Which Oracle databases are getting virtualized and why? In a recent SolarWinds Twitter datachat (#datachat) with George Trujillo (Oracle ACE Director and Master Principal Big Data Specialist at Hortonworks), Charles Kim (Oracle ACE Director and Founder/President at Viscosity North America), Michael Webster (VMware Virtualization and Cloud Solution Architect at Nutanix), Leighton Nelson (Oracle ACE Director and Prinicipal DBA at Sisters of Mercy ), Kai Yu (Oracle ACE Director and Senior Principal Engineer/Architect at Dell ) and Janis Griffin (Senior Sales Engineer at SolarWinds), we explored some of these challenges from the DBA point of view. Virtualization, however, introduces new challenges for the Oracle DBA, including getting visibility to what’s happening in the virtual environment and understanding how that impacts database performance. Some estimate that large organizations are as much as 70% virtualized already, with no plans to go back to physical servers.

These days, even business-critical applications are being virtualized, and with the increasing costs and complexity of data environments, it’s not surprising.

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