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Oracle LMS response to licensing on VMware

Bart Sjerps 2016-03-21 Oracle, Virtualization 5 Comments

Last week I was in London to attend the UK Oracle User Group licensing event. After a number of sessions with excellent material leading to very interesting discussions (one was showing – with permission – some of my own content,…

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Oracle on VMware: Caging the license dragon

Bart Sjerps 2016-03-03 Oracle, Virtualization 12 Comments

Virtualizing databases has huge financial and operational benefits – in particular with Oracle, where physically deployed database servers are typically heavily under-utilized which leads to huge over-spending on license cost. Of course poor efficiency on database servers leads to higher…

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The IOPS race is over

Bart Sjerps 2016-02-08 Oracle, Performance No Comments

Infrastructure has always been a tough place to compete in. Unlike applications, databases or middleware, infrastructure components are fairly easy to replace with another make and model, and thus the vendors try to show off their product as better than…

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Baking a cake: trading CPU for IO?

Bart Sjerps 2016-02-01 Oracle, Performance, Virtualization 4 Comments

Sometimes I hear people claim that by using faster storage, you can save on database licenses. True or false? The idea is that many database servers are suffering from IO wait – which actually means that the processors are waiting…

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Silly Little Oracle Benchmark – RPM edition

Bart Sjerps 2015-09-16 Oracle, Performance No Comments

A while ago Kevin Closson announced a new release of the well-known SLOB kit. SLOB is a simple but powerful toolkit that drives lots and lots of IO on a real Oracle database (so for performance testing of database platforms,…

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