Oracle patching carries operational risk. The traditional approach, manual in-place updates, leaves limited margin for error. One misstep in an Oracle software home can mean hours of unplanned downtime and a difficult root-cause conversation afterward.
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The Nutanix Move migration tool 6.3.0 now supports Nutanix’s Projects platform initiative, empowering Service Providers (SPs) and Large Enterprises to seamlessly migrate VMs and security policies into multi-tenant Nutanix environments built on Nutanix.
Aug
21
2026
The IT infrastructure market has hit a disruption that separates reactive organizations from resilient ones. The CIOs who navigate these moments best are the ones who refuse to let hardware availability dictate the pace of their business.
Databases hold an organization's most sensitive data — and in regulated industries, every action taken on database infrastructure needs to be accounted for.
Jul
13
2013
This article addresses the benefits provided from database
virtualization. Before we proceed however, it is important to
explain that database virtualization does NOT mean simply running
a DBMS inside a virtual machine.
Database Virtualization, More Than Running a DBMS in a Virtual
Machine While running a DBMS in a VM can provide advantages
(and disadvantages) it is NOT database virtualization. Typical
databases fuse together the data (or I/O) with the processing
(CPU utilization) to operate as a single unit. Simply running
that single unit in a VM does not provide the benefits detailed
below. That is not database virtualization that is merely server
virtualization.
An Example of the Database
Virtualization Problem Say you have a database handling
banking and I have $10MM in the bank (I wish). Now let’s assume
that the bank is busy, so it bursts that database across 3 VM
nodes in typical cloud-style. …
Jul
13
2013
This article addresses the benefits provided from database virtualization. Before we proceed however, it is important to explain that database virtualization does NOT mean simply running a DBMS inside a virtual machine.
Database Virtualization, More Than Running a DBMS in a Virtual
Machine While running a DBMS in a VM can provide advantages
(and disadvantages) it is NOT database virtualization. Typical
databases fuse together the data (or I/O) with the processing
(CPU utilization) to operate as a single unit. Simply running
that single unit in a VM does not provide the benefits detailed
below. That is not database virtualization that is merely server
virtualization.
An Example of the Database
Virtualization Problem Say you have a database handling
banking and I have $10MM in the bank (I wish). Now let’s assume
that the bank is busy, so it bursts that database across 3 VM
nodes in typical cloud-style. Now …