Chapter 4. Oracle on vSphere Best Practices

The notion of best practices is at the very heart of the question of viability. Without the implementation of the general best practices for Oracle on vSphere, or at least an alternate and well thought-out plan, there are very few successful implementations. A basic pillar of Oracle on vSphere is that the fundamental approach to implementing Oracle does not change and that therefore the skill set of the database administrator (DBA) does not have to be appreciably altered to successfully install, configure, maintain, and run Oracle on vSphere.

The thoughtful DBA will recognize that due to continuous evolutionary forces deeply embedded within the DNA of information technology (IT), change is inevitable. ...

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