Oracle RAC

[sumeet_khokhani]

Has anyone tried Oracle RAC using VMs or recommend if this can be done, I mean each RAC node is a VM on a seperate machine. Specifically, in an HA environment (i.e. vmotion) when one of the ESX Server fails due to any reason, will the RAC be able to cope if the VM that died is brought up on another ESX Host?

-Sumeet.

[petedr]

We have Oracle running as Vms but not RAC yet. I would be interested as well in anyone experiences.

[SBALASUBRAMANIA]

Has anyone tried Oracle RAC using VMs or recommend if this can be done, I mean each RAC node is a VM on a seperate machine. Specifically, in an HA environment (i.e. vmotion) when one of the ESX Server fails due to any reason, will the RAC be able to cope if the VM that died is brought up on another ESX Host?

Yes , we have customers doing it as you have described above , please check out the one-stop-site below for all Oracle collaterals including RAC on VMware

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3)    Oracle Workloads and VMware Cloud on AWS: Deployment, Migration, and Configuration

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Oracle on VMware vSphere , vSAN, VxRAIL and VMware Cloud on AWS – Asks the Oracles

Oracle on VMware Cloud on AWS – Unraveling the licensing myth

Oracle on Amazon RDS on VMware – Licensing options

Oracle on VMware Cloud on AWS – Custom CPU Core Count

Oracle Java SE 8 Support Update – What it means to VMware customers