Hi Jared My experience of P2V (vmware converter now I think) is that it is either extremely straightforward, or else a disaster. This may just show how little I know about virtualization. Niall On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Allen, Brandon <Brandon.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxx > > wrote: > >> Nope, I don't ask Oracle to support VMWare. As long as VMWare supports >> VMWare and Oracle supports Oracle, we're good. According to Metalink >> 249212.1, Oracle does support Oracle on VMWare – it's just not *certified >> *. >> >> > Ah, Ok. It's that lack of certification that may give people pause. > > The few times I've seen Oracel run on VM, there have been no issues. > > I've seen Oracle Apps 10.x with Oracle 7.3 run on a VM, because the HW > was too old, needed replaced, and using p2v was *much* easier than trying > to recreate apps 10.x. > > BTW, please don't ask me how that was done, someone else did it, and I > don't know what how he did it. I seem to recall it wasn't quite > straightforward. > > > Jared Still > Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist > > -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info