On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 4:03 PM, Simon Coter <simon.coter@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Nicola,

CPU pinning granted by oVirt is not a supported method to apply hardware-partitioning for Oracle products on top of VMs.
The only supported method/solution is available on Oracle VM Server. You can see further details at:


Simon


Correct.
But very arguable from a technological point of view (in my opinion of course).
I don't see differences in what you have to do in Oracle VM to get cpu pinning and "accepted" hard-partitioning (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/vm/ovm-hardpart-168217.pdf referred in the linked pdf above), from what you can do in vSphere, oVirt or RHV to get the same result:

eg

oVirt:
https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/sla/cpu-pinning/

RHV:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_virtualization/4.1/html/virtual_machine_management_guide/appe-reference_settings_in_administration_portal_and_user_portal_windows#Virtual_Machine_Resource_Allocation_settings_explained

vSphere 5.1
https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc%2FGUID-3D5F6146-5F9C-46BC-B1D3-DCA856E98137.html

vSphere 6.0
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.0/com.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc/GUID-3D5F6146-5F9C-46BC-B1D3-DCA856E98137.html

Not so fair in my opinion.

Gianluca