Also Posted Replays from December and January Webcasts
Registration is currently underway for Oracle Database February Webcasts. These live webcasts feature experts who will be covering various topics involving the database and security, upgrading, and consolidating. Also posted are past webcasts from December and January that are available for replay. Topics covered include clustering, data encryption, security and regulatory compliance, high availability best practices, and transaction processing and data warehousing.
Comparative Testing Between Virtualized and Non-virtualized Instances
Anyone running or considering running MySQL Server on VMware Infrastructure should take some time to read a best practices and performance guide by Mike Frank, Jennifer Glore, and Adina Kalin. The three cover recent testing conducted by Sun/MySQL and VMware where virtualized instances of MySQL Server instances running on VMware ESX were compared to non-virtualized MySQL Server instances running on an equivalent hardware server.
Best Practices on Tuning the Software for Maximum Effect in Large & Super Scale Environments
Several best practices for building super scale clusters utilizing Sun Grid Engine software are shared in the Sun white paper “Extreme Scalability Using Sun Grid Engine Software,” which also reveals practices to avoid. The 27-page paper authored by Daniel Templeton explains distributed resource management (DRM) systems, of which the Sun Grid Engine is a part, and focuses on the Sun software’s features and architecture.
As reported in August, the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server with 1.6 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors, Solaris Containers and Oracle Database 11g software, delivered outstanding performance with 28,000 concurrent users on the Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Suite Enterprise Edition (EE) test. A closer look at this benchmark and what its results mean are presented by a couple of Sun bloggers, one of which also offers up a few best practices for Oracle BI EE on Sun.
Best Practices Guide Addresses Issues Related to Virtual Machine Sprawl
Virtualization has transformed the data center. The cost savings and efficiencies virtual machines (VMs) feature along with the ease in implementing them within an infrastructure have blinded many into acting versus planning for the technology. Anil Desai has written a best practices guide on implementing and managing a viral infrastructure. His article provides recommendations for managing virtual environments and for preventing issues related to VM sprawl.
Dennedy Set to Create an Industry Cloud Computing Group for Governance & Privacy Concerns
An alliance is being set up by Sun to rally the community together to create a code of Best Practices for Cloud Computing that serves both customers and providers, with the appointment of Michelle Dennedy, Sun’s chief governance officer for cloud computing.
As reported in August, the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server with 1.6 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors, Solaris Containers and Oracle Database 11g software, delivered outstanding performance with 28,000 concurrent users on the Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Suite Enterprise Edition (EE) test. A closer look at this benchmark and what its results mean are presented by a couple of Sun bloggers, one of which also offers up a few best practices for Oracle BI EE on Sun.
