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Oracle Virtualization: Run Databases, Middleware and Applications on VMware

Virtualize your mission-critical Oracle software, including database, middleware and applications, and achieve quantifiable time-to-market and TCO improvements. A simplified IT environments lets your Oracle IT and Application administrators better leverage your storage, network and computing resources to IT control costs and respond faster to changing business needs.

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Improve Scalability, Availability and Performance with Oracle Virtualization

Running Oracle databases on VMware vSphere gives you significant scalability, availability and performance benefits. Direct hardware costs can be reduced up to 50% by virtualizing database workloads. In addition, you'll see significant operational cost savings as your floor space, power and cooling needs are lowered without compromising on performance or manageability.

  • Memory oversubscription to make more efficient use of physical RAM
  • High performance "gang" scheduler to dynamically allocate resources to VMs
  • Dynamic Resource Scheduler (DRS) to load balance VMs across a cluster
  • Direct driver model with very high I/O throughput
  • Support for large memory pages and nested/extended page tables
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Get Full Support from Oracle

Oracle fully supports the virtualization of Oracle databases on VMware. To augment Oracle’s support document, VMware also has a total ownership policy for customers with Oracle issues. VMware Support will accept accountability for any Oracle-related issue reported by a customer. By being accountable, VMware Support will drive the issue to resolution regardless of which vendor (VMware, Oracle, or others) is responsible for the resolution. In most cases, reported issues can be resolved via configuration changes, bug fixes, or feature enhancements by one of the involved vendors.

Reduce Licensing Cost while Staying Compliant with Oracle Licensing Policies

Take advantage of license consolidation by deploying Oracle databases to VMware vSphere clusters. Learn more about Oracle Certification, Support and Licensing for VMware Environments

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