Another story from the Register: Oracle is claiming that they have the best unified enterprise server virtualisation solution on the market. It is comprised of:
- Oracle VM for x64 (Oracle’s Xen)
- Oracle VM for Sparc (Sun’s LDoms)
- OpsCenter (from Sun)
- Oracle Enterprise Manager
That’s a lot of stuff that’s thrown together. If I want a unified virtualization solution that is part of a greater systems management solution (flogging a dead horse here) then I go:
- Hyper-V
- System Center (VMM, OpsMgr, and maybe DPM and/or ConfigMgr).
That’s one solution that gives me virtualization (for servers and desktops [via XenDesktop]) and enterprise management for the entire IT infrastructure and applications.
Oracle also pushed the Sun (purple) blade package. Hmm, I think not! I’ve seen how much purple hardware costs. I used to be able to buy several fully kitted servers for the price of a single 4GB stick of reconditioned purple RAM. I giggled a bit when the Oracle marketing pitch made it sound like 10Gbps networking was something that only they could do.
One big gotcha: if you run Oracle s/w then you need to know that it is not supported on a non-Oracle virtualisation platform. That means no running of Oracle software on Amazon E2C, on Hyper-V, on Citrix XenServer or on VMware. But there are stories out there where Oracle customers have threatened to switch to the MS stack and have gotten bespoke support for running the s/w on non-Oracle virtualisation.
Doe’s it means that Oracle database is not supported on hyper-v ?
It is not supported on XenServer, Hyper-V, VMware, RedHat, you name it. Only on Oracle virtualization …. unless you threaten to terminate all contracts with Oracle to switch to MS, etc. Then their sales people will make a deal, allegedly.