How to Get Peak Performance from Oracle on VMware
Many people have had a lot to say about Oracle’s support for VMware, including Oracle. The truth is that, while Oracle offers a host of competing products to the VMware vSphere platform, it offers full support for Oracle databases running on VMware.
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Even though Oracle promises full support for VMware, you should always perform test conversions on smaller pre-production environments. The support is undoubtedly there, especially for versions prior to 11g, but the sometimes tempestuous relationship demands that you test those support claims.
Even though Oracle offers similar products, it’s unlikely that they will entirely cut off VMware any time soon. VMware, not surprisingly, runs the IT infrastructure on Oracle VMware. Still, you should always test before instituting an enterprise-wide change.
Best Practices for Oracle VMware
To achieve optimal performance and operation of Oracle on VMware, there are many guidelines and best practices provided by VMware. Let’s look at some of the most important:
- Create a computing environment optimized for vSphere, including recommended hardware capacity and network configuration
- Until you fully understand workload needs, use the minimum number of vCPus as possible. Performance will be degraded by too many vCPUs
- Create dedicated datastores for database workloads. This enables more predictable and reliable resource allocations
- Oracle Automated Storage (ASM) is essential to success
- Consult your storage provider’s recommendations before laying out your Oracle database design Your storage provider will understand the requirements for Oracle on VMware
- Separate infrastructure traffic from VM traffic for enhanced data isolation and security
- NIC teaming aids in availability and data isolation
Use VMware vCenter and esxstop/rexstop to monitor virtual machine performance. Third-party solutions like IgniteVM should also be considered for their ability to look at performance issues across both the physical and virtual environments.
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Consult VMware’s Oracle Databases on VMware Best Practices Guide for more best practices information.
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