on 01-13-2010 1:40 PM
Oracle on VMware is now supported
See today's update of [Note 1173954|https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1173954] - Support of Oracle for VMWare
The "SAP on Oracle: Development Update February 2010" (available from SDN) on page 28 states "New: Oracle does now support VMware for productive SAP environments" yet this statement is not called out on either MetaLink or Service Marketplace in quite that strong of language.
Note 1173954 has been positively updated, and states prerequisites for using Oracle on VMware in the SAP environment, but in the solution section it still states that Oracle has not certified its products on VMware, and that problems may still need to be confirmed to be not only on VMware but on native hardware as well. This somewhat contradicts the statement in the development update.
I opened a note with SAP, and was told that if problems occur, that "...the problem must be confirmed to occur on native hardware as well as VMWare. For the time being there are no plans for complete certification on top of virtualization products and hence reproduction is needed on native hardware." This does not sound like full support.
Regards,
Mark
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Hello Mark,
> This does not sound like full support.
No database vendor does this. It was a common mistake caused by that well known metalink note #249212.1.
Unfortunately you don't speak german (i guess), so you can't read that internal oracle paper, that i posted above.
But you can check the point "3.2 Supportrichtlinien der Hersteller als Zitat" in this paper, which contains the "support guidelines" by every database vendor like Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, etc in english language.
It's pretty funny, that oracle is "blamed" for its support policy by everyone, but all other vendors do the same without a notice )
Regards
Stefan
Hello Matthias,
can you please provide a few more details on this.
The note itself currently shows as "not released" in SAPNET.
Metalink Note ID 249212.1
"Support Position for Oracle Products Running on VMWare Virtualized Environments"
is still not modified since NOV 2007.
Thanks
Volker
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Hello Volker,
can you please provide a few more details on this.
As luck would have it, i asked Christian Graf yesterday evening about that topic (SAP/Oracle/VMware), because of he mentioned it at his DOAG 2009 speech. In general now you can run productive SAP/Oracle systems on VMware with the "rules of Oracle".
As you also speak german you can take a look at the following internal oracle paper which describes these rules very well (also regarding to the metalink note):
Oracle Internal Paper x86 Virtualisierung
If you are a DOAG member you can also take a look at the DOAG News which includes an interview with Günther Stürner. He also talks about this paper and makes some nice statements.
I am very happy with this trend.
Regards
Stefan
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