Re: Anyone Running Oracle on VMWare?

  • From: Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: mzito@xxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:33:55 -0500

I have run RAC in vmware, even using a Vmware storage server, but I have
never done it in production.

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Matthew Zito <mzito@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  We have about 600-700 Oracle VMs running on VMware ESX with RHEL 4/5,
> SLES, and Windows.  They’re not really production, since we’re a software
> development shop, but we use them pretty regularly.  We have run into a
> variety of issues running RAC on VMware, most of which we’ve been able to
> work around, but single instance works fine.  As far as Oracle support, they
> only give us trouble support-wise with the RAC scenarios, and even then,
> they have usually given us a couple of days of working the SR before saying,
> “Recreate on physical and then we’ll talk to you”.
>
>
>
> All in all, a generally positive experience.
>
>
>
> Matt
>
>
>  ------------------------------
>
> *From:* oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
> oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Scott Canaan
> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 14, 2010 11:04 AM
> *To:* oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* Anyone Running Oracle on VMWare?
>
>
>
>    We currently run Oracle on Sun (now Oracle) Solaris servers in a
> clustered environment.  We’ve been told that we will be moving to a virtual
> environment.  There already is a VMWare cluster in the data center and we’ve
> been told that we will most likely be moving in that direction.  The
> official word from Oracle is that unless we use their virtual environment,
> then we will not be in a supported environment.
>
>
>
>     My question is: Is anyone else running Oracle in the VMWare virtual
> environment?  If so, have you run into any issues and how much did Oracle
> support help you?
>
>
>
> We are running Oracle 10g and 11g.
>
>
>
> Scott Canaan '88 (Scott.Canaan@xxxxxxx)
>
> (585) 475-7886 – work           (585) 339-8659 - cell
>
> "Life is like a sewer, what you get out of it depends on what you put into
> it." - Tom Lehrer.
>
>
>



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