Performance Highlights
"The top ten reasons why Oracle databases run best on VMware Infrastructure"
Oracle databases and applications provide mission-critical software foundations for the majority of large enterprises worldwide. VMware Infrastructure 3 simplifies IT environments so that Oracle IT administrators can leverage their storage, network, and computing resources to control costs and respond quickly to changing business needs. In the demanding world of Oracle application development and deployment, virtualized infrastructure brings quantifiable time-to-market and TCO improvements by reducing development hardware infrastructure costs and by allowing more developers and users to be hosted on existing and future industry standard hardware.
Since Oracle Database is one of the most commonly virtualized applications, VMware invests a great deal of work towards optimizing its performance on VMware Infrastructure. The imminent VMware ESX 3.5 release is our best database platform to date, with several new advanced optimizations. Read more about the new VMware ESX 3.5 features that drive this great performance.
- Performance Highlights
- Oracle database runs on VMware ESX at near-native performance
- The CPU overhead for Oracle Database on VMware ESX can be less than 10%
- VMware ESX scales linearly with VMware Virtual SMP
- VMware ESX delivers more than 60,000 database disk I/Os per second
Optimal Performance: Oracle Databases on VMware ESX Server
- Resources
VMware at Oracle OpenWorld
VMworld 2007 Sessions
- Deploying Oracle Solutions on VMware Infrastructure
- Accelerating Oracle E-Business Suite Application Development with VMware Lab Manager
- Rapid Deployment of Oracle Database 11g Using VMware Infrastructure and Netapp Flexclone
- Eliminating Planned Downtime with VMware® VMotion
- Deployment of Oracle PeopleSoft HCM on VMware Infrastructure
- Deployment of Oracle E-Business Suite on VMware Infrastructure
- Deployment of Oracle Databases on VMware Infrastructure
- Deployment of Oracle E-Business Suite on VMware Infrastructure
- Deployment of Siebel on VMware Infrastructure
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- Demos
- Virtualized Oracle Database can be migrated with zero downtime using VMware VMotion:View Demo
- As demonstrated during VMworld 2007 keynote by Dr. Mendel Rosenblum:View Live Oracle database migration using VMware Storage VMotion
- As seen in Oracle Open World 2007:Demo of a live, running Oracle database being moved from one server to another with VMware® VMotion™
Oracle Support
Oracle has a support policy that hundreds of VMware customers are using to deploy Oracle applications and databases in development as well as in production. Oracle will provide support for issues that either are known to occur on the native OS, or demonstrated as not being a result of running on VMware Infrastructure. Please refer to article 249212.1 on Oracle metalink for details.
We also encourage you to join the VMTN Oracle Discussion Forum to share and learn about best practices for virtualizing Oracle products on VMware Infrastructure.