Industrial Attachment

Maximizing Oracle Database

Performance and Minimizing Licensing

Costs in Virtualized Environments

Embarcadero Technologies, Inc.

October 2010

Americas Headquarters

100 California Street, 12th Floor

San Francisco, California 94111

EMEA Headquarters

York House

18 York Road

Maidenhead, Berkshire

SL6 1SF, United Kingdom

Asia-Pacific Headquarters

L7. 313 La Trobe Street

Melbourne VIC 3000

Australia

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction ................................................................................................................................... - 2 - 

Q&A with Dave Welch and Scott Walz ......................................................................................... - 3 - 

VMware vSphere vs. Oracle VM ............................................................................................... - 3 - 

Reducing the Cost of Oracle Licensing ..................................................................................... - 3 - 

Virtualized Data Centers ........................................................................................................... - 5 - 

Operating Systems and Enterprise Applications ....................................................................... - 6 - 

Oracle Support for VMware....................................................................................................... - 6 - 

Oracle Performance on VMware ............................................................................................... - 8 - 

VMFS v. RDM ........................................................................................................................... - 9 - 

Virtual Server and RAC ............................................................................................................. - 9 - 

Cultural Issues ........................................................................................................................ - 10 - 

Ensuring that peak performance is maintained post...