Oracle 在2013年1月份在其官方Support网站上明确提出不支持VMWare 运行Oracle database。
在当前虚拟化横行的时代，我们该如何办才好呢？
我有如下建议:
1、如果是个人用户，这个倒没有太大的关系，毕竟我们测试大部分都还在Vmware上有运行，且没有出现过什么严重的问题。
2、如果是企业用户，且所有的系统架构都用了Vmware，但是建议你数据库还是单独来做，毕竟在线系统哪天出问题了，需要找原厂，被卡在这里就不太好了，而且架构越复杂，涉及到的厂家越多发生扯皮的事情也会更复杂。
3、如果你是数据库服务提供商，最好给客户寻找不同的方案，一定要提醒下最终用户，以免有问题秋后算帐。
详见：
Support Position for Oracle Products Running on VMWare Virtualized Environments (Doc ID 249212.1)
Applies to:
Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 11.2.0.2 and laterEnterprise Manager Base Platform - Version 12.1.0.3.0 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.
Details
*** Checked for currency: 10-JUL-2013 *** Purpose --------- Explain to customers how Oracle supports our products when running on VMware Scope & Application ---------------------- For Customers running Oracle products on VMware virtualized environments. No limitation on use or distribution. Support Status for VMware Virtualized Environments -------------------------------------------------- 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.
