Re: Your experience - positive or negative - with Oracle on VMWare...

Hi Robert,
I'm trying to do as much as I can on VMware, it sure makes testing things easier and I don't have to explain to my wife why I need another machine :)
My last tests have been with Dataguard on VMware and everything works right up to fast start failover. I'm hitting a weird situation where the observer just can't see the databases even though v$database shows the correct observer host. All three machines are VMs. I'm 90% sure it's a VMware thing since the exact configuration works fine on physical hosts. I'm getting the following on both dbs in my configuration:
"Error: ORA-16820: Fast-Start Failover observer is no longer observing this database" from a "show database <dbname>" in DGMGRL
I recently presented at the awesome NoCOUG (shameless plug for NoCOUG) and used VMware for my demo setup. Makes it very easier to give someone what I did too. I also love the ease of giving one of my colleagues a db pre-built to play with full access and the ability to rollback to a good state when it blows up.
Initially I did not like Server 2.0 with the new web interface, but I've gotten used to it and it's not as bad as it seemed initially, sort of a Moxy Cola effect. 

Just my $0.02.

Ahbaid



Robert Freeman wrote:

So, I'm looking for some feedback from anyone that has run Oracle on VMWare.
What have your experiences been, positive or negative? What is hype, what is 
great, what is disastrous, what is vapor?

Anyone wanna share?

 Robert G. Freeman
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