מדובר בהמשך מגמה מהותי המדגיש את החשיבות של VMWARE בארגונים ולכן ליצרני התוכנה אין ברירה אלא לתמוך בסביבה זו. למרות שבמסמך מצויין במפורש שאורקל לא בצעה certification רשמי ל- VMWARE.
בהכרזה זו יש פגיעה עקיפה בפתרון הוירטואליזציה של אורקל ה- Oracle VM. צעד זה יגביר את השימוש ה- VMWARE במערכות קריטיות.
מצ"ב נוסח העדכון:
| Modified 08-NOV-2010 Type ANNOUNCEMENT Status PUBLISHED |
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 onlyaccept Service Requests as described in this note on Oracle RAC 11.2.0.2 and later releases.
This may seem like a minor change – but IMO it’s material, and a change in a very positive direction.
BTW – for people who have concerns over the section that refers to “can be demonstrated to not be as a result of running on VMware”, there are GREAT solutions which make instant, easy V-to-P to prove physical reproducibility of issues easy. Please check out the work on how to do that here.
Thank you Oracle for doing the right thing for the customers.