Well, alright then. Go forth and do no wrong. Just keep in mind that VMWare does impose an I/O penalty, and 1Gb/sec can be a pretty small straw to pull data through in a decent size warehouse environment. Feel free to email me offlist if you want to talk about specifics. Thanks, Matt -----Original Message----- From: Rodd Holman [mailto:rodd.holman@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thu 9/17/2009 5:49 PM To: Matthew Zito Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Oracle 10g on VM with NAS My bad. Just talked to the SA. It is ESXi. Matthew Zito wrote: > We have a pile of these boxes, running against a Netapp, though, not a > BlueArc (though I know and like the BlueArc folks). > > If you follow the Oracle recommendations it just works, though I am skeptical > about the throughput available to you a) using VMWare, b) using traditional > Ethernet. I don't suppose you're using 10Gb on the physical host side? > > Also, remember, as many people here have pointed out, Oracle does not > officially support Oracle on VMWare. Just keep that in mind. > > Oh, and why VMWare server instead of ESXi? Just curious. > > Matt > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > >