Re: ODA - VM question (Windows)
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 00:08:01 -0500
Message-ID: <CAEueRAXPNk532pAOE_ZsLmd+-jmgNAoJOrmzgBNBHyge=hBjzA_at_mail.gmail.com>
*"You have to be careful when you request Oracle support because they will tell you that they don't certificate the DB over a virtualized environment -at least not 11g R2 and not over Windows-"*
David, perhaps you had a side conversation with Jeff that the rest of us didn't see but I don't think he mentioned anything about running a database in Windows on a VM.
Jeff, to answer your question, the ODA Virtualized Platform (ODAVP) will run and support any VM support by Oracle Virtual Machine since that is the hypervisor being used. OVM is built over Xen which runs Windows quite well and yes, Windows is fully supported for most products on OVM. Take a look at MOS note 464754.1 for specifics.
*"Going forward every product running on Linux and Windows released by Oracle is certified and supported on Oracle VM. For specific information on the earliest product versions supported on Oracle VM, refer to the product specific information below."*
Seth Miller
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 4:15 PM, David Ramírez Reyes <dramirezr_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> I have never liked MS Products (with the exception of Office, I have to
> say), but here in the company we have 8 DB's running over Windows (it was
> CIO decision, don't ask).
>
> These are small databases (120 GB the biggest) but very critical for the
> business as they are in use 24x7x365 and I have to say that the performance
> and stability is surprisingly good (11g R2 with Win Server 2008
> -virtualized over VMWare).
>
> You have to be careful when you request Oracle support because they will
> tell you that they don't certificate the DB over a virtualized environment
> -at least not 11g R2 and not over Windows- and they will use that to
> explain any possible bad behavior on the DB, even if it's not related.
>
> Of course am still against this use, as I know all the features and
> possibilities Oracle DB has over Linux/Unix environments and are not
> available for Windows, but I would lie if I say that everything is a mess.
>
> Here's a a good like that I would suggest you to check before starting
> working over Windows (specially if you are used to work with Linux/Unix for
> the DB server, which was my case), this is very good beginning:
>
> http://www.rampant-books.com/art_oracle_on_windows_unix_users.htm
>
> Good luck...
>
> Regards
>
> David Ramírez Reyes
> Profesión: Padre de Familia
>
>
> On 26 March 2015 at 15:03, Jeff Chirco <backseatdba_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I don't have an appliance, just in the early stages of figuring out if it
>> will be worth it for use. We would use maybe 4 cpu's of it for our
>> databases, with the rest being a waste. So I was thinking if Windows runs
>> on there then that would be more useful for us. And our databases don't
>> have large growth where we would need to expand much in the future.
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 12:54 PM, George <georgelza_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Please do tell,
>>>
>>> Also bout to deploy this.
>>>
>>> G
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 9:44 PM, Jeff Chirco <backseatdba_at_gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Anybody run Oracle Database Appliance with the VM option and run a
>>>> Windows VM for example as an application server? Just wondering how well
>>>> Windows OS runs on it.
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Jeff
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> You have the obligation to inform one honestly of the risk, and as a
>>> person
>>> you are committed to educate yourself to the total risk in any activity!
>>>
>>> Once informed & totally aware of the risk,
>>> every fool has the right to kill or injure themselves as they see fit!
>>>
>>
>>
>
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