Re: Oracle and VM
- From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: howard.latham@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 11:23:08 +0100
You can *run *Oracle on whatever virtualization platform you want. I've
used Oracle VM, VMware, Virtual Box, Amazon EC2 and seen it running on
Hyper-V. The relevant document is the support policy "Support Position for
Oracle Products Running on VMWare Virtualized Environments [ID 249212.1] "
which is clear (if not entirely satisfactory!).
When it comes to licensing you will typically find that non-Oracle
virtualisation requires *every *CPU in the underlying hardware to be
licensed, whereas Oracle virtualisation can be configured (*but isn't by
default) *so that you only have to license the virtual CPUs dedicated to
the Oracle VM.
There's no technical reason not to use whatever virtualisation product you
want. There often are plenty of monetary reasons not to.
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Howard Latham <howard.latham@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Is it still true that you can only run Oracle on Oracle's VM.
> A consise answer or reference to INDEPENDENT doc on this would
> be appreciated.
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