RE: Oracle and VM

From: Patterson, Joel <Joel.Patterson_at_crowley.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 07:39:34 -0400
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An afterthought:
We are using Solaris 'Containers' (solaris's version of virtualization) -- and we are able to limit the number of CPU's we can license to less than the total amount on the physical hardware.

Joel Patterson
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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 6:23 AM
To: howard.latham_at_gmail.com
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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
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