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Virtualizing Oracle® Databases on vSphere®
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Virtualizing Oracle® Databases on vSphere®

by Kannan Mani, Don Sullivan
October 2014
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
9h 40m
English
VMware Press
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Foreword

One of my favorite quotes comes from motivational speaker and business leader Harvey Mackay. He recently wrote, “‘Genius’ is sometimes just not realizing that something is impossible.” That most certainly is the story behind my success as one of the earliest people to virtualize Oracle databases on VMware vSphere. My first experience with this impressive combination of technology was virtualizing Oracle 10g on Linux using VMware ESX 2.5 for the production environment and VMware GSX Server for the nonproduction systems.

The system was SharePoint Portal Server in a medium server farm configuration, with an in-house application using custom Web Parts. SQL Server was used for the SharePoint database. For reasons tied to “developer preferences,” ...

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