Hi,

that document, even if dated, simply confirms in its contents what we already wrote:

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Oracle considers RHEV and most other virtualization platforms to be “soft” partitioning. The only virtualization platform that Oracle supports under hard partitioning is their own OVM. Really, all they are really doing is pinning CPUs to a VM, and therefore the Oracle database, but you can do that with any hypervisor… Honestly, I can’t roll my eyes hard enough to indicate my disdain..

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And it contains indications about techniques with Netapp to be able to easily reproduce the environment on physical hardware in case you have problems with Oracle in your virtualized RDBMS.

There are also collaborations between vendors to simplify management in case of problems and need of opening an SR:

There is also official Oracle Document ID related to VMware: 249212.1

and I think it could apply to other virtualization technologies too.

HIH,

Gianluca