RE: Anyone Running Oracle on VMWare?

From: "Matthew Zito" <mzito@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <adar666@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, <srcdco@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:51:33 -0400

It depends very much on how you're using VMware.  For example, I would
recommend having database VMs use dedicated CPU allocations, or getting
higher priority for CPU time.  Also, older versions of VMware, notable
the early ESX revs and VMware Server, had real issues with contention
overhead for both I/O and CPU.  These things are improved in recent
versions of ESX, as well as having the CPU allocation that can mitigate.

 

Matt

 

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From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Yechiel Adar
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 11:42 AM
To: srcdco@xxxxxxx
Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Anyone Running Oracle on VMWare?

 

We had a major development database on vmware.
We had a lot of disconnect troubles that disappeared when we moved all
other virtual machines to another vmware server.
We ended up with dedicated server without vmware.

The problem I see with vmware is that heavy load on another virtual
machine can bring yours to stop.

I would no recommend this for production.



Adar Yechiel
Rechovot, Israel



Scott Canaan wrote: 

   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)

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- Re: Anyone Running Oracle on VMWare?
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RE: Anyone Running Oracle on VMWare?

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