Posts Tagged ‘vmware’

VMWare HA is not Oracle RAC

This originally started out as a much longer rant about EMC/VMWare vs. Oracle in general, but WordPress managed to eat the draft, and there’s no way I’m going to rewrite the whole thing, so I’m going to instead write a series of blog posts, each one covering a point in EMC’s recent salvo against Oracle [...]

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Virtualized Hardware Faster than the Real Deal?

Timothy Prickett Morgan over at The Register has penned an article entitled, “Fake server beats real server in web test”.  The gist of the article is that VMWare has released results showing that virtual Linux servers running on VMWare’s ESX hypervisor have garnered the highest single-server performance for a 16-core machine, and significantly beat out [...]

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