taken the first tentative steps into the world of VMware Server 2.0. I had read some blogs posts about people experiencing issues and reverting to the previous version, but so far so good. I’ve installed it on my laptop and upgraded the VMware Tools on VMs and it all seems to be behaving [...]
Sun have announced their revolutionary new product xVM. It’s an open source Xen derivative that installs on bare-metal. Wait a minute… That sounds remarkably like what Oracle did with Oracle VM, which was released about a year ago… So now we have four big players wanting a share of the market: VMware ESX (ESXi) Server [...]
It looks like those possible VMware ESX articles I mentioned yesterday are now on the VIOPS site. 10g RAC on RHEL4 using ESX Server and NFS 11g RAC on RHEL5 using ESX Server and NFS If you’re interested in the enterprise VMware kit it’s worth taking a look at the site. New stuff is being [...]
I realize I’ve been a little quiet of late, but life has been really busy and something had to give… Flights for my conference dates are now sorted. Big thanks to Victoria, LaShon and Sylia. I better get on the case and book my hotels. The plan is: Birmingham > Frankfurt > San Francisco > [...]