Johannesburg, 10 Nov 2015
Virtualised environments have gone a long way, and in the latest years there have been massive improvements in terms of performances and capabilities. Thanks to the doubtless advantages of virtualisation together with the newest versions of the hypervisors capable of running the largest possible workloads, so called "business-critical applications" (BCA) have been moved from physical environments to virtualised platforms without issues, experiencing all the benefits of virtualisation.
No longer is virtualisation just about server consolidation and footprint reduction - it's the platform of choice for "Tier 1" applications, but also for the agility and high availability (HA) it offers, and the fine resource management it brings. For all these reasons and more, enterprise applications like Microsoft SQL Server or Exchange, SAP and Oracle are commonly executed on virtualised environments today.
Oracle databases are among the most important applications in many environments. Relational databases are used for custom applications developed internally by a company, or as a database backend for commercial applications deployments. In both scenarios, data registered in Oracle databases require a proper design for their availability needs. This involves specific virtualisation capabilities like HA, and proper data protection. Availability for BCA is not something that can be applied afterwards as an add-on, but instead is a critical component that should be planned for and designed into the overall plan.
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