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Oracle Licensing (R)evolution with VMware

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(…)

How to do a Filesystem Resize (ext3/ext4) on Redhat running on VMware

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(…)

All you need to know about Oracle Database licensing with VMware

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(…)

Processor licensing for Oracle database on VMware ESX

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(…)

Manage templates manually with Oracle Virtual Box

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(…)

VMware Tools auf Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.6 Guests installieren

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(…)