We're running Oracle on a VM.  It does work.  They do whine on support calls.

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Sherry Abercrombie<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 <[email protected]> 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
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>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Steven M. Caesare<[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > Oh, an incidentally, Oracle appears to not officially support their
>> > stuff
>> > running in any VM other than their own…
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>> > Take that FWIW.
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>> > -sc
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>> > From: Jeff Bunting [mailto:[email protected]]
>> > Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 12:27 PM
>> > To: NT System Admin Issues
>> > Subject: Re: Windows x64 under ESX
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>> > Good to know.  Do the tools not run properly in WoW64 or is it that they
>> > aren't "officially supported"?
>> >
>> > Jeff
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>> > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Steven M. Caesare
>> > <[email protected]>
>> > 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
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>> > But I think we’ve only built one 32bit VM in the last couple of years…
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>> > -sc
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>> > From: Jeff Bunting [mailto:[email protected]]
>> > Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 12:00 PM
>> > To: NT System Admin Issues
>> > Subject: Windows x64 under ESX
>> >
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>> > 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
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> --
> Sherry Abercrombie
>
> "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
> Arthur C. Clarke
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