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VMware vSAN Requirements and Best Practices: A Comprehensive Guide

VMware vSAN is a powerful, software-defined storage solution that makes storage management easier by pooling local disks from ESXi hosts into a single storage platform. Its close integration with vSphere makes it a popular choice for organisations looking to modernise their infrastructure. However, implementing vSAN effectively necessitates a thorough understanding of its requirements and best practices.

This guide discusses VMware vSAN’s requirements, fault domain configurations, disk group design, host recommendations, and comparisons to block storage solutions such as Dell PowerStore and Unity. It also covers database deployment on vSAN and offers actionable tips to ensure a successful implementation.

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Best Server Solutions for Oracle Database in Physical and Virtualization Environments

Mission-critical applications in a variety of industries are powered by Oracle Database, a fundamental component of enterprise data management. Selecting the best server solution is essential to guaranteeing cost effectiveness, scalability, and peak performance. The capacities, technologies, advantages, costs, and suitability for both physical and virtualized environments of various server solutions for Oracle databases such as rack-mounted servers and composable servers are examined in this article.

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Silent Data Corruption: Understanding, Prevention, and Recovery

Information integrity is crucial in today’s data-driven world, particularly for vital systems like databases and storage infrastructures. Silent data corruption is one of the most pernicious threats to data integrity. Silent data corruption happens without warning and may go unnoticed for a long time, in contrast to visible errors that can be quickly identified by users or applications. We will examine in detail what silent data corruption is, how it impacts systems, and the tools, devices, and techniques that can be used to stop it in this blog post. With an emphasis on Oracle databases and SAN technologies like T10 PI, we will also go over efficient backup methods and tools for recovering corrupted data.