Re: Oracle standalone or Oracle RAC on VMWARE support
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 17:27:31 +0000
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You want to be careful to distinguish between "support" and "certification". It just *isn't *true that Oracle isn't supported in a virtual environment. You can still get patches; still log tickets and get a response. What *may* happen - though to be honest it ought to be rare unless you tell Oracle upfront about the virtual environment - is that Oracle might require you to build a test case on real hardware. In that case you might well wish to work with VMWare themselves under the terms outlined at http://www.vmware.com/uk/support/policies/oracle-support.html.
What *is *true is that you will need to license the software as if it were running on all the underlying physical CPUs (rather than the vCPU count you pass to the vm).
What *may be * true is that the database might perform less well due to storage performance constraints and resource contention - this is however true of any environment with shared or consolidated resources and heterogeneous workloads on the same resource as anyone who has used RAC as a database consolidation platform will likely attest.
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 3:06 PM, Sanjay Mishra <smishra_97_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I want to know how people are using Oracle On VMWARE especially if they
> are using them for mission critical application production environment on
> VMWare. As Oracle says that they will not support or more specifically
> Oracle is not certifying andy Oracle Product on Virtualised
> environments.Oracle will provide support on Oracle Database level.
>
> So point is that how many of us are using Oracle on vmware for production
> setup and and can suggest any pros and cons faced in the support.
>
> TIA
> Sanjay
>
-- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-lReceived on Mon Jan 06 2014 - 18:27:31 CET