You have a link to that?
Our DBA team has found at least one stipulating that it's only supported under their VM, and I'd love to see something more definitive. -sc From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 12:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows x64 under ESX Oracle does support running on VMWare, however, they do stipulate how many times you can fail over/move a VM per year based on your licensing agreement which is of course based on CPU.... On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Steven Peck <sep...@gmail.com> wrote: We have a number of application vendors that do not support running on VMs. Most of the applications will work fine assuming your VMs have solid performance. It helps if you are a medium size company with large support contracts in strong arming them into helping out. Steven On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Steven M. Caesare<scaes...@caesare.com> wrote: > Oh, an incidentally, Oracle appears to not officially support their stuff > running in any VM other than their own... > > > > Take that FWIW. > > > > -sc > > > > From: Jeff Bunting [mailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 12:27 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Windows x64 under ESX > > > > Good to know. Do the tools not run properly in WoW64 or is it that they > aren't "officially supported"? > > Jeff > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Steven M. Caesare <scaes...@caesare.com> > wrote: > > We occasionally run in to some "support" issues on 64bit stuff. And some > vendors *cough*oracle*cough* seem to have a hard time getting many of their > support tools updated to run and be supported in WoW64 L > > > > But I think we've only built one 32bit VM in the last couple of years... > > > > -sc > > > > From: Jeff Bunting [mailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 12:00 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Windows x64 under ESX > > > > We have a couple of templates set up to quickly create Win 2003 VMs > (Standard or Enterprise). It occurred to me, is there any reason to use the > 32bit flavor any more? We're still on ESX 3.5, which supports 64bit. Are > there any downsides I haven't considered? Drivers shouldn't be an issue on > a VM, and I'm not aware of any application compatibility issues. > > Jeff > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ -- Sherry Abercrombie "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke Sent from Haslet, TX, United States ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
