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Exadata X-5 Bare Metal vs. OVM performance

By Franck Pachot . The Exadata X5 can be installed Bare Metal or Virtualized. The latter one, Oracle VM allows to create multiple clusters on one machine, is more complex for installation and for storage capacity planning. But it allows a small flexibility on options licencing. Those are the real challenges behind the choice. However, when we talk about virtualization,… 

ODA – VMs possibilities & performances

As you know it is possible to install the ODA in a virtualized mode and to take avantages from all cores not licensed with Enterprise Edition for additional VMs. The question is what could we do with it and which performances could we expect… The answer to the first question is indeed pretty simple….almost everything. If you have and ODA… 

All you need to know about Oracle Database licensing with VMware

You are running Oracle on VMware and are not 100% sure that you are compliant with the Oracle licensing rules? This article is for you! As I have been confronted several times with Oracle License reviews with VMware installations, I decided to write this article in order to provide answers to the most frequent questions I have received from customers.…