Nutanix: On-Demand Deployment for your Databases with Oracle VM and Nutanix Enterprise Cloud

Oracle produces some of the most widely used and well known database products running in enterprise data centers. Businesses of all sizes rely on Oracle databases to run applications that power their most essential IT business systems. As a result, IT administrators want to be sure that they have correctly deployed and configured the database. If the admin does not work with Oracle on a regular basis, then this can feel like a daunting task. Oracle recognized this business need and developed the Oracle VM. Using a purpose-built Oracle VM template, Oracle claims that users can deploy a two node Oracle RAC cluster in less than half an hour^[1].

The Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform can provide an ideal platform for rapidly deploying databases like Oracle. Nutanix clusters can be installed in a matter of hours and offer a rich set of data services. Acropolis Block Services, or ABS, can be used to present volumes to physical servers running Oracle databases. ABS is a feature that is already available in AOS version 4.7 and currently supports all of the SCSI-3 commands needed to present shared volumes, such as SCSI-3 Persistent Reservation. Additionally, Nutanix Prism has built a reputation of being able to deliver “one-click” simplicity to infrastructure configuration, management, and analytics.

Read the entire article here, On-Demand Deployment for your Databases with Oracle VM and Nutanix Enterprise Cloud

via the fine folks at Nutanix.