Archive for the ‘Oracle’ Category
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Many of the virtualization customers I speak with have been asking about what database can be virtualized, so I typically present a green, yellow and red set of criteria to help guide the process. We typically look at I/O rates, SMP width and capacity of the source physical system as ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
A recent comment about 'bench-marketing' caught my attention. I much prefer to see performance analysis of real-world benchmarks, because well-designed studies server as reference examples to guide solid decisions when planning for virtualization. The specific comments were about wanting to see more examples of scale-out performance - a term I ...
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
Eric and Drew's recent FileBench updates have been exceptionally helpful making the package more complete and easier to use. We're using FileBench to do database I/O simulations on virtual machines, and I've just completed a significant update to the package to allow it to be used in full anger on ...
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
Since I've been at VMware, I've tried to meet as many customers as schedules permit, to better understand performance needs. I love talking to customers, and I've managed to meet some great people so far, from 35 separate companies in two countries.
One of the questions that always comes up ...
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
A couple of years back, I sponsored a set of projects to look at how NFS could be used for databases. Some of the previous work that showed how NFS can be used for databases is covered here. One of the more research-oriented projects was one which we implemented an ...
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