Hi Amir,
I used to deploy RAC on VMWare years ago and it indeed has a couple caveats
specifically about disks and network.
The way disks are presented to the VMs has been discussed over the years
and there is even a deployment guide by VMWare themselves (it is quite old
though).
https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/solutions/oracle/oracle-databases-vmware-rac-deployment-guide.pdf
About the network, we've found issues with dropped packets in the
interconnect network. We were unable to pinpoint the cause and the impact
on performance was not noticeable after some minor tweaks to the network
parameters so we stopped there.
Just my 2 cents.
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On Thu, 6 Aug 2020 at 03:08, Hameed, Amir <Amir.Hameed@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
Our data center is in the process of doing hardware refresh and their
priority is to move every physical server to VMWare VM. Currently, we
primarily run middleware and some single instance databases on VMWare but
all databased that are RAC’d are configured on physical servers. I believe
that Oracle didn’t certify RAC on VMWare until recently. I am reaching out
to this DL to find out:
1. Are there folks on this DL running Oracle RAC on VMWare and what
has been their experience?
2. Are there any caveats of running Oracle RAC on VMWare?
Any feedback will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Amir
