I love technology- ALL TECHNOLOGY. This includes loving my Mac Air and loving my Microsoft Surface Pro 4. I’ve recently went back to a Mac when I joined Delphix, trimming down the power I had on my Surface Pro 4, knowing the content I was providing would be required to run on hardware with lesser resources. With the release of Microsoft SQL Server 2016 on Linux, I jumped in with both feet and wanted to install it on one of my Linux VMs that I have “discovered” with my Delphix engine and its Oracle environment. To accomplish this, the…
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A number of emails I received about trying out Delphix Express was regarding VMWare. Many of my followers had used Virtualbox for a long time and we all know, no one likes change, (OK, maybe me, but we know how abnormal I am anyway… :)) Adding a VM in VMWare Importing an OVA is pretty simple in VMWare. In the VMWare Fusion application, click on File, Import and accept the defaults. Depending on the size of the VM, the process will take the time needed to import and if anything happens to the VM you imported in, the great thing…
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For those of you that downloaded and are starting to work with Delphix Express, (because you’re the cool kids… :)) You may have noticed that there is an Express Edition Oracle 11g database out there you could use as a Dsource, (source database for Delphix to clone and virtualize…) If you’d like to work with this free version with your Delphix Express environment, these are the steps that I performed to allow me to utilize it. My setup is as follows: VMWare Fusions 8 Chrome Browser Delphix is upgraded to the latest VM release Although we start the environment from…
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Maximum manageable storage per VM by ESX version 4.1: 32TB (vmdk) / 120TB (RDM) 5.0: 60TB (vmdk) / 3.75PB (RDM) 5.1: 60TB (vmdk) / 3.75PB (RDM) 5.5: 3.63PB (vmdk) / 3.75PB (RDM) Note that the 60TB limit for 5.0 and 5.1 requires Update 1. Without this the limit is 24TB. Exceeding the limits on ESX < 5.5 can result in VMFS heap exhaustion and data corruption! More details: Component ESX 3.5 * ESX 4.0 ESX 4.1 ESX 5.0 ESX 5.1 ESX 5.5 vCPUs 4 8 8 32 64 64 RAM 64GB 255GB 255GB 1TB 1TB 1TB Disk Size (VMDK)…