Re: Linux

I have generally found that OVM is less stable and a harder to manage than other virtualizing software. However, much of that experience comes from using it on ODAs, which are notoriously difficult to manage to begin with, so I may not be the best source of information.

On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 9:15 AM Clay Jackson (cjackson) < Clay.Jackson_at_quest.com> wrote:

> I’d agree w/Mladen – I’ve not seen or heard “bad results” from anyone
> running OEL/UEK 7 or RHEL 7 on VMWare or OVM. In many cases, as we talk to
> folks, which Hypervisor they’re running often doesn’t even come up. These
> things are so “commoditized” that it really does come down to:
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> 1. Where do you have the “best” support in YOUR organization
> (internally and with vendors)?
> 2. What will give you the lowest TCO?
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> Good luck!
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> *Clay Jackson*
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> On 10/9/19 8:09 AM, Noveljic Nenad wrote:
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> Thank you, Mladen – then we’ll start our evaluation with OL7.
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> Is there any particular reason why you didn’t mention KVM (
> https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/virtualization/what-is-KVM
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> ) for virtualization?
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> VMWare isn’t strategic in our shop. In contrast, we’ve been having an
> absolutely positive experience with Hyper-V for hosting SQL Server, but we
> would like to avoid it for Oracle, as we’d need to deal with yet another
> team, where it isn’t absolutely necessary.
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> No particular reason. As a consultant, I have most frequently encountered
> the aforementioned hypervisors. I have no experiences with KVM, either
> good or bad.
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> Anybody can share their experiences with OVM?
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> OVM can pretty much do what all other hypervisors can also do. In
> addition to that, OVM virtual machines can be easily moved to Oracle Cloud
> and Oracle is willing to discount the price for databases is you buy OVM,
> which makes things cheaper for you. Again, those are business reasons, not
> technical reasons. Hypervisor software has reached a level of maturity,
> just like office software. All the office software suites can doc and docx
> documents, export them as PDF and edit styles and fonts. BTW, OVM is KVM
> based.
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> Mladen Gogala
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