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Comment on Virtualizing Oracle Databases – Customer Best Practices by Chuck Hollis

Chuck Hollis — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:42:25 +0000

Great post!

It’s nice to see more stories from IT leaders who are committed to 100% virtualization, or as close to that as humanly possible.

We need more stories around how users have gotten their software vendors to line up — especially Oracle — in support of the customer’s strategy.

Thanks for sharing …

– Chuck

Comment on Virtualizing Oracle Databases – Customer Best Practices by Tomi Hakala

Tomi Hakala — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:57:34 +0000

For us biggest obstacle in virtualizing Oracle databases (and middleware) is Oracle licensing model, specifically their mad interpretation that VMware vSphere is “soft partitioning” system. Because of this you have to pay for each(!!) CPU cores in your vSphere cluster even Oracle DB would be using only 2 CPU cores for example.

This makes using Oracle software so utterly expensive in vSphere cluster that we really cannot do it.

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Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:24:40 +0000

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Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:24:31 +0000

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Comment on I bought it, I might need it, why should I share it? by vittorioviarengo

vittorioviarengo — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:12:26 +0000

in reality, very few. Only the more sophisticated ones. I would also argue that they first need to be able to allocate things dynamically, then figure out how to charge-bak (or at least show-back) for it.

Comment on I bought it, I might need it, why should I share it? by Saccades

Saccades — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 06:24:06 +0000

I am wondering how many of the customers you spoke with can maintain hardware inventory and charge back business units for services based on actual usage. In my conversations with many enterprise customers, this seems to be an important factor in their ability to adopt more dynamic resource allocation.

Comment on About Me by Scott Key

Scott Key — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:34:32 +0000

Vittorio, look forward to joining you in the journey

Comment on Don’t Quit in the Dip!!! by Sam Ramji

Sam Ramji — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:48:39 +0000

This is a great life lesson. Nice job, Vittorio & Luca!

Comment on Product Design Rants – Airports by Andrea Borghi

Andrea Borghi — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:48:35 +0000

devi viaggiare di Meno Vittorio….

Voli troppo!

Comment on IT Production – More Best Practices by latoga labs | Virtualization Round Up 20100608

latoga labs | Virtualization Round Up 20100608 — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:59:52 +0000

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