Re: VmWare
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:17:50 +0000
Message-ID: <AANLkTikwkobtuOwABoRo-yiaUUgsM-4-dgNDZk8iwNw4_at_mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:07 PM, John Piwowar <jpiwowar_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Wayne Smith <wts_at_maine.edu> wrote:
>
>> Which is to say that, while you are welcome to run on VMware, they'll only
>> give you support if (1) if you report a problem known to occur on native OS,
>> or (2) if you can show the Oracle solution does not work on the native OS.
>> Oracle does not certify on VMware and, IMHO, Oracle does not support
>> VMware.
>>
>> Shades of Ma Bell, if you ask me.
>>
>
> Acutally, I've never understood why people have such a huge problem with
> this. Don't get me wrong, I wish Oracle would/could make a stronger support
> statement about VMware, too, but this seems reasonable to me. After all, if
> I had a problem running Oracle on HP hardware (or whatever, choose your
> favorite non-Oracle-owned hardware/OS platform combo), and it couldn't be
> replicated in Oracle's reference implementation of that environment, I would
> not be surprised if Oracle Support would begin a game of "vendor volleyball"
> with the hardware vendor. I'd be anoyed, but not surprised. :-)
>
My experience recently however has been that the *first* thing that support have done with a virtualized system has been to blame the virtualisation technology. Even before requesting logs.
-- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-lReceived on Fri Nov 19 2010 - 03:17:50 CST