RE: Anyone Running Oracle on VMWare?
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:51:33 -0400
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It depends very much on how you're using VMware. For example, I would recommend having database VMs use dedicated CPU allocations, or getting higher priority for CPU time. Also, older versions of VMware, notable the early ESX revs and VMware Server, had real issues with contention overhead for both I/O and CPU. These things are improved in recent versions of ESX, as well as having the CPU allocation that can mitigate.
Matt
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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Yechiel Adar
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Subject: Re: Anyone Running Oracle on VMWare?
We had a major development database on vmware. We had a lot of disconnect troubles that disappeared when we moved all other virtual machines to another vmware server. We ended up with dedicated server without vmware.
The problem I see with vmware is that heavy load on another virtual machine can bring yours to stop.
I would no recommend this for production.
Adar Yechiel
Rechovot, Israel
Scott Canaan wrote:
We currently run Oracle on Sun (now Oracle) Solaris servers in a clustered environment. We've been told that we will be moving to a virtual environment. There already is a VMWare cluster in the data center and we've been told that we will most likely be moving in that direction. The official word from Oracle is that unless we use their virtual environment, then we will not be in a supported environment.
My question is: Is anyone else running Oracle in the VMWare virtual environment? If so, have you run into any issues and how much did Oracle support help you?
We are running Oracle 10g and 11g.
Scott Canaan '88 (Scott.Canaan_at_rit.edu)
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