In 2015 I wrote a blog named “All you need to know about Oracle Database licensing with VMware”. This blog generated lots of comments and hopefully helped some DBAs and IT Managers understanding the potential issues that they can face in case of Oracle LMS Audit. In 2 years I made some new experiences related to Oracle LMS audit and…
By William Sescu A filesystem resize can be done in several ways, online, offline, with LVM2 or without LVM2. However, this blog will describe how to do an online resize of ext3/ext4 filesystems where a virtual disk (vmdk) is online added to a VMware Redhat guest OS. So let’s start with the online filesystem resize of ext3/4 filesystems on the…
You are running Oracle on VMware and are not 100% sure that you are compliant with the Oracle licensing rules? This article is for you! As I have been confronted several times with Oracle License reviews with VMware installations, I decided to write this article in order to provide answers to the most frequent questions I have received from customers.…
In this post, I would like to share with you what I have learned about Oracle licensing particularities on a virtualization infrastructure (software partitioning) based on VMware ESX. Recently, I faced an Oracle licensing problem on a VMware ESX cluster on which I had to find a workaround in order to make the hardware comply with the customer’s licensing model.…
To create environments for testing, development, or demonstration, several identical virtual machines are required. Use a technology as VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V, for implementing a dedicated virtualized infrastructure and use templates, would be the best choice. This solution offers both advanced administration and security capabilities, and allows a centralized access for users. However such an infrastructure needs dedicated servers…
Wenn Sie einen Oracle Datenbank Server auf VMware ESX betreiben, sollten Sie die VMware Tools nicht unterschätzen. Sie sind nicht nur sinnvoll bei Copy-Paste-Aktionen oder für bessere Grafiken, sondern liefern ebenfalls High-Performance-Network, Storage Adapter (PVSCI), Treiber, etc. Auf Linux Guests müssen die Tools mit dem Kernel zusammen kompiliert werden. Besonders auf Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 Upgrade 6 gibt es ein…
