Is anyone running Oracle RDBMS on VMware in production, despite Oracles restricted support position?
We’re not, but your question caught my attention. We use a handful of different open-source and commercial RDBMS and, separately, VMWare. Despite the conveniences of putting stuff on VMWare, we avoid putting databases on virtual machines because they have very high disk and network IO requirements. That is probably why Oracle has reduced support for VMWare. I know it doesn’t answer your direct question, but I thought an explanation might help. On the other hand, VMWare believes that vSphere on ESX can handle it…
