Oracle 9i on Win2003EE - How do I perform a system level backup?
Okay - I'm going to put this to rest but I'm going to reach out here first to see if there is any stone unturned. I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that it isn't safe to snapshot an Oracle...
View ArticleOracle HA and vmotion with windows cluster
Hello guys. Just a moments ago i saw a webcast about "Virtualizing Microsoft and Oracle on VmWare VSphere, benefits and best practices". Some where in the presentation they talked about windows cluster...
View ArticleOracle Extended RAC on VM
Hello all, Can anyone point me to any documentation (or sites) regarding how to setup Oracle extended RAC on VMware? We are in the beginning stages of looking at extended RAC and there is some...
View ArticleDBCA Build Stops with ORA-04030 out of Mem
I am running vSphere 4.1.I built a VM and installed Windows 2008 Enterprise Edition.The VM has 6 GB of RAM (as seen in the edit settings of the VM).I then installed Oracle 11g Standard One.I am using...
View ArticleThink BIG!
I've been asked to research Oracle Discoverer running in VMWare. Can it be done well, to what depth, maximum users, size of databases, security, problems, etc. Think Big! Would anyone be willing to...
View ArticleExperience with VMotion and PeopleSoft
We are looking at a VM architecture for PeopleSoft application server (Tuxedo) tier. There would be multiple VMs, spread across 2 hosts. If one host goes down, the VMs are migrated in-memory to the...
View ArticleCloning Oracle ASM disks
Hi, We'll virtualize a physical Linux server having an Oracle Database with ASM. The physical server will remain untouched and the new virtual will be under testing. What do we must do respect to...
View ArticleOracle ASM, SAN and VMware
Hello, I have a question about using Oracle ASM. If I only have one physical SAN disk (2 disks mirrored) isolated for an Oracle VM is there any point in implementing ASM in the VMs filesystem by...
View ArticleOracle RAC on Windows 2008, no support??
It looks like Oracle does not support setting up the RAC within a virtualized environment running on windows. It must be Linux/Unix based....
View ArticleError uploading configuration data to the repository
During installation of Oracle in Virtual Machine, I am getting "Error uploading configuration data to the repository..." warning message. Please find the attached for more details. If I ignore this...
View ArticleOracle 2nd node fails to start in cluster due to locking
Greetings, I’m attempting to setup an oracle cluster (ASM) with shared disks on elinux 5.8. I modified the vmx file with the parameters below to supposedly allow disk sharing between the nodes:...
View ArticleOracle VM Server as virtual machine
We want to setup a virtual machine with Oracle VM Server as the guest. Does anyone know what Linux O/S is best used for this process?
View ArticleOracle VMWare network question
We currently have a live Oracle server, that has an LACP connection over 4 1 Gb NICs to a netapp FAS2040. Unfortunately it's failing so we're going to create a VM. We have it online right now, but I...
View ArticleReservation Conflict on RHEL 6 with Oracle RAC
I've been searching for any hints I can find out my problem, but nothing has worked so I'm trying here. I'm seeing this message in /var/log/messages:Jul 13 10:45:59 oratest1 kernel: sd 3:0:1:0:...
View ArticleFight the FUD - Oracle Support and Licensing on VMware vSphere
I have recently published an article that I hope will help customers make a well informed decision when evaluating how best to virtualize Oracle workloads on vSphere. The article will help customers...
View Articleoracle database consolidation effort - physical to VMware
Hate to post sort of a generic question but just trying to figure out what I might look for to try and narrow down the root cause of this issue. Old environment is RH4 64-bit Linux servers running...
View ArticleSeeking Beta Participants for Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c plugin for Vmware
Greetings Vmware 'Virtualizing Oracle' Community Members: Blue Medora is seeking interested participants for the 2nd Beta release of a forthcoming Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c based Plug-in for...
View ArticleTransparent failover
Hello All, I'd like to have some feedback on what we are trying to achieve here... On the same site, we have 2 distant rooms for disaster recovery on the same site. ESX host(s) in each room with its...
View ArticleVirtualizing Oracle ECM solution
Hi All, I am working on virtualizing Oracle ECM solution with the below functions. Oracle DB Web Center Content Web cCenter Portal Oracle Web Tier MGMT & Backup Solution for Oracle Need guidance...
View ArticleOracle ECM\UCM on VMware vSphere 5.0
Hi All, I am working with providing a solution for Oracle ECM\UCM on VMware vSphere 5.0. Need documents\suggestions\solutions guide in implementing the above. Regards,JKPK
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