Re: T3 processor/system & Oracle License

  • From: Tim Hall <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "Allen, Brandon" <Brandon.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 18:42:01 +0100

Brandon:

Regarding performance, both of those notes refer to a time before Oracle
shipped the paravirtualized drivers for Windows on Oracle VM. These drivers
allow Windows VMs to run at nearer native speed. I've not done the Pepsi
challenge with them myself, so I can't comment on the relative performance,
but they should certainly improve performance compared to full
virtualization.

I remember hearing Wim Coekearts talking about them a couple of years ago
and they sounded impressive.

Cheers

Tim...

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Allen, Brandon <Brandon.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>  There were well known performance issues running Windows on OracleVM
> (even documented on MOS) – has that changed?
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> Partitioning with VMWare is *not* recognized as hard partitioning by
> Oracle – it’s specifically listed as an example of “soft partitioning” here:
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> http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pricing/partitioning.pdf
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> Regards,
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> Brandon
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> *From:* oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
> oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Tim Hall
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> Windows virtualization? Another non-issue. When you are virtualizing
> servers, you will presumably be using bare-metal hypervisors, like Oracle VM
> or VMware ESX. They run on the hardware directly and you run VMs on top of
> them. You can use Oracle VM or ESX to virtualize Windows, like any other x86
> OS.
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