RE: Oracle on windows 2003 on vmware

From: Job Miller <jobmiller_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 17:19:50 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <219651.10547.qm@web53902.mail.yahoo.com>

Does this concern anyone?

Support Status for VMWare

Oracle provides support of the Oracle Stack when running on a VMware virtual machine in the following manner. If a problem arises and it is a known Oracle issue, Oracle support will recommend the appropriate solution. If that solution does not work, the issue will be referred back to VMware for support. If the problem is determined to be an unknown Oracle issue when running on a VMware virtual machine, and the issue cannot be reproduced on a physical system by Oracle support, the issue will be referred back to VMware for support. Oracle and VMware have in place a joint customer support agreement to enable customer support issues to be transferred between the two partners. In addition, all versions of RAC are not supported on VMWare by Oracle.

"Kerber, Andrew" <Andrew.Kerber_at_umb.com> wrote:

                Yeah, my advice is don’t do it.  Linux to Windows?  Is this guy a MS employee perhaps?

Andrew W. Kerber
Oracle DBA
UMB "If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving"

-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Ron Rogers Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 2:28 PM To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Oracle on windows 2003 on vmware

List,
Our corporate wiz kid has decided to migrate our Oracle 10g database from Linux to Windows2003 on Vmware. Are there any special setup instruction needed to make this work properly? Any references that I might have missed? I searched the OTN but did not find anything that jumped out at me.

Linux server. 1 CPU, 4 GIG ram, 3 internal mount points for data. Oracle setup with 1.6 GIG SGA

Windows VMWARE server. 1 CPU, 4 GIG ram, 3 mount points on SAN(2 fiber channel 1 SATA) data. Oracle setup with 1.6 GIG SGA

  Both servers have the same tables, partitions, and data loaded on one mount point. In the Windows case it is the SATA SAN.   I set timing on.
  I run the query select count(*) from a table that has 500,000,000 records and    Linux = 4 min, 24.83 seconds
  Windows = 19 min,53.19 seconds

The results are proportionatly the same for the other tables that have millions of records.

Is there any helpful hints that we might have missed when we set up the VMWARE ESX server for windows/oracle?

When I google for VMWARE and Oracle the results are for Linux and RAC not windows. Maybe they are trying to tell me something.

  Any usefull suggestions?
  Thanks,
  Ron Rogers
  DBA
  Georgia Lottery Corp.
  404-215-5072

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