I'm sure many of you are interested to know that 64bit Oracle RAC 10.2.0.4 is now certified on Oracle VM in addition to the previously cerrtified 32bit RAC.
As a result, the RAC-on-Oracle VM whitepaper has been updated to reflect this as well as generally updated to reflect the latest in best practices and configuration guidelines. The updated paper can be found here:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/clusterware/pdf/oracle_rac_in_oracle_vm_environments.pdf
Note that you can also navigate to it from the Oracle VM OTN whitepapers page here...
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/vm/index.html
Some of the new content in the updated whitepaper:
RAC on Oracle VM is of high interest amongst our customers as they see it as a way to improve development and testing (create a multi-node RAC on a single physical server for development and functional verification), but also as a way to insulate the RAC nodes from the specifics of the underlying hardware to allow more flexibility for that hardware to change over time without requiring a change to the RAC configuration.
Comments (2)
What's happening with certifying other hypervisors for Oracle RAC, or any other Oracle product?
right now it looks like we're being locked in to Oracle products only.
Posted by Ian | April 19, 2009 9:04 PM
Posted on April 19, 2009 21:04
Hi Ian,
Thank you for your question! We do support several server virtualization and partitioning technologies with our database, not just Oracle VM. An overview of these is provided at: http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/clustering/certify/db_virtualization_support.pdf
Regards,
Adam
Posted by Adam Hawley | April 21, 2009 5:08 PM
Posted on April 21, 2009 17:08