Day 1 VMware Experts Program Oracle Edition

It is Day 1 VMware Experts Program Oracle Edition. This room was filled with numerous Oracle experts with quite a few with over twenty years experience working with the Oracle Database. Here is the list of invited attendees.

Johannes Ahrends

Yann Allandit

Zahid Anwar @ZedDBA

Niki Christopher

Carl Dudley

Tim Hall @oraclebase

Heli Helskyaho @helifromfinland

Frits Hoogland

Mikhail Kirpichev @KirpichevM

Martin Klier @MartinKlierDBA

Jan Timmermann

Blogs Associated with Day 1 VMware Experts Program Oracle Edition

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www.performing-databases.com

www.somu.us

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fritshoogland.wordpress.com

Introduction and History

The VMware Elite Database Workshop Program was started in 2013 as a collaborative effort between the Cloud Platform Business Unit, then referred to as vSphere Product Marketing team and the VMware Global Center of Excellence. The program brings together database and certain applications experts in a variety of database and application disciplines at VMware in Palo Alto (Now globally) to meet with VMware and partner personal from the highest level executives to the engineers who architect the platform and write code. A variety of open discussions and exercises facilitate an intense learning environment leading to the expansion of a broader community of database experts who have extensive knowledge of VMware virtualized infrastructure.

Karen Egan VMware Vice President Support, NSX GSS, GSS – Executive & G&A

Karen Egan VMware Vice President Support discussed the diversity of the team at VMware Ireland with people on staff from over 52 different nationalities. Karen discussed the strong relationship VMware has developed with the local colleges and community discussing the many succesfull programs that have today.

The VMware Vision Any Application, Any Device on Any Cloud

SDDC (Software Defined Data Center) Built on Vshpere, NSX, and vSAN

With vSphere you can manage, secure your applications across multiple clouds

Virtualization is the core of what is happening in the cloud today.

Traditional Silos, very difficult to continue like that

It is recognized that business critical applications are going to be virtualized

The more you want to automate, the more you need to abstract

Carl McQuillan, Pure Storage VP, EMEA SE & Customer Success

Spinning disks is technology that is over 50 years old

We wanted to pivot the economics of storage, we wanted to make flash cheaper

Database Applications the largest use case within Pure Storage

Everything can be consolidated today in a flash environment

100% NVMe Enterprise All-Flash Array

Data is no longer generated by humans, its generated by machine

Solid State fails 1000 times less than disk

Pure wanted to bring Moore’s law to the storage industry

During Day 1 VMware Experts Program Oracle edition someone talked about pure storage offering storage arrays at the speed of intel.

Valentin Bondzio, VMware Senior Staff Technical Support Engineer

Valentin did a great presentation on VMware vSphere Core & SDDC – vMotion, The Decoupling of the Server and the Host. Loved this history of vMotion Valentin shared at Day 1 VMware Experts Program Oracle edition.

ESX 2.0 vMotion
ESX 5.1 VMotion without shared storage
ESX 6.0 Long Distance vMotion
- 150 ms network round trip time (RTT)
- 250 MBPS minimum recommended network bandwidth
ESX 6.5 Encrypted vMotion

vMotion comes at a cost.

vMotion is much more efficient in vSphere 6.5

The more Nics you give vMotion, the faster it will go

Yvonne Murphy, VMware Staff Technical Support Engineer,

GSC – Global Support Center EMEA

Oracle on VMware “One Woman’s Journey”

Somu Rajarathinam Pure Storage

Solutions Architect at Pure Storage

My favorite quote from Somu Rajarathinam was “You cannot claim it is a backup if it is on the same storage”. Somu is a great presenter who really knows Pure Storage capabilities. Great presentor with a winning product.