Virtualize Oracle

It's been two months since Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco, and we're finally getting caught up here with the backlog of customer interest in virtualizing Oracle products of all types. With over 1400 scanned visitors and dozens of in-booth presentations, there was great visibility to both the interest customers have in this space, as well as to the degree to which some customers have succeeded both with Oracle and VMware.

Measured against the same time last year, we saw with DBAs with a substantially different take this year: "how do I virtualize" was the theme, and we have been responding with customer engagements all fall.

We just delivered a webinar on the performance of Oracle databases on VMware. If you're interested in watching this one-hour overview, hosted by VMware's lead performance engineer and myself, have a look: http://vmware.com/a/webcasts/details/161

Finally, the list of customers deploying the full range of Oracle products grows. If you want a look at a short list of those who have gone public about it, take a look at our page highlighting some of these successes: http://vmware.com/partners/alliances/technology/oracle-database-customers.html

I promised some comments in the last blog regarding Oracle support -- I'll dedicate the next post to pointing out the facts as we see them, and see what others have to say in response. In the meantime, we look forward to hearing from more customers as they succeed in making Oracle virtual!