Re: RAC & VMware - Production Usage

Oracle recently changed their support stance for RAC on VMWare from "We do not support it" to "We have not certified the platform so reserve the right to blame the platform and ask you to reproduce on real hardware" - i.e they brought it into line with the rest of their products. One strategy available if you go down this route is to include a physical host in the cluster specifically for reproducing the issue (or else a dataguard cluster on physical hardware as a standby)

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Chris Dunscombe <cdunscombe_at_yahoo.com>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
>
>
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> *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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