After this week's meeting where the show of hands indicated that nobody is even using Xen of Hyper-V, I'm wondering what people's experience/perception is of Oracle VM (which is based on Xen anyway). We run Oracle and would like to consider virtualisation BUT Oracle don't support VMWare, only their own solution. Given that we've already have a significant investment in VMWare, this could force us to run both hypervisors and that's something I'd like to avoid if possible (management overhead, dissimilar functionality and features, increased training etc). The pitch from VMWare is that Oracle works just fine and they can help push Oracle to provide support, but I'm not sure this 'best effort' approach will convince the CIO that's it's a feasible solution for running mission critical services.
Has anyone else tackled this issue, or used VMWare for Oracle in production? Any feedback would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Ed.