Without leaving your office, you can get access to world class experts sharing with you what they know about how to sucessfully Virtualizw your Oracle Database. This is a no-brainer. The best part cost of admission is free. If you are a vendor looking at how you can be part of this. There are sponsorship oppurtunities available. If you are interested reach out to one of the two Co-Vendor Liaison Chairs - Michael Corey, Ntirety or Charles Kim at Viscosity North America. My contact information is at the end of this Blog.

November 7 - Oracle on Oracle VM

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10:00am - 10:55am CDT      Oracle on Oracle VM - Expert Panel
11:00am - 11:50am CDT     Successfully Deploy the Infrastructure Cloud with Oracle VM
12:00pm - 12:50pm CDT    The RAC OVM Templates and the new DeployCluster tool on OVM3
1:00pm - 1:50pm CDT      The Latest on Oracle VM
2:00pm - 2:50pm CDT         Simplifying Application Deployment in Cloud Using Virtual Assemblies and EM 12c

November 8 - Oracle Databases on VMware
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10:00am - 10:55am CDT    Virtualizing Oracle
11:00am - 11:50am CDT    Oracle Virtualization Best Practices from VMware Support
12:00pm - 12:50pm CDT    Virtualization Migration Strategies
1:00pm - 1:50pm  CDT      Storage Best Practices for Oracle on VMware
2:00pm - 2:50pm CDT       Raising the Bar with Oracle on Vblock(tm) Systems

Day 1- Oracle on Oracle VM

Oracle on Oracle VM - Expert Panel
Panelists: Tariq Farooq, Honglin Su, Kai Yu, Mike Ault, Dr. Bert Scalzo
Virtualization is the foundation stone in the cloud computing era. In this session, expert panelists and speakers present, detail and elaborate on a comprehensive concepts overview, insights, recommendations, best practices, current strategies, pros and cons, relevance/role in cloud computing, prevalent/dominant paradigms and technologies and a whole lot more about virtualization as it relates to Oracle DBAs - from the perspective of Oracle on Oracle VM.

Deploy the Infrastructure Cloud with Oracle VM
Speakers: Charles Kim, Nitin Vengurlekar
Virtualization is the process of abstracting computing resources such that multiple operating system and application images can share a single physical server, bringing significant cost-of-ownership and manageability benefits. Though its Oracle VM, Oracle offers scalable, low-cost server virtualization solutions for varying workloads and applications, as well as the driving force behind consolidation. Over the past couple of years, Oracle VM has become a major challenger in the Oracle Database virtualization space. If you are considering Oracle databases on Oracle VM, you cannot afford to miss this session by Charles Kim and Nitin Vengurlekar, Managing Directors from Viscosity North America, as they share their virtualization experiences on successfully deploying Oracle VM and describe how customers can achieve lower CapEx and OpEx using Oracle VM.
Key topics covered in their presentation will be:
- OVM History and Architecture
- OVM Core Features
- OVM 3.x New Features
- Importance of Templates
- Deployment Workflow
- Steps towards Virtualization
- Challenges
- Best Practices

The RAC Oracle VM Templates and the New DeployCluster Tool on OVM3
Speaker: Saar Maoz, Consulting Software Engineer, Oracle Corporation
The popular RAC OVM templates were refreshed this summer to more optimally support OVM3. A new tool called DeployCluster allows for even faster automation then ever! End to end (including network setup) clsuter build with no Dom0 or Guest VM access. All previously released RAC tempates can be mixed and matches and full backwards compatibility is retained for OVM2 users. Come see for yourself how easy it is to deploy RAC in an OVM2 environment. Demos will be show live as time permits.

The Latest on Oracle VM
Speaker: Ronen Kofman, Director Product Management, Oracle VM, Oracle
Oracle VM has come a long way with great customer interest and analyst recognition. In addition to the application-driven architecture and design to scale, Oracle VM continues to drive integrated management into all aspects of the product. Join us in this session to get a technical deep dive of the latest features in Oracle VM and expanded management support.

Simplifying Application Deployment in Cloud Using Virtual Assemblies and EM 12c
Speaker: Kai Yu, Dell Oracle Solutions Engineering
Oracle virtual assemblies provide a great way to simplify the deployment of enterprise-class multi-tier applications and their configuration dependencies. Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder 11gR1 can create Oracle virtual assembly packages by capturing the state of an installed application topology. Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c can deploy there assemblies in the cloud resulting in fully operational application stack within minutes. This session will walk you step by step through the Oracle virtual assembly creation process. This session will also demostrate how you can use Oracle Enterprise Manager 12 Cloud Control to deploy an assembly in a self-service cloud built on a Dell platform.

Day 2- Oracle on VMware

Virtualization Oracle
Speaker: Mark Achtemichuck and Don Sullivan
The world has moved beyond wondering if critical workloads can be virtualized.  The issue of interest today is how to maximize the benefit of virtualizing challenging workloads like Oracle databases.  This session will take a detailed look at how and why Oracle runs better on vSphere than on hardware, and shows how you can analyze workloads to achieve similar results and be prepared to address typical operational issues.  Mark Achtemichuck (VCDX) is a VMware Performance Specialist, and will dive deeper into how vSphere architectural considerations are related to these key characteristics, and provide guidance on efficiently analyzing and responding to performance issues you may encounter in daily operation.  Don Sullivan is an Oracle Certified Master as well as an Oracle Tier One Specialist at VMware. 

Oracle Virtualization Best Practices for VMware Support
Speaker: Mike Matthies, VMware
This session will focus on best practices from a VMware support perspective. VMware support will show attendees how to avoid common mistakes, misunderstandings of configurations and best practices learned from the trenches.

Virtualization Migration Strategies
Speaker: George Trujillo & Charles Kim, Viscosity NA
This presentation will focus on Oracle virtualization best practices. Topics will include the Oracle Virtual Infrastructure, migration options with the same endianness, migration options for different endianness and best practices.

Storage Best Practices for Oracle on VMware
Speaker: Brad Davie, EMC
Storage is a key component of any virtualized infrastructure. The speaker will discuss storage hardware and software capabilities, and provide a comprehensive set of storage best practices designed to enhance performance, scalability and availability of Oracle databases running in a VMware environment.

Raising the Bar with Oracle on Vblock(tm) Systems
Speakers: Samir Shah, VCE and Danny Dunn, Cisco
Learn how VCE delivers a pre-engineered and validated converged infrastructure to reduce costs, speed time to value and de-risk Oracle deployments. Gain an inside perspective on harnessing the power of Vblock(tm) Systems to ensure and predictable Oracle performance, as well as enhanced operational agility and scalability for E-Business Suite R12 & RAC

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Free Seminar: Key Strategies & Best Practices Virtualizing Oracle

An excellent workshop is going to be delivered in Rochester, NY, New York, NY and Stamford, CT around virtualizing Oracle on VMware.

Learn Key Strategies and Best Practices around Virtualizing Oracle

Please join us to learn the secret sauce on reference architectures, best practices, storage, migration strategies as well as stories from the trenches around virtualizing Oracle on VMware.  This is a detailed technical workshop addressing core knowledge that every Oracle DBA needs to understand about virtualizing Oracle.  This is a can't miss workshop being presented by three industry recognized Oracle experts:

• Michael Corey, Founder and CEO, Ntirety – Oracle ACE and VMware vExpert, Author of Tuning Oracle, Oracle Data Warehousing, Oracle A Beginner's Guide, ...
• Charles Kim, Co-Founder Viscosity North America – Oracle ACE Director and VMware VCP, Author of Oracle Data Guard Handbook, Linux Recipes for Oracle DBAs, Oracle 11g New Features, Oracle ASM, ...
• George Trujillo, Oracle Double ACE, VCP, VMware Tier One Specialist

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Agenda
08:30 a.m.	Welcome, Registration, Breakfast
09:00 a.m.	Virtualization Architecture and Fundamentals
09:30 a.m.	Why Customers are Virtualizing Business Critical Applications
09:45 a.m.	Key Strategies for Migrating to Virtual Servers
10:45 a.m.	Break
11:00 a.m.	Virtualizing Business Critical Applications: Doing it RIght
12:00 p.m.	Key Tuning and Monitoring Metrics DBAs Need to Know
12:30 p.m.	Lunch, Networking, & Raffle Giveaway*

 

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Oracle World & IOUG Collaborate 2012

 

As I was putting the finishing touches on one of my presentations I am giving at the upcoming IOUG Collaborate conference a call for papers came in for Oracle Open World 2012.  It got me thinking a little.

I attended my first Oracle conference in circa 1987. Oracle was just 10 years old. The conference was held in Washington D.C.. It was known as Oracle International Users Week. State of the art for Oracle back then was Version 4 . From a technology perspective there was no row level locking, cost base optimizer, nor stored procedures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The presentation I gave at Oracle International Users Week was  titled “It’s not in the Manuals”.  Oracle world headquarters was located at 20 Davis Drive, Redwood City. It was suppose to be the Oracle office to end all offices. Back then Oracle was the dominant relational database on the market as it is today. Some things never change.

I was so excited to be able to attend the conference and learn first hand from the experience of the other users of the product and the many experts from Oracle Corporation directly. In one day at the conference I would have a chance to walk the vendor floor and see all the product, tools and 3-party solutions available out there. Today at Oracle Open World it would take you days just to walk the vendor floor alone. At the conference General session I would hear first hand the strategic direction for Oracle from Larry Ellison himself. Well its almost 30 years ago and my excitement still builds for IOUG Collaborate conference coming up in about 30 days.

No Substitute For The Real Thing

In these cost-cutting times, many companies are pushing their employees to attend virtual conferences. I do feel there is a place for virtual conferences, but nothing compares to the real thing.

• Walking the Vendor Floor At Oracle Open World/IOUG Collaborate I can learn more 3-party solutions in a day then would take me a month of google searching to find
• Seeing Larry Ellison on stage sharing his passion, there is no substitute that even comes close.

 

 

 

• Seeing a presentation live, being able to interact with the presenter, picking up all the nuances of what they are saying and being able to talk with the presenter afterwards. A virtualize session does not come close.
• Wednesday Night Party’s. Last year at Oracle Open World was Sting & Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Lets face it that rocks.
• Networking, Networking, Networking, Networking. You will be amazed who you will meet at the conference. Many years ago I met Bob Miner (Oracle Founder) waiting in line for an event.
• When you are in the office, you get interrupted. When you are at the conference you are able to take it all in.

My company Ntirety we invest in our people. We try to have a strong showing at events like Oracle Open World & IOUG Collaborate.

Oracle Open World Call For Papers

There are lots of great reasons for attending an event. A great way to make the business case for attending is to present a paper. Your conference fee is waived. That is the case for Oracle Open World and the

Independent Oracle Users Group Collaborate conference.  I would strongly encourage you to do it. If you have never attended an Oracle Open World then you are missing out. It’s a great place to learn, network and see the strategic direction of the industry.

Oracle Open World Call For Papers

My Presentations At IOUG Collaborate

 

223: Trends in Database Administration and the Changing Role of the DBA

 

Databases keep getting bigger and bigger. Business applications that utilize ever-growing databases are expanding at an alarming rate. To stay competitive, businesses require additional functionality, and the technology needed to make that functionality possible keeps getting more complex. To make matters worse, the DBAs needed to keep it all running are hard to find and retain. Good DBA skills take years to acquire, and the role of the DBA is fundamentally changing. This presentation discusses these trends and how they affect your career as a DBA or as a DBA manager. If you're a DBA manager, understanding these trends will enable you to prevent staff burnout and be better equipped to align yourself with the needs of your organization.

 

826 Virtualization Boot Camp: Virtualizing Oracle On VMware – Quick Tips

 

A database is a very resource intensive by its very nature and one of the most resource intensive applications you will ever virtualize. If best practices are not followed, the database will never perform as needed. This presentation will teach the DBA best practices for Virtualizing Oracle/MySQL databases on VMware. The Best practices will carry over to Oracle VM.

 

If you attend IOUG Collaborate or Oracle Open World this year, please stop by and say hello.

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These are required reads IMHO.

Ntirety VMware Must Read List

 

Anyone who has been reading my Blog, can see greater and greater emphasis on VMware with each passing article. As they say I have "drank the VMware Koolaide".

VMware is the industry leading Virtualization software and for very good reason. There a reason Oracle Corporation is afraid of VMware. When Oracle is pushing Oracle Exadata, Oracle RAC or Oracle's flavor of Virtualization VMware is offering a viable alternative. In most instances in my opinion a more cost effective and comprehensive alternative. 

Before I go any farther, let me be clear. I have been working with Oracle since Version 3.0. They have built an awesome database. They have amassed the most comprehensive suite of applications to run against it in the world. As a technologist, I admire a lot about Oracle Corporation. That does not mean they are the right answer for every situation. Lets think about Oracle Exadata. It was initially built on HP hardware. Now that Oracle has acquired Sun Microsystems, HP is company non-gratis. 

Lets review the Oracle Exadata, you would use Oracle hardware, Oracle database manager and in the perfect Oracle world an application that Oracle owns. When you look at the spec of the entry-level Exadata box, it is one big hunkering piece of hardware. At its lowest entry point It would cost a lot of money. If you took any mission critical application and put it on a big expensive piece of hardware, it would run faster. What you have done is bought a NASAR racecar. If all you have to do is run a race that would be a great solution. Yet much of your IT departments time is consumed with the day to day realities of dealing with maintaining a Mission critical application so it can meet the demand of the business. 

The Alternative VMware solution would deal with the issues of manageability of the environment. Instead of having physical server, where the unused resource cannot be reclaimed, when a particular mission critical process needed additional horsepower you would be able allocate the additional resource to it.  By stream lining the manageability of the environment, your staff would have additional cycles left over to look at the root cause of a particular mission critical environments performance issues.  Couple that with the fact you will save dollars as you consolidated your environments onto a VMware virtualized platform.  As they say I have drank the VMware Kool-aid.

 

As I embark down the path of better understanding Virtualization. Here are a list of must read books….

VMware Must Read Books - The Basics

 

Mastering VMware vSphere 4  by Scott Lowe - good fundamentals book, vSphere 5 version will be out in Oct 2011

 

VMware vSphere 4.1 HA and DRS Technical deepdive (Volume 1)  - need to know fundamentals first but this is the bible on HA and DRS. (required once someone understands fundamentals)

VMware vSphere Design by Forbes Guthrie, Scott Lowe and Maish Saidel-Keesing  (a required read)

 

VMware Books - Advance Reading

VMware vSphere 5 Clustering Technical Deepdive (Volume 2) by Frank Denneman and Duncan Epping

 

 Do You Know Any Good Books That Are Missing ?

If you know of additional books that you feel should be added to my list, please let me know. 

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The IOUG is gettng real on Virtualization. They are running a series of online Educattional events. Get Real with MySQL, Database, Virtualization, Security, and BI IOUG 2011 Online Education Series

Get Real with MySQL, Database, Virtualization, Security, and BI IOUG 2011 Online Education Series

IOUG's inaugral Online Education Series was such a success in 2010 that we're bringing it back in 2011!

Since we're committed to equipping community users with the tools and mindshare to increase proficiencies in their everyday job roles, we're presenting a year-round Online Education Series to provide members remote access to 'unfiltered' education from real customers.
 
The best part? All of this training comes straight to you. No travel. No time out of the office. Minimal conflicts with your schedule.

Save the date for the 2011 Webinars, each quarter being focused on a different topic:

 

July 27: 360 Degrees: Everything to know about Virtualization for Oracle DBAs
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. CT
Mike Ault
Tariq Farooq, BrainSurface

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The speakers will present, detail and elaborate Comprehensive Concepts Overview, Insight, Recommendations, Best Practices, Current Strategies, Pros & Cons, Relevance/Role in Cloud Computing, Prevalent/Dominant Paradigms & Technologies and, a whole lot more about Virtualization as, it relates to Oracle DBAs.

 

August 24: Virtualizing Oracle Database Servers on VMware
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. CT
Bert Scalzo, PhD
George Trujillo, VMware

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The default platform for Oracle database servers is rapidly moving towards virtual machines. This is why virtualizing Oracle Databases on VMware is one of the largest growth areas in the IT industry. This presentation will show attendees the various virtualization alternative technologies and how virtualization works under the covers. The quality of service of database management improves significantly by running Database Servers in a VM.  Features such as vMotion, Storage vMotion, DRS /HA clusters and SRM  will completely change how DBAs manage their database environments.  Best practices of virtualizing single instance and RAC instances will be covered.

September 21: Virtualized Oracle 11g/R2 RAC Database on Oracle VM: Methods/Tips
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. CT
Kai Yu, Oracle Solutions Engineering Lab, Dell Inc.

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Virtualization technology provides the solution to enable the server partition and consolidation for improving the resource utilization and archiving the great flexibility and high availability. By combining with RAC technology, it provides the grid ready architecture to consolidate the data center infrastructure. This presenter covers the configuration of such an infrastructure based on Oracle VM and Oracle 11g R2 RAC. You will learn the  basic Oracle VM architecture and the tips and tricks of network and shared storage configuration on the multiple layers of virtual infrastructure to support 11g R2 RAC database deployment. The presentation will also discuss the various methods to provision 11g R2 RAC database on Oracle VM.

Get Real with MySQL, Database, Virtualization, Security, and BI IOUG 2011 Online Education Series

 

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I recently did a podcats with Mike Vizard at Eweek. We talked about quite a few things. We touched up Database Virtualization, Database consolodation and a lot more. Here is is...

 

 

Consolidating Database Servers

By Michael Vizard

In this IT Link podcast hosted by Mike Vizard, Ntirety CEO Michael Corey explains how the next generation of databases and virtualization technologies will combine to drive a new wave of database server consolidation and related infrastructure investments.

Here is a link to get there.....

Consolidating Database Servers, Mike Vizard (Eweek)

 

Posted by Michael Corey 

www.ntirety.com

 

 

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/Consolidating-Database-Servers/