VMworld Aftermath and Oracle OpenWorld Premath

Realizing that it has been a long time since I blogged (the past few months have been crazy), much of interest has happened. EMC continues to make significant inroads into the NAS / Oracle database storage market, in competition with NetApp, which delights me. I was a speaker at VMworld 2009 earlier this month, speaking on VMware virtualization of Oracle database servers. And, of course, OOW looms, for which I am a demo captain and responsible for a major EMC high-end NAS demo as well as a speaker in the VMware booth.

In this regard, I have a couple of questions for you:

1. How many of you are doing actual virtualization of Oracle database servers with VMware? I really need to hear from you. EMC is doing quite a bit of work in the area of VMware virtualization, and some of that will be present at OOW.
2. How many of you are using EMC NAS with Oracle? I know about some of you, but not all. If you are using this combination, please comment to this blog. Let us know of your experiences, please.

I promise to be more vocal, and less remote, in the next few weeks as we approach OOW. I will be at the show, obviously, and very much look forward to talking to many of you live. Please come by the booth and say hello.

Comments

[jason arneil]

Hello Jeff,

Just about to vritualise around 50 Oracle instances onto a couple of Sun X4270's with EMC Clariion SAN running with 8Gb FC ports.

Never thought about using NAS, FC more the standard here.

jason

[Leigh Riffel]

All seven of our oracle databases running in VMware. They range from Windows 2000 to Windows 2008 and from 10.2.0.5 to 11.1.0.7. The largest is about 160 GB.

[Jay Weinshenker]

Saw you at vmworld - great presentation again this year. Look forward to seeing you at OOW.

We've virtualized all of our Oracle database servers. That involves 6 instances including PROD of Oracle e-Business suite (11i w/11g), Oracle standby DBs for Discoverer reporting, Oracle enterprise manager, an Oracle instance for a tax package called sabrix, an Oracle instance for a tax package for taxstream, 2 environments for EquityEdge (stock tracking system), 2 environments of Oracle Hyperion (PROD and DEV), Oracle Email center (part of Oracle E-Biz), Oracle Wireless (part of Oracle E-biz)

Almost all of this stuff is tied in a CX3 and we do array based replication to our DR site and use recoverpoint and replication manager and are implementing SRM. A couple of the dev environments are using local storage on some stand alone ESX boxes.

2) No EMC NAS with Oracle.