Oracle 資料庫官方申明不支援Vmware

Oracle 在2013年1月份在其官方Support網站上明確提出不支援VMWare 執行Oracle database。
在當前虛擬化橫行的時代，我們該如何辦才好呢？

我有如下建議:
1、如果是個人使用者，這個倒沒有太大的關係，畢竟我們測試大部分都還在Vmware上有執行，且沒有出現過什麼嚴重的問題。
2、如果是企業使用者，且所有的系統架構都用了Vmware，但是建議你資料庫還是單獨來做，畢竟線上系統哪天出問題了，需要找原廠，被卡在這裡就不太好了，而且架構越複雜，涉及到的廠家越多發生扯皮的事情也會更復雜。 
3、如果你是資料庫服務提供商，最好給客戶尋找不同的方案，一定要提醒下終端使用者，以免有問題秋後算帳。

詳見：

Support Position for Oracle Products Running on VMWare Virtualized Environments (Doc ID 249212.1)

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Purpose
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Explain to customers how Oracle supports our products when 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 has not certified any of its products on VMware virtualized 
environments. Oracle Support will assist customers running Oracle products 
on VMware in the following manner: Oracle will only provide 
support for issues that either are known to occur on the native OS, or 
can be demonstrated not to be as a result of running on VMware. 

If a problem is a known Oracle issue, Oracle support will recommend the 
appropriate solution on the native OS.  If that solution does not work in 
the VMware virtualized environment, the customer will be referred to VMware 
for support.   When the customer can demonstrate that the Oracle solution 
does not work when running on the native OS, Oracle will resume support, 
including logging a bug with Oracle Development for investigation if required.

If the problem is determined not to be a known Oracle issue, we will refer 
the customer to VMware for support.   When the customer can demonstrate 
that the issue occurs when running on the native OS, Oracle will resume 
support, including logging a bug with Oracle Development for investigation 
if required. 

NOTE:  Oracle has not certified any of its products on VMware.  For Oracle RAC, Oracle will only 
accept Service Requests as described in this note on Oracle RAC 11.2.0.2 and later 
releases.