Oracle Virtualization: Run Databases, Middleware and Applications on VMware, on-Premises or in a full Hybrid Cloud Architecture
Virtualize your mission-critical Oracle software, including database, middleware and applications, and achieve quantifiable time-to-market and TCO improvements. A simplified IT environment lets your Oracle IT and application administrators better leverage your storage, network and computing resources to control costs and respond faster to changing business needs. Oracle Cloud VMware Solution can be used as fully supported by both Oracle and VMware as VMware environment on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
Get Professional Services for Virtualizing Oracle DB, Middleware and Applications.
Gartner's Marcus Collins: Perceived Barriers to Virtualizing Databases
Gartner's Marcus Collins: Perceived Barriers to Virtualizing Databases
Learn how companies can benefit from a virtualized Oracle RAC environment and how to overcome perceived support and licensing barriers.
Respond to Changing Business Needs Faster
Install Oracle databases, middleware and applications on the most trusted virtualization platform and see how a dramatically simplified Hybrid Cloud infrastructure lets you get the most out of your existing resources.
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.
Get VMware Support from Oracle
Oracle fully supports the virtualization of Oracle Software on VMware. This includes all Oracle products including Applications, Middleware and the Oracle Database (RDBMS). The Sept 16th, 2019 Announcement at Oracle Open World of the Strategic Partner Alliance between Oracle and VMware centerpiece is the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure VMware Solutions but the announcement includes a support agreement between Oracle and VMware to support “Oracle customers with active support contracts running supported versions of Oracle products in Oracle supported computing environments who encounter problems when running those products on VMware virtualized environments”. 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.
DATABASE
- 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 significantly when 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 virtual machines
- Dynamic Resource Scheduler (DRS) to load balance virtual machines across a cluster
- Direct driver model with very high I/O throughput
- Support for large memory pages and nested/extended page tables
- Full Hybrid Cloud Solutions can be architected when using a variety of VMware Cloud
- Foundation based solutions such as Oracle Cloud VMware Solutions or the VMware Cloud on AWS
Oracle Virtualization Server - Performance Highlights
Performance Highlights
"The top ten reasons why Oracle databases run best on VMware Infrastructure"
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.
Resources
White Papers
- VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes - A Game Changer for Business-Critical Oracle Databases
- Oracle Performance on the VMware Cloud on AWS
- Database licensing on VMware and EMC technology - a paper from House of Brick Technologies focused on Oracle on vSphere licensing on EMC Engineered Systems
- Oracle Monster Virtual Machine Performance on vSphere 6.5
- Oracle Database 12c on VMware Virtual San 6.2 All-Flash
- White Paper: Oracle 12c Databases on Hyper Converged Infrastructure using VMware vSphere 6
- The Case for Virtualizing Your Oracle Database Deployment
- Virtualizing Business-Critical Applications: Oracle Database
- VMware vSphere 6 and Oracle Database Scalability Study
- Total Economic Impact of VMware vSphere and Virtualizing Oracle Databases
- Virtualizing Performance-Critical Database Applications in VMware vSphere
- Virtualizing Oracle Database 10g/11g on VMware Infrastructure – Consolidation Solutions with VMware Infrastructure 3 and EMC Celerra NS40 Multi-Protocol Storage
- Oracle Use Cases
- Disaster Recovery of Tier 1 Applications on VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
Deployment Guides
- VMware Hybrid Cloud High Availability Guide for Oracle Workloads
- Oracle E-Business Failover Using the VMware Cloud on AWS and Protected by LicenseFortress
- Oracle on VMware vSphere Essential Database Deployment Tips
- VMware Hybrid Cloud Best Practices Guide for Oracle Workloads
- VMware Cloud on AWS: Deployment, Migration, and Configuration of Oracle Workloads
Oracle on VMware Support and Licensing Documents
- 2019 Oracle and VMware Strategic Alliance Oracle Support note 249212.1
- Oracle Java, Support and Licensing Considerations
- Straight Talk on Oracle on vSphere Licensing Webinar 2017
- Migrating Oracle Workloads to VMware Cloud on AWS
- DBaaS Reference Architecture with VMware and Tintri built by VLSS
- Deploying Database-as-Service with VLSS and using Pure Storage and VMware
- DBaaS with VMware vCloud Automation Center, EMC XtremIO and Cisco UCS
- Scaling Oracle 12 c Database Performance with EMC XtremIO Storage in a Database as a Service Environment
- EMC XtremIO storage array 4.0 and VMware 6.0: Scaling mixed-database workloads
- Oracle Databases on VMware – Use Cases
- Oracle Databases on VMware – FAQ
- Virtualizing Oracle WebLogic Server on VMware vSphere
Virtualizing Oracle
- Accelerating Oracle Performance using VMware vSphere Persistent Memory
- VMware Validated Design for Business Critical Applications with Oracle using All-Flash VSAN and NSX on Quanta and Intel Hardware
- Project Capstone, Driving Oracle to Soar Beyond the Clouds Using vSphere 6, an HP Superdome X, and an IBM FlashSystem®
- Oracle on vSphere Usage Survey 2016
- Oracle on vSphere Usage Survey 2016 Webinar
- Understanding Oracle Certification, Support and Licensing for VMware Environments
Customer Case Studies
- Viscosity North America migrates PHH from Oracle Exadata to Oracle RAC running on vSphere
- The vSphere Unix to Virtual Linux Migration Service Success Story, VLSS Enables NASSAU BOCES to Virtualize their PeopleSoft Environment
- vSphere Customer Success with Conagra SITA, Indiana University and First National Bank of Nebraska
- Green Mountain Power Runs Oracle
- Bobst Group
- University of British Columbia
- EMC IT
- American Tier Distributers
- Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA)
- Revlon
- Manitoba Liquor Control Commission
Use Cases
- Oracle RAC and vMotion Functional Stress Test
- Oracle and vSphere Flash Cache
- VMware and EMC XtremIO Database as a Service Infrastructure Part A
- VMware and EMC XtremIO Database as a Service Infrastructure Part B
- Oracle on VMware vSphere Essential Database Deployment Tips
- Maximizing Oracle Database Performance and Minimizing Licensing Costs in Virtualized Environments
- Oracle Databases on VMware - Workload Characterization Study White Paper
- Planning for the Unplanned: Oracle E-Business Suite Disaster Recovery Solution with VMware Site Recovery Manager and EMC CLARiiON Storage
Videos
- VMware Experts Database Workshop - Oracle, April 2017, Palo Alto
- Virtualizing the Oracle Database Environment- Part 1
- Virtualizing the Oracle Database Environment- Part 2
- Virtualizing the Oracle Database Environment- Part 3
- Virtualizing the Oracle Database Environment- Part 4
- Elite Oracle on vSphere Workshop for Oracle Certified Masters- Group 1
- Elite Oracle on vSphere Workshop for Oracle Certified Masters- Group 2
- Elite Oracle on vSphere Workshop for Oracle Certified Masters- Group 3
- Elite Oracle on vSphere Workshop for Oracle Certified Masters- Wrap up