Re: RAC & VMware - Production Usage

From: jason arneil <jason.arneil_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:49:02 +0000
Message-Id: <AE27DE57-EC6F-4A67-B97C-36C25E518668_at_gmail.com>

Hi,

I am not necessarily happy.

Just for clarification. MOS support Doc 249212.1 states the following:

Support Status for VMware Virtualized Environments

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Oracle has not certified any of its products on VMware virtualized environments. Oracle Support will assist customers running Oracle products on VMware in the following manner: Oracle will only provide support for issues that either are known to occur on the native OS, or can be demonstrated not to be as a result of running on VMware.

If a problem is a known Oracle issue, Oracle support will recommend the appropriate solution on the native OS. If that solution does not work in the VMware virtualized environment, the customer will be referred to VMware for support. When the customer can demonstrate that the Oracle solution does not work when running on the native OS, Oracle will resume support, including logging a bug with Oracle Development for investigation if required.

If the problem is determined not to be a known Oracle issue, we will refer the customer to VMware for support. When the customer can demonstrate that the issue occurs when running on the native OS, Oracle will resume support, including logging a bug with Oracle Development for investigation if required.

NOTE: Oracle has not certified any of its products on VMware. For Oracle RAC, Oracle will only accept Service Requests as described in this note on Oracle RAC 11.2.0.2 and later releases.

Not ideal I grant you.

jason.

On 16 Feb 2011, at 10:42, Chris Dunscombe wrote:

> Jason,
>
> So I take it that your happy with Oracle's "lack of support" regarding running Oracle on VMware. My own view is that this is the key driver to not running mission critical Oracle databases on VMware, doing it using with RAC to me just makes it more likely that you'd have problems with Oracle support if you ever need to call them.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>
>
> From: jason arneil <jason.arneil_at_gmail.com>
> To: oracle_l <oracle-l_at_freelists.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 9:58:27
> Subject: RAC & VMware - Production Usage
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm keen to hear of experiences (good and bad) of running RAC on top of VMware, in production environments.
>
> I'm also keen to hear if anyone is running RAC at extended distances also on top of VMware. I'm not convinced about this myself, but I've not seen any hard evidence ruling out running like this, so thoughts/opinions would be welcome on this.
>
> It will be 11gR2 with fibre connectivity between arrays and a distance under 50Km.
>
> jason.
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