Category: Data Center

A data center (American) or data centre (British) is a building.

Dedicated space within a building or a group of buildings used to house computer systems.

VMware vSAN Requirements and Best Practices 0

Data Center / Data Storage / Virtualization

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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Data Center / Database / Server Hardware

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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Data Storage

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.

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Database / Virtualization

What’s Best Solution for Storing Oracle Database External Files in VMware vSphere?

Database administrators and IT architects face particular difficulties when it comes to storing vast volumes of unstructured data, including documents, videos, and photos. Although the Binary Large Object (BLOB) data type in Oracle Database provides a strong mechanism for handling such data within tables, scaling and managing BLOBs in a high-demand setting frequently necessitates creative solutions. Storing BLOBs outside of database tables in vSphere-powered environments can greatly improve manageability, scalability, and performance.

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Cloud Native / Database / Reviews / Virtualization

Unlocking Database Management with VMware Data Services Manager: Features, Benefits, and Comparisons

Data is the foundation of any organization in the digitally first world of today. Effective database management is essential, but it presents difficulties with scalability, maintenance, security, and cross-environment compatibility. A potent tool for streamlining and simplifying database administration in contemporary infrastructures is VMware Data Services Manager (DSM).

In-depth discussions of VMware Data Services Manager’s features supported solutions, deployment strategies, advantages, and use cases are provided in this blog. To help you make wise decisions regarding database operations in your company, we’ll also contrast it with conventional database management techniques and other options.

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Reviews / Virtualization

Understanding vTopology in vSphere 8: A Deep Dive into NUMA and vNUMA Management

With its state-of-the-art innovations, VMware vSphere continues to lead the virtualization ecosystem, and vSphere 8 brings major improvements to vTopology, a framework designed to optimize NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) and vNUMA (Virtual Non-Uniform Memory Access) configurations for modern workloads. Effectively managing NUMA and vNUMA is essential in virtualized environments to maximize performance for CPU- and memory-intensive applications. In this extensive blog post, we’ll examine the development of vTopology in vSphere 8, compare it to previous iterations, and offer practical insights into optimizing NUMA and vNUMA configurations. Let’s also highlight important features, best practices, and real-world scenarios to help you better understand.

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Database / Reviews

Vector Databases: Use Cases and Best Practices in VMware vSphere Environments

Vector databases can provide special advantages to businesses that have already made investments in virtualized environments such as VMware vSphere. The centralized management, scalability, and flexibility of VMware vSphere make it the perfect platform for vector database hosting. We’ll go into great detail about vector databases in this post, look at some of their most important applications, and offer best practices for maximizing vector database performance in VMware vSphere settings.

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Data Center / Database / Server Virtualization / Virtualization

A Comprehensive Guide to Oracle Database Smart Flash Cache: Benefits, Challenges, and Configurations in vSphere, Virtualization, and Physical Environments

In today’s data-driven world, databases are essential for managing the enormous amounts of information generated by businesses. Oracle Database is a leading relational database management system (RDBMS) widely used in various industries. As data grows, so do the demands for performance, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. This is where Oracle Database Smart Flash Cache comes into play.

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Data Center / Server Virtualization / Virtualization

Static Binding vs Ephemeral Binding: Understanding the Network Bindings in VMware vSphere Distributed Switch

Networking is a key component of enterprise virtualization, and as data centers grow, it is imperative to manage network resources effectively and flexibly. VMware’s vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) is a potent tool that allows for centralized management of networking configuration across ESXi hosts, and one of its key features is its management of network port bindings. There are two main types of bindings that are available with VDS: static and ephemeral. Virtualization administrators that want to optimize their environments must grasp the distinctions, benefits, and trade-offs between static and ephemeral port binding.

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Data Center / Data Storage

Ceph Use Cases in vSphere: Best Practices, Challenges, and Comparison with vSAN

VMware vSphere is one of the main virtualization platforms used today. Despite the close integration of VMware’s proprietary Virtual SAN (vSAN) into the vSphere ecosystem, a growing number of enterprises are choosing open-source storage technologies such as Ceph. The choice to incorporate Ceph into a vSphere system requires knowledge of the architecture’s drawbacks as well as its advantages, use cases, and best practices.

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How To / Operating System

Linux Update Best Practices: Focusing on Ubuntu and Oracle Linux

It’s essential to maintain and your Linux systems for dependability, performance, and security. The hazards, factors to be aware of, kernel updates, rollback methods (including those without backups), and the most recent developments in kernel live patching will all be covered in this blog article on best practices for Linux update and focusing on updating Ubuntu and Oracle Linux.

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Automation / Data Center / Operating System / Reviews

Oracle Linux Automation Manager: Supercharge Your IT with Intelligent Automation

Spreading infrastructure and constantly shifting needs in today’s IT environment may easily convert system administration into a wild beast. Manual setups become laborious and prone to errors, which impedes creativity and agility. This is where automation becomes useful, providing your IT environment with a potent tool to tame the beast and restore order.

Let me introduce you to Oracle Linux Automation Manager (OLAM), a powerful tool that makes infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployment procedures much easier. Based on the open-source giants Ansible and AWX, OLAM provides a centralized web interface for effective management and visibility into your IT environment.

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Data Center / Reviews / Server Virtualization / Virtualization

A Deep Dive into VMware vSphere vMotion Application Notification: Keeping Applications in the Loop

Ensuring application availability and performance during infrastructure maintenance is essential in the ever changing virtualization landscape. VMware’s flagship product, vMotion, allows virtual machines (VMs) to be moved between physical hosts without interruption. How about the programmes that are executing in such virtual machines? Can they be told that the relocation is coming and given enough time to be ready?

Now for vMotion Application Notification, a revolutionary feature that debuted with vSphere 8. By giving apps the ability to actively participate in the vMotion process, this feature improves resiliency and reduces migration interruptions. Let’s investigate the advantages, settings, and best practices of this cutting-edge technology in more detail.

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Data Center / Operating System / Reviews

Demystifying JBD2: The Guardian Angel of Ext4 Filesystems

Data integrity is critical to the digital world. The backbone of this world, filesystems, are essential to the organization and security of this data. Ext4 is the most popular filesystem among them all because of its efficiency and dependability. But the JBD2 journaling layer is a secret weapon that powers its success.

This blog article explores the world of JBD2, including its features, goals, and effects on Ext4. We will make complex topics understandable to readers with different degrees of technical competence by navigating through them in a straightforward and simple manner.

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Data Center / Database / Reviews

OMS Unleashes Database Speed: Supercharge Your Oracle Performance on VMware vSphere

Efficient and high-performing databases are the foundation of many organizations in the age of data-driven decision making. One of the top relational database management systems (RDBMS) for enterprises, Oracle Database, has several features to maximize performance and meet expanding business requirements. The Oracle Memory Speed (OMS) file system is one such cutting-edge product that promises to greatly improve database speed and unleash the full potential of persistent memory (PMEM) devices.