Virtualize Oracle

My name is Chris Rimer and I’m a director in the VMware Alliances organization, responsible for our Oracle relationship. This new Oracle blog is a place where we can share with you – Oracle and VMware customers, partners, and other interested parties – what we’ve learned about virtualizing Oracle environments on VMware Infrastructure.

We’d like this blog to be an interactive space too. We’re starting off with a series of posts that give you our take on why now is the time to virtualize your Oracle environments, and we want you to tell us your experiences and concerns. So, without further ado:

Applications, middleware and even databases make excellent candidates for virtualization, particularly as customers see the time-to-value and risk/reward benefits for virtualizing mission-critical applications. Pre-production is a no-brainer, and even production deployments make sense given the degree to which risks are mitigated by present virtualization solutions from VMware. Frankly speaking: the technology works, customers know it, and they're starting to take advantage now -- word is spreading among CIOs who must justify why they're not virtualizing infrastructure to their CFOs and shareholders.

At VMware we see customers around the world virtualizing the full array of Oracle's family of developed and acquired products with VMware, and we expect that trend to accelerate. Some application administrators and DBAs still take a conservative view on virtualizing, and we hope to address those concerns in this blog. In the next post, I’ll address Oracle support for VMware.

Christopher Rimer