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Oracle and vmware posted: Jul 15, 2009 6:58 AM

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Rhidian
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Jun 23, 2009

Hi,

What is Oracle's current position on support for virtualization?

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Re: Oracle and vmware

1. Jul 15, 2009 7:04 AM in response to: Rhidian
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AWo
3,643 posts since
Nov 27, 2003
Good, if you buy Oracle's XENServer.
That's the only virtualization plattform I know of, where you do not get in this license trouble. Either you buy a license for every CPU where Oracle might run on in a farm or you user per user licensing.


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VCP / VMware vEXPERT 2009

Re: Oracle and vmware

2. Jul 15, 2009 7:12 AM in response to: Rhidian
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tom howarth
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Moved to the Oracle on VMware forum

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Re: Oracle and vmware

3. Jul 15, 2009 7:23 AM in response to: AWo
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azn2kew
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Jun 21, 2006
From a licensing perspective, you can read this explanation in details http://communities.vmware.com/thread/153656 and there are enterprises using Oracle/VMware enviornment case studies http://www.vmware.com/partners/alliances/technology/oracle-database-customers.html you can read for details. Here is a test result for Oracle & vSphere 4.0 performance you can check out http://www.vmware.com/pdf/Perf_ESX40_Oracle-eval.pdf

For Oracle support call, try not to mention it with VMware usage otherwise they will point fingers can't find knowledgebase for it blah blah...but if you have good VMware Technical Account Manager, they would have better access to Oracle support folks.

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Re: Oracle and vmware

4. Jul 25, 2009 7:30 PM in response to: Rhidian
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petedr
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Mar 18, 2006
I know things have changed in the past couple of years but when i ran a virtualized Oracle environment we did not have any issues with Oracle support.

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