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Oracle on VMWare, Part 2 – VCE Vblock

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One of the most confusing issues within IT is where Oracle stands on virtualization and specifically with regards to VMWare certification. Take a look at this post from last year before proceeding. The bottom line is that Oracle certifies operating systems, not hypervisors.

So, I had the opportunity to hear the CEO of VCE speak. If you haven’t heard of VCE yet then you will soon, especially if you are a VMWare, Cisco or EMC shop. Does anyone remember the early 80s cartoon called Pandamonium? That’s VCE, except that instead of Chesty, Timothy, and Algernon uniting to form Poppapanda (a being with supernatural power) we’ve got Joe Tucci, John Chambers and Paul Maritz forming Vblock. They tapped Michael Capellas—keynote speaker at our kickoff last week—to oversee the new 700-person integrator and support organization.

What does this have to do with Oracle not certifying on VMWare?

Capellas and other VCE representatives stated that VCE is committed to supporting Oracle on VMWare. If you hit a snag with Oracle support, then VCE will provide virtual-to-physical (V2P) services that replicate the issue in a physical environment and thus prove to Oracle that it is responsible for the bug. That doesn’t solve the licensing challenges of Oracle’s disregard for CPU affinity, but it should alleviate concerns in the marketplace for migrating Oracle workloads to Vblock.

While we’re on the topic of Vblock, I would suggest that it’s a more flexible platform for Oracle since any edition of the database is fair game. As you may recall, Exadata requires Enterprise Edition with extra-cost options and storage software. With Vblock you can run everything from Standard Edition One to Enterprise to MySQL, all managed by Ionix UIM. RAC, schmack.


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