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Me must expand on what my padowin says.
We have 10+ clients running 100% virtual on VMWare.
In fact I have clients running Oracle RAC on VMWare with Active-Active Enterprise Servers and Web Servers.
VMWare is just an extension of the O/S.
Go do what makes sense for you and damn the support policies.
My only caution is to ensure the I/O performance works for your environment.
When I think about it all of our net new JDE installs in the last few years have been exclusively on VMWare and most of our upgrades for the SMB market have been transitioned to VMWare.
Colin
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In response to my Jedi Master - I didn't say it wouldn't work, I used it successfully in my pre-consulting days. I just said that it is not "Oracle Supported." So if you run into issues and Oracle notices that you are running on VM-ware, they then have an excuse to wiggle out of helping you. Just keep that risk in mind if you go down that road.
I have worked with OVM and VM-ware, VM-ware is much more mature. In my previous shop, we put XE production servers on hardware, test servers on Vm-ware.
Our 9.0 environment started out with hardware for the database server, and OVM for everything else.
May the force be with you
- Obi-Wan-Gregg-Kanobee