Getting Started with VMware vSphere 5.5: Part I
Much of my research to date has involved the use of virtualization technology especially Oracle VM VirtualBox. Lately however, I've found that my aging 5 year old iMac has been struggling to keep up with my testing and research even despite attempts at increasing performance by adding physical memory (16GB) and SSD disks. I could also try using other desktop virtualization software such as VMware Fusion or Parallels for OS X (I have both) since other users have had better experience with them. However, I find the alternatives lacking in some feature that I currently use in VirtualBox (such as shared disks for clustering). Also Oracle publishes several Virtual appliances for VirtualBox which makes it easy to learn a plethora of Oracle products and features. For more on Oracle with VirtualBox you can read my paper and presentations on Slideshare. With that said I've been wanting to build a dedicated lab machine for doing database research for a while now. I've been using VM...