I have never liked MS Products (with the exception of Office, I have to say), but here in the company we have 8 DB's running over Windows (it was CIO decision, don't ask). These are small databases (120 GB the biggest) but very critical for the business as they are in use 24x7x365 and I have to say that the performance and stability is surprisingly good (11g R2 with Win Server 2008 -virtualized over VMWare). You have to be careful when you request Oracle support because they will tell you that they don't certificate the DB over a virtualized environment -at least not 11g R2 and not over Windows- and they will use that to explain any possible bad behavior on the DB, even if it's not related. Of course am still against this use, as I know all the features and possibilities Oracle DB has over Linux/Unix environments and are not available for Windows, but I would lie if I say that everything is a mess. Here's a a good like that I would suggest you to check before starting working over Windows (specially if you are used to work with Linux/Unix for the DB server, which was my case), this is very good beginning: http://www.rampant-books.com/art_oracle_on_windows_unix_users.htm Good luck... Regards David Ramírez Reyes Profesión: Padre de Familia On 26 March 2015 at 15:03, Jeff Chirco <backseatdba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I don't have an appliance, just in the early stages of figuring out if it > will be worth it for use. We would use maybe 4 cpu's of it for our > databases, with the rest being a waste. So I was thinking if Windows runs > on there then that would be more useful for us. And our databases don't > have large growth where we would need to expand much in the future. > > Jeff > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 12:54 PM, George <georgelza@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Please do tell, >> >> Also bout to deploy this. >> >> G >> >> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 9:44 PM, Jeff Chirco <backseatdba@xxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >> >>> Anybody run Oracle Database Appliance with the VM option and run a >>> Windows VM for example as an application server? Just wondering how well >>> Windows OS runs on it. >>> Thanks. >>> >>> Jeff >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> You have the obligation to inform one honestly of the risk, and as a >> person >> you are committed to educate yourself to the total risk in any activity! >> >> Once informed & totally aware of the risk, >> every fool has the right to kill or injure themselves as they see fit! >> > >