Brandon: You didn't read the whole document. :) It's mentioned in the hard-partitioning also. Use it for soft partitioning, you pay for all CPUs. Use it for hard-partitioning, you only pay for what you use. :) Cheers Tim... On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Allen, Brandon <Brandon.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > There were well known performance issues running Windows on OracleVM > (even documented on MOS) – has that changed? > > > > Partitioning with VMWare is *not* recognized as hard partitioning by > Oracle – it’s specifically listed as an example of “soft partitioning” here: > > > > http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pricing/partitioning.pdf > > > > Regards, > > Brandon > > > > > > *From:* oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto: > oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Tim Hall > > > > Windows virtualization? Another non-issue. When you are virtualizing > servers, you will presumably be using bare-metal hypervisors, like Oracle VM > or VMware ESX. They run on the hardware directly and you run VMs on top of > them. You can use Oracle VM or ESX to virtualize Windows, like any other x86 > OS. > > > > ------------------------------ > 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. >