RE: Oracle and VM

From: Michael Schmitt <mschmitt_at_uchicago.edu>
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 14:57:36 +0000
Message-ID: <1184E7EFAB1D1C47A5038D06F64BE92601FDCD82_at_XM-MBX-02-PROD.ad.uchicago.edu>

I agree with what Niall has said. I am not aware of any technical reasons why you could not use any Virtual product. We have been running part of our environment on VMware without issue.

From my perspective, it really comes down to that document [ID 249212.1] and how your organization feels about running under that support position.

I think VMware would tell you that Oracle support is great and since VMware doesn't affect the OS you should not have a problem. They also have a support team available to support you if Oracle support ever says the issues looks to be due to your virtualization. Hopefully that doesn't sound too much like a commercial, I have read to many documents about it :)        

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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Niall Litchfield Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 5:23 AM
To: howard.latham_at_gmail.com
Cc: ORACLE-L
Subject: Re: Oracle and VM

You can *run *Oracle on whatever virtualization platform you want. I've used Oracle VM, VMware, Virtual Box, Amazon EC2 and seen it running on Hyper-V. The relevant document is the support policy "Support Position for Oracle Products Running on VMWare Virtualized Environments [ID 249212.1] " which is clear (if not entirely satisfactory!). When it comes to licensing you will typically find that non-Oracle virtualisation requires *every *CPU in the underlying hardware to be licensed, whereas Oracle virtualisation can be configured (*but isn't by default) *so that you only have to license the virtual CPUs dedicated to the Oracle VM.

There's no technical reason not to use whatever virtualisation product you want. There often are plenty of monetary reasons not to.

On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Howard Latham <howard.latham_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> Is it still true that you can only run Oracle on Oracle's VM.
> A consise answer or reference to INDEPENDENT doc on this would be
> appreciated.
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