(Thanks to House of Brick Technologies)
Oracle, VMware and sub-server partitioning
Last week (during EMC world) a discussion came up on Twitter around Oracle licensing and whether Oracle would support CPU affinity as a way to license subsets of a physical server these days. @sam_lucido @EMCOracle @CacheFlush is #VMware and accepted…
Debunking Oracle certification myths
Another frequently asked question I get asked a lot: Is Oracle certified on Vmware? There are plenty articles discussing this very topic, here’s a few examples: oracle blog – is Oracle certified on VMware vmware understanding oracle certification support licensing…
Getting the most out of your server resources
As an advocate on database virtualization, I often challenge customers to consider if they are using their resources in an optimal way. And so I usually claim, often in front of a skeptical audience, that physically deployed servers hardly ever…
VMware is really expensive
A while ago somebody forwarded me a research paper from an “independent” research firm in which the cost of VMware and Oracle VM were compared. Interesting! Now you might wonder why, as someone working for EMC, I would care about…