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VMware and Oracle

Hello all.

I am toying with the idea of running Oracle 9.x as a virtual machine on a VMware server. There will be approx 20 users using Oracle, on a host machine that exceeds the required specifications. Zero downtime is not improtant is this case but portability is. Does anybody have any experirence using Oracle on VMware Server and if so, did you run into any major issues?

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See here https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/22960001/Databases-Running-on-Virtual-Machines-VM.html

We have some installations on VMWare. You have to be very careful with the
sizing of the disk space, RAM and other hardware resources - it is a hard task to increase the disk space after installing the
virtual machine.

Luciano Patrão

Hi

I have installed and running Oracle products(Oracle Database, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Email Server, etc.) all in a VM environment, and never see any issue on it.

Of course if you use a VM to work with Oracle E-Business Suite, you need to optimize the VM(i have used two CPU, 4Gb Memory, and large disks)

All this oracle implementation, was with Linux, never used Windows.

It depends on your system, and on your Hardware of your VMware Server

Jail