I should see if NIH has tried that. We get licensing via "pass thru" from them, and never see the actual reps.
All the public stuff Oracle publishes says "no". Thanks Sherry. -sc From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 2:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows x64 under ESX A link to that no, I just know what we have in our contract with them. You need to talk to your Oracle sales rep. Ours comes for a visit on-site with us (by us, I mean the DBA's) about once a quarter and either brings them lunch, or takes them out to lunch. I "think" he was told that either they would support Oracle in our VMWare environment, or we would be going to another (read SQL) platform and our DBA's are proficient in either platform so they didn't care which one was used. Yeah, we've got a pretty big Oracle installation here, so it was significant enough to get their attention. On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]> wrote: 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:[email protected]] 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 <[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 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... > > > > Take that FWIW. > > > > -sc > > > > 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 > > > > 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 <[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 > > > > But I think we've only built one 32bit VM in the last couple of years... > > > > -sc > > > > From: Jeff Bunting [mailto:[email protected]] > 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 -- Sherry Abercrombie "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
