Well, we run a ton of VMWare for our environments - hundreds of VMs running Oracle, Oracle RAC, Sybase, SQL Server. However, the note does say: "If a problem is a known Oracle issue, Oracle support will recommend the appropriate solution on the native OS. If that solution does not work in the VMware virtualized environment, the customer will be referred to VMware for support. When the customer can demonstrate that the Oracle solution does not work when running on the native OS, Oracle will resume support, including logging a bug with Oracle Development for investigation if required. If the problem is determined not to be a known Oracle issue, we will refer the customer to VMware for support. When the customer can demonstrate that the issue occurs when running on the native OS, Oracle will resume support, including logging a bug with Oracle Development for investigation if required. NOTE: Oracle has not certified any of its products on VMWare, and use of Oracle products in the RAC environment is also not supported." For us, that's okay, and I imagine in most cases Oracle will still do their best to support you. But having to recreate a new bug on a native platform is a scary proposition, especially if the problem was intermittent or causing serious issues. Thanks, Matt ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Allen, Brandon Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 3:53 PM To: katpopins21@xxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Oracle products on vmware Sorry, but sounds like you were misled. Oracle has clearly stated that they will support their products running on VMWare - see ML 249212.1 Regards, Brandon From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of kathy duret if they find out you are running it on VMware Support could do the ... sorry don't support on VMware. ________________________________ Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message or attachments hereto. Please advise immediately if you or your employer do not consent to Internet email for messages of this kind. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of this company shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it.