"Reproduced" VMware Oracle support

Posted directly from the official, although Oracle supports VMware's virtual machine environment, Oracle gives the following instructions in the event of a problem with Oracle or VMware.

Based on this note, I think it is recommended that you do not deploy on VMware virtual machines as much as possible for Oracle databases used on production.

Support Position-Oracle products Running on VMWare virtualized environments [ID 249212.1]

Purpose

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Explain to customers how Oracle supports we products at running on VMware

Scope & Application

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For Customers running Oracle products on VMware virtualized environments.

No limitation on use or distribution.

Support Status for VMware virtualized environments

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Oracle have not certified all of its products on VMware virtualized

Environments. Oracle Support would assist customers running Oracle Products

On VMware in the following manner:oracle would only provide

Support for issues that either is known to occur on the native OS, or

Can is demonstrated not to is as a result of running on VMware.

If a problem is a known Oracle issue, Oracle support would recommend the

Appropriate solution on the native OS. If that solution does does work in

The VMware virtualized environment, the customer'll be referred to VMware

For support. When the customer can demonstrate that the Oracle solution

does not work while running on the native OS, Oracle would resume support,

Including logging a bug with the Oracle development for investigation if required.

If The problem is determined does not have a known Oracle issue, we'll refer

The customer to VMware for support. When the customer can demonstrate

That the issue occurs if running on the native OS, Oracle would resume

Support, including logging a bugs with Oracle development for investigation

if required.

Note:oracle have not certified any of the its products on VMware. For Oracle RAC, Oracle would only

Accept Service requests as described in this note on Oracle RAC 11.2.0.2 and later

Releases.